I have the CR120 head for my main rig and this is a perfect amp for me to take to small jams with friends and still have my sounds in an easier to carry amp!
Your video made me buy this amp. I have Marshalls and Blackstars and have been on the fence about the small Oranges. Your playing is fantastic and make any amp sound beautiful! Love watching your videos.
Thanks Dave, top review of this amp. I like your guitar straight into amp with some reverb using both channels and the eq without any built in digital effects to get superb natural tones. Well done.
Terrific demo, sir.👏 I appreciate the time you devoted to the clean channel. I ordered yesterday the basic model of this amp (sans reverb) because 1.) Zzounds had a "warehouse resealed" model with a discounted price and 2.) I just bought a Fender Marine Layer Reverb - it's fantastic. I also dug that you used a Strat for the demo. I love my Les Pauls but my Strat... Well, when the final battle begins, I'll be packing a HSH Strat w/a coil splitter. ROCK ON, EVERYONE!🎸💥
i will buy one, the thing i like most is that when it get into distortion, you feel like its a tube amp, plus you dont need to tube maintenance from time to time, just plug and play for life, its damn good yaaah
I don't like shared EQ myself....excellent video my friend...whata gift you have...I'll say this...I don't think you can go wrong with orange...some of the best amps on the market today. I did myself a favor and purchased the cr60c....Wow !! The 20rt & 35rt make excellent practice amps...and you get a ton for the money.
Hi Dave , discovered your channel last week keep up the excellent demos, my CR20RT landed yesterday great for bluesy tones with a Tele,, Thanks for all you do ,,BTW subscribed :)
I love your videos! I'm an Orange freak and own a couple of higher end Orange heads and cabs, but I've been looking to get a small one as a practice/recording amp (because it's not always practical to hook up and play the others). I've been reading about these 20RT amps for a while now, and until now, I hadn't seen/heard a good enough demo of them that actually made me want to purchase one. So after watching your video, I'm pulling the trigger on Amazon as I type this. Thanks! :)
This 20RT was my Black Friday purchase and all Your videos doing Dave :) . This is my first ever full solid state as I've always been a valve amp guy but Oranges Analogue / kind of MOSFET build tempted me and the reverb though digital based sounds good. Seems to be an ideal plug and play practice amp to have around the house. Chris.
This or orange 35 RT for pratice at bedroom .sometimes i used stompbox pedal (distortion/overdive/delay) and my guitar is stratocaster guitar (Swing modern SE)
Love the vids!! I have a CR120 that just kills it!! I was wondering do you have all these settings that you show written down or in pdf that I can use as reference? Thanks.
Hi Dave, I'm a bit late to the party, a great review as per usual. I'm looking at the 35rt for bedroom/home/jamming with freinds scenarios. My two questions are, would the 35rt be good for them? And also, is it any good at taking overdrive/distortion pedals on the clean channel, through the front?
Dave .. the single coil man (;-)) ... great playing! This CR20 is really nice ... all you need to dive into music ... great beginners amp ... Orange seems to know howto ... great bluesy breakup
Great playing man! I am almost sold on 20RT. Still struggling to decide over 20RT vs H&K Edition Blue 15R. After your vid, I'm leaning towards Orange :)
I have a orange micro terror with the 8 inch speaker sounds great! Would you upgrade the micro terror with a 12 inch speaker from orange or buy a orange crush 35 or a cr 60? I really like your style of playing👍 !
Personally i would go for the 35 or 60 over the micro terror. More versatile and more options on tone. :) Thank you very much indeed and happy to hear you like my playing, :)
You sound so good. I just got an 20RT. I'm curious about the tones you were able to get out of this and the 12. Should the settings you listed in the 12 video work on the 20RT and which channel should I use? Also is there a list of settings I can use as a guide. This is my first amp. Thanks so much.
Hey Dave! I'm looking to buy my first real amp (not a tiny ome) and I'd like to be able to run a DS1/2 as well as a wah trough it. Would you recommend the CR20RT or CR35RT? Or anything else in that range for a nice frusciante tone? IF you happen to see this, thank you Dave!!! :)
Dave you seem to have a knack for making cool demo videos, love your fun style of playing guitar. Now I understand that you can't demo the headphone out. But please tell me how does it sound in your opinion. I have a need for an amp like this for silent practice because of a dog and shared life experience with my family.
ok so i’m just getting back into electric guitar and found a pawn shop strat. it’s at the shop now getting a proper tune up and i’m going to have some new pods and maybe a new switch added because it’s a 90s guitar and it was bought at a pawn shop so the internals could be shit. i need an amp. i just finally got back to having an electric guitar but i need a proper amp but just for practice. i’ll be using pedals tho. think the 12 will be enough ? i’d like to spend the least amount possible. no gigging just playing in my apartment !
Hi Dave, I just ordered the 35rt, waiting for it to arrive but I currently have a Fender Champion 50XL (with the Celestion speaker). I mainly play cleans with a strat, maybe a little gain when I dig into the strings. I'm wondering if you think the 35rt will be too similar to the Fender for those strat tones, deciding if I should keep both... What are your thoughts?
I have an old LAney GC 50. Not many videos about it so i wonder if this is better than what i have....16 year old amp ,that is.Or am i talking about same level of quality here?
Dave, just a fan of your work. I picked up a Laney LXR 20 for my son and was wondering what your opinion of Laney as a solid state. I think it 's a nice little amp.
Contemplating buying this as a dedicated cheaper practice amp for my Squire Vintage Modified JaG... Have you tried your Jags w it? Do they compliment each other well? Totally understand if you don’t respond. Thanks regardless for the awesome review!
Yeah they sound great with the types of guitars ! I've got the cr120 head unit and 412 cabinet and it's freaking amazing with my jag and my Jagmaster but I've got old UK Celestion speaker's in that cabinet so that may just pray the tone a bit further than the stock speaker.
Hey Dave. I'm a bit late to the table here but after a huge break in playing I'm looking to get back on the horse and have been looking for something for home use. My Hot Rod Deluxe is not exactly house friendly and I want to use pedals but every practice amp these days seems to be modelling of some kind and then I seen this! Could be exactly what I'm after. Just want clean and reverb. Graham Coxon, Radiohead, Weller kinda stuff. Is this amp the answer? 52 tele will be going into it. Cheers. Conor
i really am tempted with this amp but i am wondering if i can recreate metal sounds like trivium and megadeth? i really want to use this amp for a whole variety of genres, but will it do that?
+Guy Tucker I'm positive this amp could pull those tones off. My advice would be though. If you can go and try one out with your guitar and see if you can get the sound you want. :)
Are you using the guitar straight to the amp or are you using some pedal? And, I also got a question, I just bought the 20w orange combo and it is a fuzz box, is this amp good for crunch hard rock tones in your opinion? Cuz 20w combo sucks on the dirty channel
Hey Dave, thanx for the playing😁 and the wonderful tones. I am choosing a new amp.I have a Bugera Infinium 5, but its rather restricted tonewise. Shall I Go for the 20rt or the 35rt. I play mostly Clean rhytm/chords or light ditstorted blues
I see people are still commenting on this (and they are right, great playing and reviews buddy!) so I just wanted to ask - these have been updates since no? Or is the Crush 20RT I buy today the exact same as this?
dave i think this is better .. i think this will be pedal friendly... my pedals are mni wah cry baby marshall comp ibanez ts08 micro metal amp joyo roll boost boss noisegate and zoom g3.. any suggestions or advice dave
I would certainly go with this amp. Great pedal platform. :) I would run the pedals Amp - Boss Noisegate - Zoom G3 - Marshall Comp - Roll Boost - Ibanez TS - Micro Metal - Crybaby I hope this helps. :)
Dave I've only just got round to seeing this. Country face was hilarious.. Its true though owt sounds good when you play it . There's a challenge can Dave Simpson make the cheapest amplifier available sound good
I wish I were one of the millions who could casually play consummate, near robot-perfect git with seemingly no technical limitations, LOL, but that's not me. Your demos are always fun to see, maybe cos you're not all solemn and funereal. Plus you're EXTRA-cool, cos you look a bit like Ginger Baker, hee hee ! And may I say in addition, you "sell" the viewer on the plus-sides of SS amps quite well! And it's hard to argue with the sounds you make with them. Cheers from desolate...remote...small-town west Texas....I'm the only punk rocker here....*hangs self* (< JK ! )
Mad season. One of the best blues from Seattle grungers. You nailed it , well done sir
I have the CR120 head for my main rig and this is a perfect amp for me to take to small jams with friends and still have my sounds in an easier to carry amp!
"For the price they are, they're amazing."
You said it in a nutshell. If I had one of these back in '98, I wouldn't have been so frustrated.
watched a lot of reviews for this amp, this was my favorite. great taste on picking amazing tones. thanks for it!
Thank you very much. : )
Your video made me buy this amp. I have Marshalls and Blackstars and have been on the fence about the small Oranges. Your playing is fantastic and make any amp sound beautiful! Love watching your videos.
Thank you very very much indeed and so happy you like my videos. :)
very good demo, the playing on this is amazing, he makes it look easy. Its player's like this that are an inspiration and make you want to play.
I bought the cr35 with reverb, delay, and phaser effects from my buddy’s shop for $100 and it’s a great sounding solid state amp
Dave you make everything sound great. My days are better when I’ve listened to you play, classy playing, lovely stuff!
Thank you very much. : )
Thanks Dave, top review of this amp. I like your guitar straight into amp with some reverb using both channels and the eq without any built in digital effects to get superb natural tones. Well done.
Your blues inspire me to start playing again, definitely my favorite guitar player on the tube 👌🏼
Thank you so very very much. Thats means a lot to me. :)
After decades I now have my first orange incoming. Thank you for all that you do. I also happen to enjoy/ prefer solid state.
Thank you. :)
Terrific demo, sir.👏
I appreciate the time you devoted to the clean channel.
I ordered yesterday the basic model of this amp (sans reverb) because 1.) Zzounds had a "warehouse resealed" model with a discounted price and 2.) I just bought a Fender Marine Layer Reverb - it's fantastic.
I also dug that you used a Strat for the demo. I love my Les Pauls but my Strat...
Well, when the final battle begins, I'll be packing a HSH Strat w/a coil splitter.
ROCK ON, EVERYONE!🎸💥
I own the 20RT. I absolutely love it.
Just bought this amp a couple of weeks ago. I love it.
I'm going to buy a used one tommorrow
Absolutely amazing playing !!!
Plug in and play. This is it for me after weeks of checking out amps. Great blues playing.
+Celt 5971 Thank you very much indeed. :)
i will buy one, the thing i like most is that when it get into distortion, you feel like its a tube amp, plus you dont need to tube maintenance from time to time, just plug and play for life, its damn good yaaah
mywave inwoods Indeed. the bonuses of solid state amps. :)
I don't like shared EQ myself....excellent video my friend...whata gift you have...I'll say this...I don't think you can go wrong with orange...some of the best amps on the market today. I did myself a favor and purchased the cr60c....Wow !! The 20rt & 35rt make excellent practice amps...and you get a ton for the money.
Hi Dave , discovered your channel last week keep up the excellent demos, my CR20RT landed yesterday great for bluesy tones with a Tele,, Thanks for all you do ,,BTW subscribed :)
I have a Crush 20RT, but that demo was still SICK!!!
Thanks Dave!
Thank you very much. :)
I love your videos! I'm an Orange freak and own a couple of higher end Orange heads and cabs, but I've been looking to get a small one as a practice/recording amp (because it's not always practical to hook up and play the others). I've been reading about these 20RT amps for a while now, and until now, I hadn't seen/heard a good enough demo of them that actually made me want to purchase one. So after watching your video, I'm pulling the trigger on Amazon as I type this. Thanks! :)
+Howdy Howdy Thank you very much for watching and so happy to hear it helped with you your decision to buy one of these beasts. :)
Thx, am trying to decide between the 20 and the 35 for a practice amp, whether the 20 is ‘enough’ -seems that it is.
Enjoying your playing, too!
This 20RT was my Black Friday purchase and all Your videos doing Dave :) . This is my first ever full solid state as I've always been a valve amp guy but Oranges Analogue / kind of MOSFET build tempted me and the reverb though digital based sounds good. Seems to be an ideal plug and play practice amp to have around the house. Chris.
+66JTM45 It really is a great little portable amp. I hope you enjoy it. :)
Always a rad watch mate👍🇦🇺🍻🎸
Always loved your vids man! This amp seems very handy.
Thank you very much indeed. :)
Very nice playing! Thanks for this demo, you convince me to buy this amp, it sounds really beatiful.
+José Luis Rivera Thank you for watching. :)
awesome ! great playing as well enjoy these demos
Thank you very much indeed. :)
You sold me this amp! Thankyou👍
+vildrik Thank you for watching and glad I could help. :)
Loved the blues jam amp sounds great
Thank you very much. :)
That mad season riff though.. love that damn song.
This or orange 35 RT for pratice at bedroom .sometimes i used stompbox pedal (distortion/overdive/delay)
and my guitar is stratocaster guitar (Swing modern SE)
You bring hope to the poor! Amazing playing Dave
Just Bought an Rt20 last night. Used it for about an hour so far very happy
Good review man! I just picked up one of these used at Guitar Center for $79! Great deal!
Thank you very much indeed. :)
Played one at Guitar center. I like it better than my 15 watt Marshall
3:24 Mad Season XD i'm impressed you know them, sir!
+Bad Motivator I love Mad Season. One of my favourite bands. :)
surprised someone knows Mad Season in 2016 lul
hey dave,, i have a 35rt & its an awesome amp for what its intended for!! nice demo by the way , thanks
Thank you very much indeed .:)
Nice playing! Great amp! Plan on buying one!
+Andres Suarez Thank you for watching. They are money well spent. :)
That Gary Moore tone!
You sold me on this. Thank you!
Thank you very much indeedy. :)
Damn right,- the added hiss IS cool.
I love bending faces! :D
Thanks for the review I'm most likely getting a Crush 20!
Thank you for watching. :)
Just for the sound with the les Paul, i bought one ...amazing demo dude, thanks!
Thank you. :)
Best rewiew Dave, thank you. You Rock!!!
Love the vids!! I have a CR120 that just kills it!! I was wondering do you have all these settings that you show written down or in pdf that I can use as reference? Thanks.
I reckon you could make any amp sounds good! Love your playing at the end.
he play good, an the amp is sweet, i tried the 12, but i think i am going to buy the 20 with no reverb
P0GFLIPPER Thank you very much. :)
What settings would you recommend to get the frusciante tone on this amp and the 35rt?
I have one, what works for me is gain 6,1 yes, .1 changes
Treble 6 mids 0 to 1 Bass 3
Hi Dave, I'm a bit late to the party, a great review as per usual. I'm looking at the 35rt for bedroom/home/jamming with freinds scenarios. My two questions are, would the 35rt be good for them? And also, is it any good at taking overdrive/distortion pedals on the clean channel, through the front?
Yes and yes. :)
Dave .. the single coil man (;-)) ... great playing!
This CR20 is really nice ... all you need to dive into music ... great beginners amp ...
Orange seems to know howto ... great bluesy breakup
Matze R Haha. I like that. I may change my channel name to that soon. :) Orange definitely make great little and big amps. Thanks for watching. :)
That gold top P90 !
i fkn love this lead sound
Great playing man! I am almost sold on 20RT. Still struggling to decide over 20RT vs H&K Edition Blue 15R. After your vid, I'm leaning towards Orange :)
+elijen Thank you very much for watching. :)
I have a orange micro terror with the 8 inch speaker sounds great!
Would you upgrade the micro terror with a 12 inch speaker from orange or buy a orange crush 35 or a cr 60? I really like your style of playing👍 !
Personally i would go for the 35 or 60 over the micro terror. More versatile and more options on tone. :) Thank you very much indeed and happy to hear you like my playing, :)
The Mad Season quote sounds dead on!
Thank you. : )
You sound so good. I just got an 20RT. I'm curious about the tones you were able to get out of this and the 12. Should the settings you listed in the 12 video work on the 20RT and which channel should I use? Also is there a list of settings I can use as a guide. This is my first amp. Thanks so much.
The settings will have to be tweaked amp to amp. They wont translate perfectly. :)
Hey Dave! I'm looking to buy my first real amp (not a tiny ome) and I'd like to be able to run a DS1/2 as well as a wah trough it. Would you recommend the CR20RT or CR35RT? Or anything else in that range for a nice frusciante tone?
IF you happen to see this, thank you Dave!!! :)
I would go for the 35 myself but the CR60 is stunning. : )
Dave you seem to have a knack for making cool demo videos, love your fun style of playing guitar. Now I understand that you can't demo the headphone out. But please tell me how does it sound in your opinion. I have a need for an amp like this for silent practice because of a dog and shared life experience with my family.
Love that that amp sounds great really tempted to get one lol
J knight There really worth it. Great little amp to have around. :)
Amazing Amazing Amazing Playing.
pjfan173 Thank you very much. :)
ok so i’m just getting back into electric guitar and found a pawn shop strat. it’s at the shop now getting a proper tune up and i’m going to have some new pods and maybe a new switch added because it’s a 90s guitar and it was bought at a pawn shop so the internals could be shit.
i need an amp. i just finally got back to having an electric guitar but i need a proper amp but just for practice. i’ll be using pedals tho. think the 12 will be enough ? i’d like to spend the least amount possible. no gigging just playing in my apartment !
The Crush 12 would be fine.
Hi Dave, I just ordered the 35rt, waiting for it to arrive but I currently have a Fender Champion 50XL (with the Celestion speaker).
I mainly play cleans with a strat, maybe a little gain when I dig into the strings. I'm wondering if you think the 35rt will be too similar to the Fender for those strat tones, deciding if I should keep both... What are your thoughts?
There totally different animals. The Orange will be darker and more mid rangy. :)
I was flipping between the 20RT and the 35RT today for a good two hours...i don't know which one I want. They're both awesome in their own way. BAH.
Wrath Oskvro Bought a 35rt for $99 used from guitar center. Love it, would have gladly paid full price.
Just bought the 35RT today. Been jamming on it today since I got it. Sticking an overdrive pedal in front of it REALLY sounds amazing too
Nice D, very wet sounding blues!
Thank you. : )
I have an old LAney GC 50. Not many videos about it so i wonder if this is better than what i have....16 year old amp ,that is.Or am i talking about same level of quality here?
great dave....i like this ampli...thanks
Thank you. :)
Dave, just a fan of your work. I picked up a Laney LXR 20 for my son and was wondering what your opinion of Laney as a solid state. I think it 's a nice little amp.
Thank you very much indeed. I'm not the biggest fan of lane amps but they are great amps. :)
Contemplating buying this as a dedicated cheaper practice amp for my Squire Vintage Modified JaG... Have you tried your Jags w it? Do they compliment each other well? Totally understand if you don’t respond. Thanks regardless for the awesome review!
Yeah they sound great with the types of guitars !
I've got the cr120 head unit and 412 cabinet and it's freaking amazing with my jag and my Jagmaster but I've got old UK Celestion speaker's in that cabinet so that may just pray the tone a bit further than the stock speaker.
You'r great man
Thank you very much. :)
it's true you've such a sweet tone, its hard to judge if we'd get close to the same from the same gear. nice review though. cheers
Thank you for watching. :)
nice! is the 20rt recommended? or shoud i get the 20 without rt since i have zoomg5 for rev/delays and would get analog dirt?
Thank you. Any of them will do the job. There both awesome. :)
Hey Dave. I'm a bit late to the table here but after a huge break in playing I'm looking to get back on the horse and have been looking for something for home use. My Hot Rod Deluxe is not exactly house friendly and I want to use pedals but every practice amp these days seems to be modelling of some kind and then I seen this! Could be exactly what I'm after. Just want clean and reverb. Graham Coxon, Radiohead, Weller kinda stuff. Is this amp the answer? 52 tele will be going into it. Cheers. Conor
This amp would work nicely but i would recommend the 35 over the 20. A little bigger sound and better handling of effects. : )
i really am tempted with this amp but i am wondering if i can recreate metal sounds like trivium and megadeth? i really want to use this amp for a whole variety of genres, but will it do that?
+Guy Tucker I'm positive this amp could pull those tones off. My advice would be though. If you can go and try one out with your guitar and see if you can get the sound you want. :)
Just when I thought I've seen them all another video pops up that I've never seen.
:) Thank you for watching. :)
I had to say, kill guitar. That Lp is badass! And those transistor Orange deserve more! So much led zeppelin in this vid!
I've played through my friends crush 20 and it's very cool! but more importantly that strat is absolutely beautiful! what model is that?
Its a 2008 fender road worn. :)
I need it!
Mad season! Fuck yeah!!
Hi, can you write the dirty channel eq on the sound that you think is most similar to Hendrix with this amp?
Are you using the guitar straight to the amp or are you using some pedal? And, I also got a question, I just bought the 20w orange combo and it is a fuzz box, is this amp good for crunch hard rock tones in your opinion? Cuz 20w combo sucks on the dirty channel
noticed so, but my amp gets fuzzy even at low amount of distortion, guess I gotta upgrade into the holy grial cr120, thanks for the videos!
What year is that Gold Top Lp.. Is it a reissue or the real first 1952 thing?
Its a real 52. : )
Hi Dave, would you be doing the bigger brother crush 35 rt? Just started playing and I am upgrading from a second hand mg15 that is pants!!!
The crush 35rt is awesome. I will see if i can get hold of one to demo. :)
Hey Dave, thanx for the playing😁 and the wonderful tones. I am choosing a new amp.I have a Bugera Infinium 5, but its rather restricted tonewise. Shall I Go for the 20rt or the 35rt. I play mostly Clean rhytm/chords or light ditstorted blues
I would personally recommend the 35 over the 20. Thank you for watching. :)
You are very fun dude)))
Mad psycho fun
Thank you very much. :)
I see people are still commenting on this (and they are right, great playing and reviews buddy!) so I just wanted to ask - these have been updates since no? Or is the Crush 20RT I buy today the exact same as this?
I have no idea. Sorry.
dave i think this is better .. i think this will be pedal friendly...
my pedals are
mni wah cry baby
marshall comp
ibanez ts08
micro metal amp
joyo roll boost
boss noisegate
and zoom g3..
any suggestions or advice dave
I would certainly go with this amp. Great pedal platform. :)
I would run the pedals
Amp - Boss Noisegate - Zoom G3 - Marshall Comp - Roll Boost - Ibanez TS - Micro Metal - Crybaby
I hope this helps. :)
you make an orange amp sound different/better (to my ears) to other people on TH-cam, is it winding the treble off
Daves got chops!
Thanks you very much. :)
what would you prefer out of this amp and a fender champ 20 to get a rhcp tone?
I would go for the Orange over the fender to get John tone. :)
Hi Dave, could you tell me if this amplifier or Vox Phatfinder 10W is better
I would personally go for this amp over the pathfinder but the vox is good as well. :)
Update, I ordered a 20 RT, and shall compare it with the Bugera. Let you know if it is an improvement. Keep rocking.....
🤘
Cool stuff. I look for ward to hearing how you get on. :)
And, how does it compare?
Hi there, can someone please tell me what three chords he played at 7.38
hey dave, I've been playing guitar for a couple months and was wondering if I should get the RT or just the 20.
I would go for the RT. :)
Thanks man
I'd like to see you review the peavey valveking 20 mini head
If i ever can get my hands on one i'll get a video done. :)
What size strings r u using?
Dave I've only just got round to seeing this. Country face was hilarious.. Its true though owt sounds good when you play it . There's a challenge can Dave Simpson make the cheapest amplifier available sound good
I wish I were one of the millions who could casually play consummate, near robot-perfect git with seemingly no technical limitations, LOL, but that's not me. Your demos are always fun to see, maybe cos you're not all solemn and funereal. Plus you're EXTRA-cool, cos you look a bit like Ginger Baker, hee hee ! And may I say in addition, you "sell" the viewer on the plus-sides of SS amps quite well! And it's hard to argue with the sounds you make with them. Cheers from desolate...remote...small-town west Texas....I'm the only punk rocker here....*hangs self* (< JK ! )
Thank you very much indeed and so happy you like what i do. :)
Should I get crush 35rt or katana 50?!
Or is there any other amp you would recommend?!
I would personally go for the Katana 50. :)
Nice vibrato Dave
+Bobby McMinn Thank you very much. :)
should i change my Orange 35rt for a Peavey bandit 112 Red stripe ir a Hughes & kettner Attax 50?
i mean is ir worth for any of those 2?
If your going to change i would go for the Bandit. The H&K isn't brilliant. The Bandit is just amazing. :)
Dave Simpson Thanks for the response! i'll try to get that bandit!
thank you, love your videos. :)
Hey Dave, how do I get a Nirvana tone with this amp? Clean and dirty
nirvana mostly used pedal distortion so you won't get their tone from a particular amp