Just ever so slightly less 'fat' or 'full bodied', but nowhere near the point of 'shrill', 'thin' or whatever else people here describe solid states as. I mean, the CR120's overdrive channel was different - but we're not talking worse or better. Having played both I was scratching my head at these supposed shortcomings of the CR120. So we got that thing in the test room just to see what all the fuss was about the CR120 crapping out to the Rockerverb. Equally important, the distortion could handle arpeggios without devolving into mud. The distortion has nice 'ballsiness' about it - not just generic 'distortion', but kind of this swagger good for classic/hard rock and metal.
I was playing Zeppelin's Heartbreaker solo and Soundgarden's Room a Thousand Years with no problem. The low-end can get tight and single note runs are both articulate and sustained nicely.
Think of the clean sound at the end of Smashing Pumpkins Hummer. The reverb, being digital, did not detract anything from the amp (as it seemed to have with the Katana) - very natural sounding and no loss of articulation. The CR120's clean channel was REALLY good - lots of sparkle and liveliness (not dull-sounding in the least). Nevertheless, this did reinforce the fact that analog solid states (for better or worse) sound different to digital amps (which I think Katana is). I mean, it's most likely user-error and the fact that we had limited time with the amp. I cannot believe the hype surrounding the Katana after trying it. Liked it better than a Katana 50 1x12 - both for cleans and distortion. Played the CR120 2x12 with a friend at a guitar store. For everything in that middle area, which is where I live most of the time anyway, the cr120 fits really well. I have a deluxe reverb that’s not going anywhere, and Im looking for a good solution for aggressive heavy stuff. Cool.įor most of what I do, it’s awesome. Honestly, for the cost of these amps, I have been blown away by the thing and continue to find new setting, despite its “simple” control layout. The dirty channel won’t homogenize your tone. Single coils and humbuckers are very happy, and your guitar will have its own influence and voice here. The dirty channel kicks all sorts of Awesome low gain bluesy tones to pretty raucous hard rock and some metal, if not the truly heavy kind. It’s a serviceable clean, but for me single coils bring out the best here. Humbuckers sound ok at various points on the gain dial. The guitar and cab choice have just as much influence with the cr120 as with most of the more discussed amps.Ĭlean channel is best with single coils and the gain rolled all the way up. It’s a versatile and very good-to-great sounding amp. The clean channel sports two gain stages that start to break up when it's cranked, and the dirty channel uses four gain stages to deliver classic Orange overdrive tones.It’s the same group of us that always respond to the cr120 threads, but it’s a very cool amp, so here’s my $.02. This Crush amp delivers more authentic Orange tone than ever with both amp channels designed after the Rockerverb. Bidding starts at $1 Enjoy - The Big Sound of Orange Amps Orange Amplifiers expands its line of solid-state Crush amps with the new CR120H 120-watt head.
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The CR120 sounds great but I am downsizing my gear.
There are scuffs and scratches as shown in the pictures, but the amp head works perfectly. Up for bid is a used Orange CR120 amp head.
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