
#Crush the industry guitar pro professional#
It’s all good solid advice presented in a professional way. Signing up is easy and resources are surprisingly comprehensive with video lessons, audio backing tracks and enough theory content to get you to Grade 3 standard if you work thorough the material diligently. Purchasing the pack also allows you to access the beginner’s level of the online Orange Rock Guitar Course, which normal mortals will need to pay £14.99 for. The padded soft case has both carrying handles and a detachable shoulder strap, and will get you to school or your mate’s house without a problem. There’s a spare set of strings, six (!) plectrums, a tuner and a decent branded strap. Paired with an expensive guitar with single-coil pickups the Crush 12L develops a much clearer and coherent voice – so it too may remain a bit of kit you want to hold on to as you progress up the ladder.įinally, to the added extras.

Here, the musicality of the tone controls can be heard, and all up, this guitar has the capacity to grow with you. The pickups are still a little dark, but the instrument punches well above its weight. Plugging the Orange guitar into a quality valve amp delivers surprising results. One good way to test the potential of lower-cost equipment is to pair it with top end kit. If you have the aptitude and dedication to learn and progress this gear will help, rather than hinder, your progress. For midrange crunch or punky power chords, a good blues-rock solo tone and more aggressive lead voices the bridge pickup delivers very well.

On its own, the bridge pickup is a little too dark for clean strumming – but it’s a characteristic that comes into its own when you start to ramp up the gain. However, with a bit of tweaking, the neck or twin pickup combination delivers good results. Getting a well-defined but lively clean sound is the hardest thing pairing a budget amp with budget humbuckers isn’t likely to be recipe for total success. The fact that a Crush is the type of amp a more seasoned player might buy as a practical practice option or for a workshop bench (heavens, there’s a Micro-Crush on my desk) tells you a lot about the usability of the tone. There’s an appealing midrange hump that makes them great for blues, boogie and classic rock. I’m often surprised that Orange amps, no matter what the cost, big or small, always sound like Orange amps. There’s also a headphone socket for those moments when you really want to be loud, but need to keep it down. The Volume, Overdrive and Gain controls are remarkably interactive, and with independent Low, Mid and High controls you can create a spread of tones ranging from simple clean sounds right through to the barking mad mini rock monster sound every novice needs to explore at some point. In view of this, we have no choice but to suspend deliveries outside of the UK until we can get this sorted.The Crush 12L is a smart little amp with a remarkably loud voice – more than enough to annoy other family members, flatmates or the neighbours. Unfortunately, worldwide shipping costs are very unstable at the moment, and we can no longer get a guaranteed price for shipping our cases outside of the UK. We can still supply but, please be aware there could easily be a delay in getting some cases manufactured and shipped.


With demand for our products remaining high, this has resulted in our normally healthy warehouse stock dwindling to zero for much of our product range. This has significantly reduced our production capacity. Our unique Triple Shield Technology combined with luxurious interior lining and exteriors of sleek, understated elegance create a product trusted by over 600,000 people worldwide – among them professional musicians, the world’s best instrument makers and those who just play for the love of it.Īlong with many other manufacturers and other sections of industry we have experienced severe supply chain issues with our essential raw material supplies which has lasted the whole of 2021. Since 1985 we’ve been creating instrument cases that offer exceptional lightweight protection.
