Orange Crush 35RT

Session 5

Session 5

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Now I have been saying that my amp 35RT will keep up with drums, some might not believe that. Well leave the Marshall at home, check it out. I will never sell this amp, it is just pure fantastic!

Take notice his 40 watt tube Marshall, wouldn't keep up with drums. Who say's tube amps are louder.





 

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I used to have a Orange micro amp.loved it.Used it a ton. Ended up giving it to my grandaughter to use.She still has it.
 
This is my home amp, and like it so much as i have said before. There is a guy who owns tube amps on another forum i am on, that just bought the amp and says he really likes it.
This is what another member who gigs for a living said.


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Those are fantastic little amps. I gigged one like crazy for a long time. Congrats!
 
Session 5 said:
Now I have been saying that my amp 35RT will keep up with drums, some might not believe that. Well leave the Marshall at home, check it out. I will never sell this amp, it is just pure fantastic!

Take notice his 40 watt tube Marshall, wouldn't keep up with drums. Who say's tube amps are louder.





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It's not wattage that makes it loud, it's speaker efficiency.
I know somebody who plays Orange Crush SS amp and he loves it.
 
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Amp Mad Scientist said:
It's not wattage that makes it loud, it's speaker efficiency.
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As amps go…. I’m totally inept. Don’t work on them. Couldn’t diagnose a problem even if it slapped me in the face…. Okay… if it was that obvious maybe I could. But to figure out which resistor or cap or connection is bad. Wouldn’t even know where to start looking.

What I can vouch for is speaker efficiency. Had it in my my mind I wanted to swap out the stock Marsland speaker in my Traynor. Replace with a Vintage 30. By the numbers a fairly efficient speaker. Which ultimately I did the swap. Sounds awesome. Got more headroom. What I lost was, I could get breakup at a lower volume with the Marsland than the V30. Gotta really crank the amp now…. Or use pedals. On those old Traynor’s all you have for controls is Vol, Bass and Treble. No Gain pot. So while not impossible. It makes it tough to set a reasonable volume and get breakup at that volume. Remembering, I don’t play in a band these days. Just at home. The few times I played electric in church I was able to lean into the volume more since obviously I was playing a larger room.
 
A couple things about the video - the Marshall was not a "tube" Marshall at all, it has 1 single preamp tube for tone. It is still a SS power section.
I would have liked to have heard the Marshall tonally with the 35T in the same video to compare.
It was with an SD1 pedal.

No offence to the 35T it sounding crushing and obviously kept up with the drums. In the video dude's comments about the Marshall was he playing with another guitar player with a louder amp? That would kill any chance of him keeping up with the drummer.

35 watts should do that almost regardless of the amp if the speaker can put out properly.
It sounded really good.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
A couple things about the video - the Marshall was not a "tube" Marshall at all, it has 1 single preamp tube for tone. It is still a SS power section.
I would have liked to have heard the Marshall tonally with the 35T in the same video to compare.
It was with an SD1 pedal.

No offence to the 35T it sounding crushing and obviously kept up with the drums. In the video dude's comments about the Marshall was he playing with another guitar player with a louder amp? That would kill any chance of him keeping up with the drummer.

35 watts should do that almost regardless of the amp if the speaker can put out properly.
It sounded really good.
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It was a valvestate. Half SS, half tube.

People confuse loudness and wattage all the time.
They are fixated in watts = loudness, even though it doesn't work out that way.
Like a Marshall 50 is just about the same loudness as a Marshall 100.

True the 100 does sound different, but not a lot louder. Just slightly louder.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
It was a valvestate. Half SS, half tube.

People confuse loudness and wattage all the time.
They are fixated in watts = loudness, even though it doesn't work out that way.
Like a Marshall 50 is just about the same loudness as a Marshall 100.

True the 100 does sound different, but not a lot louder. Just slightly louder.
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Well a single preamp tube so not entirely half tube.

While wattage does not increase loudness very substantially, at some point it is not enough to keep up with a drum kit. And as you mentioned previously the speaker in that amp has a bearing on it.

A speaker with 100 dB sensitivity (V30) is louder than a 97 dB (T75) by the same token as the 50 to 100 watt scenario. 3 dB. A little but not a lot.
Given the same speaker, the wattage does of course indeed affect loudness or volume to some degree.
10 watts to 100 watts is 10 dB
 
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