@@jsullivan2112 Very true, but we live in an era when there are both analog solid state amps and digital solid state amps, and there is such huge difference between the two technologies that they should be considered as different from each other as tube amps and solid state amps are. It doesn't help to simply declare them all "solid state". There would be an outrage in the tube community if someone posted a video comparing amps, called "Tube amp comparison", but half of them were hybrid, solid state+tube amps, even though they are technically both tube amps. It doesn't matter to me because I know to watch for those particular details, but for people new to the gear, things should be more accurately descriptive.
William Don “Solid state” can mean analog or digital, and the difference between the two is as wide as the difference between either of them and tube. Digital is solid state, but not all solid state is digital.
I have had a crush 35RT for 2 weeks now. I just cant get a good tone. The only way I can get it to sound decent is by hooking up a boss gt1 to the fx loop. Im sure that there is nothing wrong with it. Im sure its my fault.
I’ll make this easy for y’all... I have the Orange Crush 35RT & the shit is a monster, but can be a gentlemen at the same time.... the day I brought it home I compared it to my other combos Marshall, Randall, and black star... I’ll just cut to the chase and say the Crush 35RT is now my ONLY amp.... and the money I made from selling the other amps went back into my pedal board/guitar....as a man with a long long record...I can honestly say that buying the 35RT variant was easily one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life😂😂 you could surely gig a small venue with the Orange Crush 20/35..
I have been juggling the idea of getting one to replace my Valve Jr stack. Its big for someone who just plays at home and awkward enough to be an annoyance to move. I've wanted an orange since I was a kid and finally got to play the Crush 60 and 35rt recently and I was super impressed by both of them, I'm always happy to read comments from happy owners and I don't know that I've seen anyone that hasn't liked it.
Bryce, I’ve been on the fence about the 35RT. This video made me consider the JC-40 as well though.. I like the idea of a clean pedal platform. Thoughts?!
@Mukesh Bhatia I played with the champ 40. for me I found it... unremarkable. It was fine but to me felt like it was nothing special. I ended up buying an Orange Crush 35rt and its awesome. The cleans are clean, they're different than fender but they are wonderfully clean just in their own way.
I have been juggling the idea of getting one to replace my Valve Jr stack. Its big for someone who just plays at home and awkward enough to be an annoyance to move. I've wanted an orange since I was a kid and finally got to play the Crush 60 and 35rt recently and I was super impressed by both of them, I'm always happy to read comments from happy owners and I don't know that I've seen anyone that hasn't liked it.
I always love the reviews this guy does. He puts his best in everything and makes it seem like fun rather than a boring review of a product. He also reminds me of Jack Sparrow too, but in a good way :)
Johnny Depp stick actually played🎸 in a crap band and he is an actor that wants to be a rock star but he ain't, Dagan is! The 100 Champ is worth the extra bobs!
Roland JC-40 is by far the most versatile solid state amp on the market today, especially as a pedal platform. Running the effects loop in stereo in parallel mode essentially turns a single, moderately priced amp, into a loud and clear stereo wet/dry/wet rig! I don't know why more people arent running their rigs that way... might be the extra cables. I'd challenge anyone to try it even with just a reverb and/or a delay in the loop running in parallel. MInd Blowing! Anyways, thanks for doing a vid like this! Great job.
Ian Locke I’ve had a jc40 for 2 years now and I’ve been laughed at when showing up to jam with new people simply because of the amps size. Then when I start playing they end up complimenting my tone and they can’t believe how loud it is. Just a Mexican esquire through sd1, big muff, dod phaser and flanger, dl4 and red panda context always on in the effects loop for a shoegaze rig.
Is it at all possible to use at home? I loved the 120 but way too loud. Never tried the 40. Been looking at the JC22 for home but I really like the 40 better. I’m concerned about even being able to use it at home. I’ve heard it’s very loud. Kinda like the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 40 watt. That thing is stupid loud and impossible to use at home. I’d love to find a video about the JC40 at bedroom levels. 😊
I prefer the orange amp, sounds fuller; maybe its because it matches the awesome looking and sounding Schecter Reaper! Darker stain on the back would be more killer!
I'm convinced that 99% of what people don't like about solid state amps is due to the cheapo speakers that manufacturers tend to put in them. My go-to stage amp is an old Peavey Bandit 65 with an Eminence Swamp Thang. Takes pedals like nobody's business.
Love those old Peavey Bandits!! I also had a Renown 212 for a while. Good lord that thing was loud!!! Page Hamilton from Helmet played a Peavey Bandit back in the day.
@@terrelldunn3973 I used a blue stripe Renown in my old band. That thing was heavy (physically) and loud as hell! I should’ve stolen it from my old band mates. Wonderful cleans and tonally sonic for metal.
I have owned every amp reviewed here. I have gigged with everyone of them. I have the 100 champ version not the 40. The champion 100 clean channel is excellent. Great in a band context. Something changed with the distortion tones. Sounds much more solid state and will not sound good if you have a other tube amp on stage. But if you are alone it is great. The Roland Jazz 40 clean is gorgeous. The effects melt into it like butter and add to it. Pedals for dirt sounds better than the dirt channel but the pedals do not become one with the amp. They do there thing on top of the clean in a very solid state and sterile kind of way. I miss the 12 inch speaker for dirty tones. The Orange is my regular grab and go. It cranks. It does the two channel thing easily. The clean is great and can cover many flavors with an EQ pedal in front of the amp in your pedal chain. The dirt is raunchy in a good way. Full spectrum of range when playing with the volume and master volume. Excellent amp for gigging. Add a 112 extension cab for a big stereo sound on stage and never look back. This review is on point. They are all great amps and top dogs. 👍
I've been a die hard VOX AC30 user for a long time but recently started using the Roland JC 120 and I really love its clean sound. Both are ideal for classic Shoegazer tones.
The Jc sounds spectacular clean, but I don't care for the dirty tones. The other amps were all just sorta meh. The Boss sounded the best dirty, but if my main concern was a good drive tone for under a grand, and I didn't want to use pedals, I'd go pick up one of those 20 watt 1x12 Marshall DSL20cr combos. They sound leaps and bounds better than any of these amps do dirty. It sounds better clean than any of these amps too, With the exception of the roland, which just sounds different. You can't really compare them.
*I have a Boss Katana; it's one of the absolute worst amps I have ever owned! lol Amazing? I have a formal education in electrical/electronics engineering. It's an absolute shit pile.* I changed the speaker, put custom drive pedals in front of it and it's just not a good amp. Not even a modeler will save it. *I literally went to college 13 years ago after I started hobbying in electronics 20 years ago, so I never got stuck with a shit piece of gear again, but I needed something for the bedroom, and grabbed one on sale close to 3 years ago. The decision was made after reading endless reviews for amps in that price range, and people raving about the Boss Katana line.* I just replaced it with the Gamma G50 and will be grateful to be rid of the Katana soon. I play metal and a cheap Fender SS would have been 10x better. *I lucked out that the G50 is downright amazing.*
Thanks for the video. I was shocked at how much the Orange amp sounded like tubes. Impressive! For a solid state sound, the Roland gets that better and the stereo effect in one amp is amazing. Those would be my choices. One comment, the voice was so much louder than the music I was constantly having to go back and forth adjusting the two. Balancing that out will make for a perfect video.
With that amount of chorus it sounded like an authentic 80' movie....on an old VHS! I am pretty sure many remembers still those 100 times copied movies our fathers borrowed from a colleague's friend of a friend... :D
JC-120 was used by Mark Knopfler on Sultans Of Swing (with a Fender Twin Reverb played together), Metallica on Enter Sandman and almost everyone playing clean parts in '80s metal songs.
Hi man like orange amps and into organ keyboard and Gibson sg and Dean 79v guitar my name is latrell love music and scary sounds in hard rock and blues rock and metal my favorite guitarists Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix and Tony iommi and into horror movie and ghost stories have hear about voodoo Queen of New Orleans and Salem Massachusetts the Winchester Mansion in California .and my name is latrell
Dagan you're onto something when I watch a 40+ minute video at 5:30AM at regular speed instead of 2.0 without skipping any parts when I can't buy any of these Amps for at least 3 months
I just got the orange crush pro 60 and holy fuck I love it... hands down the best amp I've ever had And i think it sounded best on this video.. I'll pick it over tube anyday I Also kept hearing that the clean channel I ssd not great well I'm here to tell u that's bull shit the clean and dirty channel r perfect ..the only reason I'd ever sell it is if I move up the 120 . But still may keep the 60 for the convenience...
60 is a 1x12 right? I have the 120, and it was so worth it. Such a rich sound having the 2x12. Pretty sure the crush series is based on a rockerverb- I'd love to eventually get one of those monsters and a matching 4x12, but the crush definitely doesn't disappoint at all. Honestly in some senses the crush is better as you don't have to crank it as loudly to get a monster tone, but I still dream about playing a rockerverb lol
Great review. The Roland has a high quality vibe. My favorite sounding amp was the Orange. That said there is another amp that should get a mention. The Roland Blues Cube 30. Has the valve sound circuit that sounds great. $100 less than the Roland.
@@lucid_delirium976 The newest one is the one I use, I think its great. As far as volume, I keep it at 1.5 on 25w mode. If I go any higher, the other guys start bitching that I'm too loud. Including the other guitarist that plays a JCM900 half stack.
@@TheRosswise hahaha its such a loud amp. I played a gig on 100w mode with like i swear 2 volume it was a relatively big place as well. It is such a god-tier amp i have the newer one. High gain setting ftw. Shout out to the classic lead mode as well, that is nice
JC 40 really should come with a 3way foot switch to toggle the dist/verb/trem. you have to buy either 3 separate single switches or a 3rd party 3way switch, of which I am unsure of how well they work. The thing has 3 separate foot switch outputs for christ sake... stupid.. that being said... the sound is amazing.. played JC since the 90's .. gigged with the 120 for years... about to drop the hammer on the 40. great vid.. love your personality.
I have an Orange cr60, I hot it due to the hall reverb and my love of early Peter Green. I have done a video of myself playing manics stuff through it. I love vox and looked at the vr30 in pmt Portsmouth and settled on the orange
Same here too ! - Had the Vox vr 30 Sold it - Because after a while it was too BIG and too Heavy ! - got the Orange cr60 -since 4 years and still my favorite ! - Upgraded the Speaker to ( "well played - Broken in" ) used Celestion Vintage 30 and its my Dream amp !
It is impossible to name a favorite Jazz chorus amp user because that amp is literally heard in THOUSANDS of songs from country to pop to jazz to every form of metal. It is THE best known and also best kept secret of great recordings. But it does sound great on Empire by Queensryche
If there is anything I hate more than Chorus on distorted guitar I don't know what it is. lol Anyway, my concern with solid state vs tube is relative to playing dynamics moreso than tonality. Last SS I had was back in 1997. At that time SS had almost no allowance for playing dynamics. Pick it hard... pick it softly... still almost the same volume. Not sure about today's SS amps. Anyone?
Matty Healy from the 1975 has been using a JC-120 for a few years now thought not sure about current tour. Love the Orange Crush range. I own a 35RT and it’s so versatile. It’s hard to argue a tube amp against any of these. THANK YOU Dagan for posting this video.
Great vid & for us that have been tube nuts for years it really shows how far solid-state has come. I can see a use for each model easily. At home I'm listening through some KRK Rocket6's & it sounds great! Easily one one of fav vid's you have done yet!
Joseph Southhard, For Rock and Metal, Pros are still using tube amps like EVH, Peavey, Mesa/Boogie, Blackstar HT Metal, Engl, Hughes & Kettner etc...They may choose Solid State for clean tones.
As have I @@OTCRock4one - I currently use a Mesa Rd King, PV 5150, Marshall MA100H, & a Crate 5212VFX. All I was saying is - Solid State amps have come a long way in 30+ years. I would't get rid of my tube gear, but I am more likely to add a Solid state amp to them!
another fun thing with the JC-40 is your buddy doesn't have to lug an amp over to jam with you. you can plug two different guitars into it and both play through one amp. pretty specific use case, but fun and interesting nonetheless.
Yeah, I'll stick with my old Orange OD & TT for indoors (for some ungodly reason the wifey don't likee the OD, or the neighbours for that matter, though I can't imagine why lol). Gotta admit though, I kinda dig those Katanas. btw Billy Duffy - guitarist of The Cult & a huge City fan
James Root is my favorite Orange user. He uses his signature tube head, which is amazing for the price. I think used you can get them for 650. He also uses the Rockerverb which is very expensive. But my bedroom amp is my Crush 20RT. Absolutely amazing. I got the black one for 230 new. The orange ones are 199.
The Jim Root Terror is my favorite of the pre-Rocker terrors (I do not have enough experience with the Rocker 15 Terror to comment); it cleans up well and is quite dynamic, especially given how much gain it has.
I did want a Katana 100 (mainly due to the FX loop). But the Orange 60 seems to be more simple and sounds great. I think I need to save up and get both :D
The Orange Crush CR60C may be a lot better than the Crush 20RT, but believe me, the 20RT is a great little amp already. And it's a kind of shame that the 60 only has 2-band-EQ for the clean.
yeah..but if you want an Timmons tone (JHS into a Plexi) or whatever fancy schmancy tone...dark, juicy, with round mids, etc...no way....yeah..these amps don;t suck...but...better buy a 5W valve amp..than one of these - use a boutique pedal (JHS, Friedman, Wampler) and you'll get a better tone...
Valve amps are more touch sensitive. That "blues on the verge of break up" where you can go from clean to break up with just your fingers. This is what solid state still lacks. That said I loved the way the JC 40 sounded.
I've played many solid state amps that do just that. I don't think it's that. There is a presence to a tube amp that just cuts through and sounds so alive. Maybe it's because they have a very narrow field idk.
I have an orange crush 20rt. It was actually funny. I saw one 2nd hand in Amsterdam where I live for 150 euro. I messaged the seller and told him. I wanted to buy it from him but didn't have the money at that moment but I had a pristine sm58 and a pristine sm58 and I knew I'd be able to sell them within 24 hours for 75 each. So I could offer him the asking price. He replied he was selling it to buy a Shure sm58 and sm57.... So we had a laugh. I went over to his place (he had an office rented and used it as a studio making scores for musicals. He had one of the nicestest Les Pauls I've ever played tuned and ready to go for me to test it out (it had weight relief and a roasted maple fretboard). It sounded soooo sweet. I gave him the mics. He gave me a large bag the amp plus chords (power and a good guitar cable which was already 45 euros new) so a great deal, that was just fun! I like it if a mutual passion is briefly shared by 2 strangers who will never meet again. So now I have it. I love it. Except for the overdrives which are way too metal. So I used a tubescreamer clone and a weird crunch one (or my Sansamp original. But that one is mostly at my dad's. And I use an Electro-Harmonix reverb. Hall spring and plate. Excellent pedal (the build on reverb is very subtle. Which is to say you need to have it turned off and then turn it on so people notice some change. But if I start with it fully open people ask me why I got the one without reverb. That is how "subtle" it is. But most importantly. It has black sides. Because I'm Dutch. We have enough orange crap in our house anyway for football and Kingsday. So I like my black orange crush (and occasionally when I want a metal sound I can get it. But the foot switch is turned around. When it's clean and the distortion off the light is on. When you engage the distortion the light goes out. Very, very counterintuitive. But a bit of idiosyncrasies never hurt anyone. It's a buy for the great clean that can be turned into any kind of distortion with cheap Harley Benton pedals. Or one of the most expensive analogue guitar amp simp pedals The Sansamp (later named the Classic).
All that nervous talk and pieces of songs and noodling Then finally you and the Nextone made up for it for a few seconds..... John Mayer- Slow Dancing in a Burning Room Excellent Job. Every thing else was just nervous noodling shit. I’ve got the nextone stage and it can sound just as good, only 29# to gig with.
Man I love your videos and reviews. I'm on the hunt for a good amp to start with and so I'm gathering every information I can find. However there's one thing that I just don't understand - the Tube miracle ;-) Some say you must get a tube amp, so does my teacher and somehow I trust him but they cost a bunch and as a "modern guy" I defenitely see the benefits of modern technologies like solid state and/or moedelling amps. Ok let's come to the point, what I don't understand is: WHY can solid stat / modelling amps do not sound just like tube amps. We live in the year 2019 (almost 2020) where we have complexe algorythms for everything, we have AI and learning machines... there's technology that can almost everything so why isn't it the easiest thing to build a amp that can sound like ANY tube amp you like. I know why tubes sound different/special, because of how they work, but how they work (meaning what goes on in the tube and how they behave in certain situations) is absolutely predictable and it should be the easiest thing for any AI to calculate tone changing behaviors and all that stuff. All you would need to "reproduce" is a good enough amp and speaker (and cabinet) and you should be able to create every tube sound that's out there??? WHY does this not happen???
How they work is quantum mechanics. No a solid state amp isn’t going to simulate trillions of electrons at a time. The nextone comes close. It’s just a little more polite than tubes. With just a hair less touch sensitivity. The boss stuff is near perfect
i'm kinda new to this channel and i''ve enjoyed your videos up to this point, but c'mon man you can't seriously advertise that vox amp as appropiate for drop b tuning, it's okay if you're not a modern metal guy, but i think the ultimate goal is to help kids out there to not waste money on stuff that's not gonna work for them right?
Areet man I've just bought a carlsbro cobra 90bg for 20 quid and a peavey vypyr 15 watt modeling amplifier for 30 quid today. Do you think I have got a bargain and are they any good. How much did they cost new do you know? Also you sound like your from the north of england are you?
you're one of my favorites for reviews! should i keep my jc40? i just bought it and im not happy. however, i'm new at practcing with a band at high volumes, so maybe i just need to grow into it? please advice
