I got this as a gift and when I saw the size I didn’t expect much, but as a portable practice amp it rocks. Classic Orange tone in a small, portable amp. The controls give you full tone control with gain, shape and volume. Backing off the gain and pushing the volume up results in British crunch, while pushing the gain up will give you high gain distortion. The shape control, cuts or boosts the mids, to fatten or scoop your sound.
I think the best feature is the 8 Ohm speaker output. Plug directly into an external speaker cabinet to open up even more tones. I run this through my Orange PPC 212 open back cab and the distortion has a surprisingly full sound. The Crush Mini also features a built-in tuner, as well as a headphone output that cuts the speaker for silent practice. The AUX IN makes playing along to songs really easy.
Keep in mind with a 1×4″ speaker and a weight of 2lbs. This amp does have some sonic limitations, but for the portability, price and speaker output it is hard to beat. I think the one downside was the lack of a true clean sound. I couldn’t get one once the volume and gain were boosted. If I am missing how to get one post in the comments.
