Orange Crush Bass 50

Crush 50 has served my home bass needs for a bit over three years now, and I have bee very satisfied. The chassis is well build and looks good. The controls are intuitive and reasonably simplified, yet plentiful enough to get many types of tones out of it. The sound has good solid state punchiness into it, and the gain control with blend is very, very usable, especially if you invest in a separate footswitch for it.

With limited chassis room for the element and being a single 12" speaker, it does not compete with a 4x10 cabs, understandably. Also, it's not very loud sounding 50 watts even with full blast, so in certain styles of music it won't hold on its own in band practice. The "lack" of loudness (although this is a mild exaggeration, the unit DOES have volume well enough) or the cab size are not a problem in home practice, quite contrary. The combo fits in relatively small space and still can house some stuff on top of it. There's also quite well working headphone jack for some silent rehearsing, which is a plus. I've also tried it with my baritone guitars in B standard and A standard tuning, and it sounds pretty pleasing with them also, despite being full solid state.

Definitely not my dream bass amp or go-to tool for band environment, but it's pretty hard to compete against this when seeking a nice, well built and still very affordable combo for home or home studio. I'm very happy with it.