Orange Crush Mini

The Orange Crush Mini packs a surprising amount of the brand's character into an amp small enough to sit in a gig bag pocket. Running on a battery or a power supply, it offers a straightforward gain, shape and volume layout, where the shape control sweeps the midrange to move between scooped modern tones and a rounder, more classic voice. A chromatic tuner is built in, the amp powers up as soon as a lead is connected, and a headphone jack makes it genuinely silent when needed. An eight-ohm output allows it to drive a larger external cabinet, which turns a practice amp into something usable for a small rehearsal, and an auxiliary input lets backing tracks or a phone play through the same speaker. For travel, lessons and sofa practice it covers the ground without any setup.