Yamaha THR10 Guitar / Bass Amplifier Amp USB Audio Interface

This has to be one of the most versatile, best sounding, and most controllable practice amps EVER! It's for everything from clean strat to death metal at reasonable (for reluctant listeners) volume. V.clever pot controls sweep through 4 effects and a rev / delay pot does the same. The main point is that it's dead simple to make it sound great really quick, the preset sounds are obvious and self explanatory CLEAN and LEAD being examples. The presets get heavier the more you turn the effect pot control clockwise - simple! You can also connect it to your pc (this works better with win7 than lion in my limited experiments) and then you can get to the noise gate and set your own values for all the controls on the amp and record them back to 1 of the 5 programmable user presets.Did I say it looks really good too? Love the amber led lit front grill. Not cheap, but a lot cheaper than my 12" valve combo amp that scares the begeebuss out of next door and the THR has a headphone out and line level in for those private moments. If you've spent a good amount on a guitar and need controlled practice this is the way to go.

THR 10 in this form is discontinued. A very popular amp, the seller here is charging vintage money (over twice its retail price) because you can't get it anywhere else. Yamaha have replaced it with THR 10 2 - this replaces all the previous three THR 10 versions and the app is better. The same great sounds much cheaper, check it before paying for this. It's not vintage, it's obsolete.

The Yamaha THR10 is a transistor based amplifier which has been designed to behave like a valve amp, and squeezed into a fetchingly retro radio-style box which is not a log bigger than a big cereal box, and which you can carry around to use on battery or mains. The sound on guitar is surprisingly loud, though when a bass is plugged in you have to watch it, and there is a really good set of effects including all the reverb and echo you could want plus chorus, flanger, phaser and tremolo (seriously, does anyone ever use tremolo?).The real piece de resistance is the amp simulations, which go from a clean Fender Twin sort of sound through to the filthiest Marshall lead that you ever heard. A really nice touch is that you get preamp volume, master volume _and_ overall output. In other words, you can have the amp cooking like a Master Volume Marshall turned right to the top at both the pre-amp and power-amp stages, and yet still have the volume at a respectable sitting room level.Digital amp modelling has been around for more than a decade, of course, and COSM is now fitted to pretty much everything you can find. This isn't COSM though, or anything digital. Instead, it's circuits designed to not just sound like valves, but behave like them as well. The result is a lot closer to the way valves respond to your guitar than you would get on a mid-price COSM device such as a multi-effector. The sound is great, but the response is very valve-like as well. What you don't get is the weird variability which makes every valve amp unique and which changes the sound during the course of a gig. Not that you would necessarily want that, of course...For playing in the bedroom, this is brilliant. Yamaha suggests that it will be your 'third amp', as if everyone already owns a stack and a combo. For outdoors, using the battery, it's pretty loud if you are playing an overdriven guitar sound, or something crunchy. On clean it's a bit more restrained, and if you're looking for something to busk with into which you can plug your electric and your classical, this may not be what you want.There are two other great features. One is that you can plug your iPod in (or anything that takes a small sized headphone socket) and play along with it. Great for buskers who want backing tracks, or for jamming to that song you love. The other is that it has a USB out and should plug straight into Garage Band or whatever it is you use. This is not a recording studio quality device (though that shouldn't stop someone trying it), so isn't going to replace your MOTU/Apogee/TC Electronic or M-Audio interfaces, but it gets round the age old problem of wanting to lay down a track quickly and easily.Priced as it is, this is one of the more expensive battery amps / practice amps. If you love great tone and valve-like response, though, it could be just what you're looking for.

just as everyone else is reporting this is probably an amp that nobody really needs but everybody wants. I love the tones and the easy controls with fine dial up FX. Great fun all round and it will always be out and ready for use.

Be aware that if you plan to use this via batteries, it will cut out at higher volumes (about 75%) of its max volume.This is a proven design fault, that Yamaha know about and cannot fix. It works well on mains power.I have spoken to yamaha tech support after reading many reports about this problem online. yamaha have given several conflicting reasons for this fault, there latese BS answer is that it's a deliberate hardware action by them to protect rechargeable batteries from dieing and being damaged. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!this fault is repeatable on any THR10. Just put new batteries in (rechargeable or normal) and turn up the amp volume knob and the guitar volume knob on the thr10. It will cut out at approx 75%yamaha shouldn't be selling these with this known issue, it is a bad design fault that Yamaha should be made to point out at point of sale in the shops.In my view it shoud warrent a full refund and yamaha should be made to recall all products and fix them.

I have vintage tube amps, I needed a travel practice amp that fits in a suit case.....this is that and more.Great for playing outside at a picnic or what ever. Also good to hookup MP3 player and play along or just to hookup to laptop to listen to Youtube with great sound. I put this amp on high settings and it thinks it's a double stack of Marshalls, feed back and all!!This amp will make you smile.....great present to any player....has Bass and Acoustic settings also!

This is a very small amplifier with an incredibly wide field of stereo throw with a reverb engulfing psychoacoustic effect like none you've ever heard before, truly amazing, every guitar player should have one. Literally too many features to go into. If you have one you love it, if you don't get one! The best 3 bills you'll ever spend.