I am just about to move to a 4th floor flat and the thought of having to lug my main rig in and out of it several times a week isn't something I'm look forward to. So I'm looking for a light weight giggable set up that would serve for practices and some small gigs and these look like they may do the job. Head in one hand, cab in the other and guitar on my back. One times down the stairs and done!
They are in stock a Bristol PMT so will head down to try them in the next fortnight but just wondered if anyone had one and had gigged it and had any feedback?
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@rossyamaha will add more insight and depth !
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I probably shouldn't have bought the cab myself - I DI the thing into my home studio most of the time, or use headphones. But every now and then I plug it in to the cab in the living room and get it up to "rehearsal volume" - it ROCKS!
I absolutely love it. I've already been using a THR10C for a few years, but when I heard the sounds the 100 could do, I just had to have one.
Btw, if you're DI'ing or using headphones - I was already digging it a lot since I got it in March... then a couple of weeks ago I decided to experiment with 3rd-party Impulse Response files. OH MY GOODNESS!
The balanced XLR outs and the headphone socket have speaker simulation that you can change if you use the supplied utility program. Each amp model has its own IR slot, you can install the supplied IRs or use any 3rd party ones. By default it has some appropriate cabs installed for each model - can't remember what they were, but I was getting so confused trying to dial in a tone with the cab and then getting something different coming out of the studio speakers. So I swapped IRs quite early on - I decided to install the ones provided of the THR cab itself, and I stopped getting confused!
But the other weekend I checked out free IRs on the web, found some I liked. When plugged into my studio now (or headphones), it's playing through some hairy Marshall 4x12 with Greenbacks, mic'd with an SM57. It was good before, but it sounds heavenly now.
The cab itself (I've got the 1x12) does a superb job if you can turn it up in a reasonable space (eg our living room when all the neighbours are out). But my studio is the box/3rd-bedroom, I've yet to hear the cab sounding better than the monitor speakers in there.
For living-room "competing with the TV" volumes, just enough to p1ss off the missus or immediate neighbours, I much prefer the THR10. At that volume, that feels most like playing a gig-amp.
For anything else (both louder, quieter, and DI'd or headphones) the THR100 wins hands down for me.
The THR10 is what it is - that "third amp" idea they came up with. And it works brilliantly as laptop speakers too. The THR100 is a real amp that you can tame down to whispers and can use for silent recording via the balanced XLR out(s) or headphone practice.
If my wife told me I had to lose one of them now, I'd be stuck... I'd probably keep the THR10 because having a real amp is a bit of a luxury for me. But I wouldn't be able to get such a good recorded guitar sound.
I really need to try a THD100 it seems!
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I'm still experimenting with the IRs, I think it works better with brighter ones.
I'd be interested to know what are people's favourite ones.
If more gain is needed then engaging the boost pedals sounds much better.
I'm still hunting for the best impulse response, Yamaha could have made more of an effort to provide some guidance in the manual there.
I hate the idea of buying an Amp from a shop & then returning it(which is why i tried it so many times in the shop),but i keep reading posts about how good they are at gigging levels,so i might rekindle my interest & if i have to return it so be it..