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For classic rock you might find it a bit short on gain. You can get pretty close with the Bluesbreaker model, if you use the PC editor to add some compression (which isn't available via a physical knob) - but I haven't managed to get a full-on rawk sound out of it.
I tried both the regular 10 and the 10C before I bought mine. I felt it would be a compromise either way I went, but ultimately decided the range of tones on the 10C gave me more of what I wanted. YMMV.
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I'm really pleased with mine as a low volume practise solution.
However, if I were in the market right now I'd be considering things like the Boss Katana and the new ID Core Blackstar amps. The lower end of the modelling market is still progressing very quickly, and it's been a while since the THR10 came out now, and so others should be offering a similar if not better product for less money.
I'd expect you could play virtually anything you wanted through it (especially with judicious use of a pedal or two).
For my full thoughts on the THR, I posted in the reviews section. I can summarise it by saying that it's the one piece of guitar kit that I've never even considered parting with.
Are they really that good?
If I was going again, I'd probably get the standard one, it probably covers more ground and provides a bit more gain. But, like djspecialist, I use the bluesbreaker model on the 10c with the studio compressor engaged as a clean boost - it's gorgeous without drowning out the telly (most important if the missus is trying to hear it!)
I genuinely don't get their popularity.
I had the standard one for a while and although it sounded OK, it didn't knock me out and I sold it fairly quickly.
Since then I've seen so much praise for them I've assumed it was my rotten shitty playing to blame and I've seriously considered buying another one.
But maybe that's the equivalent of sticking your finger in the electric socket a second time to confirm you really do get a shock...
Is it just that they're small, manageable and easy to have lying around?
I've often heard that they don't take pedals very well.
Does that mean you're restricted to the onboard sounds?
For my tastes, it MUST NOT be stood on a reflective surface when I'm using it as a guitar amp (it's fine for using it as laptop speakers).
If its on that table, it sits on cork table mats - not too bad then. Otherwise it's on the end of the sofa, either on the arm, or in the corner created by the arm. That's when I love it.
With the "is it anything like playing through a real amp?" well, yes and no.
Years ago I used to gig with a Laney that was like a 50W JMP MV clone. That only sounded good with master above 3, and that was too loud for anything but the biggest gigs. It felt and sounded fabulous then.
Since then I've acquired POD 2.0 (OK, but don't really like it), POD XT (much better), Vox Tonelab LE (even better) ... I use them all through my studio monitors. They all need the desk's master cranked to sound/feel "good" like the old valve amp did live. And none of them can really do that just "breaking up" thing.
Then I got a Laney Cub 12R. That sounds FAB at a much lower volume than the old Laney did. But it's still a touch loud for domestic use.
When I got the THR10C, and figured it out, it was "oh yeah, this is what I wanted...".
To me - and I appreciate it won't to others, we all use amps differently - the THR10C gives me the impression and feel of that old amp when it was p1ssing off the sound engineers and putting a smile on my face... BUT... at an absolute whisper sat on my sofa watching the tv. None of the real amps I own (including a THR100HD) can even remotely manage that at that volume.
It's NOT so much a "guitar amp" in my mind, it's more a thing that impersonates a "guitar amp" going "woof", loudly, recorded through something, and then played back through your stereo.
It works for me, probably the best musical purchase I've ever made.
I just want something to use at home for relearning the electric again at a suitable volume and have some fun. The youtube videos I have watched have sounded great to me. I wish there was something like this 30 years ago when I first started playing. I remember all the rows I would have when my dad came home from work telling me to turn it off or down.
I used to have a Galian Kruger 100w amp thing which was very portable but used to get blown away by the other guitarist in our band with his 100w Marshall head. I sold that and bought a big Riverra valve amp head that I bought from Chandler guitars (£1250 in the 1990s), and bought a 2x12 cab with Celestion Sidewinders. Ended up selling it to save my back, and when I realised that I didn't like the tone.
I now have a Mesa Boogie Studio 22+ and a Marshall 50w Acoustic guitar amp.
I know that Yamaha call it the third amp which makes sense to me, it is what it is. I have looked at some videos on youtube for the Blackstar and Boss amps recommended in the thread. I think I would rather go with the Boss than the Blackstar out of the two. However, from what I can see the Boss one is 50w unless I have missed something.
I suppose I will need to see if I can find a dealer to try out the Yamaha.
As an allrounder the THR10 was great, but I wanted the more 'vintage tone' of the C so I went for that.
Both were great.