So I just sold my THR10C on here and immediately regretted it. I wasn't using it a ton, but then when it was gone I realised I needed to have such an amp regardless. I wasnt overly impressed with the 10C, but it was good for what it is.
I ordered the THR5 as I didn't use any of the 10's additional features. It sounds terrible. So bright and ice picky. I can't get a warm tone from it. If I turn the tone down on both the amp and guitar, it takes the piercing highs off, but then it become dull.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thinking about sending it back. What alternatives are there? Has anyone got the Katana mini?
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The best-sounding battery amp I've ever heard.
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Agree about the tones but lack of connectivity options.
It won't do anything you expect from a fully featured normal amp, and especially not anything a modeller can do, but it has a very musical feel and sits perfectly in a mix while you're working out what to play.
When you plug into a Pignose your guitar is purely a musical instrument, not a wired controller for a sound module.
But I’ve just sold mine - which was the fourth or fifth I’ve owned - because I just don’t like the sound of them and it doesn’t work for what I play. (Even with a buffered pedal in front, which does improve them.)
A bit of trivia - although not exact, the circuit is very closely related to the Brian May ‘Deacy’ amp that John Deacon made from a scrap radio amplifier. They’re both a derivative of one of the first discrete-transistor audio amp circuits.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein