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The THR sounds better than the BEAM in my experience but for home practice both would do the job. Music playback is ok at lower volumes from both, but, Bluetooth makes it slightly easier on the Blackstar.
I find myself using an ancient second hand Peavey bandit far more often now though.
Are they pedal friendly or sufficiently varied in their tones?
The Yamaha is much more varied and sounds far better clean and lightly overdriven. I didn't like the higher-gain sounds, but it does take pedals quite well - as a clean platform to amplify them, rather than use them to push the amp.
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The Vox is also way more versatile and simply sounds better, in my humble opinion, plus has a very nice bluetooth app.
The delay works quite well, plus it has Bluetooth and can act as a BT speaker.
It it also has something called LSI that allows bespoke amp and pedal sounds to be added via a phone. No idea if this works as I haven’t tried it.
Great feedback so far, thanks again.
If I remember correctly the 5 also doesn't have as many tone controls on the unit or a volume for the auxiliary input.
Also had a Vox AC4 which sounded good but was flipping loud.
Funny as someone above has mentioned the 'Bandit' above- often use an old Peavy 'Basic 60' bass amp which sounds better than most things.
I'll eventually replace it with a nice valve amp and maybe keep it for bass and playing music through.
Considering there is a Laney Lionheart in the classified section going begging at £350 that's a shitton of amp for the money compared to the Blackstar at £200+
I had a Blackstar ID Core 10 that actually sounded a lot better than the BEAM. @Danny1969 has that now if he got it working!
The basic sounds from the THR 10C are pretty good and its overdrive can be improved by using the PC editing option.
The biggest drawback to me was the lack of a footswitch to enable switching its effects on and off.(There is a footswitch available online but it is an expensve piece of junk).
After a few months later I tried a Blackstar ID15TVP at a local store and, as soon as I engaged its TVP mode with the KT88 power amp model knew that my time with the little Yamaha was coming to an end.
Apart from superior amp modelling (plus more than adequate effects) the Blackstar has the much needed footswitch readily available ( a four way footswitch ).
I still wonder why yamaha have still not provided a footswitch option for the THR.