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It's really easy to use, both loud and quiet enough for home use requirements, small, light and unobtrusive (it doesn't look at all out of place sat on a bookshelf in our living room), you can stick batteries in it and take it into the garden for your own mini-festival, plug in a phone and play along, or set it to 'line' and use it as an iPod speaker. Great as a recording tool for connecting to GarageBand etc, too. Very versatile.
IMO you're missing out if you don't connect it to a computer as it opens up a lot of options for playing with amp settings that aren't accessible via hardware and you can also download user patches and save them to the presets. Lots of those are utter rubbish, but there's the odd good one. I found a good Hendrix one, for example, which really surprised me in terms of its touch sensitivity.
I haven't tried the Boss Katana 50, but it seems to me that it's really serving quite a different purpose. It may be similar in terms of some of the feature set and price - and I'll bet it provides a lot of the same benefits - but it's not going to look like a relatively unobtrusive radio if it's sat in your front room, while on the other hand it'll go a lot louder if you need that at any point.
Is there a small amp you can download tones through an app and Bluetooth onto the speaker instantly?
I was originally set on a thr but the longer I take to buy, the more I want to wait for an updated version. Then I tried the Boss and it sounded equally as nice. Whichever I buy I don’t intend to replace for a long time
There's always the Vox Adio Air GT, if you can stand how it looks, the Boss Air. I went down a similar path after realising I spent more time looking for tones than playing through a Mustang 1, I considered both the Vox Adio and the Boss Air as well as the Boss Katana 50 and 100, eventually I got a Vox AV15, which is plug and play (no downloads), I got a good deal which sealed it in the end.
FWIW, I connected mine when I first bought it and spent two hours updating the firmware, playing around with the additional settings and looking through user patches. I identified patches that (a) sounded like I might be interested in them and (b) had good ratings, tried them out and saved my favourites to the preset buttons on the amp. I've never connected it to a PC since as I just either use those patches or dial something in, which is a piece of cake.
I mainly want it for clean tones, Motown sounds, classic rock and I suppose you’d call it Indie. Don’t need a metal sound. Would a regular 10 cover these or would a 10C be better. Haven’t tried one of those yet.
On your question about tones, when I use mine, I'm just playing stuff I like purely for fun, which tends to mean a bit of Hendrix (Wind Cries Mary, Bold as Love, Hey Joe-type stuff) and a lot of 90s alt-rock (Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub, Pavement, Sebadoh etc). So 'fairly' clean or 'fairly' crunchy and I'm not too fussy about the sound as long as it's in the ballpark. For me, the THR10 does that really well for what it is - though I haven't tried the THR10C, so couldn't say if it's better.
i wouldn't get rid of mine despite having a Princeton. If you want quiet home play they are great.
Everything about the app works extremely well in my experience and I love being able to swap and change presets, volume, backing tracks, EQ etc at the touch of a button on my phone rather than getting my fat ass off the sofa and walking over to the opposite wall of the room where the Vox sits.
Plus, in addition to all this decadent convenience, it simply sounds better (and a bit louder, if you need that) than the THR, in my opinion.
As for those THRs, they're very nice in their own right - I liked the C model for most of its cleans and low gain stuff but always wanted something with a touch more gain than anything it possessed - the beige one, the normal model, was a bit less inspiring for me out of the three, whereas the one I found most useful was actually the X (green) one with the higher gain stuff, despite me being more blues/classic rock than metal.
The X model had the great clean from the C built into it, too, but it had a wider range of useable gain sounds than the others.
Ultimately I let it go for the Vox, which I prefer to any of them, but the THRs are great even now, especially if you can live without the bluetooth stuff, which I've now grown to love and use daily.
Going back to one of my original points, the THR10 and Boss Katana 50 are really quite different things in a way that's a bit more 'lifestyle' than 'musical', I suspect I'd favour a Katana all day long from a purely playing guitar perspective, but it wouldn't look very good on my living room bookshelf.
The THR is a totally different thing. Far smaller, no way you’d gig it, more “lifestyle”.
Surely you’d know in advance which suits your needs just from the form factor and power output.