Yamaha THR5 V2

You've probably read tons of great reviews about the THR5, and indeed I agree with all of them in terms of sound quality, clarity, versatility, design, and so on. However, I want to add here a point of view about something not a lot of people share: recording via USB. As you know, you can connect your THR5 to a computer and use it as an audio interface for recording. If you're looking for a really minimal setup for your home studio (like I was), I'm sad to share that the THR5 doesn't do a good job in this area.

If you want to record one of the processed sounds of the amp ("clean", "crunch", "lead", etc, which are send through input signals 1 and 2), you might be happy with the outcome. However, if you want to use a digital amp sim like the ones from your DAW or NeuralDSP plugins, for example, you may prefer to use the DI inputs (3 and 4). Despite THR5's Impressive low latency, here are the main problems:

The output signal for DI is very low, and there's nothing you can do to control the gain for DI. All the settings for master, volume, and gain control affect only the processed sounds, not the DI. In my case, my guitar signal was peaking at -34db when recording, which is pretty low, creating a bad signal to noise ratio. When compared to Focusrite Scarlett Solo, for example, the difference in quality is gigantic, so I recommend you to use a proper audio interface for better sound recording instead of the THR5.

All in all, I really like this Amp for daily practice. I just had the wrong expectations in mind for recording when I bought it.

Je l'utilise pour répéter chez moi et c'est très pratique. Il ne prend pas beaucoup de place et le son n'est pas trop fort donc parfait avec les voisins. Comme dit dans d'autres commentaire, le son avec le canal "modern" et british" sonnent un peu grave mais en jouant avec le tone et le gain, y a moyen de régler ça plus ou moins. Le logiciel à télécharger et un plus car ça permet de régler le son comme on veut (choisir le cab et là on dispose de l'égaliseur) même si on ne peut pas le sauvegarder sur l'ampli, ça permet de l'améliorer quand on joue car certains canaux manque de personnalité mais pour le prix c'est vraiment pas mal. Rien à redire sur la fabrication, aucun défaut à la réception.

If you're like me and just started to try to learn how the electric guitar really works this is really a good option.

A few good pre selection of different settings and a good amount of effects. Good interface with computer use. A bit disappointing on the amount of pre sets found on Internet but nothing to do with product.

Very good built quality and very smart look as you would expect from Yamaha.

One of the best things about it is that you can practise at night or in situations that you can't burst the volume too high. Still fairly good quality coming from the 2x 5 watt speakers.

Thomann service 100% as always. Fast delivery and very helpful as usual.