The 5 Best Yamaha THR amps (2023 reviews)

If you often find yourself scrambling for good amp, this should be your first option for buying. Bluetooth support lets you wirelessly play your music through the hi-fi speakers, sculpt your perfect tone with the mobile editor app, and more. It is designed for guitar and bass. It just adds Line6 G10II wireless, bluetooth, USB, and has built-in rechargeable batteries. The speakers are a near-field design, which makes the amp sound loud and full when you're sitting close by, but without bothering the neighbors if you live in an apartment.

The Bluetooth feature is great, you get very high quality playback, with it's own volume control separate from the guitar volume. The clean and crunch settings are great, and the chorus sounds wonderful with the stereo speakers. It is great for quick tweaks and edits to presets.

Why We Like This:

Sounds awesome and doubles as a bluetooth speaker, a must for any guitar player
Versatile, easy to operate and fine tune
Great for kids or seasoned musicians
Great sound, loud enough, very flexible

Best With batteries: Yamaha Portable Amp

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This five-model series of portable guitar amplifiers utilizes yamaha's acclaimed virtual circuitry technology to deliver authentic tube amp sound, incredibly realistic effects, and hi-fi quality stereo playback, so there is no compromise. It makes great sounds, even at low volume and has lots of built in effects like chorus and reverb, you can get a little dynamic clean tone, that's fun to play. The clean sounds are great, and with built in effects like chorus and reverb, you can get a little dynamic clean tone, that's fun to play.

This amp is powered by 8 x AA alkaline or rechargeable batteries. You can also feed backing tracks through this amp either through your PC or through the headphone jack. This is a perfect guitar small amp for use around the home, home studio and anywhere you aren't actually playing a gig. It is optimized for use with electric-acoustic and silent guitars. The tones that come out of this amp are sweet, sexy and warm.

Why We Like This:

Perfect for playing for weddings and parties
Bonuses are the wide stereo setting, hi-fi playback and the very respectable tuner
Absolutely perfect for a small apartment
Comes preloaded with some nice basic effects

Best For backing track wireless fun: Yamaha real Amp

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The yamaha real amp is capable of outshining several other products featured in this list in overall features in its price range. The Watt yamaha thr30ii wireless amplifier brings realistic tube-amp tones and feel to your desktop—and beyond. This allows you to stream from your mobile device for either playing along, or just streaming music in stereo. There is the tone, this thing sounds incredible and is very easy to tweak. It comes with an ac adapter / transformer power supply. The wireless feature works very well and the sound is impressive for it’s size. The main highlight is the portability and flexibility.

It is compatible with an optional line 6 relay g10t transmitter. The sounds are good, you can save you settings, plug on your computer etc.

Why We Like This:

Built-in rechargeable battery lets you play anywhere
Wonderful sound with strats and gretsch hollow bodies
Perfect to carry around for practicing and noodling, especially with the battery power

Best Bluetooth Speaker: Yamaha Practice Amp

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If you would like to have all the previous-version thr sounds in one box, with an internal battery, the ability to use a line6 g10 transmitter, and bluetooth then this is certainly the amp for you. This is designed as a practice amp and only has a pair of 3 " speakers. The amp has a pair of 1/4" outputs ( stereo ) that can be run to a mixing board for example. It has quarter inch outputs on the back for left and right channels if you want to record directly into your mixing board or other analog interface.

You can connect wirelessly to the speaker through your phone and bluetooth, and this requires no additional devices. There are individual level controls for your guitar and for the music you are streaming to the amp so you can get a good mix. This is a very credible Bluetooth speaker especially if you enable the "low boost" and crank it up.

Why We Like This:

Great tool for living room jamming
Very simple and straightforward to use
Portable, great battery life, simple ios app

Best Little Acoustic Amp: Yamaha THR Amp

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The yamaha thr amp is capable of outshining several other products featured in this list in overall features for the price point. Realistic models of boutique condenser, dynamic, and tube microphones make your guitar sound like it is recorded in a professional studio. The new thr-ii series amps are usb class compliant, allowing easy connection with pc/mac and mobile devices without the need to install drivers, so that you can easily use your thr-ii as an audio interface for recording. It is compatible with an optional line 6 relay g10t transmitter.

The “thr remote” mobile editor provides users with convenient remote amplifier operation from your smartphone. It can be used with a seperate preamp, not as a preamp. The thr30iia allows you to connect a microphone and a guitar at the same time. It is a multi-touch compatible daw application that allows for music production on the ipad. They make a nice little portable combo.

Why We Like This:

3 authentic-sounding mic models, plus nylon-string and flat modes
Professional-quality microphone preamp with xlr input
Lots of volume for home use
Built-in wireless receiver compatible with optional line 6 relay g10t transmitter