Wojciech Kwietniewski sent a message to Takuya Nakata that said:
Dear Mr. Takuya Nakata,
I'm an old Yamaha customer. I just wanted to say couple of things. I've been using Yamaha products for years, I had THR5 and THR10II, I have a thr10c, a thr 100H, a Yamaha guitar, a pair of headphones, and a piano. And I really want Yamaha to do well, but there's some stuff I can't stand, and that's why I'm texting you.
I think that the fist thr range was great, but since then it seems to get worse.
I bought the new THR10II, but I sent it back, and that's why:
-the most important thing-the sounds. Yamaha didn't just simply put together all of the previous thrs, these have been tweaked. And generally, you would've thought it's good but NOT in this case. You put 15 tweaked amp models and all of them are semi-usable. If you don't use the app you probably won't find the sound for you at all!
To be more specific:
a) classic, boutique, modern- that's ver misleading since you can find everything from clean to extreme gain on every on these channels. The best idea would be just simply to put 10c into the boutique, 10x into modern and 10 into classic, but for whatever reason, Yamaha didn't.
b) The idea behind old thr10 was great- Fender, Vox, an older and newer Marshall and Mesa. The great simplicity but a wide range of great tones.
But with thr10II you used 15 amp models- and that's bit much! I get that it's 2020 and people seem to demand greater versatility, but the versatility you are giving us with these 15 amp models is useless-because they are not polished, refind. If Yamaha had made it in such a way, every guitarist would be more than happy!
c) Master volume! On old THRs when you back up the gain and crank up the master you get that great kinda Hendrix type of sound. With overdriven bottom and clear singing highs. But now it's gone! It was great what you had, but now it's replaced something worse.
d) You are still using the same IRs as on previous THRs. As I like the old THRs, thr IRs, weren't always the strong side of them. For example, That American 1x12, that is being used on clean on thr10x, 100H, 10II, and deluxe on thr 10c- is really nice on clean, but when you crank up the gain, it sounds terrible! I can't believe Yamaha didn't notice that! Or you did but didn't care enough to do something about it.
e)
Headphone output-It's very shrill, digital sounding and overall unpleasant to the ear.
f)
Yamaha had almost 10 years to this right. But you didn't and it really really kills me.
About the THR100H:
a)Solid and Clean are almost the same! On the old thr 10 when you backup the gain and crank up the master you get that great SRV/Hendrix sound. And such a thing is not available on the thr100H! Neither on clean nor on lead. And it's almost impossible to overdrive the clean channel. With that, it's very similar to the Solid setting. So what I'm trying to say that there was no need for the Solid amp model!
b) Lack of the Brit Hi. Brit Hi was great amp just between the modern and the lead channel. But it's not available on the 100H. Instead, we have solid and clean which are very similar to each other since the clean channel is very hard to overdrive.
c) Reverb. Reverb was a really big bummer for me. And I talk about spring reverb. It lacks the dwell and splash that spring reverb has, but instead, the spring reverb on thr100H sounds like someone mixed the Hall reverb with the Sring reverb. And it doesn't sound good! Maybe someone wanted to make this in such way to sound better with some more distorted,metal sounds, but this is why you also have the hall/ room reverb, it's pointless!
d) Modern- it's so shrilly sounding it makes me cringe.
e) Headphone output-again- shrill, digital sounding, unpleasant to the ear
f) touch sensitivity- it really could've been better! especially on class A! And even on class A and on the crunch channel it's doesn't really clean up well in terms of picking dynamics when for ex. on the Brit Bleus on the thr10C you can play jazz and classic rock with the gain on max and all that with how hard you pick.
I really love Yamaha and I really want it to do well so that's why I wrote that list. Yamaha has such great potential and I can't stand looking( and hearing) how the products are not polished.
Best Regards
Wojciech Kwietniewski
