The THR’s connectivity includes a USB socket to hook up to your computer, along with aux in and headphone sockets, an editor and a mobile practice app. There’s also a built-in tuner and tap-tempo button. On top of its stylish lounge-friendly case you’ll find eight amp models and eight effects, with five user memory slots. The already hyper-realistic sounds have been improved to a new level of authenticity on the V2.0 model, using Yamaha’s Virtual Circuit Modelling technology to create cleaner cleans and bigger distortions, with a very guitar-friendly response that feels like a real valve amp. Yamaha gave us the ‘third amp’ concept a product that could sit happily on a bookshelf at home, ready for action when a stage or studio rig would be too much weight or too much trouble to hook up.