It’s roughly the size of a compact stompbox, or a couple of packs of cigarettes stacked on top of each other if you prefer, and yet somehow it’s a genuine, bona fide guitar amp. Well, first we need to talk about the size – we thought the Mini was small, but this is so small it feels like it’s showing off. More than just a niche hardware product experiment from a music technology company, the Spark was a bona fide phenomenon.įast-forward a couple of years and the Mini – a Spark that was effectively a third of the size of the original, battery-powered and portable, yet still sporting all of the functionality and great sound of the original – redefined what we believed that a portable practice amp was capable of, so what of 2023’s new darling, the GO? What’s more the Spark comes with a suite of revolutionary app-enabled features that lean on PG’s amp modelling expertise to provide a huge array of onboard sounds, as well as hugely impressive practice and learning features such as the we-used-AI-before-it-was-cool SmartJam feature, which listens to your playing and creates a bespoke backing track to accompany you.Īrriving as it did shortly before every guitarist in the world became an enforced bedroom player (and just as scores of new and returning players came to the instrument) the Spark was a ‘can’t make them fast enough’ smash, seemingly finding a place on the desks or in the home studios of every guitarist on Instagram and beyond. The original Spark 40 was the first guitar amp product from US software amp sim specialists Positive Grid and effectively promised to be the ultimate desktop amp – a 40-watt, two-speaker lunchbox amp that also acts as a USB recording interface and Bluetooth speaker. READ MORE: The Big Review: Victory Sheriff 25 – the ultimate Marshall-style lunchbox head?īut first, a refresher for those who perhaps haven’t been following the rapid rise of the Spark since it debuted just before the pandemic. But now it’s 2023 and there’s a new Spark on the block – and this one’s even smaller and more portable than the Mini… does that mean the Spark GO is ready to ascend the throne? Let’s find out. Last year, we reviewed Positive Grid’s second smart amp, the Spark Mini, and confidently told you that the milk-carton-sized box of wonder was the best practice amp that money could buy. The Big Review: Positive Grid Spark GO – the portable amp finally goes big
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