Positive Grid Spark Pearl 40-Watt Combo Practice Guitar Amplifier Electric Bass and Acoustic Guitar Amp with Spark Mobile App (Pearl)

An absolute Godsend for the bedroom/home office guitarist. Years ago, as a 21 year old, I toyed with the idea of buying a 50w Marshall JCM2000 DSL50 head and a 4x4 cabinet, intent as I was on becoming the next bonafide Irish rockstar. That, and as they were back then, an American Standard Fender Telecaster in white with a maple fretboard.As life went on, reality took over. Now I am a very happily married 42 year old with a family.However, finances, neighbours, time, work, and a back that isn’t getting any younger simply means that owning said Marshall halfstack is as realistic as having a Bugatti as a daily driver.Is the Spark 40 as good as a valve amp? No, clearly not. But it won’t need re-valved and re-biased either.Are the effects going to compete with my own pedalboard that has been fine tuned over three decades? No, but the app works really well and lets you experiment with different types of the same effects.But does it provide good, consistent, and decent sound at home levels with a convenient way to add some well replicated digital approximations of pedals like the Tubescreamer and EHX Muff? 100%.***And - let this sink in - all for less than the price of a boutique effect pedal!***Ever wonder what’s the difference between an analog delay and a digital delay? Or a Klon and Tubscreamer? This gives you an idea, along with the ability to swap between MesaBoogie, Matchless, Vox, and Plexi amp types.An incredible achievement and one that 12 year old me could only have dreamed about when I was wondering why my little solid state Honer Panther amp didn’t sound anything like what I was hearing on Appetite for Destruction.And the fact that you can use it for acoustic and bass guitars is a big plus.I would imagine that, in the right live scenario, the majority of folks in an audience wouldn’t be able to differentiate between this and a valve combo if they were mic’d up correctly.

I’m a bass player and was looking for a small ish amp to replace an aging Fender Rumble 15 for home use. I had tried various others & alway returned them because their reviews didn’t stack up to what was delivered.The Positive Grid Spark on the other hand delivered right out of the box. It’s a little bit bigger than I expected but that’s ok. I plugged it in, put in my wireless system (not Positive Grid), switched on, selected bass & zero effects, I wanted to try it “clean” and away I went, awesome!Don’t bother with other brands that promise hundreds of effects, just buy this, it really does work! A great buy, especially with the Black Friday discount. When my low cost (Chinese) wireless system packs in, I’ll buy the Positive Grid system but it’s very good at the moment.

OK it's not a tube amp. But for the price its modelling features and tonal possibilities are absolutely amazing. The speakers are a bit brassy. But I've been pairing it up with some decent headphones for some silent practice sessions. Top notch vfm.

This is the ideal practice amp for anyone who is reasonably tech savvy and familiar with guitar effects pedals. Even if you don’t have much experience though, it really won’t take much effort to get you going and there are plenty of YouTube reviews that show you how to use it and set it up.I found it simple to set up and was playing around with the downloaded patches in less than 10 minutes.One of the first things you’ll want to do is update the firmware by hooking it up to a computer, this was also pretty easy following the instructions from the positive grid website. Once I updated it there were more features and the Jimi Hendrix add on which is fun to play with if you’re a big fan.SOUND:Overall the sound quality is highly impressive and the possibilities are pretty much endless with this amp. The shimmery clean tones with chorus and reverb are honestly some of the best I’ve heard but I mainly bought this for metal. My usual rig is more blues oriented and I really just wanted something to jam Pantera riffs on and go wild!The metal amp models have more than enough gain and the amount of bass this thing can produce means you can rest assured it won’t sound thin or tinny.Overall I recommend this to anyone who wants a fun practice amp to play about with. I’ve got loads of music equipment now but if I had this when I was first starting out It probably would have saved me a small fortune on amps and pedals!If you’re a parent thinking of buying this for your kid then I would say go for it if you can afford it and the kid is committed to playing guitar. If you go for a cheaper no frills amp you may end up having to buy an upgrade in a few years anyway. This amp will be more than enough for most kids until they’re old enough to get a job and buy their own gear!

I am a beginner guitarist, been playing acoustic for about a year and bought this for my first electric guitar on the back of generally good reviews and the fact it was available for a good price. I have only had it a few weeks but am amazed by the range of tones available and I know I have only scraped the surface of what the amp can do (there are even more alternatives on the cloud in addition to the 30 or so integrated into the amp itself). If it has a downside the range of tones available is really overwhelming for a beginner, though I’m hopeful that in time I can settle on a few I prefer and use the presets on the amp itself to store them so I don’ have to use the app. unless I want to. Also as many have noted, the amp is very bassy and can sound a bit muddy, although it is possible to get rid of this using the equaliser settings. I haven’t as yet tried out some of the other features of the amp - ‘smart jam’ and ‘auto chords’ but looking forward to it.

amazing for an amp and a bluetooth speaker