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Picked up a Positive Grid Spark 40 this morning, mainly just to have something in the living room I could plunk on when watching TV.
Had high hopes for it after watching some vids and reading Alex’s post on the mini.
Was also very intrigued by the ability to use it for both guitar and bass.
So far, the only high gain tone I can seem to get out of it that doesn’t turn me off is using the wannabe 6505 sim. The SLO, Treadplate and the few others Ive tried are disappointing.
For bass, it’s not bad at all. So much so I think it inspired a new riff for a new song.
Overall, my brain is comparing it to my Fender GTX50 and for tones, I don’t think the Spark keeps up. Granted the Fender has a 12” Celestion in it and the Spark has whatever these transistor radio sized things are, so it’s not a fair comparison.
It does have a lot of cool bells and whistles, and some really sweet clean tones, but since I mostly play high gain stuff, Im not sure only being able to have one “flavor” from an amp that claims to offer unlimited choices is going to keep me from returning it.
So… maybe…
Had high hopes for it after watching some vids and reading Alex’s post on the mini.
Was also very intrigued by the ability to use it for both guitar and bass.
So far, the only high gain tone I can seem to get out of it that doesn’t turn me off is using the wannabe 6505 sim. The SLO, Treadplate and the few others Ive tried are disappointing.
For bass, it’s not bad at all. So much so I think it inspired a new riff for a new song.
Overall, my brain is comparing it to my Fender GTX50 and for tones, I don’t think the Spark keeps up. Granted the Fender has a 12” Celestion in it and the Spark has whatever these transistor radio sized things are, so it’s not a fair comparison.
It does have a lot of cool bells and whistles, and some really sweet clean tones, but since I mostly play high gain stuff, Im not sure only being able to have one “flavor” from an amp that claims to offer unlimited choices is going to keep me from returning it.
So… maybe…