Positive grid spark

[ttmax]

Hi do you think about this new home generation amplifier ?

[MartinB]

I've just seen a little bit about it from YT vids, I'm not really sure what I think about it tbh.

[ttmax]

In fact you have a good digital choice of amps and almost infinite effects. From the videos the results seem very good, the other functions may not please everyone like the creation of a backtracks. Personally, I like the integration with youtube, spotify minus the apple one (I don't use iphone or ipad). Theoretically, even without mobile support, the sound obtained for a device born for learning or domestic use like (katana or blackstar id core) but a bit better still seems to be quite valid. I found one open, and then sold out (too technological for the guy who gave it to me). Let's see if it's right for me, it would seem that it doesn't have the problems encountered on marshall code h and blackstar id code 20 (low output headphones). Among those possessed to me this problem is not only the Fender mustang IV which, however, at home I can only use with headphones is in fact 150 watts. For this reason I was buying a Bugera g5 infinutum H ... but then needing another cabinet ... Harley Benton vintage 1x12 at least I gave up for lack of space. I wonder will I have done well? I don't know, after all, a Marshall valvestate I still have at home ... too bad it's 100 watts too!

Waiting new toys

[MartinB]

Be interested to hear your thoughts on it when you get it

[ttmax]

I do not recommend it, I am quite scarce, perhaps more than a player I would define myself as an accumulator (once a collector) since I bought cheap instruments

[ttmax]

The "nano" (Spark) is here and seems to promise what I had heard on youtube.
Too bad I have to close the box and pretend that it's the Christmas present (but that's okay) much better so than a stupid Marshall

[MartinB]

Glad it's all worked out for you. I hope you can give us a review after Xmas

[blindwilly3fingers]

I'll be interested to hear your thoughts and findings. 👍

[ttmax]

I believe that this is better to listen me

[ttmax]

Hi guys...at the turn of the holidays between a hangover and another here are the first impressions of the spark 40:
unlike the code 100H (I assume all the queues) the bluetooth works great no uncertainty or blackout. the headphone output is always as good as a guitar amp, and you can always use the control if it is too loud. Evidently in Marshall these things have not been received and one cannot always live on the laurels of the past. Nobody questions this, but the current choices, queues or origin should make mr blush with shame. marshall or the mutineers of the bounty (blackstar) nine years to design isf! This small box brings out in a very easy way what many have tried to do for years but at the expense of ease or quality. Obviously we are not even arguing that we are far from professional use, but a code 100h + 112 costs almost 500 euros and just makes a mess does not sound like a j800 or a plexi and is clearly inferior even to an honest Fender mustang IV, while here with half the price you have something you can use at home without as many as when and why. Maybe this is the way of the future? I don't know, but that's fine with me. I do not dwell on the relative quality, I am not the right person, but if unlike the other devices I have tried or had this one gives me a certain emotion, there will also be a reason. For all domestic players (with nuisance wives) this little one is invisible and gives a lot of satisfaction, and then when the rocker inside us prevails, well the usual tube with the classic pedals are the right and real alternative, everything else is perhaps prestige , final condiglio try it !!! Obviously not all that glitters is gold eg. I don't like the acoustic simulation ... but personally I use little or nothing of this section, so I see only strengths and a few defects!

[MartinB]

Sounds like you’ve got a winner!

[ttmax]

Probably it is not completely but if you put the price on the scales (I paid only 220 euros 30.11.20), the ease of use, the very small background available and the utilities that others do not have well surely looks like an Oscar candidate, especially to those who are just starting out and plays mostly at home. It is understood that the sacred monsters do not touch each other in live shows are irreplaceable, but for us housewives they do nothing but churn out toys (even expensive ones) forgetting that we are now grown up. How is it possible that no one (yamaha, roland, marshall etc) has had a similar idea? I am exaggerating ? We will see it in the coming months, I repeat to myself having a device that only needs the internet and a smartphone is something that was pure science fiction just a couple of years ago. I will be clumsy but although good I have sold off a zoom g5n simply because it is not user friendly (even if spark cannot be compared to a multi-effect) but it is easy to use.


Now i ask me if spark 40 is so good how will it be positive bias head on stage ?

[ttmax]

First contro (surely there will be others) the tabs are not always relevant, they sometimes remind the first voice simulators of computers, after all if everything were perfect and functional the spark, or rather its heart would be the discovery of the century, don't you think?


I forgot another thing that I don't like (but it's just personal taste) are the controls on the top and not the front ones (you can't rest on them for example my hotone nano)😂