Positive Grid Spark 2 50W Smart Guitar Amplifier & Bluetooth Speaker with Built-in Looper, AI Functions & Smart App for Electric, Acoustic & Bass Guitar

After seeing all the endless hype of Positive Grid stuff (and having owned the Spark Mini before), I decided to finally take the plunge and order a Spark 2 that was on sale.... Pros: 1 - Sounds : sounds great for a tabletop amplifier. This wont replace your tube amplifier (or even high end modeller) but it will give you the essential tones needed to practice, teach and probably gig with if used correctly via the Line Out. It definitely does higher gain sounds better than it does cleaner/crunchier tones as I find myself loving the YJM100 Plexi and Soldano amps for my core distortion tones. It can also get loud! 2 - Feature Set : 2 banks of patches (8 in total), built in effects, looper and line-out make this a complete package for practicing and even recording. Having a dedicated knob for your guitar volume and a separate one for audio-playback is really important as I am glad the Spark 2 has it laid out the way it does. 3 - Build Quality : simply excellent. Leagues above anything else in the same price range as it looks great with the faux amp covering and grill. It all feels premium out of the box with the cool packaging and included strap for it - nice! 4 - App: while I am not a fan of app-reliant amplifiers, the Spark app is one of the most slick experiences I have had compared to other companies like Boss, Yamaha and NUX. Once you load in your sounds, you can turn the app off and use it standalone while saving things from the amp itself. 5 - Bluetooth : really impressed that the Spark 2 essentially has 2 bluetooth channels ; one for app control and one for audio. This means I can stream music from my laptop and edit the amplifier using my phone - honestly, bloody brilliant as a guitar teacher! Playback sounds great as It can be your house multi-medi boombox quite easily. Cons: 1 - Effects : some of the built in effects are just bad (the phaser is diabolical), as I largely have issue with the stompbox and modulation effects with not much choice on offer compared to other products out there (NUX Mighty Space has way more in this department). I generally find myself using the core amp sounds with delays/reverbs as those actually sound quite good when dialed in. 2 - Additional Bits Cost £££ : if you just want the amplifier, no problem. If you want the internal battery, the footswitch and the carry bag then prepare to pay way more on top for the whole setup. Add up all that cash and you can grab a smaller tube combo for home or a larger digital/solid state amplifier with way more options included. 3 - App Reliance : simply put you need the phone app to load in different effects, operate the looper/rhythm parts properly and get full functionality from the amp. Also sucks that there is no dedicated PC application as I like to do most things from a laptop. If you are a purist and hate smart phones, look elswhere! 4 - Sensitive To Placement : a tabletop amp like the Spark 2 can sound really different when you have it on the floor or well... a tabletop! I generally found it a bit too muddy on the floor with some weird overtones in the high end as I think it sounds best on top of a guitar cabinet, amp stand or a small stool. Sounds oddly specific but experiment on the placement of the amp in your room as you will get wildly different results. Overall, it is a quality product as I think the hype is well deserved with the Spark 2. It is a solid option for practicing, teaching and recording that should get you playing in no time!

I have sold all my guitar gear to get the and I don't regret it one bit. The amp is tiny but mighty. The tone cloud has nearly every artist you can think of and the effects of which there are thousands will have what you need to recreate that signature sound. I created my own backing track for a full concert and I have saved every sound I need into the 8 slots. I purchased the control x pedal to go with it. The master volume on the amp controls the master volume of the amp inside the software. The guitar volume controls how loud the guitar is overall And the music controls the music volume. Having stereo out makes it easy to go into my pa system which is 1800 watts. Now I have everything in a tiny beautiful box that I can control from the app on my phone. It truly feels like I have arrived at a time in my life where now I can go out and gig and no longer bogged down by wires and power supplies. Just one power supply. A fully Charged control x pedal and one guitar lead is all I have. Downsizing but upsizing in effects. My guitar playing has improved dramatically having the sound be closer to the actual artist. I'm having the best time with it and I've only had it for a few days. I'm going to get the battery next month for it. If you get this you won't be disappointed. Plugging the headphones into it disabled the speakers but the sound through your headphones is phenomenal. The built in tuner is brilliant as it shows you when you're in tune but it also shows you the drift to sharp or flat. Sometimes the string will be in tune but ever so slightly sharp or flat once the volume of the string dies down. Much better than any tuner I've had before. The amp controls the app dials of the virtual controls but not the other way round so bare that in mind. If you move a control when you are playing it will alter the whole sound. So you need to set the sound as you want it to be and store it. Then when you select the patch you want its all set. If you have a sound set that has a lower volume stored it will play at the lower volume. This is excellent as sometimes you don't want to adjust the volume on the fly you can do that with your guitar volume but you might want to be arriving at a lower volume. With this amp you can do that. Truly outstanding bit of kit. Don't get the 40 version as it doesn't have the output to pa and sound quality not as good at 50. Highest recommendation I can give and even though it's classed as a practice amp I'm using it with a pa and using it live. It's perfectly capable once you have stored all your sounds in the amp. I would not use the Bluetooth live but only for downloading and modifying your sound before hand. The great part also to mention is that once your sound is stored you don't need to open the app to modify the effects as the amp dials affect the delay and reverb gain etc on the actual amp. If you are a serious guitar player like me get it. 5 million stars

The key and most important word is PRACTICE. I’m bored of reading reviews saying it won’t do this and it won’t do that! Some think they are reviewing a Marshall 100 watt head on top of two 4x12 cabs. It’s a practice amp with software that’s free! Thousands upon thousands of tones, a cloud to share and download other people’s tones. With the head phones on it’s unbelievable! I’ve even purchased one for a good friend of mine who’s less fortunate than me. Great value, great sound and easily carried to jam sessions. Remember it’s a freaking practice amp!!!!

Juste parfait. Tellement de possibilités avec cet ampli, gros point fort pour quelqu'un qui vient a commencer l'application simule un grand nombre de pédales d'effets. Pour un premier ampli je recommande, bien sûr c'est un budget mais il ne faut pas négliger le fait que avoir un bon ampli peut changer énormément au niveau du son de sa guitare. Trop de gens achètent une guitare a plus 500€ mais un ampli bas de gammes. Le spark 2 est pour cela un super compromis !

Den är väldigt bra, en födelsedagspresent som blev en riktig succé!

J’adore cet ampli dont les performances sont incroyables et le niveau technologique complètement bluffant.

Llevo usándolo ya un día y es un producto increíble. Tienes todos los amplia del mundo en una caja que mide tan solo 40cm de ancho y que tiene infinitas posibilidades una vez conectado a un móvil o tablet con la app de la misma marca del ampli, ahí puedes descargar presets de te te o generar el tuyo a pedido por la IA que tiene, te permite enlazar Apple music y antes dejaba Spotify, da igual porque puedes entrar en Spotify y dejar la app del ampli en segundo plano y mantiene los settings y todo, a parte SE PUEDEN GUARDAR EN LA MENORIA DEL AMPLI :0 osea es tal vez el producto más novedoso que he tenido en cuanto a música en toda mi vida. Y otro detalle que pasó por alto, la IA física del ampli sin hacer absolutamente nada te elimina el ruido de estática totalmente, es un producto que miraría antes de marcarme la clásica de decir "me compro un Marshall que es lo mejor". El Spark II ha llegado pateando fuerte y cuidado que es un pedazo de opción, pues usarlo para grabar directamente con la grabadora de voz o usando una app de grabación, graba a través de un USB C que por cierto viene incluido. De momento nada más que objetar. Es una marca que está triunfando y está llamada a seguir triunfando. 100% recomendado. Eso sí, usarlo sin cascos o con unos buenos cascos (no unos JBL por favor), a poder ser de 8 Ohmios o en su defecto al aire sin cascos

Pretty good product. Great for practice. Be aware you need the app and a device to use this product. It can’t really be used by itself.