![]() The Spark MINI has become so essential to my guitar playing life that I even decided to augment my experience with the Spark Control – a wireless, customisable bluetooth footswitch. The other aspect that’s changed my playing life for the better is the free Spark app, and particularly its practice features – whether that’s playing along to songs old and new using the Spark’s built-in tones, or just firing up the Smart Jam or Quick Jam modes, selecting a drummer that suits my mood, or playing a riff for the app to analyse and generate an accompaniment to, and then noodling to my heart’s content. It’s quickly become an essential part of my daily guitar playing life. The fact that I can do it all while sounding genuinely good at a volume that doesn’t disturb anyone, without the compromise of headphones, is just another bonus. Instantly this has freed me to go and play guitar where I’m not going to bother a sleeping baby or a working partner – whether that’s in the spare room, downstairs in the living room, or even out in the garage. In short, the Spark MINI has not just got me playing guitar for fun again – it’s got me playing guitar more than I have since I was the aforementioned teenager.įor me, the transformative thing about the Spark MINI is its portability, and especially the impressive life of that built-in rechargeable battery. As my review demonstrates, I came away from my initial test period with the Spark MINI extremely impressed with the whole package, but I didn’t expect what would happen next. The Spark MINI felt different – smaller, more portable, but with all the features of its big brother, I was intrigued by the rave reviews colleagues in the industry were giving the new Spark, and determined to find out if the hype was real for myself. I’d even been tempted to buy one myself, but talked myself out of it as I’d tried myriad revolutionary practice amps over the years and none had really moved me in the way that a ‘real’ amp moving real air does. Like anyone engaged with online guitar culture I’d been aware of the Spark as it had quickly become a phenomenon amongst the guitar influencer community during the pandemic. Then, one day a few months ago, a box arrived at my house that would totally transform my playing life – inside was Positive Grid’s new scaled down Spark MINI ‘smart amp’. Totally willing to consider other brands if they get me in the Marshall stack realm of the world.When you throw a new baby into the equation, those opportunities become even more curtailed, and before I even realised it, I found myself in the strange position of only really being able to play guitar for work – playing for pleasure was simply off the menu. There is a DSL 5C on local CL, which would seem to fit, BUT (a) I have read some glowing reviews and some not glowing reviews and (b) listening to Youtube demos, some sound pretty darn good for a 5 watt/10 inch speaker, but some sound like fizzy buzzy crap.don't know if that is the amp or the user. Looking at the Marshall offerings, not entirely familiar with all of them. My unaccomplishable task to try to find Marshall stack sound in a small combo is governed by the following parameters: I would be using this to play in church, where I can get by with my AC30 turned down pretty low, but I can't do major volume and I don't have a ton to spend on this so something of $500 or less would be good (used is perfectly fine). ![]() My main amp is an AC30 and I have been scratching the Marshall itch lately by stacking a TS type overdrive (SD1 or Fulldrive) into a Menatone King of the Britains. Listened to an 80s hair band cover band this weekend with two Marshall stacks going, that sounded darn good. Please pardon and direct me to the appropriate post if this has been asked before.I searched but couldn't find anything directly on point.
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