Positive Grid has delivered a Black Friday surprise by discounting their recently released Spark 2, offering guitarists the chance to get this excellent desktop guitar amp with a cheeky $20 discount. Okay, it’s not huge money off, but as the cutting edge in practice amp tech, we think this is one of the best Black Friday guitar deals we’ve seen so far this year.
We gave it four and a half stars out of five in our Positive Grid Spark 2 review, praising it for its ‘outstanding tones with plenty of detail’. We think PG did a really great job improving on all the flaws of the original Spark 40, no mean feat considering it was such a groundbreaking amplifier when it was released.
One of the headline features of the Spark 2 is its power and speaker improvement. It’s moved from 40 to 50 Watts, delivering an increase in power, but more importantly, the speakers have been upgraded and angled slightly outwards to increase the stereo spread. The amp models are incredibly accurate, and it’s honestly amazing to hear such realistic tube tones at lower volumes and from the comfort of your desktop.
Thanks to those angled speakers the effects are incredible too. Ping-pong delays and reverbs now sound super wide, giving you a brilliant sense of multi-dimensional tone when you play with effects-laden tones. As well as time-based effects you also get a lineup of classic overdrive and distortion pedals to place in front of the amp, as well as a great choice of modulation tones you can place anywhere in your signal chain.
They’ve also delivered the goods when it comes to the most requested feature from Spark 40 users - a built-in looper. With traditional looper modes plus a ‘groove’ looper, with the latter, you can use your smartphone to do your looping, and it works incredibly well. Of course, it’ll be better with the Spark X Control footswitch, which does have a $30 discount in the sale. We also really love the AI tone generator, which can create entire rigs with just a few words, whether you want something bespoke or you’re trying to ape your favorite guitar player’s rig.
