Positive grid spark amp

HandwrittenHero

dazzajl said:

McToot said:

..........The fact that I know 30 seconds of about 200 tunes is both embarrassing and useless in real life situations......

Wait.... what???

That’s not all there is to guitar??

Of course it isn’t. There’s also aimless noodling.

goldtop

I see there's no Line Out, but I presume there's no 'gotcha' that makes it awkward to use the headphone as a stereo line-out on these?

LuttiS

There are some quite clever people in the Spark Amp Mods group on facebook, lines out, cab extensions, additional speakers & footswitches have been made and added.

However, the headphone out does also work quite well.

aspnet

Yay - mine shipped today. Can't wait 

McToot

Mine's saying ready to ship on 17th Sept. I ain't holdin ma breath.  If it turns up in December I can tell Lady McToot it's her Xmas pressie to me. 

DiscoStu

And my Spark is... SHIPPED! It's in Germany so hopefully just a couple of days to go.

skikdi53

Mine also shipped from Germany today 

DartmoorHedgehog

Mine's also on its way today.  That's three weeks since I ordered it - not bad, they're obviously catching up with the orders now.

MildAshers

Seems like they've got a batch to ship as mine has shipped as well, #262xx to the UK.

Just to get everyone excited, here's a list of the amps and effects I've compiled (I know the amps are on PG support but I don't know if everyone has seen that list so I altered mine, I almosthad all of them right). The effects I have cross referenced with real pedals and I'm 99% sure that I have found the real pedals that PG are replicating. Some i couldn't find so just assumed PG Original so if anyone knows what they are then by all means let me know.

Amps

Clean

Silver 120 - Roland JC120

Black Duo - Fender Twin Reverb

AD Clean - Orange AD 30

Match DC - Matchless DC30

Glassy

Tweed Bass - Fender Bassman

AC Boost - Vox AC30

Checkmate - Teisco Checkmate20

Two Stone SP50 - Two Rock Studio Pro 50

Crunch

American Deluxe - Fender '57 Custom Deluxe

Plexiglas - Marshall Super Lead 100

JM45 - Marshall JTM45

Lux Verb - Fender Deluxe Reverb

High Gain

RB 101 - Bogner Ecstasy 101

British 30 - Orange AD30

American Hi Gain - Mesa Boogie JP-2C

SLO 100 - Soldano SLO-100

YJM100 - Marshall YJM100 Signature 

Metal 

Treadplate - Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier

5153 - EVH 5150 III

SwitchAxe - H&K Switch Blade

Rocker V - Orange Rockerverb 50

BE 101 - Friedman BE100

Acoustic

Pure Acoustic - PG Original

Fishboy - Fishman Acoustic Amp

Jumbo - PG Original

Flat Acoustic - PG Original

Bass

RB-800 - Gallien-Krueger 800RB

Sunny 3000 - Sunn 300T

W600 - Eden WTP600

Hammer 500 - Aguilar Tone Hammer 500

Effects 

Gate

Noise Gate - PG Original

Comps

LA comp - PG Original

Sustain Comp - Boss CS3

Red Comp - MXR Dyna Comp

Bass Comp - EBS Multi Comp SE

Optical Compressor - PG Original?

Drives 

Booster - MXR Micro Amp

Tube drive - Ibanez Tubescreamer TS9

Over Drive - Boss OD3

Black Op - ProCo Rat

Fuzz face - Jim Dunlop Fuzz Face

Bass Muff - EHX Bass Big Muff Pi

Guitar Muff - EHX Big Muff Pi

Bassmaster - Malekko B:assmaster 

SAB driver - Wampler Plexi Drive

Mods

Tremolo - Mad Professor Mellow Yellow 

Digital Chorus - Strymon Ola Chorus

Flanger - EHX Electric Mistress

Phaser - MXR Phase 100

Vibrato - BBE Mind Bender

UniVibe - MXR UniVibe 

Cloner Chorus - EHX Small Clone 

Tremolator - Demeter TRM1

Tremolo Square - TC Electronic Pipeline

Delays

Digital delay - Boss DD3

Echo Filt - Mr Black Dark Echo 

Vintage delay - Boss DM2

Reverse Delay - PG Original

Multi Head - Boss RE20

Echo Tape - Dunlop EP103 Echoplex

Reverbs

All PG Original based off classic reverb sounds

Room Studio A

Chamber

Hall Natural

Plate Short

Hall Ambient

Plate Rich

Hall Medium

Plate Long

Room Studio B

Aidanspaghetti

Got mine last night! Cool little unit... great plugged into the laptop via usb for YT jamming etc. For the money its a no brainer if you dont already have a small practice setup. Havent tried the bundled software yet,  Presonus?! (Iirc)

JerkMoans

Hmmmm

About to pull the trigger on one of these bad boys, the website says they're in stock, ready to ship immediately.

Get to the payment page and all of a sudden it's "Due to unexpectedly high demand, we are temporarily out of inventory! You can still take advantage of our pre-order price until August 23, 2020. Our estimated shipping time now is 15-20 days."

Still going to go for it, but this sort of thing, coupled with some of the tales of delay out there, leaves me wondering whether Tool will release another album before I get the thing.  Probably explains why they seem to be changing hands for upwards of £300 on FleaBay...

JerkMoans

Incidentally, FWIW, I was completely unaware of these things until I went for an MRI scan a couple of weeks ago, and got chatting with the radiographer beforehand who turned out to be a guitar player, and was singing the praises of his that he'd recently just taken delivery of.  Guitarists get everywhere!

roberty

JerkMoans said:

Incidentally, FWIW, I was completely unaware of these things until I went for an MRI scan a couple of weeks ago, and got chatting with the radiographer beforehand who turned out to be a guitar player, and was singing the praises of his that he'd recently just taken delivery of.  Guitarists get everywhere!

Aye there's no money in rock and roll

JerkMoans

roberty said:

JerkMoans said:

Incidentally, FWIW, I was completely unaware of these things until I went for an MRI scan a couple of weeks ago, and got chatting with the radiographer beforehand who turned out to be a guitar player, and was singing the praises of his that he'd recently just taken delivery of.  Guitarists get everywhere!

Aye there's no money in rock and roll

And there was me planning to sublimate my mid-life crisis by gettin' me a tattoo, a pair of leather strides (size XXL) and a Harley and starting a rockin' band called, er, Mïd-Lïfë Crïsïs.    

roberty

JerkMoans said:

roberty said:

JerkMoans said:

Incidentally, FWIW, I was completely unaware of these things until I went for an MRI scan a couple of weeks ago, and got chatting with the radiographer beforehand who turned out to be a guitar player, and was singing the praises of his that he'd recently just taken delivery of.  Guitarists get everywhere!

Aye there's no money in rock and roll

And there was me planning to sublimate my mid-life crisis by gettin' me a tattoo, a pair of leather strides (size XXL) and a Harley and starting a rockin' band called, er, Mïd-Lïfë Crïsïs.    

My producer mate does AV contracting on the side, better day rate babysitting tie mics for Reuters

Bluesboy82

Question. When going through the positive grid website to purchase the Spark all prices are in US Dollars.
This would be my first time buying a product direct from America so not sure what the total cost will be in Pounds?

JerkMoans

Bluesboy82 said:

Question. When going through the positive grid website to purchase the Spark all prices are in US Dollars.
This would be my first time buying a product direct from America so not sure what the total cost will be in Pounds?

Here's mine this morning:

Subtotal:

$224.00 USD

Shipping:

$0.00 USD

Tax:	$44.80 USD

Grand Total:

$268.80 USD

Using the online currency converter at, say, XE.com it comes out at today's exchange rate as £205.37.  Bet my credit card company will add a few more ££ on for the privilege, but say £210 all in, tops.  As discussed above, they seem to have a distribution hub in Germany, so there will be no import duties or VAT on top - UK VAT is I think the $44.80, which is precisely 20% of the $224 base charge, and it's free delivery.  So, about £210 for this box of electronic wizardry.  Assuming it arrives before Dec 31st.

Or you could buy one on eBay for £300+, or Gumtree for £360  

Bluesboy82

JerkMoans said:

Bluesboy82 said:

Question. When going through the positive grid website to purchase the Spark all prices are in US Dollars.
This would be my first time buying a product direct from America so not sure what the total cost will be in Pounds?

Here's mine this morning:

Subtotal:

$224.00 USD

Shipping:

$0.00 USD

Tax:	$44.80 USD

Grand Total:

$268.80 USD

Using the online currency converter at, say, XE.com it comes out at today's exchange rate as £205.37.  Bet my credit card company will add a few more ££ on for the privilege, but say £210 all in, tops.  As discussed above, they seem to have a distribution hub in Germany, so there will be no import duties or VAT on top - UK VAT is I think the $44.80, which is precisely 20% of the $224 base charge, and it's free delivery.  So, about £210 for this box of electronic wizardry.  Assuming it arrives before Dec 31st.

Or you could buy one on eBay for £300+, or Gumtree for £360  

Thanks for the clarification.

Better get my order placed. 

MildAshers

Bluesboy82 said:

JerkMoans said:

Bluesboy82 said:

Question. When going through the positive grid website to purchase the Spark all prices are in US Dollars.
This would be my first time buying a product direct from America so not sure what the total cost will be in Pounds?

Here's mine this morning:

Subtotal:

$224.00 USD

Shipping:

$0.00 USD

Tax:	$44.80 USD

Grand Total:

$268.80 USD

Using the online currency converter at, say, XE.com it comes out at today's exchange rate as £205.37.  Bet my credit card company will add a few more ££ on for the privilege, but say £210 all in, tops.  As discussed above, they seem to have a distribution hub in Germany, so there will be no import duties or VAT on top - UK VAT is I think the $44.80, which is precisely 20% of the $224 base charge, and it's free delivery.  So, about £210 for this box of electronic wizardry.  Assuming it arrives before Dec 31st.

Or you could buy one on eBay for £300+, or Gumtree for £360  

Thanks for the clarification.

Better get my order placed. 

Mine came to £206.72 when it exited my account. 

NPP

this looks like an interesting all-in-one solution for my second home if it can be my interface, computer speaker, and headphone practice device all at the same time. If, that is, the sound quality is there.

How disappointed will I be if I expect an HX Stomp with slightly fewer amp and fx models?