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

I was a professional musician and guitar teacher for several decades. When I was teaching nothing like this existed, but if it had I would have recommended it with zero qualms. If you are starting out and want to improve fast, this practice amp is beyond fantastic. It is small, and potentially portable (see below), and has 50w of volume! Go on YouTube and look at the feature list and demos. If you are an experienced or advanced guitarist and want a great little practice amp that you can carry wirelessly all around the house (10 LB) , it's a no-brainer. Apparently, Steve Vai uses one of the smaller amps (Spark MINI Vai) from Positive Grid to warm up backstage before performances. The app is awesome, has a ton of great features, and is pretty easy to use. The list of amps and effects included is comprehensive. The future is great! Now for the potential downside. This amp is part of a product ecosystem. You can buy and enjoy it as it comes, and it is more than worth it at the cost as is. BUT, to unlock the full potential of this product, you are looking at additional purchases. Here are the add-ons with the prices at the time of this review 2025: 1 To make the product truly portable you will have to purchase the proprietary battery. This costs $79 before tax and shipping. 2 There is the foot-switch Spark Control X, that allows for hands-free control of preset switching and looper on/off control. This costs $179 before tax and shipping. 3 There are in-app purchases to unlock a Jimi Hendrix-branded set of guitar amps and effects. This costs $20. 4 There is the Positive Grid Spark LINK Digital Wireless Guitar System. This allows for cable-free guitar operation. This costs $149 before tax and shipping. In my opinion, the Hendrix presets and the battery should have been included with the product. Portability is what the product is selling, so you need the battery. Making the battery a separate purchase makes the low price of the Spark 2 deceptive. The Hendrix amps and effects load with the app as add-on nagware and cannot be removed from the menu without purchase. This is an unacceptable in-app purchase. The digital wireless guitar system and foot-switch controller are arguably optional. Not everyone would want these. Positive Grid has set this up as an ecosystem, letting you buy add-ons as you need them, rather than automatically including them. This is not necessarily bad, and will save some users a lot of money. It makes the entry-level cost low. Just think in advance of how you will be using the setup, and budget accordingly.

I was in the market for a new amp to practice with because my current setup was cumbersome and dated. I am a beginner to intermediate guitar player for reference. The first thing I noticed was the striking look of this amplifier. I love the white color, gold trim accents, as well as the deep red of the handle's underside. It looks great and the Mrs. approves when I have this sitting on the desk or table. During my first setup I knew this would be a much more enjoyable experience than my previous, dated amp and my Zoom digital effects pedal. The 8 built-in guitar tones are great and I found myself chugging in Drop-D for an hour before I even connected the phone app. Holy cow does this little amp pack a punch! I don't know how loud this gets because I'm sure my neighbors would complain if I went past half volume on it. I use YouTube all the time for guitar tutorials as well as backing tracks. I appreciate being able to play the lessons through the speakers and hearing my guitar at the same time. Yeah, you can also use this as a bluetooth speaker and it sounds great. If you want there is an option for a battery. There is a door on the bottom of the amp for the proprietary battery (sold separately). You can take this thing tailgating with music or play some sick riffs anywhere you want. The accompanying app will allow you to configure new guitar tones and set them as one of the 8 guitar tones. There is also a built-in looper that I know was missing on the 1st version of the spark. It works like it should. Finally, there is the option for expansion with the built-in outputs on the back. When I become a rock star, I will be able to tap into the venue's sound system or a larger amp and still use the Spark 2 as my guitar effects pedal. Overall, I have really enjoyed this amp and I have practiced more in the past week than I have in years due the ease of set-up and bluetooth connectivity. I know I have barely scratched the surface on this amazing little amp and I'll try to post an update in 6 months to a year. In the meantime, keep rockin'.

It's a game changer for home practice, HUGE benefits for the price. You can all sorts of recording capabilities, back tracks, metronomes, tuning, etc along with an app that gives you several virtual pedals to really elevate the experience. Absolutely the best bargain out there in this range. It sounds great with clear highs and banging lows. I'm probably going to add the Spark Link Wireless to make switching between guitars even quicker and easier.

The amp arrived a day earlier than projected. It can’t be shipped by air due to the magnetic material. It’s packaged well. I was a little disappointed that for Thanksgiving special their own site was offering both reduced prices and the bag, while not so on Amazon. But this is a minor nitpick for me. I wanted the convenience of Amazon returns should it not have worked out. I was pitching it against the Boss Katana 50W and while I read many positive reviews it was unknown territory for me. I have come to discover what many users already know and have said so in their eloquent reviews. This is a fantastic amp! Thought it has its own ecosystem which is a good thing as it turns out. I’m just beginning to discover its myriad features. The sound is great. I downloaded a different amp profile and am beginning to see the benefits of software profiles for amps and pedals. Also Apple Music connectivity, its own library of music features + backing tracks + … So much more. For those considering it - just get it. My only disappointment so far (which may be resolved if I dive deeper into learning about it) is the duration offered by its looper. It seems short.

Positives This amp sounds great and what you get for the price is outstanding. I own a couple of Neural DSP plugins and while not many amp emulators can come close to neural DSP quality this amp does have some tones that sound almost just as good. This amp however is not meant to record or perform with. Its a practice amp and using the app unlocks a-lot of fun and being able to quickly start jamming with backing tracks and the AI tone generator is so much more seem-less than opening a DAW and creating a drum loop. The build quality is also another high point. I was actually amazed by the knobs and overall construction of the amp which feels premium. Negatives I bought the amp through Amazon but at the same time through their own website they had a promotion (which I didn't know about till the amp arrived). I emailed asking if since I bought the amp during the promotion window if I could get access to the promotional gift card to which they declined. I would have used to promotion to buy more positive grid products. I completely understand their reasoning for denying the promotion request, it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth that they wouldn't treat customers across different buying platforms with the same promotions. I understand if Amazon was the one giving the promotion why they wouldn't be able to honor it through their website. But it seems very easy to give the promotion that is through their own website to their own Amazon listing. So if you plan on buying their products I suggest checking across the web to see if there are any promotions first.

Amazing product. It excels in its role with high-quality sound. It goes beyond with a great application with good features and AI. I can't be more happy with the product.

I got this for my husband for Christmas, he I totally was not excited about it. He told me that he had looked into this product in the past and was not that impressed with it. I asked to read up on specifically the Spark 2. So before the opened the box he started reading up. Then he opened the box. Since the day after Christmas he has been giving me daily updates about how cool this little amp is. He now uses it every single day! In fact he is about to go on a trip to Mexico to see Phish and can’t go without bringing this amp with him (him and his buddies like to jam after the phish shows). He keeps discovering new things about it or he just is amazed about how amazing the sound is! I am so happy that I got this for my husband!! Plus now he finally trusts me when I tell him that technology has come a long way from the old Mesa Boogie Mark I amps!

I had like a 12 pedals and a Fender Hotrod amp, sold all those and bought this one. It's fantastic, easy to play, easy to get the best tones through the AI option, easy to make loops, other songs, in brief, exactly as all YouTube reviews says. My two regrets: 1. If you use the two 1/4th outputs, the speakers mute and I wanted to used it to connect it into my audio interface but the internal USB interface is good enough to record into a DAW like Ableton. SOLVED!! In the last App version, there is a possibility to mute or un mute the speakers when the two 1/4 outputs are in use. Fantastic. 2. I spent some time making a nice loop BUT there is no an option to save the loops in a library to use them later... I also bought this wireless guitar audio system, very good price and works perfect. Highly recommended. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXBYM5SD?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title