The Spark app is also bundled with a redeemable code for the PreSonus Studio One Primerecording software. Spark Amp Tones Playing along with a Smart Jam virtual band is fun and a great practice tool, and the Auto Chord feature does a remarkable job of displaying the correct chords from songs streamed from your library. I like that I can slow things down to practice the chord changes on parts of Jimi Hendix’s “Angel,” a song that I have always had trouble playing smoothly. When you couple it with the Spark app, all new possibilities are presented. In terms of tone, you have 30 different amps, five compressor pedal models, nine overdrives, 10 modulation pedals, six delays and nine reverbs to play with.

Once you get a little more experience, you can design, save and share your own tones with the community. A fully wireless 30-watt amp that includes a bluetooth transmitter for your guitar. Boss’s Tone Studio app offers 50 effects with COSM modelling and impressive amp voices. There is a huge online database of chords and song for Auto Chord to pull from. But say you choose a song that is not on its list, Auto Chord will analyse the song and figure out the chords within minutes. That enables guitarists to play along with any song via an embedded YouTube video, and is especially handy when also using the app as a Bluetooth speaker. I also tried to update the firmware from another MacBook Pro (same version of Catalina OSX though) and the result was the very same. For a super-brief moment it seemed to have find it and then crashed and produced a "crash report"... I rebooted the computer and the Spark innumerable times, tried all the USB cables I got, nothing. :-(You can stream songs from your mobile device and using the Auto Chord feature, Spark will transpose the songs into chords so that you can play along

I do not have any issue of the kind you point out at point 3. Sounds kinda weird to me. I find many of the tones I find from ToneCloud to have too high a volume, but not all of them, so it is something related with the tones, not the spark. Hmmm.Credit is provided by a panel of lenders with whom we have a commercial relationship (so we cannot provide independent advice).

Other issues: Firmware updater doesn't work, it doesn't "see" the amp. Weird, as the USB works and the Spark shows up in my computer's "Audio" settings. Even in MIDI Studio, the amp is there, but when Felix from PG asked me to remove it from the list it hasn't been possible. So to this moment I can't update the firmware of my amp nor remove it from the list in MIDI Studio. The most fun you can get from a practice amp. Also can be quite loud. Amp controls are logical. Separate input for other music source. Can also act as a Bluetooth speaker.When paired with the phone/tablet app you can select, and tweak, your guitar sound from thousands of presets, or load a preset for a specific song or artist, or play along with a video from a streaming service.

Please try to update the firmware with a different computer if attempts to update the firmware keep failing. Turn on and connect your Spark amp to a computer using a USB-to-USB type B cable (we recommend using the one that comes in the box with the Spark amp). Keep in mind that the updater software should be started BEFORE plugging the Spark into the USB port. It might occasionally miss the odd chord, and it's not truly perfect yet, but it will help train your ear and make sense of what your favourite players are doing on record. That's a big part of learning guitar.You can design your own signal chain then save those choices into one of seven amp voices across the four preset banks. It might take a while; not because it’s difficult, but it is easy to get carried away with so many tonal possibilities.