TC Electronic Spark Mini Booster Guitar Effects Pedal

Comments about TC Electronic Spark Mini Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

Got to say I love this little pedal. Still experimenting with best placement on my pedalboard, but right now it is after my drive and compressor and before my echo and reverb. Chain is as follows - Mojomojo-Philosopher King-SPARK MINI-Alter Ego-Trinity 2-splitter- Ditto Looper-to two amps, a Fender Ramparte and a Fender Blues Jr. The looper is only on the Jr. This pedal boosts but has a very transparent sparkle, that I cannot describe as brighter or anything like that, but a certain subtle crunchy things seem to rise out of the sound. It may just be that my tube amps like the signal level better, but I tried getting the same volume level with different combinations of pushing volume from other areas and it wasn't quite the same. Its like the difference between a really good model of an amp and a real tube amp. The tube just has a depth and sparkle, this little pedal adds more of that into the sound.

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This little pedal is amazing! Put it in front of a nice tube amp with or without gain. It gives you that boost to cut through and actually provides a tonal improvement--especially for leads with some decent gain. Without gain, it takes a nice clean channel and turns it into a little wing sounding clean/crunch. Very impressed!

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I wanted a pedal to boost the signal of my Fenders without changing each guitar's tone or unique character -- basically I wanted transparent gain. To my ears, this pedal slightly diminishes high frequencies and adds slight compression. After comparing, I concluded the TC Electronic RUSH pedal is better at accomplishing what I desired. This pedal, while not horrible, did rob my guitars of some of the nuances of their sound.

That said, I think this pedal's temp boost mode is very cool, and I like the fact that the pedal engages when you press down on the button as opposed to when you release it.

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Great little booster pedal. I use it before my drive pedals to get a slight gain/volume boost for solos and lead parts. It seemed a little too bright when used after overdrive while using a bridge pickup, but it sounds great how I'm using it now. Some boosters roll off a little high end to help smooth out treble frequencies at higher volume, but that doesn't seem to be the case with this one (which can be good or bad depending on what you're looking for).

I also really like the PrimeTime switching option. It's great for short parts that only need to stick out of a mix for a couple seconds. And there's a ton of boost available from this little guy. Plenty of room for small volume/gan boosts here and there, but able to push a tube amp pretty hard as well. And you can't beat the size!

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I have 2 of these. One on each of my boards. It is the best clean boost I have ever used. Mine are always on and add that extra punch to the bottom end. It is the one pedal I can not be without.

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Need a little boost for solo's and pop/slaps -- does the job just right!

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Great pedal ! Use it before and after effects . Great boost of pedals , great boost of total volume .

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Great !!

Comments about TC Electronic Spark Mini Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

Does as advertised...great for solos ...to cut thru the mix....takes up very little space...excellent pedal.

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Works very well for the money you can't go wrong

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Adds punch. Real bypass. Small. Big tone. Needs a power supply. Has no battery. Simple and effective.

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Awesome pedal !

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Sweet

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This mini peddle packs a mega punch. The perfect valentines gift for the bass player in your life!

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Gigged with it for the first time last night. Perfect. I used it for leads on country songs. It provided a nice clean punch by itself or when coupled with a reverb and phase pedals. For rock tunes, I used an overdrive pedal.

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I was looking for a great little pedal to add to my board that would just boost my signal without distorting it whether your playing clean or in distortion mode. It's not an over drive pedal it is a clean boost pedal. So if you running out of room on your pedal board and need a great little boost, this will get the job done!

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Just buy it! The most affordable booster ever and deliveries the same results as a expensive one!

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As most, I was between this and the Xotic SP, I decided to get both. This pedal is amazing! No tone change from your setup unless you're using it to push a drive. I've tried it both before and after my duel full tone OCD pedals and prefer the pushed sound I get. It did an amazing job raising the level when positioned after but fell in love with the clean push it gave my OCD's. I run the SP after my e/c big mcf and pair of ocds which adds smoothness and balance. Both pedals are a must on my board now. Cost for this thing is also great.

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This is a great pedal, I have top of the line equipment and needed a slight gain boost for sections of songs.or some leads, It will not change your tone, that's the biggest one for me. At a low pedal setting with gain on the amp it gets almost no gain but gets a little brighter (slight tone change) and has more articulate definition, I can see people using it this way and just leave it on all the time. If you use it with a clean amp or a clean setting you will get a substantial volume boost. I use it at a higher gain 12:00 setting to push the front of a Dirty Shirley (no volume boost), It sounds just great. It's tiny, very attractive and pretty, I like the temp activation feature, just keep the button depressed for a passage then just take your foot off to turn it off, This is a great feature just by itself. I would actually like to see every pedal made with this function.

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This little thing makes my amplifier feel like a million bucks. I love the prime time feature, it allows me to stick out in the mix when I want to without having to double click. Definitely a must have.