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Positive Grid announced Spark, a smart guitar amp and accompanying app (iOS/Android) driven by intelligent technology to offer real-time accompaniment, Auto Chord detection and intuitive practice features for players of all levels. Spark also functions as a full-range, 40-Watt combo amp and features a variety of tone-shaping options plus amp and fx modeling built upon the company’s award-winning BIAS engine. The intelligent guitar amplifier and proprietary voice-activated app generate real-time practice tools and backing accompaniment.
The San Diego, CA, has always surprised us positively with its software modeling apps and software but the new Spark combination of an actual guitar amplifier and app takes Positive Grid to a whole new level, creating an extremely appealing solution for musicians of all levels.
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Jamming is easy and fun with the system's Smart Jam feature. The Spark amp and app work together to learn the player’s style and feel, and then automatically generate bass and drum accompaniments that act like a virtual band – anytime, anywhere. Best of all, the Spark app can be used without lifting a finger. It responds to a variety of voice commands to stream a rock song or a blues backing track, ask for a virtual band to follow the user’s playing, and more.
Guitarists can play and practice using the Spark’s Auto Chord feature to access millions of songs on popular streaming platforms like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music. The Spark app automatically analyzes and displays chords for millions of songs in real time, and its easy-to-use controls let the player slow down the song’s tempo or loop a difficult section to practice.
As a guitar amp, Spark features a deep, loud and immersive speaker design with two custom-designed speakers and a tuned bass-reflex port that are engineered to provide deep, full-sounding basses and crystal-clear highs for every style of music.
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Spark also boasts a full amp modeling and multi-effects engine powered by Positive Grid’s award-winning BIAS tone engine to provide realistic virtual tube amps and effects. Players can dial in pristine melodies, crunchy chords or soaring leads for electric guitar; deep, thunderous tones for bass; and a bright and full-bodied sound for acoustic guitar. Players have access to over 10, 000 guitar and bass amp-and-FX programs from famous guitarists, session players, studio engineers and producers from around the world via Positive Grid’s ToneCloud community.
For added versatility and authentic feel, Spark also has bass, mid and treble tone stack controls; dedicated knobs for mod, delay and reverb effects; a built-in tuner and tap tempo; plus Bluetooth connectivity for streaming music in hi def audio via the Spark app. You can easily load up to four custom amp-and-FX setups into the Spark amp’s user program locations for instant access to your favorite sounds.
And finally, Spark can be used as a USB audio interface for easily recording on a computer. It even comes with PreSonus Studio One Prime recording software for free, allowing players to get started right out of the box.Back in the 1980s I played guitar. Yes, I’m that old. I learned from books and by playing along with CDs, and I jacked my Charvel guitar (awesome) into a Session guitar amp (terrible), and I never really got any better.
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Now, 30-odd years later, I’m at it again. And like most things, except mobile phones, everything is better than it was in the 80s. Mid-range and even low-end guitars are better-made and cheaper. Amps are cheap and no longer terrible. And we have iOS devices and apps which can replace whole suitcases full of effects pedals.
That’s what we’re looking at today – iPad (and iPhone) guitar amp simulations, along with virtual effects pedals. And along the way, we’ll look at hardware to connect up your guitar to the iPad, and at some speaker options so you can actually hear yourself play.
When you plug an electric guitar into a guitar amplifier, it doesn’t just make things loud: It adds its own character to the sound. The vibrating strings slice through a magnetic field created by magnets in the guitar’s pickups, and create a current. This travels through the guitar’s output jack, down the cable and into the amplifier.
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If you crank that amp up loud, then things start to get dirty. The broken-up, distorted sound you get when you overpower the tube/valves in an old-time amp are what makes the electric guitar sound like an electric guitar. These days, amps have a “gain” knob, which controls a “pre-amp.” This is a smaller amplifier circuit that pumps up the signal up before feeding it to the main amp section, letting you overdrive the main amp easily. This gives more control over the crunchy distorted sound, and lets you get those filthy tones without winding the volume of the main amp up to 11.
That’s real-life tube amps, the kind that have been around since guitars went electric. Now there’s another option – simulation. Computers like the iPad and iPhone run software that models the actual circuits of classic amps. Apps like Positive Grid’s Bias (Universal) allow you to design the amp from the inside, but most of these apps give you a selection of software amps based on real-life boxes. And the results are incredible.
Why use an app instead of a real amp? Two reasons. Price, and space. These apps run from around $5 up to $20 and include a whole studio full of amp models, whereas a single real-life amplifier costs hundreds or thousands of dollars. And almost all of the apps will sell you more models of amps and effects via IAP, although this can get expensive fast.
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Wait, effects? Yes. Almost all of these apps come with a flight case full of virtual effects pedals. In real life, guitarists modify their sound (“tone” in guitar language) by chaining effects pedals together, between the guitar and the amplifier[1]. The apps let you do the same thing, only instead of paying $100 a pop for pedals, they come in bundles for around $5, or seperately for few dollars each.
. Latency refers to the delay introduced by the computer processing as the signal travels through the iPad, through the various apps, and back out to the speaker. In my experience, it’s more annoying in some circumstances than in others:
If your app seems to be running slow (and it will happen from time to time), try toggling the various latency settings (usually easy to find, although some – like ToneStack – have them in the Settings app). You can also try restarting your device, or force-quitting other apps, but I don’t find that helps very often.
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What does help, is toggling the app’s latency settings. If it’s set to, say, “ultra low, ” then just switch it to something else then back again. Then restart that app only. This works 90% of the time for me. If it doesn’t, I use another app instead, and try again the next day. One word of warning. Lower latency settings (shorter delays) are good, but require lots of computing power to pull off. Recent iOS hardware is fine, but if you’re using an older device, it might struggle to keep up. In this case the sound may break up, or you’ll get pops and crackles.
These apps mostly work in the same way. They show you almost photo-realistic versions of real-world gear on screen, and let you chain them together in the order you like. I laughed at this approach to begin with, and I still don’t like twiddling virtual knobs, but these representations of real gear make it quick and easy to find your way around without having to decipher lots of tiny text labels.
Some, like JamUp, let you drag the icons around to re-order virtual boxes. Others force you to delete an effect from its slot before selecting another, even if all you want is to swap its position in the chain.
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All can save presets (and most let you share and download presets made by others), and some even let you switch off the amp and just use the effects. This is handy if you’re running the output into an actual guitar amp. And Bias has a special trick that makes using it with real amps better than the rest (more on that below).
This is my favorite app, and the one I use the most, so I’ll use it to explain how these apps work in general. JamUp also has one unique advantage over the competition, because it works with the developer’s other app, BIAS. BIAS (see below) is an app for designing amps, and once you’ve made one, you can import it into JamUp to use, just like any other. That adds a lot of flexibility.
The top part shows your effects and your amp. Tap on one and you’ll see a close-up view in the bottom half of the screen. Double-tapping an effect or amp lets you browse for another unit (dimmed
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