Friday, February 21, 2025
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Will it Rockabilly? – Spark Amp by Positive Grid


https://damianbacci.com In today’s video I’m checking out Positive Grid’s new Spark Amp & App. I’m going to be dialing in some Rockabilly tones and putting this little amp though the paces. Enjoy! 🙂

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SPARK AMP HERE : https://bit.ly/2XloS9U’

Guitar used in this video
1996 GRETSCH 6120SSU

#Rockabilly #Spark #Amp #Positive #Grid

Originally posted by UCvXuX7RmD_9-goVj0G1VVrA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP60szfZDkw

38 thoughts on “Will it Rockabilly? – Spark Amp by Positive Grid

  • Damian, I love this little amp too. I have a hard time believing you would say anything bad about anything though. You are so kind. Thank you for sharing with us!

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  • Hi Damian! Do you have any of these Spark setting saved as searchable by other Spark owners? Thanks!

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  • I love this amp, I have two rockabilly tones on mine:
    -Memphis Grit which is a cleaner sound and meant to replicate the Sun studios sound and all the 1950’s rockabilly players
    -Setzer Strut a much dirtier tone to replicate tones like Eddie Cochran, Brian Setzer, Danny Gatton and the Psychobilly music

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  • Thanks Damian! This is the review I’ve been looking for. Your rockabilly and swing tones are perfect when you play during your other videos. They sound great through the Spark. Always a pleasure to hear you play. Many thanks.

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  • This needs to be reshot. That creepy picture of the killer who keeps peeking out from behind your guitar…is creepy and distracting. So is your choice of shirts. All the music and all the guitars in the world snd that’s the best shirt you’ve got?

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  • Great demo Damian! I watched this before, just after you recorded this I bought the Spark and nearly 2 years later still I play it every day and love the versatility of it, and it sounds good without having to crank it up to non-domestic levels.

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  • Damian you've great guitarist and a nice guy too..a pleasure to listen to you …best wishes from the UK.

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  • I finally caved and got a pedal with modelled amp emulations in it to play around with a few months ago. It has a good selection of amps I like in it, but it occurred to me not long ago how something you don’t see in any of the amp modellers out there is a model that specifically emulates any small octal tube amps from the 40s like you would have heard in very early rock and roll /rockabilly – like the Gibson EH 185. I used some of the small combo models that were mids-forward like the CarrMercury, Brownface Vibroverb, and even a Mesa Boogie, Tweed Bassman and Vox AC15 with some EQ tweaking, and tiled room reverb, and managed to fake some Sun Studios tones pretty well. You got some surprisingly good 50s tones with that Spark too.

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  • I like your openness about new tech. There are a lot of “purists” out there who automatically turn their noses up on small solid state practice amps like this. The Spark is an awesome little amp to practice on. ????????

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  • I thought the Texas Chainsaw shirt was terribly creepy, you of course are incredible. Please… ditch the T-shirt. 🙂 Sorry, don't mean to be judgemental. I love your videos. I love Rockabilly.

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  • You convinced me Damian… I got my Spark 40 today… I hope you're on commision ???? ???? ???? ????…Can you upload some Jump Blues amp settings?.. T-Bone tones..

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  • I got to see minor threat once in Camden nj. They played with ssd and agnostic front. It was a blast. My first stage diving !!!

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  • Sits on my desk and does what it's supposed to: gives me a little amp that I can play through and control with my phone. I bought one when they first released. Sold that and got the white one. Honestly, it's worth the $$ to have something convenient that sounds good and I can leave it on the shelf and control everything with my phone or the new foot controller. Good stuff!

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  • I could watch this all day. Great playing. Great review. Glad to see some varied tones pulled from this amp. I’ve had mine a month, love the practice features but not the tone. I’ll try your settings and see if I can get closer to what I want. Thanks!

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  • Great playing and authentic tones. Just ordered one of these yesterday. Cant wait to get it. Modelers are getting better and better these days. Been using Roland V technology since the VG-88. Since 2007 been using the Roland VG-99 since 2007 for my road gigs as I fly to my gigs. Positive Grid is the next step in the evolution. I stopped using tube amps back in the late 70s. They sound nice and I still have two but modelers have made recording with them a thing of the past for me.
    Again, great stuff and I am a new enthusiastic subscriber.

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