The app itself isn’t very good, the variety of sounds it can generate and the YouTube and Spotify playback is just great. Anyhow, in my case the app crashes when using the volume controls on the iPad. It causes the app to generate error messages stopping to respond and eventually crashes.
I have addresses this issue to support but haven’t received a solution to this problem yet.
Bad and Aggressive Marketing
I own two of these great amps. I have recommended it to five fellow guitarist who subsequently bought them. Two months ago they started a relentless push to get people to register why? So they can market new products to you. Here is the bad marketing: every day I play I get a message telling me to register in the app, that does nor give me the option to “don’t show me this again” like all good marketing teams offer. It’s reflects poorly on a great product.
Broken feature. Haven’t been fixed.
Spotify integration is completely broken. I’ve searched online for fixes and it seems like this has been an issue for ages and they aren’t even bothering to address it. Super cool.
Awesome
The little spark go is awesome. Not super loud and it has a lot of settings. You can play along with their music tutorials. Highly recommend I consider myself a beginner and this thing is cool.
Can’t find help anywhere 🤦♂️
How do I stop the spark app from loading some preset that I never use upon startup? It’s super annoying to have to go find the preset I want to use every single time I start the app. Can’t it just remember the last one I used? Before you suggest deleting the app and starting over, how do I save my presets off the app so I can reload them after an uninstall? Thanks
Spark 40
Amazing features. A little lengthy to get registered, setup and going, but once it’s there it’s awesome. Little laggy on the Bluetooth audio occasionally but other wise love that I can throw on headphones with it and have YouTube videos pulled up to learn or use the app videos.
Why was I charged for downloading the app
I was charged to download app when they have bug issues it was free before now they want money when they have the problems and glitches I don’t get it maybe I should have went with guitar centers amp that does same thing as this amp disappointed and amp shuts off you have to do a factory reset glitches I wish I knew this otherwise I would have never bought the amp 40watt im glad didn’t get the cab won’t get it till they fix there issues
Issues
1. I don’t like every time I open the app I’m forced to click off the “turn on notifications.” This is a guitar amp. I do not need to be notified of anything nor do I want to. This disrupts the experience. Offer an opt out.
2. The signal breaks up a lot. Especially in high gain and pushing the sounds situations. Even in low volumes.
3. It looks and functions well. Great sounds and lots of pedal and sounds to try out.
Please don’t turn your app into a non stop advertisement. It lowers my willingness to purchase in the future.
When the app stops asking for me to turn on notifications I’ll upgrade my review.
The spark 40 is the best amp I’ve used
And the app is also great, it’s really easy to use. I just wish there was more tone availability, maybe a tone request feature could be considered later on? I struggle with creating my own tones so this would be really helpful
(Someone please make a tone for the guitar in ‘black catcher’)
Disappointing
The amp itself is fun, but this app is just disappointing. Should be more solid and user-focused for the cost: it’s not a “free” app — you can’t use your $200+ amp without it.
First complaint: it’s hard crashed my little amp twice already. C’mon! Check the edge cases.
Second complaint: it *demands* you enable notifications. It will prompt you every single time you open the app, making it effectively mandatory. Same for product registration. Not cool. I bought your product, let me use it in peace.
Third complaint: Tuner animations are distracting and degrade accuracy. I get why it “snaps” if you’re within a range; but that’s not necessarily what everyone wants. Don’t dumb stuff down. At least give us some options/settings.
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