Spark: Chords, Backing Tracks

Spark is a well-made app with a pleasant aesthetic and a smooth user experience. I’m giving 4 stars because of a frustrating bug— the app crashes constantly when using the AI Smart Jam feature. Please fix this! Additionally, there is room for improvement. For example, navigating through the guitar combos could be made easier; perhaps a more intuitive method than a dropdown menu could be implemented.

I’m new to guitars and amps so when trying to find a good sound the AI makes it so much easier to find a great sound me and my dad were messing around with it and found many cool things about the app it has so many cool things it even can teach you the songs connected to your Apple Music!

First off, I want to note that the Spark 2 is a solid improvement over the original. The speaker is much better and I’m not longer hearing the loud hum from the original’s grounding issues. Many of the app’s features are very good. However, the extremely buggy nature of one of the core features — previewing and selecting tones from the Tone Cloud — is so bad that I’m considering returning the amp. After just previewing a few different tones, the amp will no longer play the selected tone in the amp, which rebooting the amp and relaunching the iOS app. It is so incredibly frustrating and happens so often. One of the main reasons I got the amp was to explore all the tones available on the Tone Cloud to play along to my favorite songs. Core features like this should be rock solid before new “features” like Spark AI are introduced.

Yeah it works again

Best guitar amp app on the market! I love it!

It’s a great idea but a lot just doesn’t work. Bluetooth streaming is spotty at best, I’m yet to get the “Smart Jam” to work (app just crashes). Chord identification usually says “something went wrong”. Good thing you can use the hardware without the app.

It helps me and the amp

Despite all good things about the Spark hardware and the possibilities this platform offers, this app will crash without a connection to the internet. So essentially a platform that is marketed as the ultimate portable guitar solution will completely fail you if one wants to play off of a connection grid. This can be the middle of the woods are a basement in a major city where you don’t have reception. This is absolutely absurd and has not been fixed for many application updates. The developers surely know about this, but they are being hamstrung by corporate apes who think that constant internet connectivity equals more monetary benefit for them. Newsflash to you fools, it doesn’t! I can no longer recommend this platform or hardware to anyone and you will ultimately lose market share due to such a major flaw. My review will be edited to 5 stars and glowing praise if this issue is fixed. But for now I remain steadfast in my lack of recommendation for a portable guitar platform that has a major restriction in terms of where it can actually function. All due to what is likely corporate shortsightedness motivated by a backwards sense of greed.

It sounds great and is easy to use, gets loud on its own too! I’m loving mine so far!

Remove the upgrade nagging pop up.