TC Electronic SPARK MINI BOOSTER Ultra-Compact Booster Pedal with PrimeTime Switching and Fully Analog Design

Bought this for a clean boost for my acoustic shows. I do a lot of looping of rhythm guitar parts, bass & mouth percussion (beat-boxing). I use a Micro Pig Octave pedal for bass parts. Once all the parts get going it is sometimes hard to hear the lead guitar/solo stuff over the other tracks. It would get buried in the mix at times. This clean boost allows me to set the volume so that the lead cuts over the top of the looped parts. I imagine it would work equally well for acoustic duo for the lead player to get a nice boost while taking solos. The pedal only needed to be turned up to about 10% of the level that is available and works great. So if you need way more level/volume, that is definitely available. The best part about it for me, is that I did NOT want any distortion or "break up" sound of the tone. This pedal gives me a perfect, crisp, clean tone. I realize most people but his for their electric rig, and I may buy another one for my electric pedalboard, but for people who gig on acoustic guitars and play solos, this pedal is awesome. I've used it at two shows now and am absolutely happy with it. for $49, pull the trigger!

This is the best boost on the market and the price is the sealer of the deal. At 50% it will blow your ears open and at 100% it blows the house down! I also used this product to replace a Donner Mini Compressor pedal (inferior imho). This has a better sustain, enhances the pickups without tone altering and is true bypass. It is a pocket rocket for guitar. I have used mine for over a year and I recommend this instead of compressors to people. It is just a plain boost but the benefits are more than that. I use a 335 through an Alto Powered speaker for a clean signal and this is what I use to push my acoustic pickup through the same unit. I have not had the (balls) to plug it to play into my computer/garage band- I may blow the circuit! But for sustain, loudness without any extra tone-altering-enhancing features it is incredible. I imagine where you put it in your effects chain will have some kind of different effects but mine is in front of my effects chain and is always on. It enhances them as far as I'm concerned.

I run one of these in front of any given overdrive pedal for a little more saturation and compression when I want it. This typically consists of a MojoMojo or Timmy EQ'd to be transparent with just a touch of drive followed by a 2nd overdrive EQ'd with a mid bump and more drive. Switching on both OD pedals is great for crunch, and switching on the Spark boost takes me into sustain-y lead territory without adding any color. I have had it for a few years and have mostly used it at home for practice, writing, and recording. It has held up fine so far, but I have no idea how durable it is on the road. In any case, it works well, sounds transparent, does what it is supposed to do, and give me more OD options. It gets a recommendation from me.

Easy to use, very effective for a simple volume boost. I use it in my FX loop on my amps. Works amazing.

It's a clean boost, in a small package, with a set amount of EQ to boost mids & highs. At $50 new, it's cheaper than a lot of other boost pedals. It also offers either momentary or latched switching - stomp it and release and it turns on the clean - OR step on it and hold it down and it becomes a momentary boost and when you let off it returns to the off position. The ONLY thing I don't like about it is that TC Electronics puts the 9V power input on the side, which is almost always in the way of patch cords. For the love of god put those jacks on the rear vertical surface fellas! PROs - Small - Relatively inexpensive - Latched or momentary switching - standard 9V power supply (i.e "boss style" jack) - Multiple uses: before drives, after drives, or in your amp effects loop. Each serves a different purpose. CONs - 9V Power input is on the side instead of the back. Almost always in the way of patch cables. DEPENDS ON YOUR TASTE - Fixed EQ - means it will be boosting highs and mids a bit, always. But it is great. CONCLUSION: Buy it...it's fabulous. But, still -1 star for putting the stupid power jack on the side where it interferes with the patch cables/connectors.

Yes, everything you've read about this is true, well, except for the reviews that think this is the only pedal you'll EVER need. You know those reviews. This is not one of them. The Spark is great at what it does -- a tone booster/preamp with only slight (and positive) coloration. You plug in the in cable on the left and the out cable on the right. You plug in 9v- power. The single knob controls volume. That's all there is to it. I've found that it's great for a variety of music styles, from shoegazer to doom metal to ambient. At the moment, my pedal chain is Epiphone Gothic -> Spark -> Dark Moby Delay (Hungry Robots) -> Fathom (Walrus Audio) -> Tech 21 Power Engine Amp. I've had other pedals in the chain, and I've moved the Spark around. I've had the most success with having it early in the chain. It's not buffered, so I guess you'd need a buffering pedal somewhere down the line if your signal chain is long enough, but I never had to use one. All in all, It's a great tone boost/pre-amp that won't break the bank. It's solidly built, as another pedal site once said, "simple as a drummer", and reliable. For $50, it's money well-spent.

I've used quite a few other Drive and boost pedals in the past and this thing is easily the best with its transparent boost and its momentary switch mode for short bursts of boost. I use guitars with single coils (Danelectros which are hollow body so feedback is a given, Strats, P90 equipped PRSs, Teles, etc.) running into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe for a variety of genres and even on high volume settings, this thing refuses to create any excess feedback or breakup. I find that running it with different drive, distortion or fuzz pedals help craft a better treble, bass or mid boost (i.e. running it with a Big Muff creates a mid-heavy sound, using a Rat boosts the treble a lot, etc.). It's also very sensitive to pickup selection, so switching to a bridge pickup and switching on this boost gives an amazing soloing sound in most any scenario.I adore how simple this pedal is, just one knob. On top of that, it has the brightest LED on my board, so I never have to guess when it's on! Great, great pedal, definitely the best boost pedal I've ever used and arguably one of the best drive pedals too!

If you are looking for a pedal to boost your volume and nothing else, this is it. Simple to use and no frills. The best part for me is the quiet switch since I use it with my guitar in a small relatively quiet trio. Other switches were loud, not a pop in the signal chain, but just the switch itself. You can barely hear this one and with the instruments playing, you can't hear it at all.

Macht exakt was es soll, gut einstellbarer Booster mit geräuschloser Verstärkung

Es un gran pedal Booster, compacto, y qué hace exactamente lo que dice, sin embargo, hay algunos detalles que no son precisamente malos, pero creo que vale la pena mencionarlos - Al ser un pedal pequeño y compacto, no tiene espacio para una pila de 9V, por lo que se tiene que ocupar con un eliminador sí o sí, de modo que si esperabas ocuparlo usando una pila, no se va a poder - El pedal sí proporciona un boost mayormente limpio (más de esto en el siguiente punto), sin embargo, conforme nos vamos acercando a la mitad de la perilla, nos va dando un toque de Overdrive, el cual va aumentando conforme vamos girando aún más la perilla; esto no es algo malo, pero si esperabas que el volumen simplemente aumentara y no hubiera algo adicional, podría no ser lo que necesites. - Aunque el pedal dice que el boost es totalmente transparente, personalmente siento que esto no es verdad del todo, ya que a mi parecer, acentúa un poco más el rango medio agudo, haciendo que las notas resalten un poco más. Nuevamente esto no es algo necesariamente malo, pero dependiendo del equipo que uses, y tu configuración, puede acentuar algunas frecuencias que podrían ser o no de tu agrado - El boost que proporciona es BASTANTE fuerte, aunque no lo parezca, por lo que ten cuidado si lo vas a ocupar al grabar, ya que si no tienes cuidado, fácilmente podrías llegar a clippear tu señal. A mi personalmente me ha funcionado muy bien, teniendo la perilla viendo hacia el lado izquierdo (como si fuera las 9 en un reloj), de esta forma me da un boost limpio, notorio, y sin llegar al clipping. Para resumir, creo que esto es un gran pedal, con un tamaño perfecto, para caber en cualquier pedalera, y que tiene una función muy simple, pero muy útil a la hora de estar tocando; no siento que sea totalmente transparente al activarse, pero aún así, el extra que ha añadido a mi sonido ha sido de mi completo agrado, y es lo que yo buscaba Gracias por leerme y espero te pueda servir esta opinión 🙏🏻

Excellent pedal. Works very well with bass too. The design is adorable. I always had troubles with several sound technicians who just cannot adjust the guitar volume to a desirable level. 20 dB clean boost ... WHOAAA!!!! Prime Time feature is great, but I haven't used it much on stage. I switch the pedal on and then turn it off when the boost isn't required

Top. Honnêtement un boost vraiment efficace et transparent, ultra simple à utiliser et qui ne prend pas de place. Le switch fonctionne très bien et est silencieux, la led est bien visible et surtout elle ne génère pas trop de bruit

Funciona a la perfección, no perturba el sonido. Hay que tener en cuenta que es muy sensible, prácticamente lo pongo en el 1 si establecemos una escala del 1 al 10