At the centre of each Positive Grid model is the Spark app, which grants you access to a plethora of amp models, effects, and learning aids. With 33 amplifiers and 43 effects ranging from ...

Positive Grid launched one of our favorite modeling practice amps back in 2019, in the shape of the Spark. The family got smaller members in 2022 and 2023, and now the company is going gigging ...

Positive Grid has launched Spark Edge, an all-in-one guitar amp and PA speaker that is compact, portable, feature-packed and might just have everything that the busking musician needs.

For reference, Spark GO comes with 33 included amp models and 43 effects, but you have an unlimited well of inspiration from the ToneCloud, where there are more than 50,000 free, downloadable tones.

Though guitar amp and effects modeling has been around for a while, Positive Grid shook things up in 2019 with the launch of the Spark – an impressively flexible and affordable tone master.

The Positive Grid Spark looks physically like your average, portable practice amp. It’s just over a foot long and about half-a-foot wide and tall, and it weighs just under 12 lbs.

The Spark Mini retails just over $200, which is expensive for a guitar amp of this size. But its wide-ranging features might soften that blow.

The question is, is the Spark Mini Vai just a collectible for Steve Vai super fans, or is it something which might attract a broader audience? Positive Grid provided a Spark Mini Vai for this Review.