TC Electronic SPARK BOOSTER Awesome Booster Pedal with Gain Control and Active EQ

Fantastic pedal that can do so many things. I use this totally with Neural digital amp sims plugging it before my interface. It's a greet sweetener for a wide range of styles though works best with clean or edge of break up where a boost adds either sustain,richness and clarity depending on what you choose. You won't hear as much of the benefit if used with very high gain settings. The three modes are all very usable and distinct and the EQ makes it brilliant for more specific tone tweaks. On the face of it, it may not seem to do anything drastic but this a genuine "Swiss army knife" for improved tone and sustain either as an occasional boost or always on tone shaper. It's also very well built and well priced.

I bought the TC Electronic Spark Booster to use as a boost in the effects loop of my Fender amp, to give a bit of a lift for solos etc and it has done the job very well. By adding this pedal in the effects loop it is like adding an extra channel to the amp. The amp has two channels, one clean and one drive channel, both channels are good but if you are looking for a little lift in the sound for a solo for example, you either run the guitar volume back a bit which loses a little life in the sound, especially when using the drive channel, or run a pedal in front of the amp to boost the signal, this will also drive the pre amp harder mudding up the sound and I wouldn't recommend that,By using the Spark Booster in the effects loop you bypass the pre amp and do not influence the pre amp sound, I have used this now for a while with no problems to the Power amp tubes. My settings for the boost is level at 50% grain at 10-20 % and the toggle switch in the MID boost position.All in all the Spark Booster is a great addition to my equipment, If it was lost or stolen I would buy another one, maybe even the Spark Mini Booster with its Prime time feature would be a consideration.

Of all the pedals I have or have had this is the one I wished I'd bought years ago,it does so many different jobs on the board I'm running now whether that's as a clean boost,adding either a small amount of extra gain or huge dollops of it to saturate the valves to near melting point,to then gently adding or subtracting high or low frequencies I can just about make any tone I need without the need for extra pedals,I'd always thought that boost pedals were a waste of pedalboard space,why not just use the volume and tone pots on my guitar,or using an eq pedal,which I had tried but was never happy with,I now know I was completely misunderstanding the amount of change that this little box of wonders could magic up,on top of all that it's built like a tank,has good weight to it and finished superbly.

A high end pedal at this price?TC Electronic dont make bad pedals.The range of 'boost' you get from this pedal out performs a lot of higher end pedals that are a lot more expensive.The switch gives you the option of a dirty boost which boosts the bass or a clean boost. My personal fave is the mid boost. It just sounds so good. The mini version of this is also terrific if you want a smaller footprint and it also has an option where if you leave your foot on the pedal for less than 2 seconds it turns off automatically. (I think that's how it works but that's what youtube is for 😁).

In my opinion this is an astonishingly good boost pedal. The range of boost is perfect for anything from adding some oomph to low output pickups, to driving your amp into a clipped, slightly broken overdrive that is natural feeling / sounding in nature. The voicing switch offers three immediately usable variations of musical value. Noise introduction is as minimal as I think a booster can achieve. Also, at higher boost settings, the musical distortion effect is super clear ... it doesn't muddy your sound at all. As a front end to an amp's clean channel set to really clean, you can comfortably use this as an extra 'channel' for anything from slightly broken cleans through to a LOW distortion blues sound. At lower boost levels it serves to give my pickups more bite meaning I can enjoy low output single-coil strat sounds, but turn the boost on to saturate a distortion channel more like a high output pickup. (I've used this with single coils and humbuckers).

Excellent booster. Love how the gain knob pushes my amp and I was only looking for a clean boost. This pedal is so much more. Five stars from me.

This is the one I've been searching for! I needed something to just edge up my volume for solos and also give a tiny little extra bit of grunt, there's even some tone control in there. I haven't really needed to experiment with different settings on this too much, I added it to my pedal board and switcher and it just worked perfectly out of the box. I think I'm finally ready to commit to cable tying my board properly after about ten years of procrastinating and obsessing! I'm sure you all know what I mean, we're all in search of THAT tone! Well if you need a solo boost that won't mess things up, this is it, job done. Nice work TC.

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