Positive Grid announces Spark PEDAL amp and effects pedal

September 9, 2026 · 3 sources

Positive Grid announced the Spark PEDAL on September 9, 2026, a compact amp and effects pedal with a built-in looper and tone creation through the free Spark app¹. The company said it is designed for electric, bass and acoustic players¹².

The pedal runs on Positive Grid's HD Tone Engine, which the company describes as the same high-definition DSP architecture found in its Spark 2 smart guitar practice amp¹. It carries 33 amp models and 43 effects, and gives access to more than 100,000 tones through Positive Grid's online ToneCloud community¹³². Players can load presets saved from other Spark family products, and can bypass the amp modeling to run the unit as an effects processor in front of an existing amp¹. It can also connect direct to a PA system, serve as an audio interface for desktop recording, or run silently through a stereo headphone output, with Bluetooth for playing along to music¹².

The unit has five knobs and three footswitches³. In Amp Mode the knobs adjust Gain, Bass, Mid and Treble; in FX Mode they control Drive, Modulation, Delay and Reverb depth¹. Holding the center knob activates the tuner, and six presets are stored across two banks via the footswitches¹. The footswitches also run the 60-second looper for record, overdub and undo without menu navigation¹. A rechargeable battery is rated at up to seven hours per charge¹³. Color-coded LEDs show mode, preset, looper and battery status¹.

The Spark app adds Text to Tone, which takes a described phrase, song, artist or feeling and returns matching tone suggestions, plus Build Your Rig for constructing a signal chain from a library of amps, cabinets and effects, and Auto Chords, which displays chords in real time as a song plays¹. Gearnews reported that app settings transfer to the pedal over Bluetooth³.

The Spark PEDAL is priced at $199¹². Gearnews listed $185.00 at Thomann and $199.99 at Sweetwater³. Positive Grid said it is available at positivegrid.com, authorized music retailers and Amazon¹; MusicRadar reported it is available now². It sits alongside other multi-effects pedals in the compact pedal category.