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

An absolutely perfect clean boost. This little guy will drive the front of your amp into some indescribable sweetness, or crank it up and get some huge overdrive. I found that the Spark Mini seems not to color my sound hardly at all. I've fed it into several distortion and overdrive pedals as well. It'll put extra hair on any pedal's chest. This truly is a great pedal, great build quality, great sound, and an incredible value. Oh, and the Prime Time switching is something only available on the Spark Mini, and it is a fantastic feature. The foot switch can either be a latching switch, or a momentary switch depending on how long you press it. It is a feature that every lead player should check out. I really don't think you can go wrong with the Spark Mini.

I just needed a simple boost pedal for leads. There’s a ton of options out there but this pedal does the job perfectly,. If you’re looking for a simple boost pedal for not much money you should absolutely get this pedal. I have it set after my Big Muff and Blues Driver, don’t put this before your overdrives or distortions because that will sound terrible. The spark doesn’t color the sound and it retains the crunch without distorting and it doesn’t add any highs or lows. If you’re in the market for a boost pedal, buy this.

Great pedal!

The TC Electronic Spark Mini Booster is excellent for my amplified Spanish guitar. It gives the perfect boost when I need to loop or highlight melodies for improvisation. The clean, transparent sound is impressive, and it’s super easy to use.The only reason I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is that it’s a very simple pedal, and a bit more flexibility or features could make it even better. That said, it’s still a fantastic addition to my setup.

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!

The TC Electronic Spark does exactly what you want out of a boost pedal with more than enough headroom for the task. I play it early in the pedal chain in front of my tube amps for a "juiced" clean sound. Kick it on in front of an overdrive pedal to send it into a more searing lead sound. Placing it after the overdrive boosts your sound to really kick it up a notch in the mix. I find it to be pretty loud and usually keep it on the more tame 9:00 side of the dial. You can really push the front end of an amp over the top if your neighbors or stage can handle it. Lot of pedal for the $$$.

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 been longing for a lead volume boost forever and decided on this after watching a lot of comparison reviews. Small size and build quality seems very good. I use it in the fx loop, and I only need it set at about 10:00 to get a very noticeable lead boost. The drummer and bass player both commented on how good it works. I really like the tap and hold for fills. I tried it before the amp input and it adds a nice amount of gain without getting too bright or too dark. Zero regrets on buying this, it does exactly what I need with great results at a very fair price.