How To Run The Spark Amp With An External Speaker Cabinet
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is a little tutorial on how you can run the Spark amp to an external speaker. This is ideal for those that want to use the Spark amp with a band or performance setting.
Video for power amp (44 Magnum by Electro-Harmonix): • Electro-Harmonix 44 Ma...
I would love to see Positive Grid come up with like a Spark Pro that's pretty much the Spark amp but designed to be used like an amp head. So the Spark Amp with all the outputs needed and a bit more wattage.
Total agreed- love my mini. If I could get them functionality on stage would be my go to
Positive grid head is literally that but it's $1000
Now that’s a greatest idea, I think . If Positive Grid were to come out with a Pro for live performances amp , then I think it might just blow all the other amp out of the way 🤗🙏🏽… Already one would experiment on how to use the avails spark products in pro live rig situations ….
@@clydebermingham121 they have one, positive grid head or rack bud
Excuse my stupidity, but what's the difference between an amp, & cabinet?
You point out the biggest flaw in the Spark, no output jack. Thanks for solving the issue. I took mine apart and installed a line out. I got tired of having to convince the sound guy to mike my 'pee pee little' amp when I got a tone I really liked.
It's not really a flaw. The Spark is designed as a practice amp, not a stage amp. I would say it's more of a design oversight. ;D
@@ubermac85 I agree with you Scott. Positive Grid don't want people buying a practise amp that will kill sales of their pro gear. I'd love to see Rocket Rose's mod.
Would be great to see a video about installing a line out. With the line out, do you mute the Spark, or does it still stay active?
@@Jonathan-L yes usually amp manufacturers do not put line outs on smaller amps so pros have to pony up for the line out but in this case what pro cab are they offering as an upgrade? It would make sense if there was a spark 80 or something with a line out but we have nothing.
I just use the headphone out to the aux in of my amp. Sounds legit on a 12” speaker
Gotta love that transistor technology, man! Apparently it works really well for amplification, and digital signal processing(effects). I think transistors don’t get enough love from guitarists.
On another note, Positive Grid just came out with their own powered cab, called the CAB, which of course, plays well with all the Spark amps. That should bring in new customers, as well as keeping their existing Spark amp owners happy too, in case they want to go bigger.
The music is too loud. No worries but I couldn’t finish because it’s maddening
I'm fairly sure you need to use a 1/8 stereo to summing with resistors 1/4" mono cable or eventually that cute little spark amp wont spark. While most stereo summing cable just short the Left and Right output conductors, the use of resistors to prevent the signals from back-feeding into each other. This prevents it from being distortion or noise issues, as well as preventing damage to your output device.
You just might be a genius! This worked great with my Dr Z cabinet in a live jam situation. First time playing the Spark out of the house. Thanks for the awesome tip!
Any time...That’s awesome! 🤘🏼
So can i just run any pre amp like a Seymour duncan power stage and a regular 8 ohm guitar cab?
@@guitar_goes_brrrr8237 I’ve never tried a pre amp with this 44 Magnum but have used my pedals with it and it works good. I’ve only tried the Spark with the 44 Magnum like he shows in the video and it works great
This is the answer to my prayers. I have so many tones that I love with amp match. This is literally insane. You save me dude. This is it. I can now use my children of bodom tones live. You did it. I'm honestly blown away. I am dude....... I love you!!!
Did you ever get this setup and if you did how does it sound?
So following Rickord's tutorial, tried this with a Spark Mini. Used a Mooer Baby bomb 30 watt micro amp ($110 Amazon), piped the Mini thorough a Mesa 4x12 V30 and was OVERWHELMED!! Absolutely kicks $%$%$#$. Really loud but not a lot of noise and maintains tone really well. You can use the pedal amp volume control and the Spark volume basically as two separate masters, with your guitar volume on the side.
Also tried this with a little Marshall Code 25 and worked just as well.
Cheers!!
Awesome to hear!!! I was just contemplating buying the mooer 30 but didn't know If it would be enough. But reading this now, ITS ON!!! Thanks for the info
You sound quite knowledgeable do you know if a MXR micro amp would work?
gREAT vIDEO rICK, Could I offer suggestions for future videos? 1) Have the MIC Closer to you to improve tone quality. When you speak sound like you're in a cave. 2) during the first half of the amp you sort of jump around a lot and look like you have to go to the bathroom. Aside from that you explain things very well, and you have a clear and articulate voice... GOOD JOB!!
And get to the point!
My Roland KC-350 amp has stereo RCA inputs for "Aux In", I ran the Spark headphone cable to those RCA inputs, works really great!.
Digging the Skid Row riffage! Great vid! About to try this using the the effects return on my amp!
As the headphone out is stereo you don't make it clear that the plug into the power amp is mono. You either need to combine the stereo signal or you will only be getting half the sounds. This may not seem an issue if you are using a single rig in the Spark but they expand the modulation and echo/reverb to make to sound seem bigger and wider so you could well be loosing elements of the sound in only using half the signal path.
You could run 2 of the 44 mags and a custom stereo cable that would send the output from the headphone jack to two separate 44 mags and use your cab in stereo. Just an idea but it should be an easy fix for this if you wanted to get the most out of the sound. Now you will have to balance the power of each 44 mag at this point and would not be as convenient in a gig situation but running a volume pedal wah combo in front of the spark could also solve this issue. Though at that point you have really got intricate in all of this.
It's a wrong way to go about it the headphone output is full range the guitar cabinet is not full range these signals are not compatible if you wanna make your spark go louder you need a full range flat response cabinet it's called the FRFR cabinet
@@chrishill9707 If you were using the Spark to play music I would agree with you. However, as the Spark for guitar it will be emulating a guitar cabinet and therfore the predominant frequencies will be those present in a guitar cabinet. Years ago I would use my guitar cabinets for playing music. The bass, cymbals and vocals might not have stood out but the guitars sounded great.
This video made me realize that I could use the power amp in on my katana, via the spark headphone jack. Got an adapter for my cable, and it works great. It's really nice to hear it through a proper speaker
So all you need is the cable to connect the spark to a katana?
AWESOME BRO !!! Just got a spark yesterday and i got vox cabs ...and it's an oh yeah moment!!!
i run a spark using a stereo 1/8 inch to 1/4 mono jack into an old peavey tube amp. works great
Humm.. So I can use my Blackstar Tube amp instead of this and a cab? Would I run it to the effects loop input?
@@Yu54m18 yes you put it into the fx loop power amp input. this bypasses your preamp. also protects your preamp which only expects a guitar signal. the fx input (power amp in) expects a hotter signal more like what your headphone is putting out. all adjustments to volume and tone will be done from the spark at that point. regards.
Thanks John, with your help, I'm starting to get it.
This didn't work for me. I have a stereo 3.5, out of the headphone jack going to a mono 1/4 into my effects return on my Blackstar HT club effects loop..any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?
@@AslanRising sounds like you're doing it right. make sure you have the output volume up on the spark. this should bypass your blackstar preamp controls all together.
Just sold my Marshall 2203 Master Lead and ordered my Spark 40 last night! As I lay in bed last night I got to thinking that some additional speakers would really be nice, so here I am. Oh, I see you have a Charvel model 6; I have a Charvel / Jackson Model 6!
Great job brother!! This thing is the Swiss army knife of the guitar world!
Someone finally figured it out niceee!
Nice job. Just got the Spark. Working thru it and learning its limitations.
This is great, of course. I think PG needs to get their selt together, and create a product with a touch screen, so we don't need our phones, or a set up like this (as innovating and effective as it is!)..... with the processors out there now, PG needs to move forward. GREAT VIDEO, by the way :)
Thanks for the idea. I followed your instructions but picked up a used a Mooer Baby Bomb 30 to save a few bucks and it works great. Plenty of volume.
You could also wire an output jack pretty easily with a jack that bypasses the stock speakers when plugged in.
Can you clarify how that can be done?
@@lonecunado I did this with my Fender LT25. Basically you cut the wires going from the amp to the Spark's speakers. You buy a 2-way toggle switch. Solder/heatshrink the amp side of the speaker wire you cut to the center two posts on the switch switch. Solder/heatstrink the speaker side of the wire you cut to either the top two or bottom two posts, it doesn't matter which.
Next, you need an input jack. Wire the input jack to the only remaining two posts left on the toggle switch. Solder/heatshrink.
Now pick a mounting point for the output jack and toggle switch on the amp. Locate and drill/cut the appropriate size holes to mount them. The backpanel may be too think to actually secure the jack and toggle switch with the nuts. In that case, cut a larger square shape hole in the back panel and cut a piece of plastic, like a pickguard material, sized to cover the hole and be attached by screws. Cut holes in that piece of plastic to mount your toggle switch and input jack.
You are done! Now you can flip the toggle switch to change whether the amp is supplying sound to the speaker or the output to cab.
So, in my experience doing this, there is a noticeable volume change going to the larger speaker, it's moving more air. You can definitely crank it to get more sound, but there really isn't a tonal difference. Like, I thought the LT25 was being limited by the 8in speaker. I thought maybe it might sound better/less boxy on the higher quality 12in speaker of my other amp.
It really didn't make any difference except a modest increase in volume. So whether it's really worth it to mod the amp IDK.
This is even better now that Xsonic have released a blue tooth foot switch specifically for Spark
If it can access the effects from the app rather than the onboard settings on the amp then I'm in. Otherwise there's no point.
What a great idea. Never would have thought of this. I just might have to try this with my Spark and Magnum :)
Did you try it and if so how does it sound?
Oh yeah I did. I had mentioned that I tried this already and it worked great, but looks like I had multiple posts here. Not sure why but that was 3 years ago so who know. s haha.
All they need is an output jack and a built in screen and this could bury everything I was lookin at.
Put a small tablet on top and Bob's your uncle.
God, I need to make a UA-cam video that teaches common sense,........ Wanna team up?
You want an iPad and it’s the bomb
@@TheGreekPhysique or an android tablet, or old mobile ph
Exactly
Thanks for that totorial..
I run 1/8 Stereo into 2 1/4 Mono..into 2 aktive Hifi Studio speakers...uaah Sound pure
One issue its FRFR and has speaker emulation. You should just use a TRS mod to bypass internal speaker and use the spark internal amp to external and use full range speaker (20 to 20)
Thanks for this! I don’t have a speaker cab or other amp. Just a guitar and Spark. Play mostly through headphones but want a better external speaker for when I do play without headphones. I narrowed it down to a Line 6 Power Cab that has a built in power amplifier. Saves me from buying the Magnum. So Spark direct into the Line 6 Power Cab. Should work.
Did it work well?
I ended up buying A Headrush 108 FRFR directly from the headphone out. It worked. It was very loud for the bedroom. I returned it and am looking into 5” monitors.
@@paulcavaliere213 but the Spark itself has a pair of 4".
Thanks for the video. This is a great idea. Also, loved the Skid Row too! lol
So glad someone finally explained this thank you!
"Just keep in mind " ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Could you please explain that again. Were you saying that once your plugged in the headphone jack, you bypass the bluetooth settings and you're just hearing the amps settings ? You can still run effects via the front line, correct ? ?
Great video bro, as well as some nice riffin' of your own
Maybe there's already something like this on the market, but I'd like to see a modeling amp like the Spark, with bigger speakers, and maybe more wattage output. If you had something like that, you wouldn't need a bunch of pedals. Although 40 watts should be enough to drive most speakers. I suppose you could mic the Spark to a PA? That might be interesting......
Boss Katana is the answer.
@@JH-uq1es I don't know. Haven't used it. I've had a Boss BR-600 digital recorder for years. I hate the internal modeling settings. None sound very good, or very real.... The Spark gets much closer to the real thing. Although, nothing beats the real thing. Does it? I prefer clean sound anyway.
Thank you for this video! It was so helpful.. I love the Jazz music in the background. Who is that? 😁
Bro, your tone is awesome! What kind of guitar is that?
Thanks man. The guitar I’m playing is a Jackson Soloist SL5.
My question would be, is the 44 magnum amplifier substantially more powerful than the internal spark amplifier? Wattage is a bad way to measure power output, and it really has more to do with current, but if the spark amplifier actually puts out the same amount of power as the magnum then wouldn’t it be cheaper to just drill a hole in the back panel of the spark and mount a quarter inch output jack with a toggle switch to switch between external and internal speakers? this may cost around $25 or so and take around 15 minutes of work and then you would basically be able to use the spark amplifier like a mini head. You would be limited to 4 ohm cabinets and you would probably want to stick to around the same relative power handling capabilities as the original speakers in order to retain reliability, but I think I may just give this a try. Worst thing that could happen is I end up with a useless output jack mounted in the back of my spark LOL.
That would work. Some people have modified the spark amp by installing a line out or even a speaker out but I didn’t have that feature so I used the 44 magnum as a line out plus running the amp power to push more of the signal from the Spark rather than use the Spark itself. The Spark is 40W and the 44 Magnum is 44W hence the name. For the record I’ve never used this method with a live band or at a show. This was just a demonstration to answer that ongoing question at the time
@@RickordProductions I’m legally blind as well, so I’m sorry if my comments are a little illiterate LOL voice text hates me
@@Beautiful_Evil it’s all good 🤘🏼
Hey man, cool video!! I've beenn looking all over for information on reamping options on this. but, no luck maybe an idea for your next video? Cheers from Canada!!
Excellent vid bro ! ! Great back ground jams. Who's playing the guitar ? ?
Did the same to my Vox Vt40x, but into a normal mini stereo amp (50$ amazon). All coming out of my vintage Technics Tower speakers!
I have a couple of frfr 2,000 watt speakers. Gonna give it a try! Thanks, just something never would of thought of if I had not come across your video!
How did you end up running this setup??
Update?
@@creepingdeth141 It worked great. However, I ended up selling the Spark amp.
@@HumbleHeartMinistry really what was the reason
IF you ran the SPARK right into the cabinet with that cable, would it harm the SPARK? I mean, instead of using it as a PRE-AMP, what about using it as the AMP. Not to fill a concert hall but for jamming. Can it work as a 40 watt head on its own?
I’m trying this tonight. Oh it’s on!!
Liked for the info and the skid row licks!
For anyone else trying to make the Spark, which is amazing, work with some serious volume!
This 44 magnum is too loud and too sensitive, it rocks and sounds cool but if you want to use the very fun interactive features of the Spark to play along with songs while it shows you exactly what to play and when to play, the cabinet makes the song/music sound very thin and with zero bass!
Here is what you want!
L2M Line 6 speaker.
A cable that is double RCA to 1/8” headphone end.
Plug the Spark from the headphone Jack to the speakers RCA plugs!
This sounds amazing! Both the music and you get the True Tone sound from the Spark with a ton more rockin sound then the two stock 4” speakers!
The spark amp sounds great coming into my headphones and sounds like shit using the speakers it came with. I can't wait to try this
Answered my question. Great Job. Many Thanks!
I been using my wireless guitar bugs with a quarter inch to one eight inch adapter with the receiver into my fender ultra chorus. Works great.
If you want your spark to go aloud or you need to get Full range flat response speakers it's basically a powered studio monitor keyboard monitor acoustic amp base amp something like APA that's full range not a guitar speaker
Update, Just plugged it into the speakers and now I’m deaf! AWESOME!!!
This is awesome. The Spark 40's headphones output is stereo and thinking the Magnum sums the signal into mono. Can you run a Y-cable (stereo 3.5mm mini out from headphones to two mono cables) into two separate 44 Magnum power amps (and each of them into separate cabinets) to get true stereo sound? Or does Magnum create a stereo version of this power amp? Also, are specific cabs required (certain OHMs, wattage or impedances, etc.) for best results? Thanks, man!
Good question. You can try to but I think the 44 Magnum outputs to mono.
Yes. You would get left and right at the y which could go to separate power amps/cabs
Yes. You can. But you obviously need two 44 mags
Thank you for the info and demo. I ordered the magnum from sweetwater.
That’s awesome. Thanks for your effort. 44 magnum coming my way. 🤘🏽
I used PC surround speakers for long time using headphone out on several processors. Sounds killer. Hahaha.
Great job I have a spark amp so will buy a external cabinet 😊 👍
I built a cable that splits a guitar speaker cable into alligator clips on one end. I just clip onto the Spark's speaker tabs & run the signal into a Palmer Direct PDI09 ("The Junction"). Nothing beats the sound of it. Out of the Palmer I go into the 44 Magnum. That way you can still hear the Spark's speakers. Be aware the signal to the Palmer will change as you adjust the Spark's volume knob.
What is the cable stereo to mono
Haven't you tried the headphone output to the effects return on a tube amp? That bypasses the preamp tubes so it does the same thing as that mini 44 magnum amp pedal does. I run all my modeling pedals into the effects return of my amp.
No amp output was the reason I never bought one, your solution will help some people , their newest device doesn't have a output either so I guess the complaining fell on deaf ears
Thank you for this video bill order one of those little pedals. Note you have the wrong cord. Your spark plug side should be stereo and have crossover resistors ( glass diodes) on them so they don’t bleed back. Then you’ll have all your sound. That double mono plug plugged into the sparks stereo headset out will dampen your sound allot. Not just knock down to one channel. But cause phasing. Get a good stereo to mono adapter with balance boxes on them. A couple more &”$. But you’ll thank me :)
Apprarently that was the only cable I had but thanks for the tip!
@@RickordProductions absolutely. Thank you for the tip :). That pedal looks sweet
@@tattguy690 can you give a link to a good stereo to mono adaptor with balance boxes. I can find some examples but nothing that seems exactly what you are describing. Thanks.
@@nuchalcord Ill look right now
You can also cut a 3.5 mm stereo jack off and wire the two hits together with a glass diode or small resistor on each line to stop back feed cancellations. Then the output is mono and put a 1/4” mono on the other end also. If you have the stuff laying around
I have a magnum 44 and it’s amazing 🤘🏻
This is awesome! Thanks so much! Quick question: with the Spark amp being 40 watts and you plug it into an external cabinet + the pedal you recommend, are you getting any more wattage or are you still playing with 40 watts? I'm a lead guy in a band and wanted to know if this would work well playing at a bar or outside for a crowd of 30 people.
I'm sure it'll work just fine. I've never tried it playing with my own band because I use my pedal board with the 44 Magnum Power Amp and a 4X12 cabinet, but when I was testing it with the Spark, I had a lot of wiggle room with the volume. You can hook up the Spark with virtually any amp as long as you run the headphone jack to an input on the external amplifier. If you use a standard amp head, I would suggest using the return input of the effects loop. If you think you'd need more wattage, you can run the Spark through a powered speaker like the QSC K12 which runs a 2000W amp. Give it a shot with the gear you already have. You just need the cable I suggested in the video.
The 40w is strictly for the Spark. Since you are going out the headphone port you should set the Spark master and output knobs to get the best sound output w/o distortion. Then use the 44Mag to control the volume of the cab output. It would be better if the Spark had a clean signal output for a cab, but it is what it is (for now)
Theoretically, the spark becomes a preamp so your power section is whatever external amp you run between the Spark and the speaker cabinet of choice. For instance, using the 1/8 to 1/4" patch cord you could run the spark into a PA sound board at a club so that you use the house speakers as a cab and then the sound guy can increase your level to match the volume of the rest of the band. It also means that you could use a powered cabinet for an electric piano or electric drum kit to boost your volume in a live venue.
You could choose a clean setting that is just on the brink of breakup on the amp itself but once you run it into a cabinet that would go away because of the difference in wattage handling of the cabinet, so you would need to tweak the eq on the power section between the spark and the cabinet to achieve the same effect. The interesting factor that this presents is that now you would have greater tone shaping because you have the Spark's EQ and the EQ of the secondary amp to play with.
In an essence the spark becomes a sound FX pedal and EQ section for a larger amplifier if that makes sense (think digitech GX3) it allows you to increase gain, output level of FX, and the rate of the FX but how the cabinet speaker and the way it breaks up is controlled will now be by the EQ of the intermediate power source.
What this also does is allow you to run the spark into a daisy chained pedal board then out to a power source meaning that all the sound of the Spark could come before an expression pedal and board mounted EQ giving even more range.
Can I use a y power amp or does it have to be a certain wattage or ohms speaker
Lots of comments about stereo and mono etc. does it really matter that the spark is stereo and the output is being converted to mono? The spark is so small that any stereo you get out of it is practically mono anyway.
Thanks dude. This was very informative and you play awesome!
Thanks man anytime!
You can use the 3.5 mm headfone line output to a 1/4 inch into the powered head or bottom etc.
Tried this with a Spark mini into a 15W EHX Howitzer. I hardly got any volume unless both amps were turned up full and gain on the EHX. Sound quality was terrible. It turns out there is a setting to switch the headphone output from stereo to mono. That made all the difference in getting it to work. However, tones still don't sound quite the same as through Spark's internal speakers and my volume is still nowhere near what the EHX can push through my 2x12 cabinet. BTW, Spark does have a footswitch available now in 2022. Now that I've figured out this much, it's something I may consider down the road. As it is, I don't quite see this replacing my more traditional pedalboard and amp.
Excellent video Bro! I knew you could use the headphone out, but I didn't know that you needed to then run it through an amp first. That 44 sounds awesome : ) BTW, if you don't mind, could you please reply and post the patch you were using in the tonecloud? Thanks!
The Electro-Harmonix Howitzer 15 watt power amp works excellent here as well. Still crazy loud if that's what you need.
This guy can shred
Positive Grid actually used to make a powerful amp head with many of the same features as the Spark, not sure why they stopped :(
Hypothetical question: let’s say I have a brand new 140 Watt Marshall cabinet and I plug in my spark with the power amp and connect it to the cabinet and I turned it up all almost all the way for a 500 + person gig. Would I be getting almost 140 watts of my spark amp or would I just be getting the extra 40 watts with the power amp? I would love to connect it to a Marshall cabinet but I have no idea if The spark amp Would allow it to reach up to 140 watts. I’m in a band and I’m just getting to start Gigging. If this doesn’t work, do you have any suggestions for a loud cabinet that isn’t $1000+ and that will hook up with the spark with a power amp?
I’m not a really techy guy but there are gonna be some things that I need to learn
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Well good question but even if you didn’t pull 140 watts you’d still be fine in front of a crowd of 500+ because there’s no way you could perform in front of a crowd that size without mic’ing your cabinet. Your amp will be mic’d through the PA and the live sound should push the decibels you may not be able to push.
Nope, the amp only outputs 40 watts no matter how many watts your cabinet is.
Merci pour ces informations.
WHAT?!!!!! LOL... 1000 mahaloz Rickord! I will definitely try this.
Thanks for the video and demo! Are you still using this setup? If so, did you change your headphone jack into the magnum for a summons cable or have any issues?
Great Video! I dont have a spark myself and im considering getting one eventually. 2 Questions: Can I use a 1/8 female to 1/4 male adapter and regular 1/8 inch cable for this? and can I plug it from the Spark Headphone out to the Return of a combo amp?
is there any concern needed for like specific wattage or ohmage of the cab, like are there any worries that i could potentially damage my speaker ?
That was my concern as well.
This practice amp is versatile and fun. And most digital models sound great thru the small speakers (esp the Fender models).
Running an external cabinet through the headphone jack and boosted by an alternate power source just sounds awful. I used hi end speaker cables, the .44 Mag and through a Mesa 1x12. The tone was flat, muddy and a total waste.
Use the Spark to practice. When you play with a drummer, fire up a real valve amp.
Hi, nice video, so basically I can connect a cab of any brand to a Spark and enjoy the sound customization possibilities offered by the Positive Grid?Does the Spark Mini and Go also allow this?
Absolutely. As long as the Spark as some kind of line output like even a headphone jack it can be done as long as the cab is plugged into a power source. If you used a powered speaker you wouldn’t need an external power amp like the 44 Magnum. You can just run the Spark directly to the speaker or through a PA mixer.
I have a 5w Bulgera tube Amp I have experimented going through that into the spark. It gives a bit more punch. So now I want to do this trick to hook to feed my 4x12a Marshall stack. I will post a video.
Doesn't combining a stereo signal create too much voltage for the amp input? There should be 2 - 1k resistors to limit the voltage. You could blow the input stage on some amps!
It won't damage the amp's input, but it may damage the stereo output (in this case, Spark's headphone output).
Combining the l and r will average the voltage (not add). Which will be fine if the output is the same on both channels, however if there is a stereo effect such that l differs from r a high current will flow from one to the other. Thats why resistors are used in a summing cable to safely average the voltage. The 44 input will be high resistance (much higher than the 8 ohms expected)so little current will flow from the headpone amp
The pedal should sort that out
I intend on getting a spark. For now, though I am running the Positive grid plugin suite from my Focusright 2n2 output into a marshall 4x12 Kind of the same thing. Great Vid!
Got the setup and works great but can you share what volume and output settings you have on the spark? Thanks
The only volume I’m controlling is from 44 Magnum power amp. I’m using the Spark app to configure all my preamp and mod settings.
About the cable you are recommending; is it an 1/8" mono or stereo end? I got the Spark 40 after signing up on the pre-sale list. I love it, it's a great practice amp. And, I've already signed up on the pre-sale list of the Spark CAB 140 watt!
My only pet peeve is that they didn't use a 1/4" stereo headphone output. Other than that, it's wonderful.
You could probably hook up a Quad Cortex via the same method to a guitar speaker cab, right? Thanks
Excellent video. Thanks !!
I don’t remember hearing in the video about output earphone Jack to lower volume mine is not working because I had volume all the way up ! Sent it back to get repaired . You may want to add to your video a warning
Regards JL
hmm makes me think if ya had a left right channel split on that headphone jack you could run it to two seperate cabs and get stereo right?
Hi, is there a special care with the cable to be used between the spark headphone output and the PA44 ? Because after doing that the headphone output is out of order.
I plugged my Spark 40 into my 1000 Watt Mackie Thump 15" Speaker, and OMFG.
Whoa! A Russo cable! I used to work at the Hamilton location
Hey, great idea! Question, the 1/8” to 1/4” cable, is it stereo at both ends? Couldn’t really see it in the video. I don’t know if there is such a thing as mono on one side and stereo on the other. Thanks!
That’s a good question but I’m almost sure the 44 Magnum power amp runs on a mono output.
I would assume you would need a 1/8 stereo to 1/4 mono cable. Headphone outs are stereo and the cable will combine the signal into mono to your amp.
Great Video. Now everybody can rock louder
To get best tone using headphone out. I use 99 dollar radial engineering reamper matches line level headphone output to guitar level in guitar amp return. You will notice sound improvement and volume improvement. I also changed speaker in my speaker cab to celestion fx-200 full range speaker since you cannot turn off spark irs. Get a greatsound.
Awesome idea, thanks.
You are the best man! Thanks!
Thanks! 🤘🏼
That’s So Awesome Thanks For Sharing!!!
Have you tried going from the cab to building speakers, If not I would really like to know if it will work
Well the footswitch problem is solved as Positive Grid released one that works perfectly :)
What would be a good cheap or cheaper alternative for the power amp? That specific pedal is going for around $250. I just dropped a crap load on my Spark Pearl and I'd like to not spend another crap load to get the sound out of my cabinet. Sonos there like a $40 power amp that would work but not be your choice?
Technically you can pretty much use any amp for the most part. I chose something like the 44 magnum because it was just a straight signal with no preamp simply to avoid compromising the tones from the Spark’s preamp. If you have an existing amp that has a send and return you could probably run the Spark into the return output of the your other amp’s effects loop. That’s similar to what the 44 Magnum is in this case.
I like this idea! Thank you for the inspiration. I have another question too. Could an ART Power Plant 410 (rack preamp) also work? I was going to get a used one anyhow. It is able to push petals at a higher wattage to satisfy a Power amp better.
So,you can connect to a combo amp too.right? From ear phone output Spark to in put of any huge power combo amp.how much sound we want !? U got it.
Let me tell,After buying a Spark, I usually connect with Boss multi effect device..Great sound.
Great video! Just curious, what is the wattage of your speaker cabinet ?
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Awesome. Thanks for the info!