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TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal 

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Cut through any mix with heaps of clarity and be heard like never before.

The TC Electronic Spark Booster guitar effects pedal works great as an always on type of effect, adding life, grit and compression to your sound in a way that oozes tone. Add body, punch and warmth to pickups and drive amps to peak performance. The Spark Booster also shines when used as a pure level boost. It's the perfect tool to prime solos, highlight parts and add dimension to your amp or distortion pedal.

The level knob allows you to add 26 dB of boost, raising the volume without altering the character of your tone. The Gain knob is perfect for adding a hint of breakup or slight compression to a clean amp.

The active EQ controls consist of Bass and Treble knobs. They form the perfect tone-shaping tool and amplify frequency areas, as well as be used to create deep, extended lows or to add beautiful top-end sparkle.

A toggle switch allows for three settings. The Clean setting boosts your signal equally across the frequency spectrum. The Fat setting fattens up sounds and adds life and punch to your sound, and allows for precise tonal shaping with the EQ and Gain knobs. The Mid-boost section provides a bump in the mids.

It’s the fourth entry for Overdrive/Distortion pedals in the TC Electronic compact pedal series. Based on the runaway success of the classic-sounding Dark Matter Distortion, the more modern voiced Röttweiler Distortion and the MojoMojo Overdrive.

Features

  • 26 dB of boost.
  • Level knob
  • Place after existing distortion/overdrive to enhance drive sounds.
  • Add grit, life and compression to your tone
  • Add body, punch and warmth to pickups
  • Mid-boost
  • Active EQ
  • True bypass

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TC ElectronicSpark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal
 
5.0

(based on 10 reviews)

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100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

  • Excellent sound quality (9)
  • Responsive (7)
  • Versatile (6)
  • Compact (5)
  • Good selection of effects (4)

Cons

    Best Uses

    • Performances (8)
    • Professional recording (7)
    • Home studio (5)
    • Amateur recording (4)
    • Outdoor events / games (4)
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    5.0

    EVER SO MUCH MORE SO

    By grumpy

    from long island ny

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    Pros

    • Compact Design
    • Excellent Sound Quality
    • Responsive

    Cons

      Best Uses

      • Amateur Recording
      • Home Studio
      • Performances
      • Professional Recording

      Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

      If you play guitar you need this pedal.It should be called eversomuchmoreso,because it makes everything sound better.in front of or after your effect chain,pushing an OD,by itself,it does it all.You can use it as a slight od to dirty up a clean channel for blues or garage rock,push a dirty channel of an amp harder,use it as a clean boost for solos,or on all the time to brighten your overall sound.I have tried several applications and orders in my chain with this and love them all.This is 100 % a winner of a pedal,that you will be happy you own.I don't gig,just play and record at home for fun,but it would be even better for a guitarist playing out.

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      (2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

       
      5.0

      Amazing pedal

      By Jammer123

      from Nashville, TN

      About Me Experienced

      Pros

      • Compact Design
      • Excellent Sound Quality
      • Good Selection Of Effects
      • Responsive
      • Versatile

      Cons

        Best Uses

        • Amateur Recording
        • Events
        • Home Studio
        • Performances
        • Professional Recording

        Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

        Like most players, I've found myself constantly searching for that perfect tone, never as satisfied as I'd like to be. And though I'm not proclaiming this to be some sort of Holy Grail, this pedal has opened up my tones in a huge way. Let me be more specific.

        Simply stomp the box and you get a solid lead tone out of this bad boy. I keep the mid-boost on all the time, but the fat and clean settings are great as well. Tone shaping is incredibly simple; it's just a great sounding pedal and you'll have a sound you like in minutes. I use it on top of either a DS-1 or BD-2 depending on what kind of distortion the song calls for and it gives me a searing lead tone every time.

        To put it simply, this is just a versatile, easy-to-use pedal, and best of all it sounds absolutely killer. It will give your distortion pedals depth, boost the hell out of your cleans, and give you the lead tone you need to cut through the mix. Bravo.

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        (3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

         
        5.0

        The best Pedal in years

        By jamset guitarrist!

        from El Salvador

        About Me Novice

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        Pros

        • Compact Design
        • Excellent Sound Quality
        • Good Selection Of Effects
        • Responsive
        • Versatile

        Cons

          Best Uses

          • Amateur Recording
          • Events
          • Home Studio
          • Mobile DJ
          • Performances
          • Professional Recording

          Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

          This is the best pedal in years!!! you put it in front of you tube amp... and your amp starts to sing as never before!! with the toggle switch and the eq knobs, basically you can change your amp to sound so different that you will think you have another amp!!

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          (3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

           
          5.0

          Rockin box !

          By rockin in the USA

          from san pedro, CA

          About Me Experienced

          Pros

          • Excellent Sound Quality

          Cons

            Best Uses

              Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

              I have tried a few boosters looking for that edge when you need it, this one is great and has so much power that the level only stays at 11 oclock . It makes your clean channel sound great as well as searing leads when you kick it in on your lead channel. Great box highley recommend !

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              (3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

               
              5.0

              Very Versatile Boost

              By slimex

              from Florida

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              Verified Buyer

              Pros

              • Excellent Sound Quality
              • Good Selection Of Effects
              • Responsive
              • Versatile

              Cons

              • None

              Best Uses

              • Amateur Recording
              • Events
              • Home Studio
              • Performances
              • Professional Recording

              Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

              This pedal is extremely versatile. Goes from clean transparent boost in the clean mode to full on overdrive in the fat and/or mid mode. Very organic feel when used as overdrive that is very responsive. Excellent pedal!

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              (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

               
              5.0

              Better than the competition!

              By John

              from Athens, OH

              About Me Professional Musician

              Verified Buyer

              Pros

              • Compact Design
              • Excellent Sound Quality
              • Responsive
              • Versatile

              Cons

                Best Uses

                • Performances

                Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

                I originally purchased a similar product: the Voodoo Labs Giggity boost pedal after some seeing some great demos online but when I received it just didn't do anythings for me. I decided to try the TC Spark Booster instead, and found that I loved the the EQ and mild drive available from this pedal much, much more. It may be a case of this pedal stacking better with my existing gear, but for me it's a much more versatile tool. The only thing I don't like is the white LED which is blinding.

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                (3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

                 
                5.0

                boost me baby!

                By metal man

                from NC

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                Pros

                • Durable
                • Excellent Sound Quality
                • Good quality
                • Indicator Light
                • Metal Housing

                Cons

                  Best Uses

                  • Best For Solos
                  • Performances
                  • Professional Recording

                  Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

                  This pedal does everything that it says it does! it boost my solos, and boosts my melodies. and anything else that i want to stand out from the mix. i play metal music in a cramp basement and my drummer crashes so loud and between the monitors and other guitars i need a hot knife to cut through some hot METAL butter. i love this pedal: great build, cool looks, durable, and solid. I've seen a lot of complaints about the WHITE indicator light BUT i really like it! its different and very bright, not a problem with it! I'm very excited that the spark booster is around its exactly what i needed on my board. its a must. buy it, love it, GO!

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                  (2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

                   
                  5.0

                  Love it!!

                  By Bluesdude2003

                  from Woodstock, Ga

                  Verified Buyer

                  Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

                  My newest always on pedal! It makes my clean channel usable. Boosts volume and tone to new levels, cuts through the mix so that I can play clean with just the right amount of mids, so could have named it The Razor! However, the overdrive channel on my amp tends to get glassy when I use it along with my OCD, I'm not sure that's a bad thing, but you don't want to be too shrill, so I'll have to set the level around 10 o'clock. Toggle switch remains on clean setting and gain at 12 o'clock. A good investment just for turning my clean channel into a high dollar boutique amp.

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                  (2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

                   
                  5.0

                  Sparked my World

                  By IbanezRG3X

                  from Orlando, Fl

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                  Verified Buyer

                  Pros

                  • Active EQ
                  • Clear sound
                  • Excellent Sound Quality
                  • Responsive
                  • Versatile
                  • Volume level

                  Cons

                  • White LED

                  Best Uses

                  • Cleans boost
                  • Events
                  • Mild overdrive
                  • Performances
                  • Professional Recording
                  • Solo boost

                  Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

                  My #1used pedal now! Has an awesome clear sound, powers up your solo to be heard, and clean boost for rhythm or clean leads. A great must have pedal!

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                  (5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)

                   
                  5.0

                  Spark Booster Comments

                  By miguelito1

                  from Istanbul, Turkey

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                  Pros

                  • Compact Design
                  • Excellent Sound Quality
                  • Good Selection Of Effects
                  • Responsive
                  • True-bypass
                  • Versatile

                  Cons

                  • LED color

                  Best Uses

                  • Differentiaton of tone
                  • Fair level of overdrive
                  • Home Studio
                  • Performances
                  • Professional Recording
                  • Solo boost

                  Comments about TC Electronic Spark Booster Guitar Effects Pedal:

                  As I've been examining and searching for the boost pedal, I checked almost all the conventional pedals, read reviews... I saw this very recently released pedal by coincidence on web. Here is my review...

                  TC Electronics Spark Booster is a very nice boost pedal that actually does two things:

                  1. If you are playing both rythm and lead and if you are suffering for the lack of expression when switched to solo section, this is a great solo booster. I see that the whole 26dB spectrum is way much enough. I usually use it at 30%-40% boost behind an amp which is definitely strong enough for getting one step in the front. But that's not it. Since it has bass and treble knobs, you can differentiate the tone into a totally different pattern when you switch on to Spark Booster. That makes you possess a variety across rythm and solo. I believe that it is a a very important feature and it's unique among the other boost pedals which have a single boost knob.

                  2. Increasing the GAIN provides simple and fair overdrive. If you expect a strong rock overdrive it will not be sufficient. In that case, I recommend you to locate it after a seperate overdrive pedal in your effects loop. This pedal has fat, clean and mid tone coloring options. It's kinda like a set of predefined eq settings. Fat is nice but it provides a little extra hum. I use it mostly at its clean setting. Mid is somehow bright sounding. It can be used to express British type solos in my opinion.

                  Consequently, I think that Spark Booster is a very useful boost pedal which enhances your capabilities and does what it has to. The build quality is nice. It's not heavy but it's solid. The switch button is very steady up to now. I'd prefer if its LED would be a different color than the white one. It may be kinda like a little hard to notice when there are spots over you.

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