Spark Zone

DrBaroni wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:00 am J.C. has already answered your question above. I'd like to add just one more thing, that I could almost quote from a David Gilmour interview: how your tone sounds depends a good deal on your fingers. Gilmour claims in that interview that he basically gets a very similar sound out of any guitar, because that is how HE plays. And I tend to agree: even in my super-limited experience, my own guitars played by me and played by anyone else, especially someone who is good at playing (and the more good s/he is the more you'll notice this), they seem totally different instruments, though using the very same guitar, tones, effects and amp. Heck, it happens with my CLASSICAL guitar too!

J.C. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:37 am The amps from PG are based on the original, some more some less.
If Santana would mostly play boogies now, it makes sense to start with this when creating a sound. But that doesn't always work. The Marshall in the Comfortably numb preset wasn't my first choice. I then tried many and stuck with this one because it suited me best. Before that, I wouldn't have believed that the Malmsteen Amp (stands for heavy high gain) could be suitable for this.
Another example ... Hendrix stands for Marshalls. My Hendrix preset with the most downloads is built with a Fender simulation.
So there is no magic bullet, you have to try until it somehow fits. That can take time.

I had already made my own presets in Jamup. I always look first what I've done there. But I haven't been able to simply take over a single preset. It always has to be tinkered with and often i had to change the amp.
On Jamup i have many Presets built with the Treadplate. But with the spark i don't like this amp very much.
However, I think the "American High Gain" amp is a good replacement. So I don't really need the Treadplate anymore.
Probably the first choice for metal.

J.C. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:23 am In my opinion, the sounds that can be created with the Spark app can sometimes be very good.
However, there are tons of presets in the Toncloud that are the exact opposite.
This includes, of course presets that have been uploaded by users, that are so quiet that you can't even hear them. Often the threshold of the noise gate is raised too far and the tone dies. Often the effects are set too strong.
There is one thing you should be aware of with the more than 10,000 presets, and I've written that before. PG advertised these before even a single Spark was delivered. This means that they were not made with the Spark app, but come from other, previous programs / apps from PG. But what was created with Jamup, for example, and sounds great there, doesn't necessarily have to sound good with the Spark.
Go to the Tonecloud, there on All, sort by popularity. With the hits that are then displayed, you think these are the best presets there are for the Spark. The presets created by PG, which are located below, are also very good thanks to the series.
Otherwise, at least the front 100-150 presets were not created with the Spark app but were adopted from other applications, see above.
I don't think any Preset created with Spark has over 200 favorite hearts at this point.
If you take that into account, you can work better with the cloud.

J.C. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:32 pm "You mention that the PG created presets are listed in this thread, but I didn’t see that. Where can I find that list?"


Sorry man, it's my english. My german is much better.
What i would say is that the PG Presets are under/between these firts 100 - 150 favorites, not that there is somewhere a list of them.

J.C. wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:38 pm So Samuele i tested your Preset of Comfortably numb and made a short soundfile with the BT. I had to raise the threshold to 1.0 and the volume to 7. It was a bit too quiet with the BT.
And after this the same with my Preset.
What do you think?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ame3jhos3tsl ... e.m4a?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ovc4xodxr7kcx ... 0.m4a?dl=0