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September 23, 2026 — Positive Grid Editorial

What Can You Do With Spark PEDAL? 5 Setups Every Player Should Try

Estimated read time: 3-4 minutes. So you just got your Spark PEDAL. You've probably plugged in your headphones, scrolled through a few presets, and called it a night. Totally fair. But there's a decent chance you haven't figured out how many places this thing actually fits. Positive Grid's Spark PEDAL is a portable smart amp and effects pedal with a built-in looper, which is a roundabout way of saying it can be your entire rig or just one piece of somebody else's, depending on what the day asks for. We put together five short videos covering different ways to use it. Some of these you already know. A couple might change how your board is laid out by the weekend.

September 11, 2026 — Positive Grid Editorial

How to Use a Multi-FX Pedal in Your Amp's Effects Loop

Estimated read time: 5-6 minutes. You have already put real money into a pedalboard you built one piece at a time, and it sounds good, and you know it sounds good. But there is still that voice in the back of your head saying just one more, just one more, and you can never quite land on what the missing pedal actually is. Another delay? A reverb with a longer tail? A boost that shoves the solo forward a little harder? The trouble with chasing that feeling is that the answer keeps changing every few months, and the board just keeps getting wider.

September 9, 2026 — Positive Grid Editorial

Introducing Spark PEDAL: Smart Amp, Effects & Looper

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes. You know that thing where you want to play somewhere that isn't your own room, and then you count up what it would take to actually sound like yourself once you got there, and you quietly decide to stay home? I've done it more times than I want to admit. The other version of it is worse, where you do go, and you end up playing through whatever lives at the rehearsal space, and you spend two hours faintly annoyed at your own tone instead of paying attention to the music.

September 9, 2026 — Positive Grid Editorial

Using Spark PEDAL: 6 Ways to Play

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes. Most gear does one job well and then asks you to buy something else for the next job. Spark PEDAL works the other way around. It stays the same rig whether you are standing on a stage, sitting at a desk, or hiding in a spare bedroom at one in the morning, and the only thing that really changes is what you plug it into.

August 24, 2026 — Positive Grid Editorial

Best Guitar Amp for Beginners 2026: Back to School Setup

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes. Back to school is either your favorite time of the year or the stretch of the calendar you've been quietly dreading since the first week of June. There's no in between. Either way, I've got good news if you play guitar, because the fall semester is secretly the best excuse there is to finally sort out your gear.

August 19, 2026 — Positive Grid Editorial

REACTOR Buyer's Guide

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes. So you're ready to jump into the world of amp modeling and you genuinely don't know where to start. I get it. There are a lot of options out there and most of them are great at what they do, which somehow makes the decision harder instead of easier. But something new is here. REACTOR from Positive Grid, the same folks who brought you the Spark series amps that have quietly made their way into bedrooms, studios, and tour buses all over the place. Now they've stepped into the combo amp game with something a little different, something built to push the traditional amp forward instead of just recreating it.

August 13, 2026 — Positive Grid Editorial

Best Rock Songs for Labor Day Weekend

Estimated read time: 3-4 minutes. Labor Day is the last long weekend before summer quietly packs up and leaves, and it deserves better than whatever your phone shuffles into. The holiday is built around two things rock music has never run out of material for, which is working hard and then aggressively refusing to work at all. So here are the best rock songs for Labor Day weekend, sorted roughly by what you'll actually be doing.

July 27, 2026 — Laura Whitmore

Amp Intelligence™: How REACTOR Builds Sound

Estimated read time: 5-6 minutes. Every guitarist knows the feeling of hearing a tone they want and not being able to get there. The sound is clear in your head. You can almost feel it under your fingers. But translating that into something real usually turns into a long process of trial and error.