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It is simple to use and effective at fattening up the sound while remaining articulate, open and fun to play. It is not a totally clean boost, which becomes apparent when turning it up. Then it adds more of its own gain structure. It loves being boosted too, and combined with an other booster or od-pedal it gets more compressed and feels a bit like a vintage and fat low gain fuzz. Internal dip switches helps tilting the eq from a low end emphasis to a more mid-focused sound or somewhere in between. This helps tailoring it to the pedals around it and the instrument you play. Sounds great on bass too.

It seems to me that the Spark Booster is underrated since it is constantly for sale second hand. To my use and ears the Spark Booster is a perfect tailoring device for my pedal board. It is stupid simple to dial in with a boosting and cutting eq-section. With the mid switch engaged it is a ts and klon-killer and sits perfect in a band mix. While playing alone I like to use the clean setting which feels very responsive and full. The Fat-setting is great for thin sounding single coil guitars and basses. The added gain knob adds a really great and grunty amp like gain structure. It just sounds open and full. So it is not just a clean boost, but a fantastic overdrive as well.

My first delay pedal, and still a mainstay on my pedal board. I cant get any other pedal to do the spesific sounds I rely on it for. It has its quirks, but that only gives it caracter and makes me tweak out sounds only I have a use for. I can't imagine ever letting it go.

Often misunderstood, as the Fuzz part of it is not compressed and mushy like most other fuzzes. This makes it not as forgiving, but articulates what one puts through it. You still can get that exploding chord sound when you push the amp with it. It seems bulletproof as all Fulltones I have tried, and, as a catalyst should, plays brilliantly with other pedals.

The trails on this is just epic, organic and 3-dimensional. The bandwidth is wide so it sounds almost just as good with basses as guitars. All digital delays gets this kind of ugly static in the repeats when I play heavy handed with a lot of dirt in front of them. The grit just needs too much power to process and absorb I guess. I had to listen very hard to find the tiniest of static in this one. Maybe even an original Echoplex has a minimum of static too, so I can't say for sure that the tiny sizzle I heard shouldn't be there. The EP103 is by far the best sounding digital delay I have tried so far..

My taste dictates that a dirt pedal should feel as if the amp is a part of it. Maybe that is what is meant by transparent. The Superbolts is both transparent and not. Its gain structure goes from a cleanish boost to an amp in a fuzzy compressed meltdown. It never sounds fizzy or like it lies on top of the signal, but blends beautifully with the amp. I don't even need the amp to be breaking up to get it feeling good and responsive, which is great when I'm playing at home and need to keep it down.

I have one for my guitar board an another for my bass. I'd keep just one of them if only because the strobe looks so cool. But since they react so fast and accurately they both get to stay. My guitars have never been better intonated.