I don’t have one prepared at the moment but I’ll add it to our list for recording and/or filming next week. Thanks! 
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Great, sounds great, thanks Jaak!
The Sparks is a great idea and hopefully it will lead to more releases of MIDI controlled analog pedals. Would like to see a flanger like the Spectre but with an external volume knob and without all the noise.
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What about the recovery effects - ghost writer guitar to midi pedal? I’ve been thinking of getting one for this very reason!
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Neither of us have tried it but it seems like that should work!
I’ve used the Sonuus G2M to control the Ribbons synth with my guitar and it works pretty well. It’s not a pedal, so it would be harder to integrate into a pedalboard than the Recovery Effects device, but it costs less than half of what the Ghost Writer costs.
Yes please do:) i would love to hear synth tones with just the guitar and pedal :))
Honestly, this looks like one of the most impressive and useful pedals ever made: a rival to what is currently the most useful pedal in my arsenal, which is also made by y’all. Goodness.
This seems blasphemous to even ask, but do you think there ever might be an option for a reverse sawtooth waveform? My favorite filter pedal is the Vongon paragraphs, which has a percussive plunk like no other. It can be dialed in to have a sharp but slightly rounded attack. I was wondering if this might contain functionality to get that plunk at some point.
Regardless, wizardry. And sorry for asking when Sparks already exceeds what most thought possible in analog circuitry.
For the LFO? It’s already in there. Using the LFO mapping system you can set the intensity and the polarity of the LFO to any control.
So you just use the normal saw and then reverse the polarity - boom, reverse sawtooth!
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Incredible. I fried my Paragraphs trying to send cv dynamic envelope changes to an expression jack I put in. This solves everything!
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Hi, looking so much forward to check this pedal out! I don’t want to disturb and interrupt you while production is going on, but it would be really cool to hear a comparison of the distortion alone on sparks, compared with other well known distortion pedals.
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I think I’ve watched both Sparks videos about 100 times. I haven’t been this excited to get a new pedal in quite a long time.
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Well Sparks is in the house and maaaaan I’m loving it!! First of all I LOVE the paper like texture of the enclosure! Feels very analogue (pun intended).
The flexibility of this thing is amazing. Here is a little clip of some dirt!
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Damn…! this pedal is deep… with a ton of features for the buck! 
Also, definitely RTFM 
It’s also one of those pedals (like Mood II, Lossy, etc) which IMHO benefits from an external midi controller, so that you can CC directly to the specific parameter…
Guess I’m finally going to get me a Faderfox or a Midi Fighter unit to improve the midi-ness of my setup
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I noticed the page for Sparks does not mention anymore that a new batch will be available for pre-orders later this summer.
is this good or bad news for those who got here too late yet want to make sparks their ice on the cake asap ?
Hi @bobcooper good question! We were actually thinking it would be a late summer sale / drop instead of a pre-order. But time is flying by and we are reevaluating some things. With all the analog circuitry in Sparks it requires pretty intense oversight / involvement from Jaak and we don’t have bandwidth to make more quite yet. We are focusing on the current Ribbons pre-order and delivering a 2.0 firmware update for that. Once we have news about more Sparks we’ll post on the forum and you should get an email.
If you’re itching for a Sparks asap there are a couple on Reverb for very close to retail price. Possibly a good move!
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Adding motion to things
Sparks is a wonderful tool to stereophonize (and give clarity) to mono pedals like Thermae, Tonal Recall
Sparks is quite more useful than just a fun noisemaker!
Just saying.
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