$229/£210, positivegrid.com
We here at Guitar.com have been consistently impressed by Positive Grid’s many Spark offerings – the first mainline Spark showed promise, but then the brand just kept on making tiny amplifiers that sound like they’re ten times their size, all controlled by an app that actually works. These amps have drastically raised the bar for portable, battery-powered smartphone-driven practice amps – so, let’s just say it’s fairly intriguing when such a brand collaborates with none other than Steve Vai for its first signature amp.
So what do you get with the MINI Vai over a regular Spark MINI? Well, there’s that Mandala front grille design, which is rather fetching even if it does make the cube-shaped amp somewhat resemble the Hellraiserpuzzle-box. More importantly, you have all of the same modelling functionality as a …