Spark Booster vs MojoMojo

[Supernaut]

I'm looking at getting a TC MojoMojo (anyone selling?) and would like to get an idea of how big the gain jump is from the Spark Booster to the Mojo. 

 

TLDR: How much more gain does the Mojo have over the Spark Booster? 

[tayste_2000]

Think of it as spark at 12 o clock is the mojo at 9 o clock 

 

There was a tonal difference though which I didn’t expect, I love the mojo but the spark was really boring and flat sounding.

 

 

[baldwinbass]

On 12/02/2025 at 13:21, tayste_2000 said:

spark was really boring and flat sounding

This 👆

[Supernaut]

Don't understand the Spark hate? It's supposed to be neutral sounding? 

[MartinB]

Did somebody say "graphs"? No? Well you're getting them anyway, because I happen to have both pedals to hand.

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 0% / Bass & Treble 50%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 0% / Bass & Treble 50%

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 100% / Bass & Treble 50%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 100% / Bass & Treble 50%

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 0% / Bass & Treble 100%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 0% / Bass & Treble 100%

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 100% / Bass & Treble 100%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 100% / Bass & Treble 100%

 

The MojoMojo is inherently dark-sounding, and cranking the highs is only going to get you close to flat at best. It gets a bit more mid-focused than the Spark as you increase the gain. I'll see if I can get some sound samples later.

Edit: Apologies to anyone with colourblindess - I should have picked something other than red/green. Basically, whichever line has less treble is always the MojoMojo

Edited Monday at 19:05 by MartinB

[MartinB]

Different modes on the Spark @ Gain 50% / Bass & Treble 50%

Blue: Fat

Purple: Clean

Yellow: Mid

Edited Monday at 19:06 by MartinB

[neepheid]

I don't have any experience with the Spark, but as a former owner of the Mojomojo, I say it's a great OD pedal, very useable on bass despite its billing as a "guitar" pedal.  I had it as my main OD for years and only changed because of pedalboard consolidation (got a Joyo Monomyth which combines OD, EQ and DI in one package).

[Jack]

53 minutes ago, MartinB said:

Did somebody say "graphs"? No? Well you're getting them anyway, because I happen to have both pedals to hand.

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 0% / Bass & Treble 50%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 0% / Bass & Treble 50%

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 100% / Bass & Treble 50%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 100% / Bass & Treble 50%

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 0% / Bass & Treble 100%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 0% / Bass & Treble 100%

 

Green: Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 100% / Bass & Treble 100%
Red: MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 100% / Bass & Treble 100%

 

The MojoMojo is inherently dark-sounding, and cranking the highs is only going to get you close to flat at best. It gets a bit more mid-focused than the Spark as you increase the gain. I'll see if I can get some sound samples later.

Edit: Apologies to anyone with colourblindess - I should have picked something other than red/green. Basically, whichever line has less treble is always the MojoMojo

You seem like the person to ask for this, what does the voice switch do? The manual seems wrong. 

[MartinB]

3 minutes ago, Jack said:

what does the voice switch do?

 

Very little 🤣

I have an old image from when I looked into this a while back. Dark green is voice switch "up", light green is "down":

 

So something like a 1.5dB boost centred around 80-100Hz. You can barely hear the difference.

 

[dannybuoy]

Nice work with the graphs! I prefer the Spark.

[MartinB]

Dry recording (no pedal):

 

Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 100%:

 

 

MojoMojo / Drive 0%:

 

 

MojoMojo / Drive 50%:

 

 

MojoMojo / Drive 100%:

 

 

[tayste_2000]

7 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Don't understand the Spark hate? It's supposed to be neutral sounding? 

No hate, was just surprised at the tonal differences as I was just expecting a lower gain pedal.

 

its worth mentioning for the OP because the mojo is cheaper (second hand) and if your favour that flavour it’s a no brainer.

[Rollin Thunder]

On 17/02/2025 at 20:47, MartinB said:

Dry recording (no pedal):

 

 

Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 100%:

 

 

MojoMojo / Drive 0%:

 

 

MojoMojo / Drive 50%:

 

 

MojoMojo / Drive 100%:

 

 

Spark at 100% and Mojo at 50% both sound great, mojo at 25-30% i reckon would sound the best

[tayste_2000]

11 minutes ago, Rollin Thunder said:

Spark at 100% and Mojo at 50% both sound great, mojo at 25-30% i reckon would sound the best

That’s how I would run it.

 

That was why I got the spark to try and get more range in the 25/50 range of the mojo. But as we see in the graphs, they sound different 

[MartinB]

The Spark at 100% Gain and the MojoMojo at 25-30% Drive sound pretty close, if you tweak the EQ on the MojoMojo a bit. The Spark is slightly less compressed.

Spark / Mode "Clean" / Gain 5:00 (max) / Bass & Treble 12:00 (flat)

 

 

MojoMojo / Voice "Up" / Drive 10:30 / Bass 1:00 / Treble 4:15

 

Spark (settings as above)

 

MojoMojo (settings as above)

 

[MartinB]

If you approach it the other way around, flat EQ on the MojoMojo at 25-50% Drive is roughly equivalent to Bass 11:00, Treble 8:30 on the Spark at 100% Gain. It's not quite as close this way - the MojoMojo has a little more going on between 500Hz-3kHz, and a little less > 3kHz.

Edited Wednesday at 23:13 by MartinB

[tayste_2000]

35 minutes ago, MartinB said:

If you approach it the other way around, flat EQ on the MojoMojo at 25-50% Drive is roughly equivalent to Bass 11:00, Treble 8:30 on the Spark at 100% Gain. It's not quite as close this way - the MojoMojo has a little more going on between 500Hz-3kHz, and a little less > 3kHz.

My problem is I’d go to my default amp settings so bass at 2-3o clock and treble at 9-10o clock.

 

Becomes a very different gain structure then 😅

 

I should really have one of these sat around