ADA MP-1, MP-2

[jgcable]

They both have my interest. What is the story with these preamps? Are they as good as everybody says they are?

[LesPaulCustom]

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<font color="yellow">I have a MP-1, and I love it.....very Marshally, MIDI capable, 128 presets, onboard chorus if wanted.....

I'm going to have mine modded to the 3 tube model....and the noise mod.....

Plus, they are relatively cheap on E-Bay...if it wasn't "you" you could flip it for about the same as you bought it....so IMO, you can't lose. </font>

[Accept2]

Re: ADA MP-1, MP-2

I had an MP1, it had great tone, if you didnt crank the gain to high hell. It was really fucking noisy though. With a noise gate, they rule. Im thinking of going back to them....................

[markD]

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i loved the distortion but could not get a good, loud clean sound. since i need both, i dumped it. i would buy another in a minute though for recording projects because the "heaviness" is good. it sounds like adrian smith on the bruce dickinson albums.

[Tekky]

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I have the MP-2 and it is everything the MP-1 is and more. It also has a built-in variable envelope filter.

[jgcable]

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I think I am gonna pick one up. I can always turn it for the amount I paid for it if I don't like it.

[rodrigo_echeverri]

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I had an mp-1 and found it noisy like everyone here... I really liked the clean sounds... you can nail sounds like "Little fighter" with that preamp. I think combining it with a G-major you might get really nice sounds.

[GodOfRhythm]

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Didn't Becker combine an MP-1 with a G-major? What Poweramp did he run through? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

[Tetsuo]

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I have the MP-2 and it is everything the MP-1 is and more. It also has a built-in variable envelope filter.

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Also PEte who used to post here (xcreaturex) swears by the MP-2 it has more gain and seems to be better overall. He uses his with the ADA Microtube and gets an excellent death/grindcore tone out of it

The MP-1 was more popular easier to find and cheaper... A lot of peole hate the MP-2 that love the MP-1 so go figure

[YetAnotherOne]

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Also PEte who used to post here (xcreaturex) swears by the MP-2 it has more gain and seems to be better overall.

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+1 I had an MP-2, sold it, regretted it, couldn't find another one, and bought an MP-1 as a replacement. The MP-1 sounded very good but to my ears it was a bit noisier than the MP-2 and definitely doesn't have as much gain available. For you guys that are concerned about the noise, I believe the MP-1 Classic version (last one made IIRC) is somewhat quieter.

[Tekky]

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I have the MP-2 and it is everything the MP-1 is and more. It also has a built-in variable envelope filter.

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Also PEte who used to post here (xcreaturex) swears by the MP-2 it has more gain and seems to be better overall. He uses his with the ADA Microtube and gets an excellent death/grindcore tone out of it

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Sounds like my set-up, escept I don't do death/grindcore. (add an Alesis Quadraverb GT to it)

[Newc]

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I love my MP-1 and use it with a Digitech TSR12. I haven't noticed it being as noisy as folks are saying, though [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]
I keep the Input knob set about 3:00 and the Output at 9:00 - maybe that's why? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

Anyhoo, It doesn't sound that good to me by itself, so I use the built-in EQ AND the TSR's EQ to shape the sound.

And as was stated, it's very difficult to get a nice loud clean tone. I had to build my distorted patches (Volume and such) around the Clean tone.

I might put a 12AY7 or T7 in it to see if I can get a better clean, cuz it's got more than enough gain for me.

[sworn_enemy]

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Alex Skolnick used an MP-1 with a Quadraverb in front of a JCM900 during his time with Testament. He's probably using it on tour right now.

[badams]

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I have an MP-1 with a mod4MkII and noise mod done and is totally awesome. I have it going into a quadraverb and then to a JCM900, I also have in there an EQ and HUSH.
Forget getting a clean sound out of the thing, I just got another pre-amp for cleans(not another MP-1). I hook all these upto a Rocktron patchmate and I can switch anything i want off or on.

[Blondie]

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A friend of mine uses a MP1 with a TC1140 eq in front of it for great Metallica crunch (he plays in a band call Master Off Puppets)