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MB-1 for guitar? Oh yeah..

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vansinn:
Over the years I never really hooked guitars to my MB-1, other than for some brief testing.
Just did some more extensive testing, and what a most cool guitar processor it is!
While distortion isn't up to Big Hair Metal standards, the cleans, crisps and crunches has some serious powwow.
The compressor, being post-preamp, works very different than in i.e. the MP-2; it keeps the sound solid without sounding squashed.
And the chorus has an interesting ability to have a ringing effect to it, almost small reverb sound-alike.

It makes my old Dan Armstrong, modded with MightMite Motherbucker and ToM/tail, stand out like cut from a solid sonic wall.
Going to hook it up to a Digitech TSR-24S or Lexicon Vortex for having that proverbial Simple Minds cutting-through rhythm-sync'd multitab delay sound.

rnolan:
Hey Van, when my my MB1s' arrived I had a brief play with a guitar through one of them and was quite impressed for cleans. I never got back to using guitar again yet as I bought the bass and that has been keeping me entertained.

Any pics of this Dan Armstrong ?  Haven't seen much of them since I was quite young.

Peter H. Boer:
 :thumb-up: :thumb-up:

rnolan:
Actually, I have to say the MB-1 is a very underrated preamp (well not with Peter LoL, or now me BTW), it was way ahead of its time and still holds its own easily among the bass offerings.  I was checking out a video on the Bergantino B|Amp yesterday, (http://bergantino.com/product/bamp-bass-instrument-amplifier/), apart from the built in power amp, the MB-1 had it all covered plus more (and better) years ago.

Harley Hexxe:
   The MB-1 is everything to bass guitar that the MP-1 is to lead guitar. I still have one, and have no plans to sell it because I'm shopping around for a bass guitar to have on hand for my recordings here at home. It's probably not going to be any kind of top of the line name brand, and I'm undecided about a 4 or 5 string bass, but when I get one, at least I'll have the MB-1 to plug it into.
   The only issue at that time will be what kind of poweramp and speakers to hook it up with, since all the ADA gear seems to have a home with other bass players by now.

     Harley 8)

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