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Chip Roberts:
Anyone have any experiences with this amp?  It's been on my watch list ever since I found out Vinnie Vincent "used" them.  I saw one for sale here in a pawn shop I was thinking of taking a look at as a potential power amp to complement my MP1.  Thoughts?

Dante:
I've never tried one. I would just try pluggin directly into that thing at the shop. If you get a good clean tone, and the price is right, you should be fine.

I used to run my MP-1 into an old Carvin X100b head and it sounded great. It had a great clean tone. Shoulda seen the guys face when I tried it out. I turned the gain all the way down & he said "that's gonna be way too clean" haha. He didn't know I'd be plugging a preamp into it. Later, I got a B200s & have been rack mount every since

rnolan:
Hey Chip, should work fine as a MP-1 poweramp (albeit mono).  You may be able to plug the MP-1 into the Fx return and bypass the input stages  :dunno: .

Chip Roberts:
Thanks dudes.  It's part of my ludicrous bucket list of owning the amp heads that Vinnie Vincent used.  I am also curious to hear how a tube power amp affects the sound of my rig.  The other day I plugged into a Fender combo and it sounded pretty much exactly the same  :dunno:  We were in a different rehearsal space, so next time I'll try plugging it through the power section of the Marshall JVM they have as the backline.  I've read it's pretty much identical as the JCM800.

rnolan:
Hey Chip, it will depend on the poweramp.  Some power amp stages are very clean and transparent (in which case you may just notice tubes are a "little" warmer eg Carvin TS100), others colour the sound eg Boogie.  Also with tube poweramps you can chase output distortion (some like it) by driving the power tubes hard.  This involves volume ir tun the power amp up full and drive it hard..  I'd try using both the Fender and Marshall at the same time and run stereo  >:D .

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