So I tried the stock MP1 I own out on my live rig yesterday.
It was a lot better than the first time. This has a lot to do with the arrangement of my cabinets in my practice room. Regardless, I have them in a better arrangement and coupling is not an issue anymore!! The first time I used the MP1 with my setup I got nothing but feedback.
This time was a better story
However finessing will be required
So yesterday I hooked it up into my Boss GT5 loop. This worked great (so bizarre it never worked before without crazy issues).
The patch I was using was for my more non thrashy sounding numbers, the more regular heavy metal songs. I think my patch was:
od1: 7.5
od2:6.5 (this was 7.5 but I was getting too much bass and the bass was already -6 so I lowered this and increased bass on the EQ to -2)
Master: 5
Bass: -2
Mid: -6
Treble: 4 (this may have been 6 at one point and I lowered it)
Presence: 8
The results I liked. I will play about over the next few weeks. Issues I encountered were too much bass and mids. I felt like I was having to make massive cuts. I wanted to cut the mids more but one more step down to -8 suddenly was way to much.
What I would like to achieve over the next few weeks:
To get a thashier sound - I'm not sure I can do this on the mp1 by itself. I have boosts at my disposal so I'm going to employ them starting with an analogue overdrive module on my GT5. I give it whirl yesterday but I got feedback that was a little too wild. Tinkering may solve the issue. I can also just add a clean boost.
To get make use of an EQ with the MP1: I found the onboard EQ with my setup very limiting, perhaps I can add more detailed EQ using the GT5 parametric EQ.
All in all I thought it went well. It was nice to get using it in a non di recording environment. Hopefully this is the start of the MP1 becoming a full time member of my squad