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Re: Racks and Planes
« Reply #60 on: Time Format »

I still find that weird about no noise.  MP1 in all the reading I did before I got one had or has the reputation for being a noisy preamp.  And in my mind I guess that's why someone came up with the noise mod.  Sorry if this incorrect.  That's just what I had read while researching the unit that is one of the noisiest.

Anyways your doing well if you get no noise on a patch like that.  Perhaps my mains electric introduces more noise than yours who knows.

When I finally build my rack it's gonna be like Dante's and no bigger.  I don't have a truck and a bunch of roadies lol 

MP1 > ART 425dxr > Power Amp with Boss GT5 as fx and preamp on the floor

I have a GX700 like Dante's and if I ever feel like it I can use it in the rack instead of the GT5 on the floor.  Basically the same unit in rack form with it's analogue drive section and digital preamp.
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Re: Racks and Planes
« Reply #61 on: Time Format »

Well the mp-1 isn't that noisy on medium gain settings (OD's 5.0 and below).And it sounds nice,it's when you go above it comes noisy and the sound becomes muddy.

Now the best way to test how noisy your mp-1 is to pull out the guitar cable at the input.The noise you now hear is noise generated by the mp-1 it self.If you plug back in ,the additional noise you hear is comming from the cable and/or the PU's.
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Re: Racks and Planes
« Reply #62 on: Time Format »

The patch I used for Reverends Rock would have been close to:
  #   Voice OD1  OD2   M   B  M   T  P   Ch D     R
107   DT    3.8   6.5   6.5  9  2   2   4      100  0.0 (lead)
103   DT    3.8   3.4   4.5  9  6   6 10      100  0.0 (rhythm)
 IIRC I used 106 which I posted somewhere here for most of the track. 107 is a slightly louder version with shorter delay
But even with my loudest/biggest MP1 lead patch:
109   DT    8.5   8.0   8.0  4 -6   0   0      100  0.0 (which took a bit more to control  >:D ), I didn't get too much noise. BTW that was a stock (very early) unit and no mods and I think the original tubes.

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Re: Racks and Planes
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Just adding details to this as it's changed from when I last travelled.

For handiness when I played my last gig (in Germany)  I took a tiny two rack case.  In the case I got a Koch ATR 4502  and Boss GX700.  Within that I used the Ibanez TK999HT which is a high voltage Tube distortion pedal/preamp.  This went in the loop using very short patch cables and say on the top of the  2U rack case.  The TK99HT by itself is nice but I needed that extra layer so then I used a light boost from Boss GX700 analogue overdrive.  This give me the tone I was after.  Then I had an EQ pedal and Rocktron Silencer pedal run after that and back into the return of the GX700.  This was a very small setup.  Out front I used a behringer expression pedal to control the volume and also an behringer ab200 to move down patches and also to turn my boost on for solos.  I sacrificed one pedal for the boost option, so that left me with only downward patch control.  Why?  Because having control of the boost was more important than changing patches during the set.  It meant I had to at one point walk over to the rig and move back up a patch once through the entire set but for the rest of it I could switch down a patch.  Since I was using the GX700 to it's full non midi potential using only the expression pedal output and the control pedal output it only meant I could program three choices so that was my choices.

Volume, Down a patch and Boost on/off.

The boost varied from patch to patch but was always involving turning volume up a bit.  Some patches I turned Delay on, and Chorus off, other patches I just turned volume up.  Was a great setup and I can't emphasis how goo the Ibanez TK999HT is.  Very amp like, lots of tube like response, lots of harmonics.  If you ever get to try one, do so, as I think many would like it on here.    It does a lot in one box!  It also has a built in noise gate that really helps with the feedback at high volume!
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Guitars:1986 Westone Dimension IV, 1989 Korean Squier Fat Strat Silver Series, 1998 Korean Squier Fat Strat, MIM Fender Fat Strat - FR, Squier Stagemaster Deluxe - Thru Neck x 2, Squier Stagemaster 22 Fret - 1st Gen, 1999 Squier Showmaster - Anniversary Edition, Squier Showmaster, Tokai FV40 Flying V

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