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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
« Reply #105 on: Time Format »

You can check out how he's got it set up in this video, sorry I don't know how to embed YouTube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IumKMyLDGns
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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sounds like a boosted ada.

isn't a rat more of a distortion pedal than an overdrive?
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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isn't a rat more of a distortion pedal than an overdrive?

As far as I know, yeah.  I was never a fan of distortion/od pedals and have rarely had the need to use them unless I was playing through someone else's rig.  I think I played one through an old Plexi once? :dunno:
I came of age in an era where high gain heads (Engl, Mesa, 5150) were commonplace, so I thought it kind of redundant to have any pedals on top of that.  I play with another guitar player, so my stock MP1 usually gives me what I need.  I can see why Lynch would want to use the Rat to boost since he likes a little more "hair" in his sound.  When I saw him last year he was playing a borrowed JMP with a distortion pedal.  It was...bright.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Most O.D. pedals have a tone control that just doesn't work for me. Tone 100% and the bass and mids suffer. Tone 70% and the high end suffers. Now it needs an equalizer to rebalance. I have yet to find one that doesn't mess with the tone.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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I tryed to boost the ADA with a boss DS-1 and it sounded like crap.

The rat can work as a booster, overdrive, distortion and fuzz. That's an awesome pedal :). Also, the filter control do not work like standard dist and od pedal... When you turn it clockwise, treble gets rolled off.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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just tried boosting with my rack tube driver to ada mp1.

sounds pretty awesome.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Chamal, dumb question; did you place the Tube Driver before, or after your MP1?  I got an ART SGE Mach II coming in the mail and I was going to mess around with its analogue distortion, but I wasn't sure where to put it in the chain since it's primarily going to be used for pitch shifting and MAYBE a boost.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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goes before the mp1.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Just bringng this one up again as I bit the bullet and bought a little treble boost.  It sounds pretty good I have to say.  It can be noisey with a power supply and too high a setting, but it actually sounds pretty good.  I wouldn't describe it a having a wha pedal stuck in one spot.  The pedal I bought is supposedly based on the Dallas Rangemaster which Judas Priest and many others are famous for using.  I couldn't honestly say if it sounds like it or not since I have never owned or used an original Rangemaster.  But just for the record, it seem to work real well boosting an MP1 into a lot heavier distortion, livens it up a bit also.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Might post a little sample of the tone later on since it's the first MP1 stuff I've done in a long time.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Yes Gerry,

That would be interesting to hear.

Me, I have always wished that I could get more bass lower end out from my MP-1 (3TM) without having to use a graphic EQ or anything like that.

I have done the mods as per MJMP has said and also added in the 'Bass Warp' trimmer pot as described in the 3.666 schematic mod in the 'schematics vault' section here on the forum.

I have also changed out U17 and installed an LME49740NA to see if that would improve things, but nah.  It would be nice though to get more bottom end.

Yes please do post a sound clip Gerry, I would like to hear that please.




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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Have you tried the bass trimpot on the 3TM itself?
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Have you tried the bass trimpot on the 3TM itself?

Yes MJMP, I have it maxed and also the Bass Warp, Just trying to get a little more bass.

I was thinking, would changing the Bass Warp pot up to about 20K or higher, or else keeping it at 10K and changing cap C82 up to around 330nF make much of a difference on that section of the tone stack to get more lower end bass boost?

It looks ok on pencil to paper for the lower cut frequency, 160Hz is a little high for me.

I think possibly trying to get it down to about 60-ish Hz for better dropped D guitar sound might work out by changing one of those components.

what do you reckon ?

Sorry for hijacking and de-railing this thread folks, maybe I should start a new thread over in schematics and modifications.
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
« Reply #118 on: Time Format »

That's weird, low end on all my MP1's is not an issue.  In fact it has way more than it needs.  The MP1 I am currently using with the boost is my MP1 MDRT/Noise mod version.  Aint used the 3TM in a while and it has enough low end and I've never touched a thing on it other than the tubes.

What is your setup Rusty?  Into a power amp into a cab?
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Re: Anyone here boost their ADA MP1?
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Hello RG,

Yea im using good enough gear, I think,

A Marshall valve state 8008 power amp, 80W-80W,
Then a Peavey stereo 2X12 with Jensen Modern 70W speakers.
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