[courtney2018]

Originally Posted by The Trooper

I've had several MP-1's. I say leave it stock and work on your EQ. They sound great as-is, and I highly doubt anyone needs more gain that thing puts out. Pair it with a good power amp and you're set.

I don't really need a power amp. I'm only going to be using this to record with so it'll have plenty of power for what I'm wanting to do.

Does the stock version have a bit of chimey-ness to it's tone? I'd like for my cleans to sound that way and I'd like to be able to go from a Satriani-like low gain blues tone to plenty of distortion. I'm not talking about infinite gain, death metal distortion. I can always boost it with one of my many pedals I got lying around. Just a nice hard distortion.

I'll see what it sounds like when it comes in. It'll be here Monday. I just thought about getting it modded to make it "better". I knew that Voodoo modded lots of MP-1s back in the day for alot of the big name players like Gilbert, Vai, etc., so naturally that got my attention. It's $400, but if I can get the same thing for half and do it myself I'll go that route.

But that's essentially what I'm after - a clean that's chimey, and distortion that'll go from a chimey blues overdrive sound to a good crunch.