Scooter Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 I want to get a quality single-spaced rack preamp. Built-in effects not needed. Good clean, great high-gain a must! Sansamp PSA? Rocktron? H&K? Who's got an opinion for me?
kurtsstuff Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 Marshall JMP-1.....good stuff and the speaker simulated direct outs are killer for going direct to the board..
Scooter Posted November 5, 2006 Author Posted November 5, 2006 Marshall JMP-1.....good stuff and the speaker simulated direct outs are killer for going direct to the board..Rumor has it, the JMP-1 is severly lacking in the clean department.
kurtsstuff Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 Not the best clean but...a little finesse and it does pretty good...Tune that comes to mind that we used to do and needed a clean tone for a bit was "Alone Again" by Dokken and I was always happy with the results..
Scooter Posted November 5, 2006 Author Posted November 5, 2006 Kurt, You ever try the Sansamp PSA-1? Or a Rocktron Piranha? Or a H&K Tubeman?
santellavision Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 I've owned two PSA-1's. I never thought they sounded that good. I bought the 2nd one off a friend to see if I was just missing something, but I hated it too. I have this jones for searching out the holy grail in direct recording units. I've tried most of them: Pods, SansAmps, Mesa, Behringer, Marshall, V-Stack, Native Instruments, Digitech, Rocktron and more. (I know, its a sickness.) The ones that I found to be keepers, and I still own are a Digitech 2101 - Huge, fat and warm with a NOS 12AX7 in it. I tried the later 2112 and it wasn't as good.Art PowerPlant - Only does one good sound, but it's a dead-on Plexi Marshall tone. Native Instruments Guitar Rig2 - Cool, with tons of great tones, but requires a powerful computer.And my newest favorite is the Vox Tonelab. This is a real sleeper! The AC-30 Brian May patch is worth the price alone! $299 at MF.
kurtsstuff Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 Kurt, You ever try the Sansamp PSA-1? Or a Rocktron Piranha? Or a H&K Tubeman? yep...all of them.....always went back to the JMP-1...speaking of H&K....The Axcess preamp kicks ass too but hard to find and wished I still had mine. They also made the Attax preamp for a short time and they are pretty good as well but...no midi switching unless you have the I think called MS1 switching module which will cost you as much as the preamp should you happen to find one?
Lockbody Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 Triaxis. All tube. Dead simple to program. Sounds great for clean and distorted sounds. You must like "that boogie sound". Not so great direct.
Scooter Posted November 5, 2006 Author Posted November 5, 2006 Would any of these preamps sound decent running through a solid state power amp?On a side note, the JMP-1 and the like intimidate me because of a lack of knobs. I have no clue what all those little buttons do. I think I'd prefer a simpler preamp. After all, it would be used as a backup, and as such, I wouldn't spend much time "learning" it. Midi is NOT an issue.
murkat Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 " the JMP-1 and the like intimidate me because of a lack of knobs. I have no clue what all those little buttons do"it is easy'r than picking your nose. push a button, turn the command knob, watch the value go up or down. next button, repeat, hit store twice, yur done. very easy.
Hamer95USA Posted November 5, 2006 Posted November 5, 2006 Hey scooter, I have and use my modded ADA MP-1 preamps. I have 2 ADA Depot 3TM mod MP-1 preamp and a Mod4 MarkII MP-1 preamp. I bought one of my ADA Depot 3TM modded MP-1 preamp from Kurtsstuff over a year ago and that's a badass preamp. The solid state cleans nails JC-120 tones, the clean tube becomes a lower gain overdrive channel, and the distorted tube channel becomes hot rodded Marshall tone. The 3TM modded MP-1 preamps are commanding high prices ($400 and up) due to their killer tone and rarity. The guy that modded mine is not doing mods in the U.S. for awhile. If you want a 3TM mod, you'll have to send your stock MP-1 to Europe Guitar George
RacerX Posted November 6, 2006 Posted November 6, 2006 +1 on the ADA MP1 I have a stock one that I got from someone here (I don't remember who....having a senior moment) which I really like. The cleans are nice, get's the 80s rawk tone just right. I even have a patch that hits an ac-dc/Nugent type tone really well. Stock it won't do do the rectumfire/xxx type of gain, think more hot rod Marshall flavor. A bbe sonic maximizer really helps the tone on these. Plus that combo sounds great at home jamming levels. I'd like to try one of the 3tm MP1's one of these days, you can never have too much gain in my book! Mark.
Scooter Posted November 6, 2006 Author Posted November 6, 2006 Thanks for the tips everyone. My search is over (for now).I went with an Engl e530.
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