Voodoo Amps ADA MP-1 Mod

version 2.01 MP-1 not sure of the year. It's an MP-1 it's WAY versatile. I play commercial hard rock and it fits great for that. This is just a preamp so I run it with a Mosvalve 1160 stereo power amp. I've used it for rehearsal, live before the Mod. Most of you looking at this already know what the MP-1 does so I won't bother with it's features.

My main guitars are a '70 LP Standard with an EMG 85 and an early 80's Kramer Pacer with an early Baretta neck and an EMG 81. Again, it's fits the hard rock stuff like a glove. It is LESS noisy after the Mod, one of the features I was interested in! You can program it from pretty chimey cleans to unholy crunch! I think the clean distorts a little at the higher volumes but consider the pickups I'm using. The crunch is nice and crunchy.

I have never had any problems with my MP-1's and do gig without a backup. Trace at Voodoo stands completely behind his work, so I have no fears!

Here's where a 10 isn't good enough! If you haven't talked with Trace and just read some of the reviews, you'd swear we all work for him! I'm in Ca, he's in NY, so everything was handled through emails & phone calls. That being said, he really is as COOL as all the reviews say. He wants you to be HAPPY with your tone! I'm not sure how long he warranties his work, but he always said, if there's ANY problems let me know.

I've been playing for 15 years, have owned just about everything, changing gear like underwear. If it was lost, no biggie. I plan to send a 100 watt head to Trace to have it " tweaked ", the MP-1 was more of an experiment. Again, it's an MP-1, it had good tone, Trace made it better! It was finally nice to meet a tech who could talk to you normally and made you feel like a priority.

Most know all the features of the mp1.

I sent the mp1 to trace to have him add somemore gain & tighten up the bottom end some.The original ada was known for haveing a hotroded marshall tone, which I guess is why they were so popular at one time.I felt as a stand alone unit they fell just a little short as far as gain and fullness went.(kinda thin)
After Trace`s modification I have to say it sounds 137% better than before.To me it sounds like a jcm 800 with quite a bit more gain.It is much fuller than before with a good thick tubey distortion.It can now do some good heavy sounds.(priest,hammerfall,maiden,ect.)Which is what I was more after.
It is just shy of the superthick bottom mid-scooped thing.You know ,the palm mutes that burst blood vessels.I believe he could have took it there, but the unit had no space for an additional tube.Make no mistake though, he did squezze a bunch more gain out of it than before.The cleans sound rich & harmonically balanced also.
For me it fills that missing marshall void.Perhaps the amp they should have made?
If you have an mp1 & like it send it to Trace.You will like it more when it returns.

Trace is very professional & a cool dude too.I had been stringing him along for a year or so, claiming I would soon send him something to mod for me.He always answered my emails & was a gentleman thruout.When I finally did send something I was kept up to date & it was back to me in a week.And he followed up to see how I liked it as well.Thats good service!!
Trace I will soon be sending you all kinds of older tube preamps to see what you can do w/ them.

$165.00 to make the mp1 kick tail...Can`t beat that!I`ve owned a bunch of stuff over the last 20 years of playing.This modded mp1 fills a place of its own.If they had sounded this good at first maybe they would still be in buisness