ADA MP1 and MESA/BOOGIE Dual Rectifer question

[discordJF]

I own a mesa/boogie dual rectifier tube head, and I recently just bought the ada mp1 rackmount pre amp. I was wondering, since I don't own a power amp, is there any way that I can use the mp1 as my preamp and the rectifier as the power amp. I want to use the rectifier as a source of power only, not to mix with the mp1's tone. I tried running the mp1 throught the rectifier's effects loop and it didn't sound very good.

 

[James HE]

are you not happy with the Mesas tone? Are you crazy? if you dont want to use the mesas tone, then you may as well sell it and get a power amp (I think marshal makes a nice tube one) Have you tried just runnig the pre amp between guitar and amp- I'm sure that the pre amp might have a bybass founction so that you can do som a/b comparisons of sounds and to make sure that the head is set at an optimum level to react with the preamp.