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Actually John modified the first two channels of one of my M-1 for 15 dB less gain, so I could use a Schoeps (hi gain mic) with it and the SM91 on the kick. Great stuff.
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Michael - I've told the story many times about your M-1 preamp and how you sent it back to me when you had some free time (back in 1987), so I could make some production tweaks to it, and, at your request, to install a 15dB pad on channel #1 (or maybe it was #1 and #2). The way I tell it, this would be your "point-blank" channel, the one that you would use for a Marshall speaker stack with a mic right up against the grill cloth with the amp running full-tilt.
A year or two later I visited you at a southern California studio (Amigo?) while you happened to be recording some guitar solo overdubs. The guitarist and his guitar were (very wisely) in the control room, while his Marshall stack (or whatever it was) was in the studio. Your M-1 was taped on top of the meter bridge of the console. From the moment the solo started until it was over, all four meters of the M-1 went to the exact same level and stayed there, thanks to the guitar amp being pushed to the absolute limits of its power and acting as a limiter of sorts. Channel #1 of the M-1 had the point-blank mic, the other three channels had various room mics.
Well, that's vaguely how I remember it. Let me know if I missed anything! Thanks for all the compliments.
John Hardy
The John Hardy Co.
www.johnhardyco.com