Experimenting with the Mesa Studio Preamp

Guys with Studio Pre experience: how gainy do they seem to be. When I've had a C+ and III, I ran both gains around 7, and it was very saturated and a lot of gain.

I just picked up a Studio Pre and am running the gains around 4 for the same type sound. It has way more gain/overdrive available than I was expecting. Cant imagine why it Mesa would think it needs that much?
 
Guys with Studio Pre experience: how gainy do they seem to be. When I've had a C+ and III, I ran both gains around 7, and it was very saturated and a lot of gain.

I just picked up a Studio Pre and am running the gains around 4 for the same type sound. It has way more gain/overdrive available than I was expecting. Cant imagine why it Mesa would think it needs that much?
For my recording I have the gain at about 5 1/2 and used a TS in front. I found the different outputs make a huge difference also.
 
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