the apogee's sweeet sound when its peakin' is what I want captured. and i've been VERY happy.
a few times, i've started rollin' w/o setting the gain, and I dont like it that way over turrning it back and adding more apogee gain.
another thing I could try (and will next time), is to leave it at 0db, and attenuate the output of the MMP. It has a little "output" dial, where you can add a little to the signal, or remove a lot. It still runs as hot as the LEDs signify, but the outputs are tame. The MR1 will probably like that.