The band Chavez apparently used cranked Mig 50s plus cheap distortion pedals to get their guitar sound.

Hey guys, I just bought a MIG-60 to play alongside my Rockerverb 100. I’m running both amps through my Furman power board with: digitech livewire chorus and delay, a TS-9, a crybaby and EHX’s 2880. I still want to add a fuzzface and maybe another delay… I’d guess you guys would suggest a DMM. I’m in love with the MIG. No frills warm sound with great headroom for a 60 watt amp. It is rather noisy when you just let it idle, but that’s just more reason to keep playing, eh?

It complements the Orange beautifully. I play in a trio and i really wanted more guitar sound, like you hear in most four piece rock groups. It works perfectly to use the Rockerverb as a “lead” amp. It has that dirty channel that the MIG just can’t really touch without a few boosts and some compression, and its actually nice to hit that channel switch and have the Orange screaming and the MIG chugging along behind in perfect synchrony. HUGE sound, without the blistering rectifiers. Throw in the 2880 and it’s almost too much power. I’ve been trying to get some heavily effected sound out of my rig while staying rooted in guitar work rather than moving toward the shoe-gazer side of things, but its becoming harder and harder…

I do have some actual questions, and i haven’t checked anywhere else on the site so pardon me if they’re newb things…

First, does anyone know where i can get a Sovtek nameplate for my MIG? I googled and ebayed and can’t seem to come up with anything.

Secondly, i was wondering if anyone knew how to rig an A/B switch for my amps. Its nice to have the MIG backing up the Rockerverb most of the time, but there are times that i’ll need it to be quiet (or as quiet as can be). I was looking into some Keeley “loopers” and i think i could get a few of those to do the trick, but i’m worried about the safety of my full tube babies. Would a signal-less 1/4″ plugged into an amp that’s not on standby cause issues? I’d think not, but i’d rather not make a costly mistake. I was thinking i’d have a looper on the final 1/4″ out to each of the amps and have one of the looper’s channels go to the amp, and the other disconnected. So when i hit the looper it basically cuts the signal to the respective amp. Sounds like it could be bad for my amp’s health. Help?

How could i verify that?

I think i figured out the A/B switch too. Homebrew electronics’ Bychn Swychn ABC. Use the A/B for the MIG on/off and the C for the Rockerverb, assuming it’s not harmful to the amps.

And is there some reason that the 2880 isn’t on proguitarshop.com? Under the loop section there’s the DMM but not the 2880… and its so much more powerful and hi-fi than the BOSS and Digi-crap. I’d be pissed if i ordered an RC-50 from what i thought was a cutting-edge shop and found the 2880 shortly thereafter.

Hello people!

Now, I’m updating my MiG 100 H. I had another plans but I noticed last day after a rehearsal break that two valve sockets made the tubes turn to “burnin’ red”. So I stopped to avoid any damage and took the head to my amp tech.

Now it’s time to change and make the beast growl more than before. I’m gonna use a quartet of KT66 tubes for power amp section (instead of “standard” 6L6 type), and keeping the usual 12AX7 triad for preamp section.

With this update, I’ll keep the original “Sovtek” mood but with more punch and bottom. What I like a lot of MiG 100H amp is its dynamic playing response – if you play softly, it whispers but when you hit the strings, it sounds really heavy)

For the next days, I hope I’ll get the tubes and begin the process… the MiG 100H will be back soon at full throttle!

Regards from Spain

Ignacio

I’ve got the amp ready to use. Finally the set is: Two KT-66 type JJ Electronics for power amp and three 12AX7/ECC83 type also from JJ Electronics.

The reason for using only two power amps instead the full-quartet is that there was not space enough bewteen valve sockets. KT-66’s are too big (huge diameter) and that would imply that tubes are touching with each other. So, the two were put on outer sockets leaving middle ones empty. The remainder of the quartet is for replacement.

The preamp stage tubes are not equal 12AX7: One is a “balanced” one, the second is a V1-type and the third is a standard value 12AX7. Each one has different gain values, so as you give more drive to preamp they crunch harder, but clean when set at low values.

This has “turned” (theoretically) the amp from 100 watt to 50 watt, but the character of MiG 100 H remains intact. I mean, the amp can be cranked a bit more (which you can do with a lower watt amp) but keeps the clean and huge headroom of a 100 watt tube amp. Of course, with the original 4 x 12″ Sovtek cab.

The effects, as played through the amp have a more “ballsy” sound.

I’ve changed a bit my EQ setting: While before I used to put Presence and EQ knobs to noon (5), now I’ve set Presence and Middle knobs to 6, keeping the rest intact.

I plug guitar to High input with Master set to 3, and Volume (preamp drive) to 2-2’5 depending of the guitar I use.

Long live to MiG 100!

I still have two more MiG 100 heads (regular model) to be “updated”. Once I make the changes, I’ll write my next chapter for MiG 100 chronicles.

Regards

Nacho

No one? I guess there isn’t much interested here about Sovtek amps.