Sovtek Mig 100

amp was made fairly recently. (brand new mail order). no high gain. ( and i hate pedals). so im going to look for either a 100h or a mig 50 for distortion/ two different channles.

no distortion. i tell you thats the only problem i have with it. the channels arent switchable and the high gain doesnt get high gain. it gets low gain (vise versa.) ill turn it up and it get minimal gain, not enough for my style. (indie rock emo metal, no i dont listen to black sabbath and sh*t. i listen to different metal) however. the clean sound is reeeally pretty and i wish i could let you hear it.

this thing is f*cking big. and heavy. like one of those things that youd drop on your foot and say to yourself wow that hurt.

ive been playing for almost 4 years now. whether or not i play as well as other people my age or not, i know a good guitar sound. this amp does it , except for the fact that theres only a clean sound.

I'll get the negative out of the way. It has plastic knobs and switches, has only one channel, and has no effects loop. It's got no reverb or chorus or any of that other junk, but i play straight new school punk, and, aside from the plastic, none of that matters AT ALL.

I use an Ibanez with HOT pickups in it and i just crank the pre volume and it sounds great. I don't use any effects or pedals, I just plug in to the high gain input and I'm ready to go. If you play punk, I'd recommend the 100h unless you have hot pickups. Although, I don't think the makers were designing this for pickups as hot as mine, because the feedback can sometimes be hell. It's awesome, it sounds warm, it's clean with full chords. If you play punk, think face to face.

Well right now, the input nut broke and the soldering came loose, so I need to get it fixed. When I do, I'm just going to have them change all the plastic junk for metal. Other than that, it's never bothered me.

i have no clue.

i shopped around for quite awhile and the only other amp i really dug was the Crate Blue Voodoo and the Peavey 5150, but they were too expensive and I knew I didn't need all those gadjits. If you are a poor punk, or even if not, get this. I got the head and cab for $550! I'm telling you, this thing is straight-forward and it rocks! The prices is awesome, too!

Basic old school 100 watt all tube amp head with 4 5881's and 12AX7's in preamp. Lo and hi inputs, controls for gain, master volume, bass, middle, treble, and presence. Made in Russia, fairly plain looking and kinda heavy (from solid wood cabinet) but much more compact than a Marshall. Mine was the original (not the "H" version) with the plastic switches. Extra coolness points for the GREEN led on /off lamp instead of the regular red glow switch.

I played this amp through my Les Paul Goldtop reissue and got a great sound with it. The design is basically modelled after an old Marshall, with the convenience of a master volume to tailor the gain more precisely. The two inputs let you go from crystal clear to dirty sound with no problems other than swapping the cable plug. Amp also works great with pedals in the clean input. Amp is dead quiet noisewise at almost any volume and the volume pot is precise enough to turn it out to apartment/small room levels if you ever needed to. Distortion was fine with my Les Paul, very touch-sensitive (think Stooges "Fun House" album). If you were using single coils or a lighter guitar you may want the "H" version with more gain.

The only complaints I had were right after I got the amp (traded it for crappy 50 watt JCM900 hi gain head I had). Within a day or so the rear plug receptacle broke and the LED light fell back into the interior of the cabinet since it was not glued in at all. This was a problem since I was about to drive back to Texas with it. Luckily I got mine from a full service store (Music Solutions in Bolingbrook, IL) with an amp-tech who was able to promptly repair it. I was considering swapping the plastic switches for metal ones too, but they didn't have the compatible type in stock. After this initial setback I had no problems. Once I even left it on for a week straight in our hot band practice/storage space (either that or one of my dumbass bandmates was using it and left it on). The amp still worked fine and even sounded better (probably cuz the tubes burned in some more). Oh yeah, these are all hand point to point wired by old Russian men in a converted aircraft factory. The amp tech at the store said all the internal wiring was white which could make tracing a bitch, but he said the wiring quality looked top notch.

N/A New Sensor is based in New York but the amps are made in Russia. I never dealt with them directly. Not sure about a warranty, all I ever got was the amp and the wiring schematic. Could be a potential hassle, try to buy from a good store with a service dept.

This is a really great amp if you want the old Marshall sound but don't wanna get in a bidding war with every other gearhead out there. I finally gave up trying to find a reasonably priced old Marshall and got this instead. I was very pleased with it but finally sold it due to space constraints from the head and Sonic 4 by 12 cabinet. (bought a US made Fender which turned out to be a piece of garbage and sold that too). If Sovtek could just improve the appearance a little (nicer vinyl, nicer knobs and switches, lose the big metal plate graphic) they would have a truly great amp. If they made a 2 by 12 combo I would buy it in a second. If you want that old school Marshall/Hiwatt sound this amp will do it for you at a very good price. The fact that a lot of big name bands (who could afford any amp) are using them should say something too.

My Sovtek mig 100 is a 95 I believe. This amp rocks and for the price. I have tried about every amp head there is and this thing blows everything away for the price. I like to play real thick chords and this amp does it with no problem. It is two channels, normal and high. I don't wish it had anything else because I like simple amps. This amp has the most power I have heard from a head. It about knocks me over when I turn it past 4.

I use a Les Paul with Duncan JB's. It suits my music style great. I just like to pummel people with guitar licks. It is a little noisy in the high gain channel but not to bad. This amp can do really nice 70 sounds, grunge, and metal. The clean channel is very clean and doesn't distort at high volumes. The distortion is pretty harsh at higher volume levels.

I have had this amp for about 3 years and it is very reliable. I have gigged with it and has never broken.

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I have been playing about 10 years and I have played through Fender, Marshall, Hughes and Kettner but nothing really compares. If it were stolen I would definitely get another one.(Maybe two) The best thing about it has the vintage sound that is hard to find plus it sounds like 200 hundred watts when you are playing through it. The only thing I would suggest to Sovtek is to make a footswitch to change normal and high gain channels. This amp rules!

I brought my Sovteck Head second hand in the mid 90's. The amp is as versatile as a single channel amp can be. There is nothing I don't do to this amp. I brought it with a sovtek eminence speaker cabinet 4x12". My amp features a green light. Apperently the russians changed the light from eiter red 2 green or green 2 red, which helps becuase if you know which way it is you can tell which amp is the newer model/design. I think the red ones are the newer amps. The features a re simple - 4,8,16Ohm speaker outputs, High and Low inputs. Presence, EQ(Trb,mdle,bas) master and volume. For a single channel amp it has enough features, although I wish i could use more than one speaker cabinet. I have both Eminence and Celestion Speaker cabs, and they're very different sounding. I can generate alot of tones out of this tank lookin thing that Im sure more conservative guitarist wouldn't...

This amp has great cleans. When I brought it I was comparing it too a Marshall JCM800. Both were second hand. The sovtek was using nuclear weapons and won convincingly. The amps high-input is a bit noisey, but this is a cheap amp. For the price this amp makes pretty much every amp company look like a joke. The low-input has enough distortion to give you that famous Marshall Crunch(Sorry I compared.) This amp is too loud, don't try and jam with your radio. You'll find you need to turn the amp up, and you can then say good-bye to the neighbours. The master is very sensitive. I've played out and in and my sovtek has never gone passed 2. TRUE! - Some of the tones are probably unique. The presence and midrange work together to help you shape your distortion. If you turn the presence to 10 and mid to 0 you get a great wierd, but difined distortion. This tends not to work on other amps for some reason. I am playing the amp with a Gibson Nighthawk (SeeMyReview). Therefore both single coil and humbucker sounds. The amp delivers with slave labour PRIDE! - I can tell you now that I you record with the amp and release a platnum record -> Wow! thats a great Marshall sound, or it fender? hmmmm? - This amp rocks and looks like a tank!

I dropped the amp once. Broke the high-input. Nothing some supa-glu didn't fix - Luckily. Next time i'll drop it without a plug still in it, and I'll know she's gonna be fine. This amp is heavy, This amp is big, This amp can take it no matter how you give it. We'd all be part of Russia if it wasn't for that Lennon thing(Communism!). I still haven't replaced the tubes, and for all I know the amp could be a decade old. YeaHa!

Never needed any. Does the work 'Tank' mean anything?

Overall rating...hmmmm.....These amps are good, with tweaking, great. And no -> "Ohh I can't get the low end I want..." This amp has it all - for some reason you just can't say that becuase it works on all sides of the glode if you know what I mean. This amp has made me turn against Marshall completey ->think about it Marshall are a joke. THIS IS THE AMP FOR CHEAP PPL THAT WILL SOON FIND THEY WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER AMP AGAIN.

Basic, loud, single channel tube amp with one high and one low input. With the high input there's just enough gain to distort the preamp a decent amount. Not great distortion by itself but it helps tame the output stage distortion when you crank the master. The 100-watt rating is for real.

Kind of a one sound amp, "grunge" I guess you'd call it. I didn't exactly fall in love with the sound as the power-tube distortion is too bright and buzzy for my taste, not very rich. Only certain settings of the controls work: bass=0, preamp=7-10, master=5-6. Too much bass or master and it sounds "farty". The 5881's don't help either in this amp as they make it sound even more harsh.

The jacks are plastic and that hurts the rating right there. I bought it used and two of the plastic nuts were cracked. The input jacks needed cleaning: until I did that it was making intermittant crackling and whistling sounds. The jacks would have to be replaced with metal ones for serious use. I had it apart for extensive modding so I can say the rest of it is pretty solid and the output tubes don't run under serious stress. Fix the jacks and I'd give it an 8.

See my review of the Mig 60.

I fix up guitar amps as a hobby so despite my unfriendly review I was able to rewire the thing to the point where I now love the sound. For anyone who's interested, I can email details. Naturally if I didn't have the skills to pull this off I would have sent the thing back.