waltdogg wrote:by story, i meant their literal history to you.
Not much of a history. Got the MIG50 a decade ago? Bought it at a retail store for $1k NZD on the recommendation of a friend that it was a good deal. Recently I discovered that it was way too much money. (I did a search on my local guitar forum recently to gauge the price on the NZ market - found a thread from 10 years ago talking about the exact amp I bought saying the price was "preposterous").
Anyway, I was happy with it and still am. Ignorance was bliss at the time re:price, and it's probably climbed a little bit since then anyway. It was my first tube amp, so was a nice upgrade from my shitty Ashton practice amp. I really liked the clean sound, and it worked really really well with my Vox Big Ben Overdrive, which was the only dirt pedal I had at the time - got good metal toans from it. Anyway, I paired the amp with a legacy 2x12 with celestions, which I plan to keep and use with the next amp I get.
The only issue I had with the mig50 was that it would randomly pop sometimes when going to standby - even though I followed proper procedure every time. My mate said that "I wasn't doing it right", and even though I was, since he was a much more knowledgeable guitarist I was stupid enough to believe him. I've literally never had that problem with any other amp. My mig100 goes to standby quietly 100% of the time. I think the issue with the mig50 that the volume isn't completely zero when at its lowest knob position. I've been meaning to get it fixed, but the nearest amp doctor is ages away, and I avoid driving even short distances in this city like the fucking plague.
Oh, had one other issue actually. Dirty pot. Got it fixed though.
I bought the MIG100 on the second-hand market about 2 years later for $1k NZD. It was a pretty good deal I think? Being that it came with a 4x12 cab. Although it was a random cab that I never was told or bothered to find out what the speakers were - only that it was a "Sovtek 4x12 cab". I doubt it's worth that much or that they're the greatest speakers. I never really used it all that much though - my band broke up rather messily not that long afterwards, and didn't play guitar for several years, until just recently.
Now they're going to be replaced because they're the bottleneck in my current setup. Got a really nice guitar. Nice pedals. Modest amp. Seems like a backwards way to do things. Would be better with modest pedals and a really nice amp.
