mig in combat

[darryl2113]

Finally got to break out the sovtek mig through my 5150 cab(with vintage 30's) live. my band The Rainy Saturdays played a show last friday and even though I know better than to turn a 100 watt jcm 800 clone up to 10 in a small bar with innocent people in the room, I couldn't resist the urge to J Mascis it up on our 2nd from last song. As loud as it was, I couldn't really get my sodameiser to cut through at all, it seemed so loud during practice but when it came time to play I had to fall back on my ram's head muff for what I normally used the SM for.....hopefully if and when I get a hiwatt 103 clone to run alongside my mig it will cut through a little better. It might have been more my fault than anything, I couldn't get my pedal chain to work right before we started playing....it was one of those things where I was still fucking with it when I hear the drummer count off the first song and I just have to start playing and hope it works out.

[Ghost Hip]

Thats interesting, though I was using a solid state fender, when I cranked the amp louder the Soda Meiser lost all of its character. I had to put my guitar into the second input of the amp to get it back to normal.

[Antero]

What I've found with the SM is that it cuts when the amp has headroom left. The sound is very bassy, so it needs somewhere to go in order to cut through a band. If you were cranked up to 10 the amp's power section was already compressing, so dropping the SM in there just added distortion, cut the highs, and compressed the preamp a bit further - that's not going to cut through proper.

[darryl2113]

yes, lack of headroom was ultimately the problem. the muff cut through so much better because of the TONE control, so when the amp gets muddy I can dial out the mud in the muff and have the amp pushed in the upper midrange registers. If only the SM had a tone knob

[sev]

If only the SM had a tone knob

What it could maybe use is a mid flattener knob, like the Swollen Pickle reissue has.