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Just picked it up from a GC, it had obviously gigged quite a lot so it's almost beat to shit. The shell needs work, it took a spill on one of the corners and split the wood a bit, the corner bracket screw holes need filling (stripped), the plexi faceplate is a bit askew, knobs not perfectly straight spinning, stuff like that. I plan on getting a new shell made for it and keeping the original (where am I gonna find one otherwise?) because at this point it's structurally weakened. It's got EH el34's and 12ax7's, they sound good as tubes go, obviously reliable, but I feel inclined to go with Tung Sol el34's, Gold Lion 12ax7g's and a rebias. I suspect it has factory bias settings because it runs noticeably warmer than my Dual Rec (which runs a tad cold with 6l6GC's) and would be in line with my Divinity I's factory setup.
It weighs 52 lbs. I don't like lifting it at all, ever. It sounds AMAZING. Like, make you wanna punch somebody's grandma, amazing. The Edge (Gain) chans are superb for articulation but retains a saturated and almost sagging quality, giving it a perfect bite for percussive elements and fluid round tones for single notes. It doesn't shimmer like my Mesa at all but it also doesn't have the fizzy high freq drone to the upper gain settings. Comparatively the DIII growls more from the gain structure's low end and mids where the Dual Rec seems more even and "traditionally musical", for lack of a better phrase. The Madison shits all over the Rec's cleans, back and forth, up and down, over and under and leaves it in the dirt. I like a clean jazzy tone and this amp nails it in every way. The Rec does more with it's cleans stylistically and with a good rig I'm betting you could get damn close to the Divinty jazz tone but personally I'm in love with the DIII's offerings. It responds in ways that I look for, I like being able to make smaller and softer sounds within some riffs, especially acoustic arrangements where I like to shed any FX compression and the Divinity smokes the Rec for that. It's percussive with the smallest hint of top end sparkle and a round middle, it's by far my favorite thing about this amp.
Inside was clean as a whistle and I'm betting if I put the logo light on a battery and switch a bit of the hum will go out of the amp. It's not bad at all, better than most high gain amps and I easily dialed it out almost completely through my rack. It also took almost no time to dial in a viable tone, forget that on a Mesa (I've had mine for 2 years and I'm still tweaking knobs in the middle of songs.) but forget getting what the Rec is capable of from a Madison.
All in all, it's my favorite amp hands-down. I plan on using both the Mesa and the DIII live but we'll see how it all fits in with the band, I also have KT88's in my DI at home that I'd like to give some band time before I put it up for awhile again.
120 watts, reverb, fx loop, 4/8/16 ohm, extension jack, 7 pin switch with 10,000' cable, ind. eq per each of the 3 channels, high/low inputs. Awesome metal and jazz amp.
Does anyone have any info on the DIII? I have a schematic for the DI and some voltage specs but have largely come up empty on the III. Any info is appreciated, it needs a lot of TLC if I'm gonna save it going the way of the buffalo.
Just picked it up from a GC, it had obviously gigged quite a lot so it's almost beat to shit. The shell needs work, it took a spill on one of the corners and split the wood a bit, the corner bracket screw holes need filling (stripped), the plexi faceplate is a bit askew, knobs not perfectly straight spinning, stuff like that. I plan on getting a new shell made for it and keeping the original (where am I gonna find one otherwise?) because at this point it's structurally weakened. It's got EH el34's and 12ax7's, they sound good as tubes go, obviously reliable, but I feel inclined to go with Tung Sol el34's, Gold Lion 12ax7g's and a rebias. I suspect it has factory bias settings because it runs noticeably warmer than my Dual Rec (which runs a tad cold with 6l6GC's) and would be in line with my Divinity I's factory setup.
It weighs 52 lbs. I don't like lifting it at all, ever. It sounds AMAZING. Like, make you wanna punch somebody's grandma, amazing. The Edge (Gain) chans are superb for articulation but retains a saturated and almost sagging quality, giving it a perfect bite for percussive elements and fluid round tones for single notes. It doesn't shimmer like my Mesa at all but it also doesn't have the fizzy high freq drone to the upper gain settings. Comparatively the DIII growls more from the gain structure's low end and mids where the Dual Rec seems more even and "traditionally musical", for lack of a better phrase. The Madison shits all over the Rec's cleans, back and forth, up and down, over and under and leaves it in the dirt. I like a clean jazzy tone and this amp nails it in every way. The Rec does more with it's cleans stylistically and with a good rig I'm betting you could get damn close to the Divinty jazz tone but personally I'm in love with the DIII's offerings. It responds in ways that I look for, I like being able to make smaller and softer sounds within some riffs, especially acoustic arrangements where I like to shed any FX compression and the Divinity smokes the Rec for that. It's percussive with the smallest hint of top end sparkle and a round middle, it's by far my favorite thing about this amp.
Inside was clean as a whistle and I'm betting if I put the logo light on a battery and switch a bit of the hum will go out of the amp. It's not bad at all, better than most high gain amps and I easily dialed it out almost completely through my rack. It also took almost no time to dial in a viable tone, forget that on a Mesa (I've had mine for 2 years and I'm still tweaking knobs in the middle of songs.) but forget getting what the Rec is capable of from a Madison.
All in all, it's my favorite amp hands-down. I plan on using both the Mesa and the DIII live but we'll see how it all fits in with the band, I also have KT88's in my DI at home that I'd like to give some band time before I put it up for awhile again.
120 watts, reverb, fx loop, 4/8/16 ohm, extension jack, 7 pin switch with 10,000' cable, ind. eq per each of the 3 channels, high/low inputs. Awesome metal and jazz amp.
Does anyone have any info on the DIII? I have a schematic for the DI and some voltage specs but have largely come up empty on the III. Any info is appreciated, it needs a lot of TLC if I'm gonna save it going the way of the buffalo.
