I had a few posts up here a while back...not about to dicide on what amp I wanted to get....I tried a bunch of diffrent amps, JSX, HD-147, XXX, 5150, 6105, Mesa Tripple and Mesa Double, just to name a few....Then TOTALLY on luck I decided to go with this amp that I had never played or heard of before....OMFG! This amp is Killer,.,...The tones are nice thick, Heavy and at the same time....very Clear as far as the notes go....I have yet to find a tone that I cannot get with this and the BBE Sonic Maximizer that i have running in the Effects Loop.....Just a word to all of those who have heard of the amp and never got any word on how it perfoms....Dude....Its one of the best amps I have ever heard....They did Take out the contour controls because they said that it was causing some issues with the tone at huge volumes. Below is a pic of me with my new baby!!!! I LOVE MY MADISON DIVINITY! The cab is a MAG-412 with symphony speakers.

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/6827/hpim01540lu.jpg

Madison from what i know of is a fairly new company but they are sweeping the deathmetal underground clean. People have been tradining in thier ENGL powerballs for this damn thing....I now know why....When I first got it i though....crap this thing sucks....then i let my Cab Break in and get rid of the "new speaker crips sound" after playing loud for 4 or 5 hours...then It just hit me like a frieght train....god....this thing is killer. Here are the specs on the head:

3 Channel 100 Watt All Tube head
4 Electro Harmonix EL34 Power Tubes
2 Electro Harmonix 12AX7 Preamp Tubes
2 Electro Harmonix 12AT7 Preamp Tubes
Triple speaker outputs (4, 8 or 16 ohm selectable)
High and low gain inputs
Spring reverb
Effects loop in and out with slectable lvl boost
The Madison logo on the front lights up blood red when you crank this puppy

Elegance Channel:
High, Mid, Low Lvl and boost (the boost is like a TS-7 in the front of the clean channel)
Edge 1:
High, Mid, Low, Contour, Edge and Lvl
Edge 2:
High, Mid, Low, Contour, Edge and Lvl
Master:
Volume, Reverb

The Clean channel is named Elegance...and it is very elegant...every clean and snappy. Edge 1 sounds like a dual recto and edge 2 sounds like a tripple rectro. The boost on the clean allows you to get great blues and southern rock tones, while the edge1 is good for HEAVY Riffs and Rythem, And the edge 2 is a VERY hot lead channel that i also use for some rythem work Every aspect of this amp is VERY articulate. No matter how much gain you dial in you can hear every note clear as a bell.

Im running this with a BBE Sonic Maxmizer inthe EFX Loop and a Ibanez S1520BP with a EMG-81 and EMG-85 wired at 18-volts. And yes I was crouched down infront of my amp but it is still a beast....a standard size Cab but the head is HUGE!!!!

The whole Amp: Cab,Head and Foot switch was around 1700 but worth EVERY penny.

Whahahaha!A few post a while back?You have made two in total.An Divinitys arent that great.

Which Divnity did you play on? they have recently revamped thier amps like 2 weeks ago....i got one of the newer versions....much tighter soud then i used to have....and with a BBE Sonic Maximizer and BBE Compressor....I have not ever found another map that gets "that" tone...I have always been looking for "that tone" and i have found it even at huge volumes....its just still crushes, sings, and screams.

So you bought an amp wich has 2 channels that sound completely the same

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interesting.

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Cool info man. But uh... considering what you look like in that picture, you should really stop starving yourself just to save up for a new amp, that's not healthy man.

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looks sweet. i saw, i think it was aborted. they had a few of these heads. they look sweet.

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Ditch the sonic crapimizer.

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I already have hell. Its called a Triple Rectifier.

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What a cunt.

Word.

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you posted this in another thread...

having played a couple madison divinities.... definately not my thing.

talking like that around these parts is ground to get banned. and i heard this forum has a hard ass engl loving mod...

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No I heard he has a real hard on for behringer amps.

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say it isn't so......

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Hahaha yeah the guy has a skull face.

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Now that they've been redesigned, I really want to play one of these things.

Two

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Cool, so the amp has got two power sections?

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i was thinking of that too...

it's okay, gotta love the newb talk... this thread really sounds like some bullshit krank salesmen used to spam up forums with.

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Imo, sounds more like any ordinary guy who has just bought a new piece of gear and had gotten into the "harmony-central syndrome", keeps telling himself how awsome his new stuff are

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that was my first impression. especialy with listing all the specs for no apparent reason at all. would you spend your 2nd and 3rd post at some random forum telling everyone you bought a new amp?

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What's not to like about the BBE?

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Doesnt work with everything.

ive grown to think of it as a form of turd polish...

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do the words KRANK and AVOID mean anything to you guys.

A reputable source, and pcis show they use very low quality parts, they are assembled in the US too not US Made...

the circuit board is marshall TSL copy to boot...

Check out the HC thread http://acapella.harmony-central.com...32&pagenumber=1

The(alleged) madison owner made a thread in which he blatently stated taht if your a bedroom player you should buy a peavy Rage158....

http://acapella.harmony-central.com...40&pagenumber=1

thats not a good attitude to have for potential customers...

the amps are flawed, and the company refuses to fix them or improve them, also they employ an absolute troll for thier artist relations....

very offput...

you dont have to believe a reputable amp tech, you can side with a company that is very dishonest, and claim thier amps are something they arent...

The bulk (parts) of these amps are made in china, the insides are quite sub par by all accounts, and I really wouldnt do business with them on these facts alone...

if you're happy with your divinity fine jsut dont expect others to like it or think it's ok for a company to lie about the origins of where most of it is made not assembled...

Ozz

it's true, made in china, though madison claims it's all american on their website.

jerryp commented on them after modding one too, definately cheap chinese made pcb jcm 2000 ripoffs.

even the back of the amps clearly state "made in china"

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yes, it means sarcasm

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So true.

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ouch....

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Haha what? A marshall rip off?

Nice idéa however as marshall is pretty un-trendy atm

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Go read up about these peices of shit at the Harmony-central forums..

You'll regret buying one

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Maybe ihave27frets has something to say about the divinity? Because The Absence's new music video clearly shows them using Madisons. Enlighten us man!

Ps. <3 The Absence

lol, seriously?


i remember that guy saying how much he thought the heads blew

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No dude.. Marshall are GREAT







if you play rock or punk

Doktorskell, go to your local music store, plug into a DSL100 head, turn up the damn volume so you can feel the sound and if thats not a shit load more metal you are fkn insane..

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What's wrong w/ rock or punk? What are you a real badass cuz you listen to metal or something?

Thier not my cup o tea, thats why Im playing my Cobra stacks in the video.

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never claimed i was a badass. I definately am not.

Infact. Anyone that claims they are a badass for ANY reason withought backing it up should be shot for his stupidity

anyway, back to the subject,

Some punk is good. But the real stuff is hard to find. And rock? Impossible to find. No such thing as rock anymore unless you go back thirty years

So the other guitarist (patrick?) likes to use the Divinity?

where can i catch this video?

excuse me?


your wearing a cradle of filth t shirt mate

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Man,if Cradle of Filth arent the gr1mest underground DM band,Ill eat my shirt.

Patrick has a madison endorsement. The video should be on HeadBangers Ball and Uranium in 2 weeks or so. Request that shit!

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im a badass because i play a splawn, and because your an idiot.

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Whoa, who's the idiot? Nice fukin post.

Anyway im sure the divinity's sound good for what you pay for them, theyre only half the price of a powerball, what the fuck do you expect?

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It's okay he's got a Splawn...but I'm Rick James and you are my bitches. Was this Divinity meant to be played for brutal death?

Apparently only 40 of the first divinities were chinese, they wanted to test the quality of their product first, the rest are assembled in the US but still using cheaper asian parts, but thats why theyre cheap to begin with.

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not sure where you heard that? but even in that case... they're chinese, but a couple americans bolted the pcbs to the chasis...

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Haha!

I was just reading a post made by the madison amp tech at HCAF, theres a link to it on the second page. But ya its basically chinese parts, they just whip the amp together in the US.

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