All- in- all, the 5150 had a nice, round bottom with a full chested mid range, and some crunchy break-up in the highs. Damn, that sounds gay, but basically a really loud Fender Bandmaster with a Hi-Watt "jerk your teeth out with pliers" disposition. Which, on the other side of the coin, is essentially what makes a Marshall a Marshall. Alas, I've yet to find the Marshall that's not so full of sounding like a Marshall that it truly is (or sounds as if it were ) a Marshall; thus, after multiple cities full of sound testing guitar/amp relations and differing room architecture, I have "taken it" to Genz-Benz. Then again, I sometimes begin to think about playing a Vox and taking pleasure in all that lovely smoothness, which my Arizona built possesses in a measured dose, but does possess. My idea is that you can pretty much either have one or the other - crankin' crunch or velvetty blues. Though, it may be closer to a case much like the smoker or the drinker who constantly repeats to himself, " I smoke (drink ), but not too much."
I know there are guys who can explain it all in a technical jibe, but that's not what I'm about. And the ass says, " Yea-yuh!"
