I haven't heard or played the MBritt, but I have owned Atomic CLR, Matrix FR12, Xitone 2x12, Verve FTB, and a Matrix power amp through a THD cab. My bandmate owned a Friedman ASM12 for a bit. To me, the cab and power amp and the Friedman were the rawest, most amp in the room sound of those. Lots of people prefer that sound. For me, I like the way the CLR sounds better -- it's a little less harsh.
Careful not to equate inaccurate frequency response with subjective terms like “raw”, which can yield an emotional response.
The ASM-12 (i owned one) isn’t the flattest of FRFR, so with its accentuated lows and highs it will sound different, but it’s can be “tamed” just as the CLR can be eq’d to be a little less smooth. The CLR is actually the most linear response though and the most accurate. Just might not be the most musically pleasing.
It’s the same thing with reference monitors. One person calls them “harsh”, too much highs, but another says no, they are “revealing” or “honest”.
Another likes a speaker with a tuned rear port that’s close to a rear wall because it’s got “fuller” low end, but another (wisely) would say it’s less accurate and has an “over-hyped” low end.
A good monitor shouldn’t have a sound characteristic, it should be as neutral as possible. Nothing is perfect, but the less it colors the tone, the better. It’s supposed to give you an accurate idea of what the input sounds like.
That is why things like tweeter cuts make zero sense to me. Why have your speaker influence your tone ? People seem to like the L6 becasue it sounds “like a guitar speaker”, but that is just a kind of ignorant way of saying it’s cutting highs.
Well news flash, you can cut highs in the cab block and elsewhere, and then when you send your signal to your monitor, it won’t sound overly harsh et al.
If you send a full frequency signal to a monitor with a high cut it might sound “good”, or more like the rolled off highs of a guitar speaker, but what happens when you think that is actually how you sound ? Send it to a PA or record it and it’s going to sound harsh and tinny, because you don’t have your speaker shaping the sound....
Just makes zero sense to me. Why not have your monitor sound like what your input sounds like ? If it’s too “boomy” “muddy” “harsh” etc, adjust it so the Axe output sounds the way you want.
I don’t really know why so many people are so confused by all this on so many forums......