I deeply appologize if my remarks above seemed annoying or cranky or what...
I didn't really mean to offend anyone. I like all kinds of music, and the Kustom amps
really do look cool, even if I don't have any desire to own one.
In the acoustic guitar section, I will attest that I have zero desire to own any amp that
I can't pick up with one hand, and walk out the door with. Here in 2021, there is very
little need for anything else. Who among us plays giant venues where he needs a huge
stage amp to hit the top of the bleachers with guitar tones?
Who among us plays so loud as to enter distortion country with an amp in excess of
400 watts? Or even 300 watts? If there are some on this forum, I salute you.
I've seen pictures of bands that played venues that big with amps that big or bigger.
But I've also seen the Trucks/Tedeshi band playing a huge stadium using Fender deluxe
amps (miked). I can pick one of those up (if I grunt and groan a bit) one handed.
But they play electric guitars,
which are disqualified in the acoustic section. (not really)
Here's an amp that an acoustic guitar player can dig, and understand quickly, and pick up
and carry to a gig... and make money playing.
It's a Fishman Loudbox mini. This unplugs the entire obsolete argument about tubes vs SS.
In the acoustic guitar section, the difference between '70s rock an roll amps with solid state wiring and fifties rock an roll amps with vacuum tubes becomes academic at best.
The debate is not relevant to acoustic guitar players, because we don't distort the signal from our instrument(s). We play clean.
Many Jazz guitarists share this concept as well. (grins). Some of them use distortion sparingly and with taste and aesthetic discrimination, like makeup on a woman. If she uses too much, she begins to resemble the torrid Rock an Roll floozies we all love so well.
Rocker chicks are proof that gawd loves us and wants us to be happy.
But in the acoustic guitar section, the debate is between ye microphone placed just so in front of ye highly refined and very expensive tone wood top, vibrating with the pick attack of ye fervent guitarist and sent to the arcane world of the soundman's booth...
VS the plugged in sound of modern electronics installed in perhaps less expensive modern
guitars made of whatever wood is still available... but still with the picking attack of a more
progressive (or practical) guitarist and sent once again to the arcane world of the mixing board.
In the acoustic guitar section, the idea of "fake guitars" actually means the tones of some very legendary (and expensive) instruments played by studio pros under controlled conditions into
equally legendary high quality microphones (think U-47) in specific acoustically resonant places... and then saved into a tone library and downloaded by computer savvy guitarists so they can use it at will, and blend it with the dry sound of their less expensive (but more practical) instruments in order to amaze and awe the paying audience, through the aux input
of their Fishman Loudbox, or perhaps the Bluetooth connection with their durn iPhones.
What say you to that, me droogies?
in my day 
