Travis Shallow

Other than the string breaking inside the volume pedal every year and having to replace it, which is cheap, (it only cost five dollars for the string and you can put it on yourself), the volume pedal is a standard and my acoustic and my electric shows.

This has been my road for the past six years, it has plenty of booty and low end for anything you plug into it, and it cuts nice too. I run it hot on the clean channel and never use the dirty channel. But, the 60 watts allow plenty of headroom if I need more volume for outdoor festival gigs or shows with a bigger stage. Love this amp, it's not going anywhere.

The latter braced jumbo acoustic has a different sound than the forward braced acoustics like a Martin or Gibson. I really enjoy the ladder braced acoustic, mine is a 1968 Harmony Sovereign H1265. The pick guards have been reglued and even though they are jumbo pick guards and there are two of them, it doesn't dampen the sound of the top vibrating too much, (like the Everyly Brothers Gibson for example). It has a big chunky neck, which I like a lot, but it's so wide that some capos don't fit up past the 5th fret, but G7th capos do and they work great.