.....yeah, if a mando player brought an amp to my jam session I'd back my truck over it.

I agree with Willie-O's point about the different range. In fact, I was going to say that you may want to learn some of the solos in the higher register for this reason. For example, I noticed that I play the mando lead to Ark Trav in the higher register and the mando next to me was playing it in the lower. I could hear myself over the din better than I could hear him. He was competing with the guitars, I was not.