Whistlestop--Boy you had me fooled--somehow I just didn't picture you playing Clapton licks on a PRS through a tube amp!!!

It is really rough to get anything like the unamplified sound of an acoustic guitar in an performance situation---

I think a lot of the reason that concert acts tend to used the dreaded "Ovation" option is that even though its actual sound is pathetic compared to the vintage and custom acoustics that we like to hear--the highs and lows are all there when it is amplified, and nothing gets swallowed up--so it is more predictable in any acoustic environment--

I play a lot of finger picking stuff--and have even resorted to using a solid body electric in performance situations because, even though the sound quality was different, it was much cleaner and more full than I could get with an acoutic, and it was much closer to plug and play--Only thing is that some people don't like the idea at all--