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OK, so this is kind of small big band (is that such a thing?). Only 4 horns.

I just found this clip and I'm pretty happy with the tone of my L-5 on this tune. For this type of playing I'd prefer an acoustic archtop that is mic'd, but I don't have an acoustic archtop.

On this gig I was playing my Gibson L-5 thru a little Roland J-55 amp. I rolled the volume on the guitar down to about 7 to get a warmer tone. I'm fairly happy with that sound. It's not quite an acoustic tone, but it's close.

It's big band music, so the guitar is not out front in the mix...

The second video below shows the full band (13 horns, drums percussion, bass, violin, piano, guitar). Pretty fun group to play with with. Jump to 2:00 for the second tune on the video. That's Jeff Coffin of the Dave Matthew's Band doing the sax solo on AT LAST.