Fishman Loudbox Mini - great amp for both "bedroom" level and live gigs. Even for electric guitars! 

From the Fishman website: “Fishman doesn’t recommend using distortions or overdrives with our acoustic amplifiers. The speakers are designed for fidelity and are not built to tolerate the square waves that distortions and overdrives produce.” That said, I love my Loudbox Mini.

J. B. Was going to leave a comment, but after reading your opinion all I can say is ditto!!! This gentleman is gifted and knowledgeable - so thankful that he took the time to share.

Was starting to do some jamming and working on songs with a friend, in my little study / studio, and was just running my acoustic through the PA. I could stand the trebly "clack" I was getting, and so I pulled out my Loudbox Mini I'd hardly ever used - I was surprised how great it sounds, once I got it dialed in. The key is to get the right blend with the gain and tone controls, on both the amp and your acoustic. I can't wait to whip out my archtop next! Great video - thanks so much!

Have a loudbox mini and haven’t tried with my electric guitars yet, but I’m excited to use it for some solo gigs. I must say…I’ve been playing guitar for a long time and your feel and understated playing is fantastic. You have skill my friend. A great review and skillful playing. Thank you!

I've used my wife's Mini Charge in the last few shows we've played with my Turbocaster Electric Guitars TJM Deluxe Hollow and my Jazzmaster. It actually does great with the electrics!!! (and I'm a Fender Deluxe Reverb guy thru and thru). I'm just getting ready to buy one for myself! The mic side also sounds great as well. Having two of these will enable us to travel without having to carry our Bose L1 and my Deluxe Reverb!! (Note: I don't use pedals, and rely on Fender tube amp style tones, which I actually get lots of compliments on).

I play my Fishman with my Tele. I use an irig to plug my tele into my ipad. I use the tonebridge or garage band app to select any sound. Ramones. Johnny cash. Slayer. 😂 What an amazing Age for creativity.

Really helpful review. Just what I wanted to know. Sold!

These are phenomenal amps.I run a Taylor 414e with an Expression 2 mic system. It produces a wonderful sound and has inspired me to make new music, more than before. You'll be surprised how much volume and audio quality you get in such a small form factor.

I was looking at Fishman Loudbox Mini but just seeing the Gibson Acoustic and Electric played so well I think your touch and sound was drawing me in. thank you so much showing us you skills and what the Loudbox can achieve.

This was an awesome review, and a pure joy listening to (you play)! You have that ever sought after, ever elusive intangible, which comes when you feel the music in your heart, and not in your head, and those are the notes you are laying down on your board, the board that acts as a runway, where you begin to soar, and take the listener on that ride with you!! Beautiful, brother! Thank you!

Thanks for a really good demo video 😊 Ive tried a Loudbox mini in a music store with my Taylor accoustic and it was excellent; beautiful tone, mellow, rich and full ( much better than say a Fender accoustic amp). I wondered about using my ES335 with it and you answered that question perfectly. The Loudbox is in a class by itself, in accoustic amp, and versatile as well. Looking forward to getting one. PS. loved your playing too .

Compré este amplificador hace poco y estoy muy contento con él. Potente, sencillo, robusto y ligero. Y suena muy bien. De verdad, muy recomendable.

I recently started using my Godin A6 Ultra with my Fishman Artist. It's a hybrid with electric and acoustic tones in one guitar. I run the two cables into individual channels with appropriate pedals going into effects loops in the back, including the Ditto Looper for the acoustic side and a Fender Smolder overdrive and delay pedals for the electric side. Going for that One Man Band sound...

Thank you so much for this demo! I've been wanting to go busking with the electric guitar. I was going to get the cube street 2, but I think I'll try out the Fishman loudbox mini first :)

This sounds Amazing, Thor! 👏👏👏 This is a marriage of a high quality, versatile amp, with what IMHO is the best sounding, most versatile type of electric guitar type: the semi-hollow with humbuckers. And yours is a Gibson ES-335, the gold standard! I envy you, mine is an Ibanez 73 (inexpensive, but I love how it plays and sounds, from Jazz to Rock - everything but high gain chug). As much as I like controlled feedback, which you can get with a semi-hollow, it is probably convenient to use the Fishman with the anti-feedback circuit, if you play at high volumes. Definitely safer (out of control feedback can be a nightmare). 😁 Another PRO over carrying a tube amp to play live is that tubes can fail at any time. Not super likely but certainly possible. Solid state is, well, pretty solid 😅. You could also bring both a tube amp and this baby, and run an A/B box so you can blend them. I do that at home but my solid state is not great. It still sounds great. I run the solid state dry (I split before the pedalboard) and the effects on the other. Cheers, and keep up the good stuff! (I am subscribing) Leo

I have both the the mini and performer by Fishman. I do the same thing. I mostly play Brazilian and soft rock stuff on nylon string Flamenco guitars (Cordoba). Both amps sound great for that. But I also do some harder and classic rock. I didn't want to lug around two amps. So one day I plugged the electric (a Fender Lead III) in and was surprised at how good it sounded. I like to run the amp's reverb and chorus on both. The electric sounds awesome for chunk-type funk. It sounds great for mellow stuff. But... it also sounds surprisingly good when I run my Keeley fuzz and overdrive pedals. At this point, I don't really see any need to lug along a heavy tube amp when the Fishman will do it all and sounds fine for all I throw at it, from mellow nylon string to harder classic rock type stuff. Of course, I'm not running it at ear splitting levels (then I'd go with the bigger tube amps), but for small gigs, it works great for everything and cuts down on the gear I need to haul and set up. I even occasionally use it for a bass amp at lower volume level gigs, and surprisingly, it sounds better than my big bass amp!

It does get a fairly clean sound...but to me I don't 'feel' the music around in the room, the music is just straight from the box. Also, the reverb and chorus are very weak. I have a Gibson GA-15 tube amp...well, the Fishman doesn't even come close. I wanted to like it, but sent it back. Just didn't compete.

Thanks so much for this. I've got a question for and something else. Here's a valuable, inexpensive experiment for you... Get a Joyo American Sound pedal and run that before your Mini. They are super cheap on Amazon and easy to return if it doesn't work out. Set up: Guitar, drive pedals, Joyo, reverb/delay, Loudbox. I don't know if its just my ears or what, but for home levels this thing sounds great. Tell me I'm not crazy? I've had and run some really nice tube amps and also have a Boss Artist Katana. All were great, especially at high volumes. But for ease of use in the home, and for that crisp high fidelity sound you can't get from a guitar amp at low volumes, the Loudbox has worked out great. With a my pedalboard and my vocal mic run right into the Mini I get a great sound. I've also run my pedal board with the Joyo direct into my full on PA and it sounds great there too but more volume than I need for at home. Maybe you could try that Joyo in your chain. As a plug for that Joyo American Sound pedal (AMS) it works great to get both the Blackface and the Tweed sound or something in between, with the turn of a dial. For the money Joyo (Harley Benton sells the same thing.) They really did something great with that. For the purist I'm sure they'd pick the sound apart but for a performer in front of a drunken crowd singing along (screaming the wrong words really) I doubt any one would notice the loss of "tube tone". All this got me thinking. I'd have a need for the larger Fishman Performer for some gigs instead of the full PA when I go solo. But since the Mini sounds so good with the pedals I'm wondering if when in full band mode with electric guitar could I use the Performer as my electric guitar amp and serve as a monitor vocals? Not sure how much feedback I'm likely to get in that case between both loud guitar and vocals? Anyway, thanks for the great video.

I really enjoyed this presentation. One of the best about this amp. I am thinking of buying this amp to use with my Taylor T5z. Great playing with and without your loops. Interesting how the acoustic needed more EQ but the electric needed less. I wrote down your pedal arrangement too. Lots of really good information. One thing isn't it true that the gain if using electric shouldn't be turned up too high on an acoustic amp?

Great video. Thank you. Really awesome that you showed it at different volumes, and with electric + acoustic in a loop. Very cool. Did you plug in everything via the looper and then input into the amp from the looper? Sounds very clear.

For a regular Fender Strat eg. would it not be better to use a eguitar preamp with this Fishman amp?

Just ordered mine with a Shure PGA58 microphone. Do you recommend the equalizer as well or do you think for mostly backyards and small gigs it isn’t necessary? Would you get anything else personally? Great review thanks I can’t wait to get mine in a few days!

Great video and demonstration 😄 did the overdrive have any effect on the speaker? Fishman does not recommend it, but it works fine. I use this Amp for acoustic, electric and bass guitar.

What cables do you recommend for my acoustic guitar to the FM mini? And what vocal mic cable to the FM mini? Thank you...

Great amps, but do not run distortion, it will ruin the speakers

How are the vocals when playing electric guitar at same time?

Geez, that dB meter is annoying to watch. I play a Fishman Loudbox Mini Charge, so I love the amp. I know the point of having the dB meter to show that the amp puts out decent sound - but, . . . it’s still awful distracting (and not really all that useful to see).