I had a play of another Sheraton II today, a brand new one.

The new vintage sunburst looks crap. Really yellowy, and the back of the guitar is a yellow sunburst as well. Mine is a nice clear finish, showing the wood. They've even bursted the neck and painted the back of the headstock black. I like mine better. And the rosewood fretboard looks very light and dry ... mine looks nice and dark. Is it that they haven't oiled the wood?

Anyway, I played it through an Epiphone Valve Junior head and 12" speaker cabinet. The shop has that combo on sale for $400, which is what my Laney will be sold for ... very tempting!

I found a Fender Champion 600, which is $416 here in aus.

My concern is that it'd be too limited to one sound, though I'm guessing it does that one sound well. If you were to go down this path, would you pair it with a few pedals (EQ, compression, additional overdrive and/or distortion and maybe delay ... makes it a pricey option when the SCXD has all that built in). The $400 price tag is really attractive to me, and much more viable than $700 for the SCXD. Remember, this is aussie dollars, so everything costs more down here.

I'm wanting to plug an acoustic into the SCXD to hear the acoustasonic voice that it has, as occassionally at church we're drummer and keyboard-less, so it's just me, and I think acoustic sounds better in that situation. I've DI'd straight into the PA before but have been frustrated by the sound and have preferred it through a mic'd amp.