Nuthin' small about them and they are long scale, remember? They have a nice full sound, but it is mellow, not assertive. No problem with a band like Crowded House which essentially play electric guitars as if they were acoustic ones (not knocking them, Neil Finn has come a long way since playing in his big brothers proggy/wavy outfit Split Enz, but look at the audience, it's girls "rock"), but in harder-edged bands you run into issues cutting through. A bass to take along to unplugged events and everybody will compliment you on your warm, round sound.