How To Get My Amp Off The Floor

Especially to the bottom end and low mids and especially if you re tracking layers of guitars.

How to get my amp off the floor.

It would make more of a difference on or off the ground. For better or worse those directly in front. It shouldn t make much of a difference on or off your carpet mat. In general i prefer my amp about 3 feet off the ground.

I use a 200 watt combo with 2x10 speakers and a tweeter and to me it sounds dead on the floor. Oftentimes players will turn their amp up much more than it should be due to improper eq a muddy sound caused by coupling or the amp sitting so low on the floor that all the sound is blowing past their legs. Amps tend to be bassier on the ground due to the cab specs. I ve never been successful putting castors on an amp.

Getting your amp off the floor not only reduces the mud but moves the amp closer to ear level making it easier for you to hear yourself. Most stages i m on are 2 or 3 feet or less so that amp flat on the floor is hitting the crowd about waist high or lower which does nothing for the people a little ways back. Even if you ve got the mic crammed right up against the grill of the. I recently down sized my amp from a classic svt setup 8 10 with a head to a combo amp.

I prefer to have my amp raised off the floor. So setting amps directly on the floor is not a problem in and of itself as long as the floor amp interface gets the job done. I like the additional height of the amp stand so i use it. I can hear it easier.

I can set my dart stereo amp on the floor on the wave kinetics a10 u8 footers and it sounds the same as on my box furniture amp stand with those same footers. Unless the stage is at least 4 or 5 feet high your amp on the floor is still going to just hit the people near the front.