How To Get My Amp Off The Floor

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.

How to get my amp off the floor.

I use a 200 watt combo with 2x10 speakers and a tweeter and to me it sounds dead on the floor. It shouldn t make much of a difference on or off your carpet mat. 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. 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.

Even if you ve got the mic crammed right up against the grill of the. Amps tend to be bassier on the ground due to the cab specs. I like the additional height of the amp stand so i use it. 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. I ve never been successful putting castors on an amp. 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. 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 can hear it easier. Especially to the bottom end and low mids and especially if you re tracking layers of guitars. I want to raise it off the floor without losing the bottom end because i have used my ampeg rig exclusively for 20 years and i am used to having that stage sound from the top speakers near ear level. It would make more of a difference on or off the ground.

In general i prefer my amp about 3 feet off the ground. I have one of the angled amp stands that you can get at guitar center for around 49 00 and my amp sounds better to me on the stand.