How To Get My Amp Off 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.

How to get my amp off the floor.

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. I ve never been successful putting castors on an amp. 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.

It shouldn t make much of a difference on or off your carpet mat. Amps tend to be bassier on the ground due to the cab specs. Especially to the bottom end and low mids and especially if you re tracking layers of guitars. Decoupling isn t always a good sounding thing so it doesn t hurt to take the extra two minutes to try the amp both on the floor and off it but 9 outta 10 times pulling the amp off the floor really does make a huge improvement.

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. I like the additional height of the amp stand so i use it. 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. For better or worse those directly in front.

I prefer to have my amp raised off the floor. Even if you ve got the mic crammed right up against the grill of the. 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. I can hear it easier.

I recently down sized my amp from a classic svt setup 8 10 with a head to a combo amp. 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.