How To Get My Amp Off The Floor

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.

How to get my amp off the floor.

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. Especially to the bottom end and low mids and especially if you re tracking layers of guitars. 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 ve never been successful putting castors on an amp.

Even if you ve got the mic crammed right up against the grill of the. 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. 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. For better or worse those directly in front.

I like the additional height of the amp stand so i use it. It would make more of a difference on or off the ground. It shouldn t make much of a difference on or off your carpet mat. I prefer to have my amp raised off the floor.

I can hear it easier. 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. I use a 200 watt combo with 2x10 speakers and a tweeter and to me it sounds dead on the floor. 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.

In general i prefer my amp about 3 feet off the ground. 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.