How To Get My Amp Off The Floor

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

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. I can hear it easier. For better or worse those directly in front.

Even if you ve got the mic crammed right up against the grill of the. 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. 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.

In general i prefer my amp about 3 feet off the ground. 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. 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 like the additional height of the amp stand so i use it.

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. 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. I ve never been successful putting castors on an amp. Amps tend to be bassier on the ground due to the cab specs.

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. 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.