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Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:40 am
by moose23
What's people's feelings on this. I've started putting mine on the floor always as I've broken a few dude to vibrations. All my amps are over 40 years old though.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:46 am
by Iommic Pope
I am pro this for older amps, man.

My AOR benefits from being off the cab.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:48 am
by skullservant
Mine rests on my cab but I don't play at nearly the volume that I used to

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 8:42 am
by ShaolinLambKiller
On the cab. If I was using my much older heads in a live setting I might be prone to sit them on the floor. But if I do so at my place now, I'll kick in all the knobs/step on shit and break it.

funny note I did laugh when a guy I know had a emperor full stack and a matamp green... you know with the wood bottom runner strips as legs.... yea I lolled and lolled when he told me he vibrated it right on to the floor not thinking wood on wood is a terrible idea with heavy distorted tunings.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 9:03 am
by Iommic Pope
I physically grimaced reading that.
The visualisation was awful.

How did the Matamp fare?

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 9:40 am
by potatofarmer
Goddamn. Brace your cabs people. All that energy is just wasted making your cab vibrate instead of making more loudness.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 12:34 pm
by ShaunNecro
I've vibrated heads off of cabs before....

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:14 pm
by ShaolinLambKiller
I've never have before, but I know it had been done.

the matamp had to go spend a month at the tech to be repaired. I laughed at him.

no I didn't loan him shit to play on either.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:43 pm
by whiskey_face
Amps on floor,always. Svts are too goddamn heavy to come down a fullstack drop

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:09 pm
by D.o.S.
I use my Orange on the floor, too.

That said, it totally depends on the floor.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:38 pm
by misterstomach
it's probably a better idea to put them on the floor, particularly with full stacks. the amp is safer from falling hazards and ostensibly subject to less vibrations that can damage the tubes over time or whatever. however, i almost always put mine on top of the amp 'cause:

a) it just looks awesome and i'm a shallow fucking idiot.

b) we're usually playing on small cramped dark stages and it's MUCH easier to see and reach my amp on top of the cabs if i need to adjust anything or see if something's wrong. and sometimes there's not really room on the floor.

mostly b, but i won't deny that there's a little bit of a going on.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:24 pm
by waltdogg
I love the look of my Hellhawk stacked on my V-4 stacked on its flight case next to my 6x12 (2x12 + 4x12). Protects the amps and I'm stylin'. But I definitely do it to protect the amps from falls and vibrations.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 11:06 pm
by ShaolinLambKiller
Yea to me the look is there. it's not the same if it's sitting on the ground. I don't care who or what the band is, just doesn't look as powerful to me. unless the cabs are stacked 3 high.


shit even then I have a 3 cab high stack with 2 heads on top of it. I have to turn shit on with a stick. I've already came to the notion this is how I'll die.

Re: Heads on cabs or on the floor?

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 5:49 am
by moose23
Funny enough for guitar I just have the head on the cab, it's only for bass I leave em on the ground.

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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:54 pm
by NoLA-Riffft
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