Lift amp up from ground

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I've heard that lifting the amp up from the ground a little will prevent the mic from catching frequencies from the ground. What is the best way to achieve this? I was thinking of making a wooden plate with short "legs" on it. Will that help?
 
well most if not all orange cabs already have little plastic things on the bottom to acousticate better with the stage, i suggest something similar.
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Yeah, i found out that my amp has 0,5 inch rubber/plastic legs under it. Will that do the job?
 
I think they mean to get the amp off the ground by a few feet, not an inch.. I doubt an inch is gonna make any noticeable difference. I think getting it higher may help get away from floor reflections or something. I'd put a 2x12 combo on a chair or table or something when I played em live, just so it wasn't pointed at my feet, I could hear it better. And I wouldn't have to stoop down to change settings. With a 4x12 slant cab, the top speakers are pointed up a little, and they're high enough anyway, and you can mic a top speaker, and you mic is way off the floor anyway.
 
Isn't that what they make milk crates for? :laughings: Your truly not a musician if you don't have a few of them around. :cool:
 
In fact you should be able to find enough milk crates behind any 7/11,Cumberland Farms or any covenant store to build a whole studio out of them like lego blocks. :laughings: :laughings: :laughings:
 
+1 on the milk crate

or just use a chair. or don't do it at all. sometimes the early reflections off the floor can thicken up a guitar. play around with mic position.
 
I know this may sound really fantastic and unbelievable but I've heard stories of a magical device that can actually suspend an amp up in the air at a proper position. It's called an "Amp Stand".
 
I know this may sound really fantastic and unbelievable but I've heard stories of a magical device that can actually suspend an amp up in the air at a proper position. It's called an "Amp Stand".

No way, that sounds to magical :eek: where did you hear these stories??? :laughings: :laughings:
 
Yeah, but how are you supposed to set your beer on top of your amp if it's tilted back??
 
Yeah, but how are you supposed to set your beer on top of your amp if it's tilted back??

Exactly. Actually I don't have my drink there, rather tuner and little Eventidie'

Thus lately, one of those $30 pie-anno seats.
I did find one amp stand that didn't tilt back, from over in England land but they wouldn't ship.
 
Exactly. Actually I don't have my drink there, rather tuner and little Eventidie'

Thus lately, one of those $30 pie-anno seats.
I did find one amp stand that didn't tilt back, from over in England land but they wouldn't ship.

Just like the English !
 
I know this may sound really fantastic and unbelievable but I've heard stories of a magical device that can actually suspend an amp up in the air at a proper position. It's called an "Amp Stand".

Oh, Lord of the thighs, are your words not as silver and gold to those stricken with poverty ?
 
I've heard that lifting the amp up from the ground a little will prevent the mic from catching frequencies from the ground. What is the best way to achieve this? I was thinking of making a wooden plate with short "legs" on it. Will that help?
The good way is to change your mic to a hypercardoid and isolate the amp a little out of the mics pattern.
 
When you said lift the amp up a little, were you thinking about some thing like this.

Cheers
Alan
 
I use an easel, so I can pretend I'm an artiste... ;)

Actually, for gigs, because you never can tell what the availability / stability of chairs is going to be like, and I don't own a milk crate (I'm tall... that's a bit low anyway for my combo), I use a keyboard stand and sort of wedge it down in the X...
 
Exactly. Actually I don't have my drink there, rather tuner and little Eventidie'

Thus lately, one of those $30 pie-anno seats.
I did find one amp stand that didn't tilt back, from over in England land but they wouldn't ship.

What Eventide do you use?
 
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