Grammys Mumford & Sons... Sideways Ampeg 810
 

Hows that horizontal dispersion? ha ha... not to mention tweaking your tone for your knees to be COMPLETELY different than what the crowd hears

Just kinda amazing how the industry is so slow to change.

But it looks cool eh? Dont we know better than that by now? Sure hes going through the house so its probably inconsequential but someone out there follows the monkey see, monkey do

They ain't my cup of tea by a long shot! :thumbdown:

Not impressed.

By any of the acts so far.

Considering that he's running IEM how he has his 8x10 mixed doesn't matter. To how he hears or what the audience hears. He probably couldn't have it up because of the lights behind him either.

Haven't watched the Grammys in 25 years.

would you be happier if he used a 410? Don't really understand what your saying......

Well right now I'm listening to the Vandals and I have to say... my 810 is staying straight up and down. But I'm sure there's a reason they're doing it that way. I recall Slowdive used some live techniques that involved driving the bass at the floor.

Here you go man

Speaker physics from Barefaced

I think he's saying that it was all for show - that no one would actually play an 8 x 10 laid down sideways.

But that it didn't matter sonically, just visually, because it was all going through the FOH anyway.

it'sjust a backline the pulled out of backstage storage and the lighting guys and photographers said cut out down.

I remember seeing Los Lonely Boys live a few years back, and bassist brother had two SWR Megoliaths laid on top of each other sideways...as has been said here, he was running 100% through the FOH, so it was pure show, and definitely caught my attention as being something different...he's a mean bassist, by the way...

Probably true.........

I'm just glad that the tide is turning & we are becoming more informed as a TB community why thats not for the regular guy

Cheers!

Likewise.

Michael Steele of the Bangles often used an SVT cab on its side dating back to the 80's. The mic'ed cab was about the same height as the other amps on the stage. Other bands have done this as well.

I play in a worship band in a large church and our SVT cab spends a lot more time on its side than standing up......but the volume isn't earthshaking and we are on IEM.

Actually I use mine the regular way.

No pansy Grammy director would ever tell my Grammy nominated band that we'd have to set their gear a certain way for the camera, and neither would Mumford or his sons. The idea of that is ludicrous.

But I really don't care if someone sets their 810 on its side. Whatever.

People play their 810s and 215s like that every day. NO different than a 115 or 410, except louder. At the Grammys it's probably more of a prop than anything.

Sorry but that's BS. Just like every other aspect of the music industry, you stand where they tell you to stand, you play what they tell you to play, and you cut your hair like they tell you to cut your hair. That is, unless of course you are really a big shot. But if you are the bass player for just some band who happened to be popular enough this year to be on that stage, you will put your rig however they tell you to. If you're Sting, you tell them where to stick it. If you are (insert name of bass player nobody knows here) you say "Yes sir".