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11-30-2011, 06:56 PM
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So I just realized this recently but, most of the time when I'm jamming with my friends I usually sit down on my amp and use it like a rocking chair...so far it's all worked out but I was wondering if I'm alone with this or other people do too. And if it had any adverse effects (I play standing when I'm with my school's jazz band though) |
11-30-2011, 06:58 PM
| | | Oh, don't do that. You'll get hemorrhoids. No wait, that's snow... never mind. 
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11-30-2011, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Maine | | Have a hot chick sit on your amp instead. She'll thank you for it  actually you'll probably get smacked, so don't do that lol. |
11-30-2011, 07:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Studio City, CA | | | Not a good idea, if nothing more than heat. Flexing the amplifier metal case may short something out. Get off the furniture!
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11-30-2011, 07:42 PM
| | | | Your amp is for setting your beer on. |
11-30-2011, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Western NC | | I used to do that all the time until I got an amp worth caring about. That amp has only had one person ever sit on it -- and I thought it was an honor (a great old drummer with whom I had formed my favorite rhythm section). Me? No. Him? Yep.
But now it seems nostalgia's not what it used to be. Go for it. 
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11-30-2011, 08:26 PM
| | | | Well I just sit on my little 8" one (and I'm 17 and can't stand the taste of beer so I'll have to find something else to put on it) |
11-30-2011, 08:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Central NY | | | When I sit on my 8" during jams I find that I can't hear myself very good.
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11-30-2011, 08:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Los Angeles | | | NO! Don't put beer on the amp either! Been there, done that. Full beers vibrating off the amp - pouring their contents into power strips! I still have a sticky power strip thanks to beer. |
11-30-2011, 08:39 PM
|  | Purveyor of fine sawdust | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: LaGrange, Georgia | | | I had to retube my Marshall several times when idiots would put full beers on it and they fell into the opening at the top.
Had a Sunn 1 18" that was great for sitting on when jamming. Also had a hot redhead in front of my Sunn 2 15 getting off on the vibrations.
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11-30-2011, 10:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | | The handle makes my butt hurt, so maybe I need to eat more donuts to gain sufficient butt padding.
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11-30-2011, 10:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North of Seattle | | | I do not. 210 is too small for me to be confortable and if I'm using anything bigger I'm standing.
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11-30-2011, 10:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SwansonEricJohn NO! Don't put beer on the amp either! Been there, done that. Full beers vibrating off the amp - pouring their contents into power strips! I still have a sticky power strip thanks to beer. | Gotta spend that $2 for a new one. 
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11-30-2011, 10:59 PM
|  | Real Basses Have 5 Strings! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by James Judson Your amp is for setting your beer on. | Nope that is where you spill the beer. |
11-30-2011, 11:00 PM
| | Real Basses Have 5 Strings! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | | I like to sit on a chair ... preferablly with no arms. |
12-01-2011, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Journey55 So I just realized this recently but, most of the time when I'm jamming with my friends I usually sit down on my amp... | I used to sit on my small G-K combo...one time, the amp blew a fuse.
Removed the top cover...the capacitors outer skin was worn down because the rivet from the amp's handle had, after years, punched through to the metal of the cap.
Direct short...poof!
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12-02-2011, 07:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Bonerific | | | How would I get on my amp.....so...tall
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12-05-2011, 04:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: VT | | | I don't sit on the amp but I do sit on the cabinet from time to time. I've found that it makes me think that I'm playing far too loudly, when in fact I'm not loud enough. |
12-05-2011, 11:57 PM
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