Still using your Auralex Gramma Pad?

Tony G · #1 10-11-2007, 07:47 AM

Anyone still using your Auralex Gramma Pad? When I first joined talkbass it was one of the first things I learned about to help tame a boomy stage and/or room. Pretty much every venue in my area has hollow wooden stages. Even the floor of some restaurants and bars I play that don't have stages sound like they are hollow. I've been using the Gramma Pad on just about every gig since I've gotten it, and I do feel it makes enough of a difference for me to carry it to gigs. I feel like it lets my tone come through a little better, without getting muddy from a shaking floor. I also like that it lifts my cabs up about 3-4 inches off the ground, helping them to get that much closer to puting them in proper range for me to hear them depending on how close I am standing.

Tony G · #2 10-11-2007, 11:03 AM

Ok, so nobody here cares about these I guess. Anyways, if in the future you are searching and find this thread, here is their website to read up on it:

http://www.auralex.com/sound_isolati...ion_gramma.asp

TomB · #3 10-11-2007, 11:21 AM

Hang on there...

Sure, I cart mine along pretty much always. Only time I skip it is on concrete or when I have my 4X10 w/casters and just get lazy. It helps a lot on platform stages.

Here's a question... have (either of) you figured out a good way to protect it? I'm still nursing the original box w/duct and clear tape... can't do it much longer. Tom

Tony G · #4 10-11-2007, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by TomB

Here's a question... have (either of) you figured out a good way to protect it? I'm still nursing the original box w/duct and clear tape... can't do it much longer. Tom

What do you know! Somebody else uses one of these!!!

I don't have anything to "protect it". I just carry it as is. I've used it on dozens of gigs and it still looks new. I do know they make a carry bag for it though.

Tony G · #5 10-11-2007, 12:15 PM

I see a number of votes saying they still use their gramma pad, but nobody wants to post? Just a simple "yes I still use it and it's great" or "no I don't use it anymore" would help keep this thread alive....

T-MOST · #6 10-11-2007, 12:20 PM

I have never tried it. Does it make a difference in projection or tone?

Tony G · #7 10-11-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by T-MOST

I have never tried it. Does it make a difference in projection or tone?

Neither really. What it does is it helps isolate your cab from a floor that is prone to heavy vibration that makes a room or venue sound "boomy". By isolating this vibration, everything sounds cleaner.

Tony G · #8 10-11-2007, 12:33 PM

There are a number of threads to read about this little pad. Here's one: Auralex Gramma Pad

Here is another search on "auralex": http://www.talkbass.com/forum/search...1&pp=15&page=2

Humabass · #9 10-11-2007, 12:35 PM

I always carry mine with me and use it if needed. I leave mine in my trunk and actually create a "false wall" at the opening to me rear seats with it (2005 Camry). Sometimes I even put my Ampwedge at the front edge under my cab so I can angle it up.

Bass Boy · #10 10-11-2007, 12:42 PM

Silly question but would this help keep the cab vibrations from coupling with the floor in my apartment, thereby reducing some of the vibrations transmitted through the floor to the rest of the building? (Of course at low volume only)

Tony G · #11 10-11-2007, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Bass Boy

Silly question but would this help keep the cab vibrations from coupling with the floor in my apartment, thereby reducing some of the vibrations transmitted through the floor to the rest of the building? (Of course at low volume only)

Yes, absolutely. But understand that it will only help, not cure it completely, but it will help a lot.

Tony G · #12 10-11-2007, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Humabass

I always carry mine with me and use it if needed. I leave mine in my trunk and actually create a "false wall" at the opening to me rear seats with it (2005 Camry). Sometimes I even put my Ampwedge at the front edge under my cab so I can angle it up.

I haven't picked up an ampwedge yet, though I've looked at them a number of times. Are you liking it? Are you saying you use the ampwedge in conjunction with the gramma pad?

Bass Boy · #13 10-11-2007, 12:46 PM

Thanks! If I can find one in Montreal I may try it for my double bass as well. (end pin on gramma pad) My neighbours usually enjoy/tolerate it when I practice but with the new influx of students last month there may be some new bass haters in the building.

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Originally Posted by xgabriele

Yes, absolutely. But understand that it will only help, not cure it completely, but it will help a lot.

T-MOST · #14 10-11-2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by xgabriele

I haven't picked up an ampwedge yet, though I've looked at them a number of times. Are you liking it? Are you saying you use the ampwedge in conjunction with the gramma pad?

I use the cover from my Super Redhead as an amp wedge (as it is intended).

Tony G · #15 10-11-2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by T-MOST

I use the cover from my Super Redhead as an amp wedge (as it is intended).

That works too.

I made this little rubber stopper things that I stick under the front of my cabs that works pretty well too.

Wally Malone · #16 10-11-2007, 01:48 PM

If I'm using one cab I usually raise it off the stage. I use my gramma in between my cabinet and rack to calm the vibrations to my preamp & amp.

Wally

Tony G · #17 10-11-2007, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Wally Malone

If I'm using one cab I usually raise it off the stage. I use my gramma in between my cabinet and rack to calm the vibrations to my preamp & amp.

Wally

How do you raise your cab off the stage? Do you use the gramma inbetween your amp and cab because you use tubes? Or do you have a solid state setup and use it more as a precaution?

Humabass · #18 10-13-2007, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by xgabriele

I haven't picked up an ampwedge yet, though I've looked at them a number of times. Are you liking it? Are you saying you use the ampwedge in conjunction with the gramma pad?

It all depends on how far in front of my amp I can stand. If it's a boomy, small stage then I usually put the Ampwedge on top of the Gramma pad under my cab (UL310). If it's not boomy but I'm still fairly close to the cab then I just use the Ampwedge. If I can get about 10 feet+ on a non-boomy stage then I don't use either. 10 feet+ on a boomy stage then just the Gramma pad.

Wally Malone · #19 10-13-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by xgabriele

How do you raise your cab off the stage? Do you use the gramma inbetween your amp and cab because you use tubes? Or do you have a solid state setup and use it more as a precaution?

xgabriele, I use one or two crates to raise the cab off the floor. I have a Stewart 2.1 and a Read Purity preamp. When I set them directly on the cab I hear something vibrating and therefore the reason for putting the Gamma in between the cab and rack.

Wally

Tony G · #20 10-14-2007, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Wally Malone

xgabriele, I use one or two crates to raise the cab off the floor. I have a Stewart 2.1 and a Read Purity preamp. When I set them directly on the cab I hear something vibrating and therefore the reason for putting the Gamma in between the cab and rack.

Wally

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.