Casters ?? Yeah or Na ???

[Bass_Pounder]

I don't understand how casters would affect mechanical coupling.
Wouldn't you still have the same vibrating mass making contact with the floor at the same number of points?

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What makes anyone think that the four little rubber feet on the bottom of the cab are any different then four rubber wheels ?

 

[Mark Reccord]

Casters? Yes. Castors? No way.

 

[buldog5151bass]

I LOVE these - Rock N Roller R2RT Micro Multi-Cart | Sweetwater.com - lightweight, it folds up, and can be used for a lot. The band will love you.

If you want casters, just get removeable casters, which pop right out when you are done moving the amp.

 

[Nephilymbass]

I am considering buying a combo bass amp, single 15 plus horn. Epifani UL115. Will casters greatly affect the sound, or should it be sitting directly on the floor ? I play a baby bass, so, lots of sub sonics are invovlved .

They won't effect the sound much at all. Nothing noticible imo. But if your really worried just get a portable dolly/hand truck that will fold up. That way you can roll the cab around and set it on the floor for playing.

 

[jerry]

I use a Rock & Roller multi cart for going long distances[hotel bowels etc], but for short trip from the car on a easy load in, casters make my day.

 

[bassman_mike]

I don't understand how casters would affect mechanical coupling.
Wouldn't you still have the same vibrating mass making contact with the floor at the same number of points?

It depends on if you're talking about having 4 casters or just 2 on the back that you can use to tilt the cab back and roll (like the difference between an Ampeg 410HE or an Ampeg 410HLF).

With 4 casters, the bottom of your cab is like 3 or 4 inches off the ground and all the vibration has to try to travel through the wheels, which doesn't work out so well.

With 2 casters, the bottom of your cab is either in full contact with the ground or it's like 1/2 inch off the ground if your cab has little feet (most do). The closer that cab is to the floor, the more it's gonna vibrate the floor, plain and simple.

If you want it to vibrate the floor, put it on the floor. If you don't, then don't. I pretty much always do, but that's just my own taste preference.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

i love castors-- big soft compound, high quality rattle free like the ones on my 15" mesa.

Rolls right over anything smooth as silk
4" wheels (by peerless)

 

[beans-on-toast]

I love castors

I hate it when they chop down my trees.

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[/\/\3phist0]

I hate it when they chop down my trees.

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feeble attempt at humor __>>>>>>>>>>
Castor is really six stars in one. Even a fairly small telescope shows that Castor appears double, and in fact an even fainter star nearby also is part of the same system.

Each of these three stars (Castor A, B and C) is also double. This is not directly visible in telescopes but obvious through the use of a spectroscope, which is a device for splitting starlight into its component colors. The two larger and visible components in the Castor system – showing in the drawing on this page – are hot A-type stars, whereas the smaller ones are cool, M-type red dwarf stars.

The mass of all six stars together is, very roughly, about six times that of the sun. So, like our sun, they’re a bit on the puny side, as stars go.



Castor is six stars in one | Brightest Stars | EarthSky



i failed

 

[beans-on-toast]

Here's to all the castors! Castors are bright stars, both on earth and beyond.

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[Pilgrim]

Use the casters - then if you want to couple to the floor, put the cab on its side.

 

[Downunderwonder]

Mechanical coupling is nothing to do with acoustic coupling. Castors do not cost any acoustic coupling.

If cab rattles on the castors it's nearly always the floor doing the moving, thanks to the acoustic shaking of the floor. Or your cab is terribly built.

 

[Jamvan]

I recently bought a used 2x12 cab that the prior owner put 4 swivel casters on. As the cab only weighs ~35lbs to begin with, I took them off and put feet on them again as I didn't like how easily it rolled around. I didn't want to try it out and have it roll away on me.

 

[yakmastermax]

Okay so maybe it is just me but every cab I've owned with casters came with them from a previous owner and there were the type that you could remove without any tools. Just the short steel rod on each one that inserts into the receiver screwed to the bottom of the cabinet.

On an uneven stage or something I would simply remove them.

 

[wcriley]

With 4 casters, the bottom of your cab is like 3 or 4 inches off the ground and all the vibration has to try to travel through the wheels, which doesn't work out so well.

I still don't understand.
How is it any more difficult for the vibrations to travel through wheels than through rubber or metal feet?

 

[yakmastermax]

I plan to have removable casters on both of my 115" cabinets. They're about 55lbs each and for long distance it is much easier to roll than lift. When there is a carpet or door frame lip it only takes a quick tug on the handle to get it up and over.

I still don't understand.
How is it any more difficult for the vibrations to travel through wheels than through rubber or metal feet?

Theoretically the surface contact between the caster wheel and the floor is an infinitesimal line

In all seriousness it is completely arguable that there are certainly more losses in a caster than there are in a 1 inch diameter rubber foot common on bass cabinets. The caster has bearings, rings and several floating parts. The vibrations need to physically transmit between several extra "interfaces" than is necessary when you're just talking about feet. whether or not these losses account for any noticeable decrease in the low frequency response of the damn floor!? who knows.

 

[Downunderwonder]

I plan to have removable casters on both of my 115" cabinets. They're about 55lbs each and for long distance it is much easier to roll than lift. When there is a carpet or door frame lip it only takes a quick tug on the handle to get it up and over.




Theoretically the surface contact between the caster wheel and the floor is an infinitesimal line

In all seriousness it is completely arguable that there are certainly more losses in a caster than there are in a 1 inch diameter rubber foot common on bass cabinets. The caster has bearings, rings and several floating parts. The vibrations need to physically transmit between several extra "interfaces" than is necessary when you're just talking about feet. whether or not these losses account for any noticeable decrease in the low frequency response of the damn floor!? who knows.

Bzzzz wrong. The cab moves air by the speaker. The box just sits there providing a backstop and tuning vessel for the speaker.

 

[atrapp]

this beats casters all day long, been gigging with one for ten years - love it.

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[Marko 1]

I like casters on my cabs, and subwoofers, as well.

Sometimes in tight areas it’s nice to be able to just spin them it to access the back.

 

[murphy]

Don't do it ...Ruins the cabinet if not factory installed

make a dolly with castors. strap it to your cab.....and no damage done