If you have 2 cabs of the same footprint, You may as well just use them together. Vertical space is usually pretty free on stage.
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Floor or on a stand, crates or chair when using one cabinet.
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plug your amp into the top one only...the bottom cab becomes the stand (and emergency backup!)
it really depends on what you need your cabinet to do. floor coupling can be helpful in certain circumstances, but probably not useful/relevant if you have gig-appropriate PA support. hearing yourself is always a good thing. there are likely to be compromises with any setup. i take a tilt-back stand to every "one cabinet gig" and i use it most of the time.
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if you can hear what you're playing --- if you can hear yourself well = your cabinet placement is working for you.
good luck!
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My cab is on the floor. I don’t have a problem hearing it (and I use -15dB ear filters), nor does it sound crappy in the house. Although, I can’t help thinking that having it elevated may improve things, like maybe I don’t need to be as loud. I will say this, I often hear comments from my band mates (guitarists, drummers, and keyboardists players) that they wish they could hear me better.
If it serves as a monitor, I put it on a chair. I never got stand for it, since every venue in the world has a chair to spare. Just bring black T-shirt (or any cloth) and cover front of chair - looks nicer that way, and you can use that T-shirt after the gig if you are wet with sweat.
I struggled with this when I first got my Rumble. Then I was given the Dewalt case, which I was going to sell, but I put it all together - cables, pedalboard ect. in the case, then the amp on top! It even works for transporting the amp!
Cab vibrations are actually bad- they represent energy that is being lost from the acoustic output. Energy that instead of radiating out as acoustic energy is being lost to cabinet vibrations and ultimately, to heat.
Here's one of my amps from a gig over the summer. Nothing says 'class' like an old Igloo ice chest with a burlap coffee sack over the top. Yup...nothing but the best for me! 
Beautiful axHere's one of my amps from a gig over the summer. Nothing says 'class' like an old Igloo ice chest with a burlap coffee sack over the top. Yup...nothing but the best for me!
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Thank you. It's a low-end Spector with passive Geezer Butler pickups instead of the active ones that it came with.
I have been searching for something to hold my oddball pf50t head, and there is a rigid branded toolbox that was suggested that fits it very well, but there is a deeper cart with wheels like the one you have, I was considering because I could fit more junk in it.
I’ll have to check my board size to see if it fits.
Mike Stern apparently wants his bass players to play through 10's. When Janek Gwizdala played with him he had to use a 4x10, whereas he wanted to use vertical 12's.
Janek wasn't pleased because he wouldn't hear himself as good, but at the same time he wouldn't take the 4x10 up off the floor. He said you can't feel it the same when not on the floor.
I agree with him, as I have a 4x10 but would prefer stacked 12's, in part for the same reason.
Janek wasn't pleased because he wouldn't hear himself as good, but at the same time he wouldn't take the 4x10 up off the floor. He said you can't feel it the same when not on the floor.
I agree with him, as I have a 4x10 but would prefer stacked 12's, in part for the same reason.
Just want to thank everyone who responded to my question! Great ideas and thoughts on this issue. Appreciated.
I might like this stand. I bring both cabs to get it in my ear, but sometimes don't plug in the bottom one. IMHO tilts work best for combos, my (amp)head would slide off with one of those.
