Light bulb moment

Just was thinking about the pads used for stage/amp/cab decoupling I think they are called gamma pads or something.
I was remembering back to when I used to compete in car stereo contest when I was alot younger. We couldn't afford all of the high dollar sound dampening material like dynomat. we would take tennis balls and screw them to the bottom of the subwoofer boxes to decouple them from the car, that way the subwoofer box was only coupled to the car via straps to keep it held in place. It made a huge improvement.
I think I'll try this on my cab. It should take no more than probably 5 tennis balls and screws and a little black spray paint (don't like yellow) to make things work. Probably what about ten bucks total. and if you whant to couple the cab to the stage for more bottom then just slide some pvc over the tennis balls for feet, painted black of course. A little redneck but it worked 20 years ago, It should work now.

 

Just cut one small slit (big enough for the head of a would screw) in the tennis ball. Then go through this opening and secure the other side of the tennis ball to the cab with the screw. I haven't had time to do mine yet but pics when finished. I work 12 hour shifts so sometimes it takes awhile for me to get stuff done. If someone gets done before me, please feel free to post some pics.

 

Not being sarcastic or anything but if this qoute was completely true wouldn't they sell stands with the gamma pad decoupler that raised it a couple of feet off the ground.
Sure I agree that bass does vibrate things like crazy and the further away the speaker is from the vibrating object ( in our case the stage floor ) the less the object will vibrate.
Having A indirect coupling to the wood floor of a stage will not completely stop the vibration but will cut down on it and may help in certain circumstances control some of what I call room boom. I plan on doing the install on thursday and trying it out next month at our next gig. We are taking this month of to do some studio work.
The cab I'm trying this on is my cheap behringer 2x10 cab that I take to some of the local dives. My Mesa stuff won't get this treatment and doesn't get taken to any low end gig that could end in a bar fight. While on the good gear subject, I would not recommend doing this to any high quality gear. Also I would not do this to a full stack such as my Powerhouse 1000 or say an Ampeg 8x10, It would be to heavy for the tennis balls and may become off balance. For a smaller cab such as my behringer 2x10 (which does have wheels by the way) This may work. I will post results next month.

 

My cab has wheels at on end and a handle at the other not like most that have casters. The complete bottom of the cab actually contacts the stage floor when setting in the normal position. Room boom should first be adjusted by correct speaker placement then EQ if it still occurs. The magic tennis balls should do the same thing as the Gramma pads for a total of about $40.00 less so why wouldn't I try it? Style? I don't care about it in this situation considering my gear is usually not noticed at the back of a small stage with 5 other musicians and there gear situated in front of me and mine.
I only use this rig at small venues and usually the stages are substandard and vibrate like crazy causing unwanted noise.

 

I started to do the project today and was going to just use spray paint on the tennis balls but then decided I should use rit dye like used on clothing to turn the balls black so they blend in with the box. I don't want anyone to confuse this cab with the high dollar MarkBass stuff by leaving them yellow. LOL! I will pick some dye up and finish it tomorrow.

 

Thanks for the idea Craig_s.