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On the floor or on a stand?

#82
On the floor, tilted up for me, always - I'm not into using stands... I've used everything from a block of wood to a DI box to a spring loaded handle used to tilt back:
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#88
Peteyboy said:
I'll speak for myself and say that if I'm getting FOH support and my rig is loud enough to be boomy on the floor then my stage volume is too loud.
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I'm never going to tell anybody what to do with their rig/sound, but suffice it to say even if you're not hearing it, acoustic coupling is still happening with a bass cab on the floor.

If you don't care, that's cool. If you like the perceived bass boost, that's cool, too.

I've probably told this story here before, but I used to have a franken-rig with 2x15 + 2x12 and a ton of power. I used a 1/3 octave eq on it, and dialed in what I thought was a great scooped tone in our practice studio. On the first gig with my new eq, our sound guy came up after sound check and told me I needed to dial back my 50 Hz boost because it was (he claimed) the resonant frequency of the stage. Sounded/felt great to me, but it made the FOH muddy and uncontrollable.

Given all the inherent phase issues with omnidirectional, long-wave low frequencies bouncing around a room, IMO it's good practice to maintain as much control as possible. Depending on the stage, foiling acoustic coupling is an important part of that.
 
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Pings Bass said:
I'm never going to tell anybody what to do with their rig/sound, but suffice it to say even if you're not hearing it, acoustic coupling is still happening with a bass cab on the floor.

If you don't care, that's cool. If you like the perceived bass boost, that's cool, too.

I've probably told this story here before, but I used to have a franken-rig with 2x15 + 2x12 and a ton of power. I used a 1/3 octave eq on it, and dialed in what I thought was a great scooped tone in our practice studio. On the first gig with my new eq, our sound guy came up after sound check and told me I needed to dial back my 50 Hz boost because it was (he claimed) the resonant frequency of the stage. Sounded/felt great to me, but it made the FOH muddy and uncontrollable.

Given all the inherent phase issues with omnidirectional, long-wave low frequencies bouncing around a room, IMO it's good practice to maintain as much control as possible. Depending on the stage, foiling acoustic coupling is an important part of that.
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I'm generally using a 2x10. If I were playing on stages that required a 2x15 + 2x12? I'd wanna mitigate the boomy factor too.
 
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#91
DJ Bebop said:
Official amp stand of the 1970s
For that "Vintage" Tone!

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You're welcome :)
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Man, it's not legit if it doesn't have "Property of XXXX Dairy" on it. You can make bookshelves outta them too. Records didn't fit in the ones from my home town, but I had some old wooden apple crates that were perfect for that.
 
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