Just wondering if there would be any noticeable difference with a pair of Ampeg 410 he cabs placing them both on the floor rather than stacking. I've always heard cabs like to be on the floor. I like the idea of stacking so I can hear what Im doing a little better..
Aesthetics. Stacking makes more sense to me for the audible reasons and to have the head/knobs at eye level. Do whatever your comfortable with and what your ears tell you sounds better. From my experience, it's better to take up less realestate on stage and to have a smaller footprint thus stacking upwards instead of outwards
You get better horizontal dispersion through vertical stacking as I understand, due to interference and wave cancellation. Which means that stacked vertically, you are broadcasting to the room instead of bouncing your sound off the ceiling or projecting into space. Has to do with the line array principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_array
Exactly. The sound is closer to your ears which results in you turning your gear down because you can hear yourself better than having the speakers on the ground Plus, you take up the same amount of space on stage as one 410.
Great comments! Thanks yall.. Feel like Christmas has come early. I really do appreciate the help as this all is a learning process for me. You guys rock!...
Stacking them on a tight stage makes sense but placing them on either side of the stage would help with coverage and monitoring. You could run across the stage and still hear yourself and guitar dude on the other side would be able to hear you enough to keep in time. Just sayin' =)
In that case you loose most of your hard earned midrange intelligibility and effectively half your amplifier power.
Because they aren't connected to a head? If your a 99%er player, yeah vertical and all that. But if you're a big touring guy with all FOH sound and just paid to show off the amp maker's badge, doesn't matter. Oh wait, it's easier to see the brand stacked vertically, too. For the record, John Stirratt sounds great live dispite his side by side 4x10's. (see above)
Also because it "looks cool". They could also be fake cabs and/or the bass player is already getting everything through in-ear monitoring. Maybe the bass player likes to hear less midrange on stage. In some bands (midrange heavy guitars) this can be really helpful.
