To Velcro or not to Velcro

[Amajew]

Any tool box or cabinet shelf liner from HD or Lowes will do the job! Cut to size and throw it in your gig bag, case or pedalboard case!!

 

[Element Zero]

I mean, I’m not trying to sound like a jerk but… you dropped a hefty chunk of change on that rig… you could just, not be clumsy…

 

[Killing Floor]

Corbu, Palladio, Mackintosh, and Wright for me. I will check out those bar mats. Thank you.

I am a big fanboy of the late Raymond Loewy. I like the way he merged industrial design with architecture. He wrongly gets credited for the Coca-Cola bottle but he did assist with some redesigns.
Therefore, just get a grippy placemat from the kitchen and be done with it.

 

[mrcbass]

I personally would not put velcro on my amp or cab. Unless you have extreme tilt on your cab, it should just sit there. Use a strap or some sort of tray. I rack mount mine.

 

[abarson]

I use a foam pad between my amp and cabinet and it's never moved.
Being clumsy can sometimes be addressed with mindfulness meditation.

 

[fhm555]

Agreed. Just loop your cable through the cabinet handle before you plug it into the amp.

I use racked amps and run my speaker cable through the cabinet handle and tie my instrument cable off to the rack pull loop closest to the input jack.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

I just bought my first amp that’s not a combo. It sounds great. The amp weighs 5 pounds. I’m clumsy. I don’t want to knock the amp off or have it knocked off in a bar (or at home either), so I’m thinking about Velcro-ing the head to the cabinet.

Who uses Velcro? Who doesn’t use Velcro?
Why or why not? Are there other solutions aside from just being careful?

Thank you for your time.

I've never had the problem of the head sliding off, but the heads either had rubber feet on them or hook attachments to hold them in place. The hood attachments were on my first amp, a 1966 Fender Bassman that I bought in 1966. Fender included them because the cabs were made so you could angle them back using their tilt-back legs, and there was a strong possibility that their all-tube heads (so all their heads in 1966) could vibrate off.

I've usually had heads and cabs that I just stacked one on top of the other and never had a problem with them vibrating off. However, I now use a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] cab by DNA along with a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] class D amp (800-watts into 4Ω, weighs 4.8-lbs.). Rather than have it sit on the floor down my my ankles, I bought an amp stand for it which does tilt it back besides just raising it up. I was worried about that lightweight head sliding off because that DNS-210 handles 700-watts rms with a max SPL of 134db. So it can get crazy loud.

There are a number of things you can use to keep if from slipping or being vibrated off even with your amp sitting on top of a tilt-back cab or a cab in an amp stand. What comes to mind real quickly are those bumpy rubber drawer liners like the rubbermaid ones. What I ended up getting though was a roll of the tool box drawer liner material from Harbor Freight. It's commonly used in the stand up tool boxes so your tools don't slide all over the place. It's bigger than I needed, so I just took a pair of scissors to it and cut it to the size I wanted. It doesn't have the bumps on it that the thicker Rubbermaid liners do, but it sticks really well and it's really cheap too.

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[Corbusier]

+1

We are building a small second home that might be described as a pavilion, and is influenced in plan by Palladio, and even Vitruvius. It’s a very simple plan that contains an open court. Fun stuff.

I mean, I’m not trying to sound like a jerk but… you dropped a hefty chunk of change on that rig… you could just, not be clumsy…

That is the truth!

 

[albertus]

do not overvelcro or you won't be able to detach (something similar happenned to me)

 

[Plain Old Barry]

I will check out those bar mats. Thank you.

Better yet, ask at your favorite establishment. Vendors give them to bars for free and many bars have tons of them.

I got two brand new mats of my choosing, just for asking.

 

[Corbusier]

I am a big fanboy of the late Raymond Loewy. I like the way he merged industrial design with architecture. He wrongly gets credited for the Coca-Cola bottle but he did assist with some redesigns.
Therefore, just get a grippy placemat from the kitchen and be done with it.

The Avanti!
The weatherman for channel 3 lived two blocks away (on the cool side of Northside Drive). He had one. We’d ride our bikes by his house too see it. A beautiful car.

 

[Keger Jupti]

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Uum...yummy!

 

[Topkat13]

This should work.

 

[Jesuguru]

Mostly on-topic... I've started using this instead of velcro.
1 - Doesn't get "fuzzy-looking" over time.
2 - More secure means smaller pieces are sufficient.
It doesn't just "stick together" like velcro, it "snaps in" securely. Once snapped, it's not going anywhere.

 

[Eddie LeBlanc]

Been using a black rubber bar mat from Amazon on my Schroeder cab and Berg B|Amp. Not really noticeable, non-slip, and vibration proof. Works great, and are in different sizes.

 

[idorky]

4get velcro, I have been using a flat bungee to prevent my class D's from vibrating off my cab, never had any issues, my cab is tilted too with a piece of hardened foam

 

[Corbusier]

View attachment 4427573I use 2" Velcro straps around the whole rig. Keeps the head on the cab and the cab on the stand.

Esteban, what is the brand of that adjustable strap?
Where did you purchase it?

 

[Corbusier]

4get velcro, I have been using a flat bungee to prevent my class D's from vibrating off my cab, never had any issues, my cab is tilted too with a piece of hardened foamView attachment 4428915

I’m going to try this. Thanks

 

[Pings Bass]

Esteban, what is the brand of that adjustable strap?
Where did you purchase it?

I got them on Amazon, "Envisioned" brand. 2" wide, 40" long. It takes two of them to strap my little rig down.