Jack_TriPpEr
Well-known member
Re: Amp facing the wall
But WHY? Aesthetic reasons? EQ reasons? Tone reasons? Volume reasons? Etc.
But WHY? Aesthetic reasons? EQ reasons? Tone reasons? Volume reasons? Etc.
Amp facing the wall
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FuseG4
Our Neighbor Totoro
Re: Amp facing the wall
Sometimes I'll stick my amp in the closet (don't close any doors) and exit the room, and turn the corner into the hallway and play out there. Can usually crank things pretty good and hear everything really well. It's either that or stand in the room and have to wear ear protection!
There's no right or wrong and "if it sounds good, it IS good!"
Jim Campilongo said in a video that he sometimes faces his Princeton to the side, pointed off stage, so as not to kill the audience in small rooms. he relies on cranking the small amp and he said usually at one table at the side the amps pointed at someone's getting absolutely blasted with sound and no one stays at that table except guitar freaks.
Also to break in speakers I have been known to put the amp face down on carpeted floors and put a couple pillows over any opening in the back with a little gap for heat ventilation. That way you can whale on it a little harder without deafening yourself.
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Sometimes I'll stick my amp in the closet (don't close any doors) and exit the room, and turn the corner into the hallway and play out there. Can usually crank things pretty good and hear everything really well. It's either that or stand in the room and have to wear ear protection!
There's no right or wrong and "if it sounds good, it IS good!"
Jim Campilongo said in a video that he sometimes faces his Princeton to the side, pointed off stage, so as not to kill the audience in small rooms. he relies on cranking the small amp and he said usually at one table at the side the amps pointed at someone's getting absolutely blasted with sound and no one stays at that table except guitar freaks.
Also to break in speakers I have been known to put the amp face down on carpeted floors and put a couple pillows over any opening in the back with a little gap for heat ventilation. That way you can whale on it a little harder without deafening yourself.
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ehdwuld
A Ficus
Re: Amp facing the wall
Last time I put an amp in the closet it traumatized the poor thing
It thought it was a Peavey for years
Last time I put an amp in the closet it traumatized the poor thing
It thought it was a Peavey for years
ErikH
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Re: Amp facing the wall
It's been touched on already, but this is common with amps that would be way too loud in a smaller setting where it would be a pain for the engineer to mix and/or kill people's ears in the first few rows / tables. I've seen guys put cargo blankets over their cabinets to using amp shields in front of them. It gets rid of that beam off the stage making it a lot easier to mix in to the mains, if needed. My amp is a little 1x10 30W combo and I even started using a shield in front of it. Right now I lean a padded mixer shelf from a rolling case we use in front of it. Sure, it messes with the tone a little but nothing I can't tweak with the EQ and I'm still be heard and can hear it. Bonamassa even uses shields in front of his row of amps.
It's been touched on already, but this is common with amps that would be way too loud in a smaller setting where it would be a pain for the engineer to mix and/or kill people's ears in the first few rows / tables. I've seen guys put cargo blankets over their cabinets to using amp shields in front of them. It gets rid of that beam off the stage making it a lot easier to mix in to the mains, if needed. My amp is a little 1x10 30W combo and I even started using a shield in front of it. Right now I lean a padded mixer shelf from a rolling case we use in front of it. Sure, it messes with the tone a little but nothing I can't tweak with the EQ and I'm still be heard and can hear it. Bonamassa even uses shields in front of his row of amps.
