I've heard that you lose tone when you take an amp off the ground. Is that true?
2092222
Not necessarily. Sometimes it may seem that you lose some bottom end but, not really "tone". Not that I'VE noticed anyways. I read somewhere that when mic'ing an amp, sometimes the floor can have an adverse effect on the sound. I'm guessing it's a matter of taste.
2092223
There are a lot of myths out there. An amp SHOULD be off the floor. You want the speaker/speakers projecting as close to the level of your ears as possible. It's true that a backless amp will not have the quality of bass, but the floor is not influencing your bass. Putting your amp against a wall brings out the bass. I know a lot of musicians who attach a piece of thin particle board or wall paneling on the back of backless amps, with Velcro. You get the same effect as placing the amp against a wall. The amp being on or off the floor, like the type of wood an electric guitar is made of changes tone is constantly argued. Just do what you feel gives you the best sound. There are a lot of myths out there. An amp SHOULD be off the floor. You want the speaker/speakers projecting as close to the level of your ears as possible. It's true that a backless amp will not have the quality of bass, but the floor is not influencing your bass. Putting your amp against a wall brings out the bass. I know a lot of musicians who attach a piece of thin particle board or wall paneling on the back of backless amps, with Velcro. You get the same effect as placing the amp against a wall. The amp being on or off the floor, like the type of wood an electric guitar is made of... » Read More There are a lot of myths out there. An amp SHOULD be off the floor. You want the speaker/speakers projecting as close to the level of your ears as possible. It's true that a backless amp will not have the quality of bass, but the floor is not influencing your bass. Putting your amp against a wall brings out the bass. I know a lot of musicians who attach a piece of thin particle board or wall paneling on the back of backless amps, with Velcro. You get the same effect as placing the amp against a wall. The amp being on or off the floor, like the type of wood an electric guitar is made of changes tone is constantly argued. Just do what you feel gives you the best sound. « Show Less
2092224
you probably ran into the "tone weeny mafia", you won't lose much if any...and it it would only apply to bass response. for instance it is practice to put the big woofers on the ground of a PA system as the floor helps the bass resonate. a guitar is a midrange instrument and i highly doubt any negative effect would happen on your tone. if it did then you could just increase your bass EQ. in a live gig i would assume you would be mic'ed anyway meaning the "amp on floor" would be a moot point anyway.
2092225
If it is,I haven't noticed any difference.I think it gets the sound out into the area better than sitting on the floor.I'm very happy with the stand.It also makes the controls easier to get to.
1128806
Short answer, YES!!! This thing can get crazy loud. Luckily, relatively speaking, my neighbour practices electric guitar at all hours through an amp. If I want to answer, I throw on the Dark Knight Rises or Edge of Tomorrow, crank it up and it's uncomfortable for me, even, making an attempt to get even.
1387721
I am running my stereo without an amp so I am not truly sure. It is not a pounding base that is for sure might be better with an amp. My stereo can only go up so loud before it starts to distort and there is no presence of true clean base. But what I got for the price I am happy with.
2199503
Well, this is hard to say. But here's my experience. About a year ago I was moving my amp with headphones plugged in. I stepped on the headphone cord and it pulled the jack loose. Neither 'phones nor the speaker worked. I took the amp apart: the jack had pulled off a printed circuit board but otherwise was not damaged. I eventually was able to solder it back on. It took a number of tries, for a while I was only getting the left channel through the 'phones and I had to keep taking things apart and redoing. Finally got everything soldered right. However, now something is a bit loose and the speaker isn't working. If I jiggle the jack I sometimes can get it back. Sometime I'll have to open it up again and resolder things, but right now I am just using it for practice with the 'phones. I suspose if I took it to a pro, maybe I could get it done up totally right. However, I am too cheap and sometimes I have found that sometimes pros refuse to work on a something because they either don't deal with the brand, or perhaps in this case, decide the way to go is replace the whole circuit board.
2269423
I have used it without grounding the preamp. It worked perfectly, and, the instructions say nothing about your question, so I don't think it is a problem to worry about.
999873
I have this amp in very controlled and engineered small studio...don't let that fool you. The fan noise is way below the sonic threshold for studio work. For live..who cares? Our studio amp rack is 3 meters from our control console. NP. I never have noticed if the fan is on or off...that quiet. Good luck.
616288
Probably not. You can definitely use an amp to change the EQ, but by themselves they are pretty flat.
907974
Not very, but it's by design. Since there's only a single knob to control both gain and volume, it breaks up pretty early, at least in my experience with a 1x12 and 2x12. The gain stepping is also pretty aggressive as you turn the knob. Others below seem to disagree but what constitutes "clean" and "loud" is highly subjective. There are however well published mods that you can do (or have done) to add tone, volume, etc. controls to the head. While it does sound great for a $100 tube amp, if you're going to consider investing in the mods it's probably more sensible to just buy a small head with more controls for the same additive price.
2209803
Amps will get hot to the touch when pushed, but if they get so hot they shut off you will probably have to check how your speakers are wired. This usually signals to much resistance popping the overload circuit.
1448854
I have tried and no, is not a good option. The frecuencies are not the same and won't have a good quality. Sounds empty. I don't know if it damages the amp because i only did it a few times just to try it out and had no damage at all but i guess that if you do it frequently surely will cause damage to the speaker.
1680378
From what I have seen installing the unit the answer is no. Once the unit looses power it has to be turned on off of the amp.
1714752
If you are using a guitar cord from the output to the amp, you will get noise. What I do is use speaker wire which has no winding ground wrapped around the main (lead) wire. This prevents the cord from picking up outside interfernce.
349658
Yes it does. But it overloads when you use distortions and the Wah. That is what I have found.
231695
To be honest I have always ran the gain pretty low because I use it as a direct amp and use other pedals for higher gain. The high or mid equalizer maybe? If the volume is really high alomg with the gain there could be more hiss.
807445
Effects sound ok if you run the amp clean. If you use the amp gain it gets too muddy. There is not much clean volume either so keep that in mind.
1895071
There is a way to ground it, but you must do it through a separate amp. Hope this helps!
2112418
Sorry, never tested in that environment. I personally only used it for in house solo recording and for the ability to get a nice tone at low volumes which this is perfect in that capacity. I do remember reading a review saying it was fine in a "garage band" setting so should be able to handle it. Really nice amp though for the money. Blows away anything in its price range.