Does your band nail you to the stage????Personally, I hate to have my cabinet pointing at my head. I find that all I can hear is myself and lose track of the band. I like to hear myself in the mix, not above it. I don’t know how people can do it.
Have been gigging for 40 years. Never ever liked to have my amp aimed at my ears. If not for me, there’s no reason to angle the cab up.Does your band nail you to the stage????
Move to the side so you get all sounds
Just stuff a big wad of your dirty underwear under the front of your cab..nobody will mess with it..I accidentally ran across this bass cab. The front of it is slanted to project sound upwards. Seems like a good idea for guitar since when playing at home you have to rig something like that anyway to hear what's coming out of the amp properly.
Is there any reason not to do this?
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Ah, yes, I couldn’t get a 4X12 on a stand. No way. 1 use small 1X12s. And I also use beam blockers, and stands that aim the sound above the heads of the audience. This type of rig helps me to lower the volume so as to let other players be heard, while I am still being heard. I know different players have different ideas, probably based on their style and where they play. This is only what works for me.Kinda hard to put a 4x12 on a combo stand...
Some folks hate stands.
Some will blather on about being floor coupled.
Some will blather on about NOT being floor coupled.
Some folks don't have a clue how bad they are beaming out front.
Some folks don't care how bad they're beaming out front.
Some don't care how badly they're smoking everybody else on stage.
Slider munky out front would sure be happier with any method of tilting. I'd be deliriously happy if everybody used blast shields. Back in my full time working days, we walled and 57'd our Marshalls. We could blast the back wall all we wanted with no dead popcorn munchers out front or killing us on stage.
Kinda hard to put a 4x12 on a combo stand...
Some folks hate stands.
Some will blather on about being floor coupled.
Some will blather on about NOT being floor coupled.
Some folks don't have a clue how bad they are beaming out front.
Some folks don't care how bad they're beaming out front.
Some don't care how badly they're smoking everybody else on stage.
Slider munky out front would sure be happier with any method of tilting. I'd be deliriously happy if everybody used blast shields. Back in my full time working days, we walled and 57'd our Marshalls. We could blast the back wall all we wanted with no dead popcorn munchers out front or killing us on stage.
Yeah, doing a good bit of slider munky work over the years, I've heard all kinds of bullshit rationale for PTFL.... I may not have complete control of their amp outside of our band, which I DO have, but I do have control over things like mute buttons, monitor feeds, etc.... When a wedge in front of you has several times the power capability of one's amp, including the option to instantly go to 0watts, don't poke the munky out front. Team effort. Work together and I'll bust my ass to make stage sound righteous. My ass is on the line just like the stage. Bufordry on either's part makes everybody look bad.Yes, we tend to be notoriously, "THIS IS HOW I HAVE TO DO IT!!"
Therefore, "THIS IS HOW EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD HAVE TO DO IT TOO!!" - In the face of of all of the contradictions you posted above. Even with the slanted baffle on my cab, I need to stand 10' in front of it to be in the zone. How many stages in small venues allow for this distance? At least it "beams" it away from the front row, for the most part.
"I can't hear myself unless I turn it up," would be greatly diminished in a lot of situations if we didn't have our cabs aimed at our knees. We might even be able to dial in our tone so that it sounds better in the "beam zone" and not just so that our knees are satisfied.
Mic'd with a good PA/monitors and these issues tend to be reduced. But many weekend warrior gigs don't accommodate us with all the best monitoring.