Tube amp head and cab's

[skullservant]

I have a buddy who was quickly loading in years ago, went to throw his Marshall head atop a massive full stack and instead threw it right on over the top and crashing onto the stage floor behind said stack lol. Talk about bad vibrations.

Believe it or not, that head functioned flawlessly that night...

I can't even IMAGINE hahahha

[Fuzzy Picklez]

I'm gonna piggyback onto this thread.

My head actually shakes and almost falls of my amp as soon as I play loud now.

How do I fix that?

Put it on the floor.

But it looks so LAME. And I like to change settings on the fly, so I want to keep it up on the cab.

[AxAxSxS]

make pixies fly out of my fag butt.

[tuffteef]

I'm gonna piggyback onto this thread.

My head actually shakes and almost falls of my amp as soon as I play loud now.

How do I fix that?

ductape
rope
industrial strength super gloo
a telling off

[Uncle Grandfather]

Any amp is designed to amplify the signal as accurately as possible with as little distortion as possible..

Even taking the eq out of the equation and just looking at the gain stages in pretty much any guitar amp and they aren't going to amplify things in a linear manner. The "warmth" that people hear with tube amps is just distortion. Introduce an eq, and non linear frequency response from guitar speakers, a shitty Shure SM57, a couple of pickups and your signal is nothing like what your strings are putting out. And that's the whole point! A guitar signal from start to finish gives you so many different places to insert distortion of some description, it's rad. And mostly no-one will care except you. And that has a certain poetic beauty to it.

Moar FUZZZZZZ!

Good points. They were addressed earlier in the thread.

[Uncle Grandfather]

Didn't read this whole thread, but putting on the floor is dumb. Bass amp and bass drum are gonna shred your head with the vibrations through the floor. More vibrations than your teeny tiny stwings buzzing through your cab to your head. I have seen head hammocks before. Believe it or not. I've seen pics of Marc Bolan and Page with their heads in hammock stands. And Jimmy used to throw his hiwatts on table next to his stack. Not sure how that would even make a difference though. It's still transferring stage vibration.

Earlier I described my isolation setup to deal with stage vibrations.

[rfurtkamp]

make pixies fly out of my fag butt.

They're flying and singing and are demanding beer now.

Thanks.

[Uncle Grandfather]

I'm gonna piggyback onto this thread.

My head actually shakes and almost falls of my amp as soon as I play loud now.

How do I fix that?

try velcro
reinforce you cabs
put the head on a stool or floor next to amp, dealing with floor vibrations is then another issue

[theactionindex]

What I usually do is

fag butts

[well... it's green]

Have any of you tried it the other way? Putting your cab on your head?

[Chankgeez]

Have any of you tried it the other way? Putting your cab on your head?

No, but I've tried balancing a 2x15 cab on top of my (actual) head while playing.

Didn't work out so well.

[well... it's green]

Have any of you tried it the other way? Putting your cab on your head?

No, but I've tried balancing a 2x15 cab on top of my (actual) head while playing.

Didn't work out so well.

You should have started small and built up to it with practice amps and cans of pineapple.

[voerking]

i haven't read this entire thread, so excuse me if this thought has already been expressed: the vibrations from having the head in the back of the van rattling around with a bunch of other gear on the way to the gig is far more extreme than the vibrations from the cab while it's in use.

[D.o.S.]

Feel safer putting beers on top of the cab when it's not sharing space with the head.

[Uncle Grandfather]

i haven't read this entire thread, so excuse me if this thought has already been expressed: the vibrations from having the head in the back of the van rattling around with a bunch of other gear on the way to the gig is far more extreme than the vibrations from the cab while it's in use.

Good point. But I'm concerned with vibrations etc. effecting the sonic quality while the tubes are up to operating temperature and music is playing through them.

edit: your point reminds me of why I use padded flight cases for my gear.