You’ve spent hundreds or maybe even thousands on your rig. You’ve hand-selected your perfect guitar or bass, and found the perfect amp that completes your sound. But there’s something wrong. The tone seems a bit undefined, even flabby. One culprit could be vibrations from the amp are traveling through the floor and jostling everything in the room, causing the lack of definition. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as sound is, by definition, the vibration of a physical object.
Fortunately, this isn’t a hard problem to fix, and Sweetwater carries products designed specifically for this purpose. Auralex makes a pair of amp risers, the GRAMMA and Great GRAMMA, that utilize the company’s industry-standard acoustic treatment products to acoustically isolate your amp from the floor. They can work wonders! By eliminating the transmission of vibrations to the floor, the true tone of your rig can be heard loud and clear. Of course, acoustically treating your entire rehearsal or studio space will yield the best sonic results, but getting the amp isolated from the floor is a huge first step.
Acoustic isolation isn’t just for amps. Any type of speaker, be it a studio monitor, stage monitor, or a subwoofer, can benefit from being acoustically isolated from its surroundings.