Floor vs. Wall Mounted Reverb Pans???

[Mango Moon]

Enzo,

You said . . . "A stripe of weatherstripping foam rubber glued down the center of the wide top face of a reverb pan prevents it from resonating", and frankly, I opted not to pursue this particular point in previous parts of the thread, but resonating from what? In one of your earlier posts you had said that "you really don't want the vibration from speakers being channeled back into the pan. That causes reverb feedback and other undesirable things."

Problem is, there is no speaker in this standalone reverb tank? I completely understand when the pan is mounted on the inside of a combo amp (which has an internal speaker or two in close proximity), but there is no speaker inside the '63 reissue tank, and the nearest external speaker to it is probably 10-feet away. So I don't get it? Are we trying to protect the pan from those external speakers too, no matter how loud or remote? If so, something just doesn't seem right about that to me. Some of these surf bands today are playing at deafening volumes with 4X15" JBL-130s less than inches from these standalone tanks. What am I missing here?

[Enzo]

Sorry, when the discussion drifted down to pans mounted on the bottom of cabs and needing or not needing to float off the surface and all that, I was referring to pans in bags with cardboard covers and other methods of controlling unwanted mechanical coupling. I was making the case for all these methods in combo amps. You seemed unsure that it mattered even in those cases, if I understood you.

I was not referring to the stand along unit needing such a measure.