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Old 7th October 2005   #9
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Originally Posted by Youn
To have 1-2 inches of air space would help more when hanging a single layer of rockwool along walls, I don't believe it would have much of an improvement for a chunky bass "trap" like this, which is indeed solid rockwool throughout (rockwool ussually comes in 4x2 foot sheets so cut them in half for 2x2 then in half again diagonally to make the triangles and stack em like pancakes)
That sounds like a great idea if it works!
The reason why I was asking is that Ethan Winer was talking about the gap on this page:
http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html#top

He suggested this design for a bass trap:



I guess he might have suggested it cause its a lot cheaper than the other "triangled" option!

Damn, I wish I had the money to pay someone to do it for me. This is more frustrating than any mix I've ever worked on...
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