[Micah Tolentino]

well if you have money to burn go ahead and buy traps, the most expensive you can find. But why do that when you could put in a little elbow grease, and put in what you know about acoustics and build your own? Then use the rest for new mics and pres?

I can tell you that my "home made" traps did much more trapping then store bought ones, and really tamed 80-150 hz for my room. I used the typical 4' x 2' x 4" wrapped in burlap material in a wooden frame. I offset them from the wall, and Placed in the side listening positions and straddling the rear corners. This did wonders for me. My bass is translating much better now. I've used the auralex stuff for years, but honestly I felt like I wasted thousands of dollars on stuff that didn't address the full spectrum of frequencies. Their LENRD bass traps did absolutely nothing for me

All of the trap info I got from the acoustics forum. Theres some really good knowledge there you just have to know who to listen to. I'd pretty much listen to mainly the GIK acoustics and Realtraps staff. They know their stuff.