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Old 10th December 2005   #8
Ethan Winer
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Marky,

> snow might be a good bass trap since the heavy snow we've had here today is really densely packed. <

Sorry, no, snow will do nothing useful. Bass traps work on one of two principles: 1) Something (a membrane, air in a cavity) vibrates in sympathy with the sound waves, or 2) sound waves pass through a porous material like rigid fiberglass and friction converts the sound energy into heat. So in this regard a bunch of snow is about effective as a rock because it's not porous and it doesn't vibrate.

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