rented appartment: How can I treat my room and fix the traps ?

[sergioelectro]

Hello

I am in a rented apartment which means that I cannot glue any traps permanently or dig any hole in the walls.
However I would like to treat this room!

So why can i do, what solutions or tips would you suggest ? ?

Thanks for helping me.

Sergio

[Glenn Kuras]

How about getting bass traps on stands.

Glenn

[Ethan Winer]

Or just rest them on the floor stacked up in wall-wall corners, and also sideways along the wall-floor corner.

--Ethan

[sergioelectro]

Thanks for your help

Has anyone of you ever tried to hang them with those adhesive gums you can put on the walls to fix small painting or stuff like that.
Will it works for acoustic trap ? ?

You know it looks like yellow adhesive gums: you can get them off without leaving any dirty trace on your wall.

Thanks

Sergio

[Ethan Winer]

Any bass trap large enough to be useful will be way too heavy to stick onto a wall with gum.

--Ethan

[cazdell]

suck it up. stay a while and forget about your security deposit.

[sergioelectro]

Originally Posted by Ethan Winer

Any bass trap large enough to be useful will be way too heavy to stick onto a wall with gum.

--Ethan

Ethan,
Can you tell me what is the average weight of a common bass trap ?

Thanks
Much respect

Sergio

[Ethan Winer]

I can only tell you the weight of the traps my company makes. They range from 8 pounds to 28 pounds.

--Ethan

[salvomix]

Sergio,

I did a blog on this the other day. "Small Room Acoustic"..
Don’t Kill It All !!
Just some ideas without construction.

www.salvomix.com

[sergioelectro]

Originally Posted by salvomix

Sergio,

I did a blog on this the other day. "Small Room Acoustic"..
Don’t Kill It All !!
Just some ideas without construction.

www.salvomix.com

thanks ,

I am going to have a look at your blog!

[doncaparker]

Are you allowed to hang pictures on the wall in this apartment? If so, you should be able to hang the lighter variety of absorbers without a problem. Just use picture hooks and wire. You can get picture hooks that are rated up to 50 lbs, I think.

[networkacid]

I have this same problem.

So absorber panels will work if they're not directly attached to the walls? I have picture rails which I can hang stuff from on nails and I was thinking of hanging some shitty rugs with absorber panels glued on to them. Will that work to kill reflections?

Another idea I had was to attach them to movable office partition type panels and rest them up against the walls / in corners. Any issues there?

I also like cadzell's suggestion but I like the idea of portability and not screwing up the panels tearing them down when I get kicked out for messing up the walls

[Dor]

Why not just fill the holes with spackle when you move out?

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[wesarvin]

Originally Posted by Dor

Why not just fill the holes with spackle when you move out?

D

+1 on this. Picture hooks (they don't even have to be ook's hooks) will hold up to 50 lbs easily. And they only leave 1 tiny hole the size of a needle! Very easy to cover up when you move out. I just recently moved to an apartment and did just this...haha now I just bought a new house a mile away and will terminate the lease early... oh well, more room for traps and an excuse to record drums in a high-ceilinged 26x15 living room!