Another stupid bass trap question

[MickeyBee]

Will a bass trap on the floor level still eat those nasty low levels and reducing em at my listening level (height)or should i focus all my room treatment where my speakers and ears are ?

Is the booming corners like virutal speakers adding the wrong low levels to my
mixing position?

I mean..i dont care if its a natural phenomena of standing waves for ppl listening
to music in a corner.

[tINY]

Put them in as many corners as you can. Bass permiates the room, so the position is not critical unless you are using them to control higher frequencies as well (like splash form the back wall).

The corner is used for bass traps because that's where the pressure differences are the highest. Front, back, ceiling, floor - it doesn't matter. The "tri-corners" where two walls and a ceiling or floor come together are the most efficient place so start there......



-tINY

[bpape]

Agreed. But, if you have the room, do the front vertical corners as part of the solution.

Bryan

[Ethan Winer]

Mickey,

> Will a bass trap on the floor level still eat those nasty low levels and reducing em at my listening level (height)or should i focus all my room treatment where my speakers and ears are ? <

With bass trapping, more is better - always. Corners are the best place, and the front corners are often favored if you can't do both the front and rear. But all corners are valid candidates, including those where the walls meet the ceiling and even where they meet the floor. Bass problems are caused by reflections, and even if a wall is 20 feet behind you it still reflects and causes problems.

--Ethan