RealTraps Debuts SoffitTraps - bass traps with high visual appeal

[kurtr2]

hi- thank you for your great articles, i am learning alot. i am in zurich and i am embarking on treating two finished rooms in the basement for a live room and a control room for mixing. i want to do it right because i need to mix records in there, so i know i am going to need some bass traps, absorption and probably diffusion too. my question is where can i get these types of products in switzerland? do you ship to switzerland? must be expensive for the shipping since the size and weight?
thank you again,
kurt

[Ethan Winer]

Hi Kurt,

> where can i get these types of products in switzerland? do you ship to switzerland? must be expensive for the shipping since the size and weight? <

Yes, we do ship to Switzerland (and everywhere else too), and the cost is surprisingly low, even for air shipping delivered to your door. If you're willing to drive out to the airport to pick them up the cost is even lower. At least it's "low" compared to the prices when we formerly sold through a distributor. Then, the cost for each trap was 2 to 3 times higher than in the US. Now it's the same and only the shipping is a little higher.

Here's a direct link to the Prices page on our site:

www.realtraps.com/prices.htm

Scroll down a bit and you'll see typical air shipping costs to a variety of European countries.

If you need further info, you can email me from the Contact page of our site.

--Ethan

[thenewyear]

Ethan,

have you discontinued SoffitTraps & Stand Traps? I can't find any details of those products on your site.

Any end of lines available??

[Ethan Winer]

Neil,

have you discontinued SoffitTraps & Stand Traps? I can't find any details of those products on your site. Any end of lines available??

We discontinued them last year because they didn't sell as well as we hoped. Everyone loved the idea! But not many bought them. Also, I often found myself trying to talk people out of buying them because all rooms need broadband absorption, not just bass trapping. So when it was time for us to buy more of the casing material we decided to drop them instead. The guys at our factory also hated making them, so that was an additional factor. Gotta keep our guys happy!

There might be one or two laying around, but I'm not sure if we still have any shipping boxes. How many do you want? Maybe best to move this to email:

Contact Page

--Ethan

[nukmusic]

were they hard to build? DIY wise?

[jeronimo]

Great product Ethan!!! Congrats!!!

[Ethan Winer]

Originally Posted by nukmusic

were they hard to build? DIY wise?

You could do something similar with a cardboard box stuffed with fiberglass.

--Ethan

[nukmusic]

Originally Posted by Ethan Winer

You could do something similar with a cardboard box stuffed with fiberglass.

--Ethan

or maybe DIY Tube Traps stuffed with fiberglass.

I only asked out of curiosity. Cool.

[naethoven]

Originally Posted by Ethan Winer

You could do something similar with a cardboard box stuffed with fiberglass.

--Ethan

Hi Ethan,

I stumbled across this thread while looking for the price on soffit traps, not knowing they were discontinued. Since you no longer sell them, would you be kind enough to detail the construction for us to DIY them? They would work perfectly for what I'm doing.

Thank you!
Nathan Webb

[Ethan Winer]

I'm glad to do that. But it makes more sense to post this question in the Bass Traps section. As soon as I see you post there, I'll be glad to reply. It's not a complicated design.

--Ethan