Bass Traps

[frenchmon]

Looks great! How did you put them together?

What I did was get some good fabric...curtain like material and kinda nailed them up across where the two walls meet...across the corners. About 12 inches from where the two walls meet on both sides. To my surprise it worked. Before the bass would kinda hang out in the corners, but after the simple tweek the bass is removed from the corners. I'll have to get pictures later.

frenchmon

[poppachubby]

Looks great! How did you put them together?

What I did was get some good fabric...curtain like material and kinda nailed them up across where the two walls meet...across the corners. About 12 inches from where the two walls meet on both sides. To my surprise it worked. Before the bass would kinda hang out in the corners, but after the simple tweek the bass is removed from the corners. I'll have to get pictures later.

frenchmon

Please do!! Pictures would be great because I'm not seeing what you're describing 100%.

I took some raw industrial boxboard that we get at my work. It's compressed from recycled board and really, really thick and heavy. I wrapped a sheet of it around a metal drum and tied it off. After a week I went back to it and it had taken on the shape of the drum. I stapled the seam together. I made it a top and using a heavy duty staple gun, stapled the top to it. I then used some offcut mellamine I had for the bottoms.

I was going to use the Mellamine for speaker stands but oh well...what do you think of carpet underlay for a covering? E-Stat said that back in the day he just used a roll of insulation as a trap.

[frenchmon]

Please do!! Pictures would be great because I'm not seeing what you're describing 100%.

I took some raw industrial boxboard that we get at my work. It's compressed from recycled board and really, really thick and heavy. I wrapped a sheet of it around a metal drum and tied it off. After a week I went back to it and it had taken on the shape of the drum. I stapled the seam together. I made it a top and using a heavy duty staple gun, stapled the top to it. I then used some offcut mellamine I had for the bottoms.

I was going to use the Mellamine for speaker stands but oh well...what do you think of carpet underlay for a covering? E-Stat said that back in the day he just used a roll of insulation as a trap.

It seems if you get some thick enough material such as carpet it should do the trick. I have nice rugs hanging on my walls and it totally destroyed all of my reflection points. In the back of my speakers as well as the side wall reflection points. Dont see why not on your bass traps. On the second picture on the left hand side, you can see the black fabric stretcher over the corner for bass absorption. It totally works. Click pictures for a close up.