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Anyone used bass traps to flatten out boomy bass in a small room? I don't want to bring the speakers away from the corners (it's a small room, pay attention!).
I don't really want to spend big money covering the room in silly foam. Is there a clever and cost effective way to know where to place this kind of thing to best effect? They do look kind of stupid and I'm just working with music I'm not an audiophile nor home muso so this ain't a studio.
I don't want it looking like this... Mondrian room?
https://www.soundfix.co.uk/acoustic-foam/small-ultimate-recording-studio-bass-traps/
Spendy for pieces of foam...
https://addictivesound.eu/en/bass-trap-premium-d-30cm/
These look kinda cool and could stick a pot plant on top :)
Someone did it for me
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The flat panels in your photos are for first reflection points of higher frequencies and diffusion of all frequencies.
You need deep corner filling traps to tackle bass. You can make your own with fibreglass insulation stacked up - could test the effectiveness pretty cheaply before up tart them up with a frame and fabric covers. Google “DIY superchunk bass trap”
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Isn't that what the red panels in the first pic are for?
Will the grey corner panels not help with bass then? What I read was that it was mostly the corners that were the issue (the speakers being in the corners) so to eliminate them behind the speaker would help.
I'm not DIYing fibreglass but I'll have a look at "DIY superchunk bass trap" because I think I might name my solo album after it.
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Whereabouts are your speakers in the room? You might be able to reduce the ‘room effect’ by moving them further away from the corners. I’ve done that and then eq the rest out with a bit of bass cut until I want to crank it up.
Or just get to love music with basslines around 48-50hz 😎
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Whereabouts are your speakers in the room? You might be able to reduce the ‘room effect’ by moving them further away from the corners.
"I don't want to bring the speakers away from the corners (it's a small room, pay attention!)."
You didn't pay attention. For this, I am removing your BASS privledges.
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Everything's bigger downunder
Nah, it just looks bigger because it's up against a midget
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Is it the room mode frequency you're looking to lose?
I don't know what that means but I think so.
If you run a frequency generator you should be able to hear if it peaks at a specific frequency, then maybe you can EQ it out. If it's that you'll never be able to treat the room effectively. You could try toe-ing in the speakers and pulling them out from the wall.
Are your speakers bass reflex?
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I don't have an EQ, they're active monitors run straight from the PC (I could use software I guess but that's not as fun as making myself a padded cell)
Are your speakers bass reflex?
They're ported out the back, yeah, which probably doesn't help as they're firing into two corners a small spartan room (think padded cell with no padding, just hard, reflective surfaces)
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One solution to cure massive bass is massive balls, Helmholtz Resonators to be precise. Problem is your room is too small for the size of balls you need to fix the big bass you are suffering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_resonance
You should fix it with software, IR convolution running on the computer or a seperate box.
You been given the alternatives but the room is too small. The alternatives like moving them away from the wall and placing dense objects in the corners etc. do work if you have space to implement them.
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A few months ago - opening times were always erratic weren't they? I remember him saying to me "always call before turning up"
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Option 1:
Nice heavy plush rugs.
Nice heavy plush curtains.
Option two:
Turn subwoofer down.
Option 3:
One of those fancy microphones that does stuff with software.
Or of course put huge basstraps in corners because the word is awesome.I have number one, plus one top end of the room filled with crap on big inbuilt shelving.
Plus a stacked guest bed.
And the speakers kinda centrally on desk on the long wall with sub under. Sounds ok, and whereas I have no idea how acoustic room treatment works, I am good at collecting crap and capable of putting rugs on a floor. -
Don't want a rug - wheelie chair. Don't want curtains - have blinds. Don't have subwoofer to turn down and the monitors bass knob is already as low as it will go. Bass Traps that double as plant stands, don't forget. Actually the ones that kind of 'remove the corner' would not interfere with my sit/stand desk so might be a better option. They're uglier but they're smaller. Just don't know if they'd work or not.
Bookcases will go in behind me, opposite the speakers soon so that will help break up the solid wall behind.
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Another thing to consider is -
Normally a sub has an active crossover that you'd set to complement your speakers, and without that you'll probably be boosting the frequency of the upper low range. Also if you were running the audio into the sound bar, it's probable that the sound bar contained the crossover.
If it's powered you'll need to run it from the sub output on there amp you're running it from.
If it's not powered and has no cross over it'll try to play all frequencies, and you'll risk damaging it with the lower ones, and it'll sound terrible on the highs.