Extreme basstrapping with corner- and panel-absorbers, PICS!

Started by studiotools on 30 June 2008. 3 replies.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 10794.

Hi there, my room is 6,63 m long, 4,54 m wide and 2,25 high, what i know, is not really perfect but I have to handle this. An issue of this room is, that it is in basement and I have to leave some space (around 20-30 cm) in one corner because of moisture so that the air can transport it away from the corner. Unfortunately in the rear corners are the door and an other window, so that I can not treat here anything. Cieling is painted concrete, floor is glazed tiled, walls are paperhanged. Windows, door and radiators can be watched in the pictures. I have built some basstraps with 45kg/m^3 glass wool, each pack around 1 m long and 40x40 cm. You can not see them in the pictures, but they are installed in the corner near the windows. I used them in my old room and they worked fantastic. In addition I have built some angeled walls to break the parallels in the listening zone. Propably I will do so on the rear wall, too. At the ceiling I have put 4" glass wool above the listening zone to avoid reflections. As you can see in the frequency-plots the simple bass treatment with the traps are doing something well, but I still have some heavy resonances. I would be happy if someone can give me some hints about my room. I can not built new walls, because it is rented!! Main Question: The most important thing is to flaten the frequency response and get rid of the nulls and peaks. I plan to build panel-absorbers for this. I have experience with that, but always build them directly on the wall. Now I would like to build them free standing at (!) the wall like a closet. Is 16mm MDF thick enough for the corpus? Best Regards, Studiotools
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here are some real pictures of the current state, but without the basstraps the are in the kitchen right now, so I could do the measurement. perhaps I slat the angeled broadband absorbers, but I do not know yet. Has anybody an idea why the software RoomEQ have the Waterfall diagram only until 400 Hz? I'd like to see how the high frequencies do behave, too.
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have you tried moving your speaker and sitting positions?
Hi Gullfo, thanks for the answer. I first located the 38% rule but this was no good position. The measurement with basstraps is the best result I can get, when moving around. I even tried the 90° position of the speakers, what makes an interesting and wide stereo-image. What you can see on the pictures is not really the current position. Did you ever built panel-absorbers that are not fitted on the wall? Cheers, ST