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my home room sounds different

thehangingmist

thehangingmist

Dec 14, 2007
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New Delhi, India
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so i threw out a couch and it sounds different.. sure that makes sense.. that was the big "absorber" in the room now i really dont have much except a gig bag, a pedal bag, a backpack and a thin curtain. ideas on how to fix it? (this is now my practice room)

but my room sounds "bassier/boomier" now it is not bad but i do not love all the extra low end, any ideas?
how should i move my amp to help this? i remember my amp sounded boomy when it was kept right against the wall in a corner and moving it one or two feet away helped a lot. what it is it that i can, easy and cheap but neat and not ugly?

edit - am in India. i probably cant get what you can easily. so first how do i place the amp because i can move it now! ;)
 
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RoadRanger said:
Bass acoustical treatments are big and ugly, generally expensive. Get your couch back :) .
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Not true!

Grab some sheets of Owens-Corning 703 rigid insulation. If it's the 2" variety make sure and double them up (i.e. stack them on top of each other). In general the thicker the better. Skin them with burlap (ultra-cheap), or another breathable fabric. It absolutely has to be breathable. If it can't pass air, it won't work as a bass trap. Now, take the fabric covered panels and stand them up vertically in as many vertical corners (where a wall meets another wall) of the room as you can. You want the panel to straddle the corner. If you can hang them from the horizontal corners (where a wall meets the ceiling and/or the floor) that's great too. The more bass trapping the better. You literally can't overdo it.

For bonus points, get some pink fluffy insulation, cut it into triangles to fit the void behind the trap and stack it from floor to ceiling and then place the trap. This is called a "superchunk" and it lowers the usable trapping frequency of the bass trap.

Cheap, highly effective, and not terribly ugly (depending on the fabric used).
 
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Downunderwonder said:
2ft out from one wall and 4ft out from the other. Or some other magic distances. What you are doing is creating inverse reflections of sub bass frequencies. You can also eq down the bass.
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ill try that, cutting out from eq doesnt seem to have the same effect as i had the room sounding before! i've put a different couch back in but this one is not as "absorptive" but it is helping!
 

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