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Left Headphone · Post by **Left Headphone** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:22 am

Any one ever heard of these guys www.modularacoustics.com. They have those bass traps similar to Ethan Winers real traps www.realtraps.com.

Modularacoustics.com sells theirs for 159.99 a pair
Realtraps.com sells theirs for 179.99 for one.

I been considering buying some real traps, but modularacoustics.com prices are more tempting...

Anybody using bass traps in their studio?

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:47 am

So you're looking at paying $160 per piece of foam on a frame, correct?

Man... if only I had money to burn.

Greg

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:59 am

That looks like something I could make for about $10 or less.

Wait a second....I should go into business.

Left Headphone · Post by **Left Headphone** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:14 am

Well I am no carpenter. If you could build me some for $10, I would buy 4 from you today.

My room acoustics suck.

The realtraps have been proven to work. I don't know about the others. The realtraps very very expensive. Again

jdg · Post by **jdg** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:22 am

your location reads "bathroom"
no wonder you have bad sound

there was an SOS article that compared realtraps to something..
i cannot remember..

i know.. useless post.

garret · Post by **garret** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:25 am

I've been reading up on acoustic treatment lately, helping out a friend who's building a home theater...

The best cheap bass trap idea we've found yet is buried in Ethan Winer's acoustic treatment faq...

Another great and inexpensive way to make a bass trap - if you have a lot of room - is to place bales of rolled up fluffy fiberglass in the room corners. These bales are not expensive, and they can be stacked to fill very large spaces. Better still, they are commonly available and you don't even have to unpack them! Just leave the bales rolled up in their original plastic wrappers, and stuff them in and near the room corners wherever they'll fit. Stack them all the way up to the ceiling for the most absorption.

We haven't tried em yet... but that's our plan. It's a basement, so he has loads of space for bales of fiberglass.

Proper rigid fiberglass panels are pricey (about a buck a square foot for Owens Corning 703 or 705 fiberglass)... but you can get a 4ft x 4ft x 4ft bale of fiberglass for, er, well cheap. I'd give you a number, but we haven't actually bought the bales yet.

We're hoping $20-$30 a bale, tops.

-Garret

garret · Post by **garret** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:28 am

jdg wrote:your location reads "bathroom"
no wonder you have bad sound

And of course, what do I know, going on about acoustic treatment when my "studio" is the side porch of my house... enclosed in the 1950s by single pane windows on three sides, with the original brick wall on the other side.

I think I just need a cone of silence to descend on me when I want to record something.

valley · Post by **valley** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:33 am

garret wrote:We're hoping $20-$30 a bale, tops.

That's about the going rate for R19/25

The rigid panels don't work out so expensive if you are

a) trying to keep things looking tidy.
b) spot fixing just corners

Boxing R25 gets to be more expensive than you'd think. I was getting an average of about 2 18"x24"x8" boxes out of a $25 bale of R25.

Left Headphone · Post by **Left Headphone** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:48 am

I check out some DIY on these things and they seem pretty simple to make. Wood/MDF, Owens Coring 703 or 705 or Rockwool,and some burlap to cover the itch stuff.

Hey, the bathroom is were I do most of my critcal thinking and other stuff too.

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