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Corner base trap- to the ceiling?

I see lots of corner bass traps installed where they don’t go all the way up to the ceiling. I guess bass sound waves more so accumulate in the lower side of a room, but don’t a lot of these pressure amplitudes reach the upper half? Wouldn’t it be better to have a corner base trap extend all the way up to the ceiling?

Is it possible to have too many bass traps in a room?

Why can't I edit the topic field? Yeah I discovered bass was spelled wrong because I have to dictate everything. I missed seeing the misspelling before I posted and now I can't change the damn field.

 

emergingsoul
perkri
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Try running a 50 or 60 hz tone through your system and walk around the room. 
 

Get low in the room , and get high up in the room. 
 

It’s crazy how dramatically the tone changes. 

emergingsoul OP
1,085 posts
 

@audio_guy_uofw 

Is there any good Guide to how to use rew?

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milpai
2,358 posts
 

ASR has 2 parts on REW:

ASR - REW Guide

audio_guy_uofw
40 posts
 

There is a learning curve for REW, but a very powerful tool. Also a couple of youtube introductory videos from GIK Acoustics and Music City Acoustics might be of interest.

dhite71
313 posts
 

I doubt there is any blanket strategy as all rooms are different.  I worked with GIK and made aesthetics a top criteria.  I have a bench with windows behind my speakers that creates two corners.  I had custom trianglular bass traps made to come up to the top of shutters so they aren’t visible from outside nor overwhelming for the space inside and to also not block the open part of the window.  It improved the bass response.  Could there be a better design….maybe but this worked so I am happy.  

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