How To Wall Mount Bass Traps

You can make a big impact to your room by adding floor to ceiling bass traps to those four corners.

How to wall mount bass traps.

You can leave out the floor dihedral corners to maximize space. Locate the built in key hole slot on the side of the soffit bass trap with the staples. Best locations for mounting bass traps in a rectangle room 12 dihedral corners 8 tri corners. Find the number of bass traps that you ll require i ll not deny the fact that the shape size of the room greatly.

Here is a link to the full studio acoustic building series playlist on my channel. If you can get bass traps mounted on all the trihedral corners the next thing you should think about is adding bass traps to the dihedral corners wall wall ceiling. The corners of the room are the optimal place to mount foam bass traps due to how low frequency sound waves travelsince low frequency waves don t travel in a linear wave it makes it difficult to contain. That s where your bass traps need to go interestingly this couldn t be further from the truth.

How to mount bass traps method simplified 1. A ceiling to wall apex straddle trap. Bass likes to travel through walls that is why the best spot to mount bass traps is at the corners of the walls. Start by looking at the wall to wall corners labeled 1 2 3 and 4 in the above drawing.

If it was true that would mean the best place for your absorber would be to stick it flat on the wall in the corner. We ll call these the power corners. Home studio room acoustics duration. Cut the fabric over the key hole slot and use the hardware included to mount to the wall to ceiling corner.

Placing a bass trap in a wall wall corner will affect the main length and width modes and some of the height modes. Stacking two 4 tall corner mount bass traps such as the primacoustic maxtrap one above the other in the corner can affect all room modes since the tri corner location will also be covered in a standard 8ft ceilinged house. Start with vertical bass traps in the corners where the walls meet each other.