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

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.

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.  

I looked at the REW guidance.

I'm still confounded why the acoustical community can't design a better interface. If you want to encourage more dsp use then they've just gotta fix this and make it easier to use. In the end it's not that difficult what's actually happening and it's only made more difficult by the stupidity of the interfaces.

I suppose after considerable hours I could develop great expertise about how to use an interface but frankly I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Most choose not to get involved with dsp to evaluate the rooms because it's so damn difficult.