Treating A Studio Start-To-Finish #4: Do MEMBRANE (RESONANCE) TRAPS work? (with AcousticsInsider)

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Sub-bass control with resonance traps. The holy grail of studio acoustics.

When it comes down to it, the lowest of the lowest audio frequencies can really only be properly absorbed with targeted, tuned resonance absorbers.

For most of us DIY audio engineers, this tends to be outside the scope of what we can do.

The price-performance ratio of resonance absorption is… average. To put it mildly.

And it’s not usually necessary either! You can do WAY more with standard porous material than most people think.

But if you really want to go all out with bass control into the lowest frequencies, resonance absorbers (and membrane absorbers in particular) are your only option.

And that’s what I want to show you in this week’s video.

Jesco from AcousticsInsider and I are wrapping up the treatment of our new demo room by installing membrane traps.

As before, we’ll walk you through the exact process of placing them correctly and of course: before and after measurements.

You don’t want to miss this one.


Timecodes:
00:00 - Part 4 of treating the MusicCityAcoustics demo room
01:10 Download the REW Files! (take a screenshot of REW files and show it on the screen)
02:15 What are membrane traps?
03:50 How do membrane traps work?
05:26 Do membrane traps affect the frequency or time response of a room?
05:58 How broad is the Q of membrane traps
06:35 Why don’t we use membrane traps as the first stage of treatment
09:48 How many tuned traps should you put in a room?
10:36 How to determine the right tuning for your membrane traps?
11:50 Where should you place membrane traps
16:00 REW Measurements - spectrogram
22:00 Can you put too many bass traps in a room?
23:30 What direction should the membrane face?
26:40 Membrane traps on the front wall?
28:00 Why it is best to start with porous absorption
29:22 Before and after frequency response
31:40 What do the Scatter Faces Sound like
33:20 How did the sound of the room change with the membrane traps
36:05 Before and after RT60
38:36 Waterfall graphs
39:15 Is background noise a problem?
40:40 Q&A leave your questions in the comments



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