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Re: Jon: is Placement of the rolls critical?

Posted by Jon Risch on October 20, 2005 at 21:50:49:
The corners work the best, as the corners have ALL the room modes present, and all of them will then be damped.
However, it is possible to "tune" the bass trapping, by placing ADDITIONAL traps at the harmonic points, see:
http://www.asc-studio-acoustics.com/acoustic_basics.htm
and
First article by J. Peter Moncrieff on how to place ASC tubetraps.
http://www.tubetrap.com/articles/iar85.htm
Second article by J. peter Moncrieff on ASC TubeTraps
http://www.tubetrap.com/articles/iar89.htm

Jon Risch