Ceiling treatment

[mrhotapples]

I've been nailing 1" 703 to my ceiling recently. I have about 16 panels left. My ceiling is 50% covered. I guess I need to know, what will be more effective, turning those 16 panels into bass traps or doubling up the treatment on the ceiling?

This is a garage, btw. Bad bass. I'm leaning towards bass traps already.

[pandamonk]

Bass traps, always

[mrhotapples]

Fuck yeah. That's two votes for bass traps then.

[bpape]

Make it 3, and pull down the 1" you put up and space it off the ceiling an inch. You can also likely save some additional - I wouldn't normally do 50% of the ceiling coverage.

Bryan

[89gtsleeper]

Since this is in a garage, is it safe to assume that the floor is bare concrete??? If so, then I think the 50% ceiling coverage is ok. Those bare garage floors like to reflect those highs top to bottom in the room. If I were you, I would lay down a rug also if possible and not already in place. As far as the rest of them, I would stop there with the ceiling, and make a few bass traps to help balance out the lows in the room.

[mrhotapples]

I can't hang the panels really, there's a garage door opener through the middle of the room. They'd hang in a few places, but not over where I have drums and stuff set up, which is where I'd imagine it would be most critical.

[Dani Pace]

Another vote for traps. Walk around the room while someone is playing drums or bass and listen to how the instrument(s) sound from various locations. Where you need the most absorbtion will become obvious as you listen from different places.

[bpape]

Sorry - I wasn't talking about haning them per se. I was just saying put up some 1" firring on the ceiling and then the 703 on top of that to get a 1" gap behind the 703 to extend it more into the midrange.

Bryan

[BushmasterM4]

I need to get some sound treatments. I feel left out