Foam Traps vs OC703

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I am building my bass traps now. The help I have recieved here is immeasurable! Although I'm still a complete idiot when it comes to mixing and mastering, it's good to know I get to play the blame game with the "room" (at least some of it). I am buliding 3 each 24"x48" 4" thick OC703 panels covered in burlap. I want to fill my room corners to the R/L of my monitors as well. Easy enough to make, but I have seen these foam bass traps for corners. Do these absorb as well as the OC703? I like the looks, but I want performance. I want a dead room no matter the sacrifice. You guys are great and you can continue to look forward to more questions till I run out of excuses for bad mixes!:D
 
Massive Master said:
Go with the 703. No contest.
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Yep...the foam won't do a thing for low end unless you buy the MEGA corner thingies. By then you'd have paid four times what it would cost to make them, and three times what it would cost to buy them.

Frank
 
703 or Knauf.

You don't want a "dead" room, you want RT60 times below a half-second across the spectrum.
 
Maybe I shouldn't have asked

c7sus said:
703 or Knauf.

You don't want a "dead" room, you want RT60 times below a half-second across the spectrum.
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1.21 JIGGAWATTS !?! Got any blackhole algorithms you'd like for me to compute?
 
etanercept said:
I want a dead room
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No you don't. You want a "flat" room, frequency wise. Especially in the lower frequencies, which foam will not be of any help with. It will probably make it worse, since you'll be killing the high-mids but not the bass.
 
etanercept said:
I am building my bass traps now. The help I have recieved here is immeasurable! Although I'm still a complete idiot when it comes to mixing and mastering, it's good to know I get to play the blame game with the "room" (at least some of it). I am buliding 3 each 24"x48" 4" thick OC703 panels covered in burlap. I want to fill my room corners to the R/L of my monitors as well. Easy enough to make, but I have seen these foam bass traps for corners. Do these absorb as well as the OC703? I like the looks, but I want performance. I want a dead room no matter the sacrifice. You guys are great and you can continue to look forward to more questions till I run out of excuses for bad mixes!:D
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If you can afford it, Superchunks are the way to go for corners...

http://forum.studiotips.com/viewtopic.php?t=535
 
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