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As part of the acoustic treatment of my very reverberant live-work space (brick walls and ceiling, concrete floor) I need to install some acoustic pinboards. I am well aware that I will also need plenty of bass traps to dampen the lower frequencies. But that is something I will need to deal with...

I do like the natural reverb of my place. If I sing a folk song, which I do now and then, it sounds not at all bad. But as soon as there's any bass, things get nasty.

Thanks everyone! Loads of interesting ideas here to help me on my way.

The short section of wall behind the digital piano is the only cavity wall in the space. All the others are solid brick. And as I said before, the floor is solid concrete and the ceiling is vaulted brick.

That's interesting. I've actually got a green cloth, a white one and a black one. I assumed too that even the three cloths together wouldn't amount to much acoustically, but I will give it a try.

Thanks for the further info. When you say I should pack the corners with something dense and heavy, are you talking about the kind of bass traps that you can buy from music shops, or are you suggesting a more homemade solution? I am also wondering if I could use floor-standing absorber panels...

Thanks for all your replies so far. The space is around 6m × 4m and is part of a larger space that includes a short 2m wide corridor leading to the kitchen. The thing between the round windows is some kind of square steel bar. It is flat against the wall. Thanks for the idea about the...

Looking for suggestions on how to tame a very reverberant live-work space in a converted industrial building I have just moved into a studio flat in a complex of live-work spaces for artists in a converted brewery. It is very reverberant and, I think, quite challenging to turn into a recording...

Well, the reduction in noise for when my bass is plugged into the audio interface has the bus noise now at barely more than the noise floor of the bass and audio interface, so it is extremely faint and I would have to do some really aggressive compression for it to be a problem. It is still...

Thank you all for the effort you put in a couple of months ago to help me try to solve my bus noise problem. Here's an update: I finally found the solution after I had given up on getting my current hardware to work properly and had posted on another forum asking for recommendations for an...

The leads are a bit further gone than that. They broke many years ago and are held together very poorly with sticky tape, which makes it hard to get consistent readings. I didn't know until I googled yesterday that the plugs on the leads are a standard size and can be easily replaced, which is...

I think I need to replace the leads on the multimeter first. They are not in good condition and if I just touch them to each other they tend to report a bit of resistance. I didn't realise until now that even 1 or 2 ohms can be significant. Clearly I need greater accuracy than they are capable of.

Thanks for your explanations. The problem is with my desktop computer, not my laptop. When I first posted, I thought I had problems with the laptop too, albeit much less severe and not of exactly the same kind, but now I think that that may have been because of logical errors on my part when I...

I haven't got permission yet to attach audio files, so I've uploaded the clip to OneDrive. I recorded it on bass. Unfortunately, my bass has a problem with its electronics (unrelated to the one I am posting about here) stemming from a failed repair and needs to go back to the luthier because it...

I've done a lot more testing today. I have put my multimeter between a USB port on the computer and a ground pin on a power bar and got a reading of around 2 ohms. And I have done the same thing with the outer casing of my bass amp and got roughly the same resistance. I have tried connecting...