Live Practice Room question

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This is NOT for recording purposes! Only for live practice - rehearsals.

We play in a small bedroom of a small suburban house and the bass if really boomy.

We only play for fun so we're really not gonna buy any bass traps and I'm really not gonna build any traps, because there's no time!

if I placed some nice cardboard boxes full of bubble-wrap, peanuts or styrofoam or something like that along all the room corners, would that have a noticeable effect?

Or what about that packing material they use to ship hard drives, which looks somewhat like acoustic treatment foam (with pyramids on one side), Is that any good?

I just want a decent overall sound with no boominess, so we can all hear each other. Again, recording is NOT even an issue!

Thanks!
 
Well, how about you be the first one out of all of us to try it. Get enough boxes to go from floor to ceiling, fill them with crap and see how it sounds. $5 it sounds better. :) but not great...
 
It'll probably make a difference, maybe not a good or bad one....maybe not even noticable! Try moving the equipment around different places. Many times you can find better places that sound "better".
 
The cheapest thing is to pile rolls of pink insulation in the corners.
 
If your bass amp is in the corner I would move it away near the center of the room. Also if you have room, put a couch in there.
 
Thanks, guys! This room is REALLY small. By the time we put in a keyboard and a guitar player, there'll be no room for a couch.

Is it important for these "traps" to be from floor to ceiling in the corners (like 4 pillars) or can I just put them in the 8 corners of the room where the corner touches the floor and the ceiling?

I kinda thought that bubble-wrap might be good because there's so many "membranes" in there to absorb energy. I know it's most likely in the wrong spectrum (not bass).

Hey, maybe I could use smaller bubbles and larger bubbles to have better frequency coverage! :D (just kidding here).
 
It's not too important to have it go from floor to ceiling, it doesn't have to touch the ceiling. It's not like you're putting bass traps at the ceiling to wall corners. Remember, sound doesn't know what the hell is up or down. Your room is one three dimentional space, so there are going to be corners not treated.
 
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