I’ve been having a problem with the bass on my la scalas: it can sound uncontrolled on some songs (Mitski’s “My Love All Mine” is one) and just overwhelms the room. Bought some 4-inch acoustic panels and was wondering where to place them. One of the challenges is that to get the panels behind the la scalas, i’ll have to pull the speakers away from the wall at least 6 inches on both sides, which isn’t ideal.
I also have some thin acoustic panels on the ceiling, which don’t seem to be doing much.
Right now I have the panels propped up in various places, just to get an idea if they made a difference. They did. I’d say a 40% percent reduction in the bass problem and an overall richer, fuller sound. Which is great. But I’d like to get the bass thing under control 100%. Maybe mounting them correctly can get me there.
Might look at the triangular bass traps too, but if I can get away with just these four, that’d be great. Thanks.
From what I’ve read and seen on YouTube, 4” panels are probably too thin to do much attenuation of bass frequencies, which are very long wavelengths. Corner bass traps are probably the only effective method available.
A 4 inch panel with a 4 inch air gap behind it is almost as effective as an 8 inch thick panel…
so straddling the corner will create an air gap and is usually most efficient on front wall corners
thanks. thinking of getting some gik acoustic corner traps. but these wall ones are from a professional studio, so i think they should have some impact.