Not All Bass Traps Are Equal

ASC has been pioneering, building and improving bass traps since 1984. Our flagship product, the TubeTrap, almost single-handedly launched the portable room acoustics industry. Competitors and copycats have emerged; some have thrived, others not so much. There’s a reason TubeTraps remain the go-to acoustic tool for the most discriminating audiophiles and upper-echelon music mix engineers: they work.

Are they better than balls of fuzz? Well, does a ball of fuzz have an adjustable treble range polydiffuser, a resilient steel exoskeleton for handling and stacking, and a range of 50+ fabric color options, finished with clean lines and a taut skin?

No, these are not just run-of-the-mill kinetic absorbers. The low frequency performance exceeds that which is predicted by standard quarter wavelength thinking. Diffractive absorption combines with an internal reactive element to provide greater efficiency in the bass range than other products of similar size.

Where should different types of bass traps be placed?

In this video, TubeTrap inventor and ASC President Art Noxon briefly discusses how TubeTraps work and tells you why we place them in the corners.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Kind of like the way a TubeTrap fixes your room sound.

No charging time like a membrane trap; no mess like a batt of loose fiberglass; no fiddling with knobs or moving around plates to get it tuned to one small frequency range.

TubeTrap absorption is instantaneous, the internal fibers are 100% sealed using spunbonded acoustically transparent material, and it works most efficiently where the pressure is highest, so whichever frequencies are building up in your room are the ones that a TubeTrap absorbs the most.