Due to some of the pipes we have we had to put in a couple of soffits. We did straight 45 degree soffits on the side walls to the ceiling to conceal the pipes. I was thinking to match the room up I was going to put in bass traps in the front and rear walls and create a tray ceiling in the room. From an athetics stand point this would work, but how would this help with bass? I have room to put corner traps in 3 corners but one corner has a door too close in the rear of the room so I was leaning toward not putting corner traps in and was hoping this might help enough to offset that. or am I wasting time and money on something that really won't help much.

Any input would be great.

Thanks

Due to some of the pipes we have we had to put in a couple of soffits. We did straight 45 degree soffits on the side walls to the ceiling to conceal the pipes. I was thinking to match the room up I was going to put in bass traps in the front and rear walls and create a tray ceiling in the room. From an athetics stand point this would work, but how would this help with bass? I have room to put corner traps in 3 corners but one corner has a door too close in the rear of the room so I was leaning toward not putting corner traps in and was hoping this might help enough to offset that. or am I wasting time and money on something that really won't help much.

Any input would be great.

Thanks

If you used sheet rock to wall in the pipes, you unfortunately missed one great opportunity for bass trapping. The best soffit is made of rigid fiberglass insulation, with as little mass as possible blocking the insulation. Any chance you can re-do that?

As for the front and rear wall-ceiling corners, rigid fiberglass is again the key. The more you have, the better the results. Always. So a full-size square soffit beats a half-size triangle soffit, if this is what you're asking. Likewise for all other corners.

--Ethan