superchunk!
no, not the indie rock band, but the bass trap of the same name where you pile a corner from floor to ceiling with wedges of rigid insulation in order to smooth out a room's bass response. while disco was over this week cutting the insulation, i was building the frames for the two traps. here's how one of them looks (sorry for the shitty quality):
notice the access panel. in retrospect, i really should have put that panel somewhere else, but at the time it didn't seem like it would be a big issue to put it there. no biggie, i just had to make sure the trap dimensions were such that it completely covers the panel.
next came stacking all the wedges inside the frame:
note that the bottom 10 or so wedges are in two pieces. this is so if i ever have to get into that panel i can just pull out the small pieces in front of the panel and pop a short 2x4 or something in the corner to keep the pieces above propped up while i go into the wall.
here's how the wall looks with both traps installed. the pieces that disco cut are on the left. the pieces that i cut are on the right. you can kind of tell that my frame of mind was, "i don't care how these look, i just want to cut them as quickly as i possibly can").
eventually these bad boys will be covered in black fabric so they look all sleek and stuff. but the next step is to do another round of room analysis to see how much these have helped the low-frequency response problems.