I am looking at purchasing some bass traps for my control room and performance room. There are many companies who make them - which ones are better and less expensive?

Ok,
I try to record and mix and I basically suck at it.
it must be some magic formula.

example - nivana nevermind or soundgarden -
how do they get that big punchey in your face snare and kick sound?

are they eqing the hell out of it?
i thought eq was a no no - you're suppose to get the suond up front to avoid phase problems.

Hey, I'd seen this site on the net and decided I'd try and build 'em (see links below). It took my wife and I a day to build two 6'X14" traps. I can hardly believe how much of a difference it has made in the sound of my booth... it has just sucked out the mud. I pulled the trap out a couple of times just to check it out... man, what a difference. And the best part...

Bass -It's interesting how widely this varies from country to country (Check out Massive Attacks "Mezzanine" and Madonna's "music" for UK bass fetishists), and also hugely from genre to genre.

Hi folks.
I've decided to establish an Australian Embassy here. I think we need one.
be back soon.

Hello again,
Can anyone recommend any promising plastic heads for a 32" birch bass drum?
I have FiberSkyn, and it's a disaster.
I also have some nice Kalfo calf heads coming, which are by far my preferred choice.
Nonetheless, weather does not always permit, so for the road in the rainy season I'm so far looking at Pinstripes and Remo coated white heads.

I am having a little trouble understanding the cancelling of high frequencies due to closeness of directional mics to the sound source. what's the relation between high freq and it's wavelenghts coming from 0 degrees cancelling at the mic diaphragm? and why does the dual capsule omni mode exhibit so little effect?

Folks,

Have you had luck with self-made tubetraps or such?
(or maybe luck does not play a role in it ;) )

I am planning to treat a small pre-production room acustically. I pretty well know the methods for taming bass-frequency modes, early reflections and using diffusors.

Do you park your bass drum when you do fills?

I usually, have the kickdrum on the lower frequency spectrum of the song, then the bass etc...like in most rock/pop music. I've do this very well. But lately I've been listening to some recordings were the bass is lower, and then is the kick drum, like the last U2 record. And I was wondering how do you get a clear bass and kick this way, any techniques? I'd like some imput on this.