Bass trapping is an important aspect for your recording studio design since it takes care of the low frequencies and leaves you with a better sounding home studio. Even though normal absorption panels are great to take care of your reflections, bass needs a heavier approach. Treating and tuning your studio room with correct acoustic treatment is a must if you want to get serious about your home recordings. You can usually see bass traps in the corners of studios because that’s where low-frequency buildup usually happens. Therefore it’s a good strategy to place all your traps in the corners where they will absorb the most amount of bass.
A bass trap in the corner eliminates 90° angle the two walls make, reducing reflections. Bass tends to build up in the corners so if you have a thick bass trap there it will eat up the excess bass that’s clogging up your control room. Don’t worry about overdoing the bass traps; you can’t really over-bass-trap a room anyway. Low-end is big and bulky so create as many bass traps as you can. Not only will the placement work the best for bass trapping but it will also help scatter and diffuse the sound-waves in the room.
In a normal control room, it’s always a good idea to not completely deaden the space. You might put up mid to high-frequency absorber around the room to give it an even sound but you wouldn’t completely tile the room with absorbers unless you are creating a completely dead recording space like a vocal booth. You can’t really put up too much bass trapping. It’s a good idea, if you can, to line every corner in your room with low end traps. Bass is very hard to manage so if you have the option, you should definitely try to put as many in your home recording studio as you can. A great home recording studio isn’t only about all the great gear you can buy. There has to be careful consideration put into how you want your room to sound.