Carpet in Bass Boxes

 

sound doesn't like hard surfaces

 

jacket and duvet lining is what you want, it looks like white rockwall,

known in the trade as "wadding"

 

and egg box foam is even better but more expensive

 

i always find that lining reflex cabs is good, but sometimes in a folded horn situation it takes the edge (punch) off the sound, in a bad way

 

wadding gives the driver the impression that it's in a bigger box than what it is, when the sound from the cone travels to the rear of the cab it will slow down slightly when it pass's through the wadding, telling it that its in a bigger cab, and also stops  reflexion's bouncing off the interior wall's

 

 

imagine doing a gig in a tiled room (turkish bath), the sound would bounce all over the place,  then do a gig in the same room with the wall's carpeted, the sound would stop dead when it hit the wall's and would sound much better

 

this is why all recording studio's have egg box foam and carpeted wall's