Bass breaking my house

[Oisterman]

So, other than the obvious "turn the bass down"...how can I stop my vibrating bass from breaking my house all to hell without hurting the bass? I've tried moving it onto the carpet, and that doesn't help.

Would suspending it from the ceiling on hooks with chains work? Seems like it would just shake the sub-woofer all over on the chains and eventually break the walls when it built up enough jiggle.

I can't turn mah bass down I lieks it. But I don't like it breaking shit and vibrating stuff off my shelves.

[Cloud13]

Turn the bass down.

On a serious note, make sure you don't hurt your hearing with it.

[Oisterman]

Nahhhh, its not quite THAT intense haha.

And I mostly only have it up that loud for outdoor parties...I just open the windows and you can hear it in my front lawn if you're out there. Sucks coming inside to pick up some brews to have to walk by the speakers though

[MrTingTing]

I can assure you, the sound is incredible and will not harm your furniture or neighbours

[Ronin]

You can also just attach some concrete weight to them, or weight them down another way. The spikes thing is interesting though, never heard of that.

[Oisterman]

I usually don't have it up that loud, but when the rest of the music is at a good volume for hearing in my front lawn, the bass is hopping all around. I dooooo have a separate bass knob, but if I turn it down any it doesn't sound right outside.

[Raiyne]

Umm, subwoofers are meant to be connected to the floor/wall. That's the whole point. No one suspends their subs, it just defeats the purpose.


Also, I don't know how your sound system is set up, but maybe your EQ is too unbalanced, if there is any. So you could turn down the bass but retain the overall volume of the music. I guess if your house is really vibrating too much, you just have to turn the sub bass down. Remember, subwoofers mainly only produce sub frequencies, that's like 80Hz and below, though there probably will be some in 100Hz+. You can EQ accordingly, use your ears and find what's right.

If your room is filled with too much bass, but not from wall/floor vibration, then what you need are bass traps.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_trap

[muzicguru]

Other than putting some padding down to stop the direct vibration from the sub there isn't much you can do apart from turning the bass down.