BF2S Forums Help with Bass Reduction

You can do one of two things.

1) Get some thick felt pads to place under the speaker. This should dampen the bass thump enough to help stop the complaints.

2) Place the speaker somewhere elevated.

The choice is yours.

well mine is on the soft carpet, and i stell get yelled at.

Is your system volume up all the way?

turn system volume up, and reduce the speakers volume.

What are you doing when the neighbors are complaining?  If you are using any media play (WMP, iTunes, VLC) check the eqs and turn down the bass.  If you are playing BF2, check the audio options to see if there is a setting for bass.  I suspect that their is not any.  For the pads that were suggested, you can get them at any craft store.  I know that it is not as nice to look at, but an egg create foam will help reduce the base a lot.

Raven, you may be getting feedback via your mic.  If you blow into the mic, you will most likely hear the crackling sound.  If so either relocate your mic, or the angle of your speaker.  You can also get a headset to reduce/stop this for occurring.  Another thing you can do is adjust how sensitive your mic is in your Control Panel.

The subwoofer makes the floor vibrate, if it's in contact with it, which is why its position doesn't matter.  Raising it off the floor, preferably with some kind of cushioning - felt pads - lessens the vibration and hence the sub's impact.  Low wavelength sounds carry more than higher wavelengths so if your neightbour is complaining about the noise, reducing the bass will have the best effect.

Or you could invest in a good pair of headphones.

R3v4n wrote:

K ill check that out to.  Also why is it better to have the Sub of the ground?

This is a little complicated, but I will explain it the best I can.

Bass sounds the best (crisp and has that thump sound), when a sub woofer is enclosed in a box.  Thus the reason why car stereos that have a lot of bass use a box.  This allows you to "control" the amount of air that is moved by the sub woofer.  By placing your sub on the floor, you are turning your neighbor's apartment into a box like device.  They only hear the vibrations from the bass, since bass is low frequency.  It is sort of like sticking your head in a plastic trash can and having someone high it with a bat.  You feel and hear the bass because the vibrations are stronger to you, where your friend will not because the vibrations dissipate through the air.

Sorry if I did not explain it well.  This is one of those, better experienced then explained.  That and have had only two hours of sleep in the last 24 hours, so I am not thinking clearly.

Last edited by dubbs (2006-10-22 17:06:26)

Ok. so if i take it up off the ground will i lose any bass? or if i use felt padding?? cause i dunno if any yall have the z5300 or z5500 speakers or not bu the sub pwns and i love having deep bass.

chittydog wrote:

None of these methods is really going to have a large impact on what your neighbors hear. Bass wavelengths are very long and travel through solids fairly well. That's why you mainly hear the bass when someone has their car stereo up and the windows closed. You need a decent amount of dense material to block that out, just some egg crates won't do the job. Unfortunately, the best thing you can do is get an EQ to turn down the bass, or buy a ticket to the wonderful world of headphones.

I have to say that your first sentence is false.  Foam will reduce the bass, and the total amount of sound that his neighbors will hear.  Have you ever seen the inside of a sound booth at a record label?  They have a lot of foam on the walls, and ceiling. They use a very special type of material at higher end sound booths, that are foamed based, to absorb the sound.  For those just starting up, they glue foam to the walls.

<SS>SonderKommando wrote:

Ok. so if i take it up off the ground will i lose any bass? or if i use felt padding?? cause i dunno if any yall have the z5300 or z5500 speakers or not bu the sub pwns and i love having deep bass.

Sonder, you will not loose any of the bass that you hear.  Raising the sub off the floor will only effect where the sound is coming from for you. 

Depending on the design of your sub, foam padding may effect the sound.  Just from looking at a picture of the your system, it looks as if it would not effect your system.  Some subs will place the sub woofer so that it points to the ground, and has small legs to raise the sub off the ground a little.  These will be effected but you seem safe.

Also, while looking at some sites, they stay that carpet padding is very good at absorbing sound, and is very cheap.  I am for sure you can find a local carpet installer who will give you the scrap material that they can not use.  If you do this at least you have nothing to loose.

1) Move out of your parents attic. Obviously they get annoyed.....

an option for lessing the vibs are go to you local audio store and get some dyno-mat..use in car audio installations..cover the bottom in 2 layers of the stuff or a piece of High Density fiberborad form home depot and dyno-mat the board also..


make sure you dont have a downward firing sub or all this may not help that much.. if this is the case try point the sub at you and not the floor( jsut dont put the amp in the carpet)

hope this helps some

You could also tell your neighbor to suck your nuts, that usually works for the best.