The purpose of acoustic treatment is to improve the quality of sound in a room. Common problems are echoes and excess ambience, too much or too little bass, poor stereo imaging and localization, unclear movie dialog, and generally muddy sound. Low frequencies are often the biggest problem, with response variations as large as 35 dB, especially in smaller rooms.

For recording engineers, mixes that seem fine in your control room sound boomy or thin when played elsewhere. If you can't hear bass instruments clearly it's impossible to create mixes that sound good everywhere. For audiophiles and home theater owners, bass instruments sound boomy and ill-defined, movie dialog is difficult to understand at low volumes, and the excess ambience turns music into an incoherent mess.

To solve acoustic problems common to all rooms, RealTraps has developed a line of very high-performance acoustic treatment. Once a room has been properly treated the clarity and articulation of music, and especially bass instruments, improves enormously. Whether you're a professional recording engineer, serious audiophile, or home theater owner who wants the best sound possible, the most cost-effective way to upgrade your entire system is with acoustic treatment from RealTraps.

Besides recording studios and listening rooms, our products are also used in churches and chapels, restaurants, bars, auditoriums, Foley studios, movie sound stages, DVD mixing suites - even a research lab at MIT!

All RealTraps products are built in our own Connecticut factory by highly skilled workers using only American made parts.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

For most domestic size rooms the price ranges from as low as $800 (four MiniTraps) to around $7,000 for outstanding results in a larger room. Smaller rooms can often get away with less treatment, where larger rooms have more surface area which must be treated. So the cost basically depends on how much you're comfortable spending versus the kind of results you hope to obtain.

NAVIGATING THIS WEB SITE

There is a huge amount of product information and educational material on this web site, and the Tabs at the top each page will take you to the various sections. Although many of the explanations address recording engineers, all of the content is equally relevant for home theater owners and audiophiles who are serious about good sound. Below are direct links to some of the most popular pages on this site.

Frequently Asked Questions
Praise & Reviews
Placing RealTraps
Acoustics Articles
Product Demo and Tutorial Videos

THE REALTRAPS GUARANTEE

Satisfaction: If you are not satisfied - though you surely will be - you may return any RealTraps product for a full refund within 30 days, minus shipping, as long as they are in perfect condition and show no sign of abuse or tampering.

Performance: All RealTraps products are guaranteed to the original owner to be free of manufacturing and other defects for a period of ten years. This warranty does not cover cosmetic blemishes, nor will it be honored if a trap has been opened or unsealed, modified, improperly installed, or subjected to accident or abuse. Return and replacement shipping are not included.

Returned products will not be accepted unless you first obtain a Return Authorization Number from us. This number must be written clearly on the outside of all shipping cartons. Returned products must be packaged properly - preferably using the original cartons and packing materials if possible - and must also be insured for the full price you paid. All shipping charges are paid by the customer.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

No customer information is ever sold, given away, or used by anyone other than RealTraps for the expected purposes of normal business activity. Although we do request an email address when you place an order, that is used only to send your receipt, and so FedEx can send you a tracking notice when your order ships. Credit card numbers are kept in paper form only - never on a networked computer.

LAWYERS ALWAYS GET THE LAST WORD

Neither RealTraps nor its owners shall be liable for any damage caused by the installation, use, or misuse of these products including, but not limited to, loss of profit, business interruption, a trap falling off the wall and breaking your vintage Neumann tube microphone, or landing on someone's head, or any other mishap including incidental or consequential damages, even if RealTraps or its owners have been notified that such damages might occur. All prices are subject to change without notice. All RealTraps product names are trademarked or pending trademark.