BASSBOSS Unveils PredictBASS Room Modeling Software Tool for Bass Optimization

BASSBOSS, the American high-power loudspeaker company, designs all its professional systems with integrated amplification and DSP to maximize performance. To ensure those systems are properly configured, BASSBOSS now announced PredictBASS, a free room modeling software tool designed for venue owners, sound engineers, and DJs to explore how bass frequencies behave in a virtual 3D space — helping them better understand low-frequency behavior and apply that knowledge to subwoofer placement in their own venues.

British start-up Sonic Baume has launched SubZone – a mobile app that finds the optimum position for a subwoofer in the room using acoustic simulation. Once the user enters some simple details about the room and listening position, the app predicts the effect of room modes for every possible position of the subwoofer. It then presents a heatmap of the room showing where the user should aim to put the subwoofer, and where to avoid placing it.

This article examines the problem of subwoofer placement in odd-shaped rooms, exploring corner locations of subwoofers and some pros and cons of single-woofer versus dual-woofer systems for a given placement within a listening room. In the article, the author extends the analysis and actually generates the “room contribution” curves for a non-rectangular room. This article was originally published in audioXpress, September 2002.