Acoustic treatment


I want to build my own bass traps and was wondering if there are any other alternatives to fiberglass and rokwool. Foam is not a consideration as I don't believe it has the necessary qualities for absorption. I have heard of cotton batting, does anyone have experience with this material. The idea of fiberglass makes me itch just thinking about it, but I'm resigned to using it or rokwool if that's all I have.  Please make suggestions and let me know your experiences.

Thanks
Mike
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Anything the right size with any damping material can be a bass trap. A walk-in closet is a bass trap. Robert Harley's The Complete Guide to High End Audio has a whole section on the design of bass traps, a lot of which is probably also available on-line for free. Just as available on-line for free you can read about distributed bass arrays and why they work so much better and make bass traps so much less important.