Helmholtz Resonator Calculator: Bass Traps, Exhausts, Bottles
Calculate Helmholtz resonance with neck end corrections, damping and half-power bandwidth. Size a cavity for a target tone and explore bass traps, bottles and exhaust resonators.
Instruments, speakers and rooms: string tension and fret layout, crossovers and amplifier power, room modes and reverberation, sound insulation of walls, resonators and tuned bars. Each calc shows the acoustics behind the numbers.
Calculate Helmholtz resonance with neck end corrections, damping and half-power bandwidth. Size a cavity for a target tone and explore bass traps, bottles and exhaust resonators.
Size tubes, rods and marimba bars for a musical note. Find hang points, compare overtones, explore undercut tuning and animate free-free bending modes.
Estimate wall transmission loss, mass–air–mass resonance, coincidence dips and the effect of openings. Compare single and separated double leaves with approximate STC/Rw ratings.
Design a two-way passive crossover with Butterworth, Bessel or Linkwitz–Riley filters. Compare real driver loading, Zobel correction, L-pad losses and the modeled amplitude and phase sum.
Calculate 12-TET fret spacing and exact fanned-fret geometry, with neutral fret, string spread, known compensation offsets, coordinate tables, and a calibrated drawing.
Calculate axial, tangential and oblique room modes, compare octave-band RT60, and size replacement treatment. Explore pressure nodes, listener position and trial bass-trap locations.
Calculate string tension for any tuning and per-string scale length. Design a balanced guitar or bass set from target tensions using published unit weights.
Estimate listener SPL and amplifier power with crest-factor headroom. Check speaker cable loss and damping across a driver's impedance curve.
Design sealed and ported speaker boxes from Thiele–Small parameters. Compare bass response, cone excursion, port air speed and cabinet dimensions.
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