About StudioMonitorGuide
StudioMonitorGuide covers studio monitors and the room around them: calculating room modes from your own dimensions, nearfield placement and listening distance, reading a frequency-response or maximum-SPL figure without being misled by the tolerance it is quoted at, and the treatment that actually changes what you hear.
It is written for people mixing in an untreated or half-treated room, where the boundaries colour the low end more than the speakers do. Response and output figures come from manufacturer specifications and published listening-condition standards, named and linked on the page.
What is covered here
- Choosing Monitors
- Placement And Setup
- Room Acoustics
- Studio Setup
6 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
Tools
The speaker room size and room mode calculator turns three room dimensions into the axial mode series for each pair of surfaces, the frequency above which those modes stop dominating, a starting nearfield listening distance, and the first boundary cancellation caused by the wall behind the monitors. It is free, needs no signup, and runs entirely in the browser: nothing you type is sent anywhere.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the StudioMonitorGuide Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email [email protected] with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
This site currently runs no affiliate links, no sponsored content, no paid placement, and no display advertising. Nothing on it earns a commission. If that changes, this page and the disclosure page will say so before any such link appears.
The full position is on the disclosure page. Read it before acting on anything here that reads like a buying recommendation.
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Contact
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