Jessica Monroe

If you spend more than two hours a day at a desk, the way you set your monitor height and angle quietly shapes how your neck, shoulders, and eyes feel by the end of the week. I have spent years testing workstation setups with our team, and the difference between a poorly placed screen and … Read more

For most home and project studios, your monitors should face the short wall. This orientation gives sound waves the longest possible path behind your listening position, which smooths out bass response and reduces the standing waves that wreck your mixes. If you have been mixing in a small room and your bass sounds muddy, inconsistent, … Read more

If your mixes sound great in your studio but fall apart in your car, your listening position might be the problem. I spent years chasing translation issues before I discovered that moving my chair three feet fixed more than any plugin ever could. The 38% rule mixing sweet spot is one of the fastest, free … Read more

You play an open E string on your guitar and the note rumbles louder than every other string. You switch to A and it thumps. D sounds balanced. G sounds fine. You move your head six inches to the right and the boom disappears. That phantom behavior, where specific pitches sound louder or quieter only … Read more

When we first set up our home studio, we couldn’t figure out why our mixes sounded great on headphones but muddy in the room. The answer was hiding on our walls. We had untreated first reflection points bouncing sound back into our ears milliseconds after the direct sound from the speakers, smearing every detail in … Read more

I built my first acoustic panel in a garage studio back in , and the moment I heard the difference, I realized how much garbage audio I had been tolerating. The truth about building DIY acoustic panels that absorb the right frequencies comes down to one critical detail that most beginners miss: panel thickness must … Read more

When I set up my first home studio, I made the same mistake I see in audio forums every week: I covered every wall with two-inch foam and wondered why my recordings sounded like they were made inside a cardboard box. The real question isn’t whether to treat your room. It’s how much wall to … Read more

If you’ve ever wondered where to put bass traps in a rectangular home studio, the short answer is simple: every corner, starting from the floor up to the ceiling, and prioritizing the corners behind your monitors. In this guide, I will walk you through exactly which corners matter, why they work, and how to plan … Read more

I’ve been mixing in untreated rooms for years, and I can tell you from experience that figuring out how to tell if your mix problems are the room or the monitors is one of the most frustrating skills to develop. You spend hours crafting a track that sounds perfect in your studio, only to play … Read more

If your studio monitors sound boomy or have exaggerated bass, wall proximity is usually the culprit. Setting boundary EQ on monitors placed close to a wall is the single most effective fix for this problem, and it takes less than five minutes once you understand the principle. Boundary EQ is a built-in correction filter on … Read more