Acoustics · Free tool

Room Mode Calculator

Enter your room's length, width, and height to find every standing wave your room produces below 300 Hz — the range where small-room bass problems live.

Learn why room modes occur, physically →

Top-down room diagram showing overlapping standing-wave pressure zones between the walls
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    Enter Dimensions

    Your room's real length, width, and height — meters or feet.

  2. 02

    Calculate Modes

    Every axial, tangential, and oblique mode up to 300 Hz, computed instantly.

  3. 03

    Inspect Frequencies

    Clustering and gap detection show where your room's bass problems actually sit.

Units: m (toggle below). Interior dimensions, wall to wall.

Your room at a glance

Room mode dashboard

Room volume
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Room ratio (H:W:L)
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Reference only, not a pass/fail test.
Modes below 300 Hz
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Lowest mode
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How to interpret these results

These are calculated resonant frequencies, not measured loudness. Clusters identify nearby modes worth checking with a room measurement; speaker position, listening position and absorption determine how strongly you hear them.

Mode frequency graph

300 Hz

Each marker is a calculated resonant frequency of this room (a room mode) — not a measured sound level. Height only separates overlapping markers for readability. Click or tap a marker: axial modes jump to their standing-wave shape below, tangential/oblique modes jump to their row in the full table.

Room shape

Mode density by band

count of modes per 20 Hz band

How many resonances fall in each 20 Hz slice below 300 Hz. Tall bars mean several modes stacked close together (likely reinforced/boomy); empty gaps mean no resonance support in that range.

All flagged clusters & gaps

Standing wave shape

Theoretical pressure pattern for this single mode only (ignores every other mode and any furniture/absorption) — a simplified picture of the standing wave shape, not a prediction of your room's full measured response.

All calculated modes · frequency table
FrequencyIndices (nx,ny,nz)Type

Continue planning your studio

Room modes depend only on the size of the room. Next, see where the speakers and listening position sit in it, then how much treatment to start with. Want to enter the room once and carry it through placement, RT60 and a treatment plan in one editable file? The Studio Acoustic Toolkit includes a Studio Project Workbook for that, with a measurement guide and a setup checklist.

Or ask for a human review of your room.

From room modes to a studio plan

A room mode calculator predicts resonances from room dimensions. It does not measure the response at your chair. Start with speaker and listener placement, then test treatment choices with measurements in your actual room.