
Room EQ Wizard
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Room EQ Wizard, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Room EQ Wizard's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | single-channel capture · room/audio measurement · real-time analyzer · EQ tools · Free! |
| REW Pro upgrade | — | multi-input capture · up to 32 input level meters · up to 16 individual RTA traces · STI calculation · one-time fee |
The facts
Each one read from Room EQ Wizard's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analysis tools
- The software provides impulse and step responses, energy-time curves, spectral-decay plots, waterfalls, spectrograms, reverberation times, distortion, phase, group-delay and RTA views.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Equalization
- REW automatically identifies response peaks, assigns EQ filters, optimizes filter parameters and can show predicted EQ waterfalls live.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Equalizer entries include miniDSP, CamillaDSP, Hypex Input EQ, StormAudio, Dutch&Dutch 8c, Behringer, QSC, Crown, Xilica, Anti-Mode and other listed devices and processors.checked 1 Oct 2026
- License
- John Mulcahy licenses REW without charge for personal, educational and commercial use under a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Measurement
- It measures frequency response and distortion using logarithmically swept sine signals and supports USB or analog measurement microphones and SPL meters.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- The Pro upgrade is not required for multichannel outputs, which can be accessed through WASAPI exclusive or ASIO on Windows and Java drivers on macOS or Linux.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The REW application and website do not collect user information, and downloads are free and anonymous; Pro-purchase email addresses are used only to deliver the upgrade code.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Pro capture
- The Pro upgrade captures multiple inputs simultaneously, supports per-input calibration, configurable weighting and SPL alignment, and averages captured channels.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- REW helps optimize listening-room, studio and home-theater acoustics, speaker and subwoofer placement, audio-chain performance and EQ.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Room simulator
- The Room Simulator supports up to eight subwoofers.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Signal generator
- Its signal generator produces sine, square, sawtooth, dual-tone, triple-tone, multitone, tone-burst, CEA-2010, sweep, pink-noise and white-noise signals, with WAV export.checked 1 Oct 2026
- STI
- The Pro upgrade calculates Speech Transmission Index from impulse responses by the indirect method specified in IEC 60268-16:2020.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker provides comprehensive in-app and online help and directs users to the AV NIRVANA REW forum for assistance.checked 1 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- Downloads are provided for Windows 7/8/10/11 and Vista/XP Pro x64, macOS 10.15–14, and Linux AMD64 or Java-runtime-based Linux.checked 1 Oct 2026
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