About Setup Gear Guide
Setup Gear Guide helps you assemble complete, compatibility-checked gear setups — and shows its work. Every pick comes with sourced specs, a transparent score, and reasoning you can audit, not hype you have to take on faith.
What we do
Most gear advice is either a single "best of" list with no compatibility logic, or a wall of specs with no opinion. We do the part in between: build whole setups where the pieces actually work together, across four areas we know enthusiasts obsess over.
- Sim racing — wheelbases, wheels, pedals, and cockpits matched by ecosystem, torque, and platform.
- Photo / video — bodies, lenses, audio, and lighting matched by mount, payload, and use case.
- Music production — interfaces, monitors, mics, and MIDI matched by I/O, room, and workflow.
- PC builds — every part checked for socket, clearance, and wattage, then scored for your workload.
Start from the builder, take a guided quiz if you're new, or browse the curated setups in any category. The compatibility engine flags conflicts as you go, and nothing it can't verify is ever presented as a verified pass or fail.
How we pick
We do not hands-on test hardware, and no page here should be read as claiming otherwise. Instead, every specification, price, and compatibility claim is sourced to a citable page (manufacturer first), and anything we can't verify is flagged rather than guessed. Scores are computed deterministically by code from that sourced data — there's no live AI writing verdicts and no pay-for-placement. The full breakdown of sourcing gates, what each score means, and how compatibility is judged lives in the methodology.
How we stay honest
Setup Gear Guide is reader-supported: some outbound links may become affiliate links, and we may earn a commission when you buy through them — at no extra cost to you. That relationship is walled off from the rankings. The scoring and recommendation engines never receive affiliate status as an input, so a higher commission can't buy a better placement. The details are on the affiliate disclosure page.
If you spot a wrong spec, a dead link, or a product we're missing, tell us — corrections with a source link get handled fastest, and fixing them is the whole point. Use the corrections form.
Who's behind it
Setup Gear Guide is operated by Jupiter Coastal Media — a small, independent operation by design. For corrections use the form above; for partnerships, press, or anything else, email contact@setupgearguide.com, or see the full contact page.