diff --git a/src/lib/chordAudio.js b/src/lib/chordAudio.js
index 2f87a75..452faf0 100644
--- a/src/lib/chordAudio.js
+++ b/src/lib/chordAudio.js
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ export function guitarShapeToNotes(shape, opts = {}) {
  * Simple fallback when all you have is a bare pitch-class set (e.g. a detected
  * chord's tones, no voicing). Stacks the pcs ASCENDING from the first pc, which
  * is treated as the bass: each subsequent pc lands in the nearest position
- * above the previous note — so [7, 11, 5] plays G3-B3-F4, a real shell, not a
+ * above the previous note — so [7, 11, 5] plays G4-B4-F5, a real shell, not a
  * scrambled cluster. `octave` places the bass (4 = the octave starting at
  * C4 = middle C; default 4; piano.js note = (octave − 3) * 12 + pc).
  *
diff --git a/src/lib/voicings.js b/src/lib/voicings.js
index 0e07e03..1644bb9 100644
--- a/src/lib/voicings.js
+++ b/src/lib/voicings.js
@@ -504,8 +504,11 @@ export function getGuitarVoicings(chordName) {
       continue
     }
 
-    // barre shape: compute rootFret on rootStr
-    const strIdx = shape.rootStr - 1  // 0=s6 … 5=s1
+    // barre shape: compute rootFret on rootStr.
+    // OPEN is ordered [s6 … s1] and rootStr is 1-indexed with 6 = low E,
+    // so string N lives at index 6 - N (same convention as ChordDiagram.jsx
+    // and chordAudio.guitarShapeToNotes).
+    const strIdx = 6 - shape.rootStr  // 0=s6 … 5=s1
     const openPc = OPEN[strIdx]
     let rootFret = (rootPc - openPc + 12) % 12