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AIRWAVES

Smart air control: more air and sparkle on top, without harshness or extra loudness.

AU VST3 AUv3 · SMASH HUB iOS, IN PROGRESS macOS · INTEL & APPLE SILICON V2.1.2
Airwaves plugin interface

The Airwaves interface, nine stages of DSP behind four honest knobs.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Air and top-end life, without the harshness.

AIR STAGE

Three cascaded shelves

Baxandall shelves at 700Hz, 10kHz and 16kHz through harmonic saturation, then measured RMS gain compensation so tone changes don't become loudness changes.

TO THE STARS

Parallel high-frequency enhancer

A dedicated parallel stage above 8kHz, with M/S pinking shelves that keep the extra air centered instead of smearing the stereo image.

TRANSIENT EXPANDER

Spark Happy

Fast/slow envelope ratio on the final output distinguishes actual transient onsets from raw level.

DE-HARSHENER

Smooth Happy

6 independent narrowband detectors (2800/3600/4500/5500/6800/8200Hz), each with its own fast/slow envelope and 3ms lookahead so gain reduction arrives ahead of the peak, Soothe-style, no cross-band interaction.

CLIPPER

16x oversampled

Threshold margin set from real-time measured crest factor so dense, loud material doesn't pin the knob to its narrowest setting.

STEREO WIDENER

Edge Happy

Isolates the Side channel above 6kHz and upward-expands only its transient deviation, Mid signal untouched.

LIMITER

Party On Wayne

Always-on two-stage true-peak limiter, no bypass switch in the UI.

VISUALS

Animated cloud field

A sheet-lightning flash is tied to the same transient detector driving Spark Happy.

PARAMETERS
17
FORMATS
AU · VST3 · AUv3 (Smash Hub iOS, in progress)
OVERSAMPLING
16x, clipper
PRESETS
None, by design
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Airwaves is code-signed, notarized by Apple, and passing auval and pluginval. $49 USD individually, or $199 USD as part of the Elemental Mastering Suite. The store opens shortly; join the list and we'll email you the day it does. $5 from every purchase goes to BC Children's Hospital Foundation.

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