MID-RANGE ENHANCER

FIREWAVES

Midrange harmonic control: blend even and odd harmonics and steer where the warmth lands.

AU VST3 AUv3 · SMASH HUB iOS, IN PROGRESS macOS · INTEL & APPLE SILICON
Firewaves plugin interface

The Firewaves interface, mid-range presence, plainly controlled.

WHAT'S UNDER THE HOOD

Real harmonics, not a fake curve.

HARMONIC CHARACTER

Even/odd blend, verified flat

CHARACTER gates the antisymmetric cross-term between warm even-order and gritty odd-order harmonics, measured near-flat in level across its full sweep, no volume trick disguised as tone.

THE TECHNICAL HEADLINE

Gain-normalized tanh saturation

A HeadBumpSaturator topology ported from Groundwaves and recalibrated 10x hotter for mid-band energy, unconditionally bounded, no hard clamps.

TONE CONTROL

Sweep the presence band

A single log-mapped 400Hz–4kHz bandpass with a live center-frequency readout in Hz, not a fixed EQ band.

MEASURED CLEANLINESS

0.2–1.6% intermodulation hash

Two-tone IMD testing puts the current engine at 0.2–1.6% hash, versus 43–46% for the exact-harmonic engine it replaced.

GUARDRAILS

Confined to 150Hz–9.5kHz

Two cascaded HP/LP filter stages, ~24dB/oct each, keep generated harmonics out of Groundwaves' and Airwaves' frequency lanes.

SOLO LISTEN

Hear exactly what's being added

The Δ button solos only the harmonic content Firewaves is generating, nothing else, so you can dial in Tone and Character by ear before committing to the blend.

PARAMETERS
8
FORMATS
AU · VST3 · AUv3 (Smash Hub iOS, in progress)
OVERSAMPLING
16x
TWO-TONE IMD
0.2–1.6%
THE STORE OPENS SHORTLY

Firewaves 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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