The Firewaves interface, mid-range presence, plainly controlled.
Firewaves steers a saturator across the 400Hz–4kHz range, the part of the mix that decides whether a vocal or lead cuts through. We measured 0.2–1.6% two-tone intermodulation hash on the current engine, down from 43–46% on the one it replaced.
The Firewaves interface, mid-range presence, plainly controlled.
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.
A HeadBumpSaturator topology ported from Groundwaves and recalibrated 10x hotter for mid-band energy, unconditionally bounded, no hard clamps.
A single log-mapped 400Hz–4kHz bandpass with a live center-frequency readout in Hz, not a fixed EQ band.
Two-tone IMD testing puts the current engine at 0.2–1.6% hash, versus 43–46% for the exact-harmonic engine it replaced.
Two cascaded HP/LP filter stages, ~24dB/oct each, keep generated harmonics out of Groundwaves' and Airwaves' frequency lanes.
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.
Firewaves is finished and release-ready — code-signed, notarized by Apple, and passing auval and pluginval. $49 USD individually, or $169 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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