EARN THEIR PLACE

Precision, mastering-grade enhancers.

Wavefront — boxed
WAVEFRONT

Uncompromising spectral balance.

  • LINEAR PHASE — double-precision EQ engine, filter curves swap mid-drag with zero clicks
  • THE SURGEON — adaptive resonance suppression, touches only what pokes through
  • DYNAMIC EQ — 16 fully dynamic bands, each with its own threshold, ratio, attack and release
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Groundwaves — boxed
GROUNDWAVES

Complete low-end control.

  • GROUNDWORK — mastering-grade head-bump saturation, gain-normalized within ±0.35dB so warmth never masquerades as loudness
  • DE-MUD — a three-band dynamic notch with double-precision filtering, dissolving mud automatically instead of carving a static EQ cut
  • WALL OF BASS — provably mono-safe stereo field on the 40–60Hz band, real low-end width that never costs you translation
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Tidewaves — boxed
TIDEWAVES

Transparent glue compression.

  • UNDERTOW — three mastering-grade compressor characters, VCA, opto, or vari-mu, with zero added distortion in any mode
  • BALLISTICS — attack and release track your material's own crest factor in real time, so the glue never fights the mix
  • DETECTOR — Lean tilts the sidechain's ear toward lows or highs, shaping the glue without ever coloring the signal path
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Firewaves — boxed
FIREWAVES

Mid-range harmonic control.

  • HARMONIC CHARACTER — blend warm even-order harmonics against gritty odd-order, measured flat so it's tone, never a volume trick
  • TUBE DRIVE — a mid-band saturation engine recalibrated 10x hotter, unconditionally bounded so it never spikes or clips unexpectedly
  • FOCUS — sweep a log-mapped 400Hz–4kHz band with a live Hz readout, targeting exactly where a mix turns boxy
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Airwaves — boxed
AIRWAVES

Mastering-grade enhancer behind four knobs.

  • AIR STAGE — three cascaded Baxandall shelves (700Hz, 10kHz, 16kHz) through harmonic saturation, with RMS gain compensation so more air never means more loudness fooling your ears
  • TO THE STARS — a parallel enhancer that adds sparkle, centered in the image
  • SPARK HAPPY — puts real energy back into transients up top
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Spacewaves — boxed
SPACEWAVES

Source-matched space and depth.

  • REVERB ENGINE — an 8-line lossless Householder FDN built for mastering depth, not a wash — dense, natural, never smeared
  • BIT-EXACT BYPASS — verified 0 differing samples at rest; the wet signal is purely additive, so your master never gets colored by accident
  • TRANSIENT DUCKING — the tail ducks up to 10dB under transients and recovers in ~300ms, so attacks stay punchy instead of smearing into the space
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Redline — boxed
REDLINE

Precision mastering loudness.

  • TAPE STAGE — independent Low/Mid/High drive into a true three-band harmonic matrix, true-bypass at 0% so color is always a choice, never a tax
  • LOUDNESS ENGINE — a wideband limiter with blended fast/slow release, built to hit competitive loudness without ever sounding pumped
  • SMOOTH HAPPY — presence taming linked directly to gain reduction, tamed exactly when the limiter's working hardest, gone completely at rest
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Meridian — boxed
MERIDIAN

The complete metering suite.

  • LOUDNESS — true BS.1770-5 loudness metering, not an approximation
  • GATING — real two-stage gating, the same math a broadcast meter uses
  • REAL WORLD MATRIX — hear it the way a phone, earbuds, or streaming actually will
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Smash Refinery — boxed
SMASH REFINERY

All 8 core plugins, one window.

  • ARCHITECTURE — every module is the real plugin's own code, compiled directly in, not a clone
  • SIGNAL CHAIN — drag any module to reorder the chain, hear it differently in seconds
  • MIXING — per-module wet/dry blending, dial in exactly how much of each stage you want
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THE COLLECTION

Smash Happy Family.

EFFECTS

Creative processing tools that stand apart from the mastering chain — same ear, different job.

IN DEV & TESTING $49
FOUNDWAVES REVERB DESIGNER

Creative convolution reverb built on real captured room impulse responses. Pairs with Foundwaves Capture.

AVAILABLE NOW iOS · FREE
FOUNDWAVES CAPTURE

The iPhone companion app for capturing creative reverb designs — rooms, plates, or whatever you can think of — with just your built-in mic. A pro upgrade is available to do professional room modeling.

GUITAR & BASS

Tools for guitar and bass players — separate from the mastering lineup.

ANNOUNCED
NO STAIRWAY Denied.

A guitar & bass plugin blending our own engines and DSP with NAM A2 and Tone3000 tone models. Early days — more soon.

ANNOUNCED
SMASHBOARD

A pedalboard container hosting original stompboxes — Reactive Mod, Spring Tank, Chameleon EQ, Decay, Octavist — drag-and-drop reorderable. Pairs with No Stairway: the pedals feed the amp.

WORKFLOW

Companions to the plugin lineup — not mastering or effect plugins themselves.

BUILT · WAITLIST FREE
REACH

Turn any MIDI knob into a scroll wheel over the parameter you're hovering, in any plugin.

IN TESTING $20
DROPZONE

Delivery and packaging workflow for finished masters.

HOW WE SELL

No 80%-off banners. No countdown timers. Just an honest price.

We're a small BC company run by engineers, not a marketing department. We price plugins to be genuinely affordable up front — not permanently "on sale" — and we'd rather be in the comments and the inbox with the people using these than hiding behind a storefront.

Buy it once, own it — forever. No subscriptions. We're not going to rent your own tools back to you month after month. The only time we'd ever run one is if a product genuinely costs us something to keep online, like a cloud service.

$5 from every purchase goes to BC Children's Hospital Foundation. No strings, no opt-in required — it's just part of the price. We'll share the totals as we go.

PER PLUGIN

$49 each

Any single mastering-chain plugin — Wavefront, Groundwaves, Tidewaves, Firewaves, Airwaves, Spacewaves, Redline, or Meridian.

THE WHOLE CHAIN

$169 — Complete Mastering Suite

All eight mastering plugins, bundled — plus Dropzone, our delivery workflow app, included free. That's the full chain and your delivery tool for less than four plugins bought individually.

EARLY ADOPTER

$199 — everything, forever

Every current plugin plus every plugin we release in the future, for one price. This introductory offer won't stay this low as the catalog grows — it's the earliest, best deal we'll ever offer.

WORKFLOW & CREATIVE TOOLS

Priced on their own terms.

DROPZONE
$20 — free with the Suite
REACH
Free
FOUNDWAVES
$49
FOUNDWAVES CAPTURE
Free
NO STAIRWAY & SMASHBOARD
Pricing coming soon
GIVING BACK

Help The Kids!

$5 from every purchase goes to BC Children's Hospital Foundation, every year — and we'll show the proof. We're parents too, and we're driven to help families and children in need.