A PROUD PLUGIN COMPANY FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA

Precision-grade DSP.
Plainly controlled.

Smash Happy Audio is a small, independent plugin studio built by one working engineer with twenty years in real studios — DSP engineered by ear and verified by measurement, controlled by knobs that do exactly what they say. No presets, ever, and no fake 80%-off sales — just honest tools at an honest price. Right now our flagship work is a full mastering chain, one plugin per stage, plus a growing set of creative tools built with the same ear.

MUSICAL, NOT JUST CLINICAL TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING ANALOG & TAPE-INSPIRED NO GIMMICK PRICING
IN TESTING $39
WAVEFRONT

Linear-phase surgical parametric EQ, sibling to Airwaves. Engineered for the signal, not the preset.
IN TESTING $39
GROUNDWAVES

Low-end control and translation — the counterpart to Airwaves.
IN TESTING $39
TIDEWAVES

Transparent broadband glue compression — the lineup's missing compressor.
IN TESTING $39
FIREWAVES

Mid-range enhancer for presence and clarity.
IN TESTING MASTERING GRADE ENHANCER · $39
AIRWAVES

Eight stages of mastering-grade DSP behind four knobs — Air, Clip, Width and Output — and a row of Happy switches that tell you exactly what they do.

Airwaves plugin interface
IN TESTING $39
SPACEWAVES

Mastering-grade sense of space and depth. Never touches the dry signal.
IN DEV & TESTING $39
REDLINE

Tape, multi-stage and analog-inspired limiting in one plugin.
IN TESTING $39
MERIDIAN

Precision metering and monitoring for the mastering chain.
THE COLLECTION

Every plugin, boxed.

The full Smash Happy lineup — the elemental mastering chain plus the creative and workflow tools built with the same ear.

WAVEFRONT — boxed
WAVEFRONT
 GROUNDWAVES — boxed
GROUNDWAVES
 TIDEWAVES — boxed
TIDEWAVES
 FIREWAVES — boxed
FIREWAVES
 AIRWAVES — boxed
AIRWAVES
 SPACEWAVES — boxed
SPACEWAVES
 REDLINE — boxed
REDLINE
 MERIDIAN — boxed
MERIDIAN
 OVERGROWN — boxed
OVERGROWN
 FOUNDWAVES — boxed
FOUNDWAVES
 FOUNDWAVES CAPTURE — boxed
FOUNDWAVES CAPTURE
 REACH — boxed
REACH
 DROPZONE — boxed
DROPZONE
 FIXERUPPER — boxed
FIXERUPPER
FLAGSHIP · IN DEV & TESTING
SMASH REFINERY

All 8 core plugins, one window — a full mastering chain, reorderable, in a single instance. Every module is the real plugin's own code, verified bit-exact against running the chain standalone.

SEE THE CONSOLE →
ALSO FROM SMASH HAPPY

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

V2 · IN DEV & TESTING
OVERGROWN

Circuit-modeled fuzz/distortion pedal with a built-in octave shifter. Not part of the mastering lineup.
IN DEV & TESTING $39
FOUNDWAVES

Creative convolution reverb built on real captured room impulse responses. Pairs with Foundwaves Capture.
IN DEV & TESTING iOS · PRICE TBD
FOUNDWAVES CAPTURE

The iPhone companion app that captures a real room's acoustic signature for Foundwaves.
IN DEV & TESTING
LOOP CONDUCTOR

Hands-free looping for Logic Pro — build the set, press Go, and Logic makes every sound.
WORKFLOW TOOLS

Companions to the plugin lineup — not mastering plugins themselves.

BUILT · WAITLIST FREE
REACH

Turn any MIDI knob into a scroll wheel over the parameter you're hovering, in any plugin.
IN DEV & TESTING
FIXERUPPER

Offline and live-insert repair — click/crackle, clipping, hum, noise, and reverb removal.
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. See full pricing →

HOW WE BUILD

Yes, we use AI. No, this isn’t vibe coding.

We’ll be straight with you: AI is part of how these plugins get built. It’s our assistant and our heavy lifter — wiring up modules, handling boilerplate, collapsing grunt-work that used to eat weeks. And we’d bet every plugin company you already own something from is doing the same by now, whether they say so or not. We’d just rather tell you.

Used well, AI is one of the best things to happen to independent development in years — but it’s not a shortcut. Getting something genuinely right, stable and musical under real audio, is a mountain of work no model does for you. And we’re not here to clone hardware: a few of these tools are inspired by gear we love, but none are just a copy that sounds “a little bit better.” They’re their own designs.

Behind every plugin is twenty years in real studios and DSP knowledge that took just as long to earn. The signal paths are ours — researched, then tested against real audio, by ear and by instrument, until they hold up. Nothing ships because it compiled; it ships because we sat with it, broke it, and fixed it, right down to how the UI feels under your hands. AI is the hammer — it doesn’t decide what to build or what “good” sounds like. That’s still a human with two decades of ears.