Plugin pedals with a warm heart,
made better every time.
Hearthwave is a boutique studio for VST effects. Every pedal moves through a careful pipeline, and every release teaches the next one to be better.
Meet the pedalsHow we learnSmall tools, thoughtfully voiced
Sample lineup to show the feel. Names and sounds are placeholders until your real designs go in.
Ember
Gentle tape-style saturation for glow without grit.
Meadow
Lush, slow-blooming reverb that leaves room for the song.
Lantern
Soft, musical delay with echoes that feel like memory.
From a spark to a finished pedal
Every pedal follows the same six stages, so nothing is skipped and everything is remembered.
Every release teaches the next
After each pedal ships, we gather what listeners and players tell us, what the measurements show, and what we would do differently. Those lessons become new starting points, so the studio grows wiser with every cycle.
It is not one-and-done. It is a slow, steady spiral upward.
Question: why do players call some delays "warm"?
Found: gentle high-frequency roll-off and slight pitch wobble in the feedback path.
Sources: 3 papers, 2 interviews, 1 teardown
Decision: add darkening filter to the repeats.
Next test: A/B with 12 players.
# saved to the knowledge map
Nothing learned gets lost
The scribe reads, gathers and writes down the research behind each idea: what we asked, what we found, what we chose and why. It links every note into a growing map, so a lesson from one pedal can quietly help the next.
The same loop, for any idea
The loop and the scribe are not only for sound. Point them at a new idea and they help it grow into a website, an app or a whole new project.
Websites
Plan, write and refine learning sites and product pages.
Apps
Turn a rough concept into a testable first version, then improve it.
Knowledge maps
Ideas connect to each other, so each new project starts ahead.