Name: Air Enhancer
Brand: Desert Moon Audio
Price: 34.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Air Enhancer AE-07 - Desert Moon Audio plug-in

Air Band Equalizer

Open up the top end

Air Enhancer is an air-band EQ plugin for Mac and PC: one very wide, very gentle high shelf that opens the top end without turning bright.

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Works with all major DAWs

AU / VST3 / AAX for Mac · VST3 / AAX for PC

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Hear the difference

Press play to hear it through Air Enhancer. Tap DRY for the original, at the same moment.

Mix

Vocals

Acoustic

Overheads

Where it goes

Four of the places it lives, each with a demo above.

Mix bus
Two or three dB at 20 kHz across the whole mix opens the top without a single harsh element getting harsher.
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Vocals
Air on a vocal is breath and presence, not sibilance. The shelf is too wide to find the esses.
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Acoustic guitar
Pick noise and string shimmer come forward; the body stays where it was.
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Overheads
Cymbals get sheen instead of splash, and the whole kit sounds closer.
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About Air Enhancer

Air Enhancer does one thing: it opens up the top end. Not with a narrow peak that hunts for brightness, but with a very wide, very gentle shelf that begins a long way below the frequency printed on the panel and climbs slowly from there. That slow climb is the whole point — it is what lets you add a great deal of air before anything starts to sound bright.

The filter runs as a parallel band rather than inline. The plugin takes the difference between the filtered and unfiltered signal, rounds it off with a gentle soft clip, and adds it back — so the signal you started with passes through untouched. Everything is oversampled, which is what makes the 20 kHz and 40 kHz positions do anything at all at 44.1 or 48 kHz.

Key features

Air Band
Six positions — Off, 2.5, 5, 10, 20 and 40 kHz. Changing position crossfades over 20 ms, so you can sweep it while audio is playing.
Air Gain — 0 to 10
Up to +15 dB at the shelf plateau. The taper is deliberately slow at the bottom, so 0 to 3 lives in the fraction-of-a-dB range you actually want on a mix bus.
Mode — Mid, Stereo or Side
Chooses which part of the stereo image gets the air. Side opens a mix up without hyping the center; Mid targets the lead.
Level Trim
Cut-only output trim, −24 to 0 dB.
In/Out
Ramps the curve flat rather than switching the signal path, so bypass is click-free and stays latency- and phase-consistent.

Air Enhancer panel, with its controls numbered

The panel at a glance

Mode Mid, Stereo or Side: which part of the stereo image gets the air. Side opens a mix up without hyping the centre.
Air Gain Up to +15 dB at the shelf, with a slow taper at the bottom, so 0 to 3 lives in the fraction-of-a-dB range a mix bus wants.
Air Band Where the shelf sits: Off, 2.5, 5, 10, 20 or 40 kHz. Positions crossfade over 20 ms, so you can sweep it while audio plays.
Peak & Signal Red warns of clipping; green shows the unit is passing audio.
Level Trim Cut-only output trim, −24 to 0 dB.
In / Out Latching bypass that ramps the curve flat, so switching is click-free and phase-consistent.

More details

Yes. It's a one-off purchase, not a subscription, and there's nothing to renew. Updates to a plugin you own are free — download the current installer and run it over the top.

Every plugin is sold on its own, so you can buy just the one you want. If you'd rather have all of them, the Everything Bundle collects the whole line for 30% less than buying them separately.

Each license covers up to 4 computers you personally own — a studio desktop, a laptop and a couple of spares. Moving to a new computer? Choose Deactivate This Machine in the plugin's preset menu on the old one and the seat frees up instantly; if that machine is gone for good, contact us and we'll release it.

A purchase covers you, not a studio full of people. If colleagues need it, they need their own copy — that's what keeps a small company like this able to keep building plugins.

Your download link is in the order confirmation email sent at purchase, and in your account under Order history.

Your license key is in the same email. Run the installer, open the plugin, enter the key once and you're done — one key activates up to 4 of your machines.

Can't find the email? Check spam, then search for "Desert Moon Audio". If it still isn't there, get in touch with the address you ordered with and we'll resend it.

Yes — after activation. Entering your license key needs an internet connection once; from then on it works offline — the only other time it goes online is a once-a-day check for a newer version.

If a studio machine never goes online, get in touch and we'll sort out an activation for it.