Audio Instruments For Creative Exploration

Briarwave was born from a lifelong love of music, sound, and the unexpected moments that make creating something new so rewarding.

We build audio plugins and studio hardware for musicians, producers, and engineers who believe the best tools do more than process sound. They spark ideas, encourage experimentation, and invite us to explore possibilities we might never have imagined.

Inspired by the character of classic studio equipment and shaped by decades of making records, every Briarwave instrument is designed with care, curiosity, and a simple belief: the most inspiring sounds are often the ones you never saw coming.

Briarwave. Love the unexpected.

Briarwave was born from a lifelong love of music, sound, and the unexpected moments that make creating something new so rewarding.

Inspired by the character of classic studio equipment and shaped by decades of making records, every Briarwave instrument is designed with care, curiosity, and a simple belief: the most inspiring sounds are often the ones you never saw coming.

Briarwave. Love the unexpected.

THE COLLECTION

The Briarwave Plugin Collection

DirtyVerb

A boutique reverb for beautifully broken spaces, smeared ambience, shoegaze washes, and strange cinematic depth. DirtyVerb turns classic reverb ideas into something darker, wider, and more textural.

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Relay Room

A multi-effects relay system built around reverb, delay, tremolo, vibrato, and dynamic ducking. Relay Room lets your tracks move, breathe, and respond with vintage-inspired ambience and rhythmic motion.

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SpiritBox

A highly programmable chaos machine built around vintage tape-based delay, intervallic glitch movement, multi-voice chorus textures, and bit crushing. Haunted delays, spectral pitch motion, smeared repeats, and otherworldly audio journeys.

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Number 9

A reactive laboratory plugin where source audio can be transformed by six effects — Echo, Pitch, Space, Freeze, Reverse, and Smear — and triggered by external Agent tracks. Number 9 turns interaction between tracks into movement, atmosphere, and controlled musical chaos.

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Briarwave Bundle

Get all four Briarwave plugins in one collection: DirtyVerb, Relay Room, SpiritBox, and Number 9. Explore a complete palette of texture, motion, ambience, and creative effects for $300 — saving $42 compared with buying them individually.

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Grainy black and white portrait of founder Bryan Clark in his laboratory studio

FOUNDER & CHIEF ENGINEER

From the Workbench

Bryan Clark is the founder and creative force behind Briarwave — a producer, composer, guitarist, and lifelong sonic experimenter with more than three decades of experience on both sides of the glass.

After years working with world-class artists, studios, instruments, and recording systems, Bryan created Briarwave as a home for developing audio tools that feel personal, tactile, musical, and alive. His plugins are shaped by a deep respect for classic studio tradition, an obsession with best-in-class sound, and a love of the beautifully unpredictable moments that happen when technology becomes part of the creative process.

Briarwave reflects Bryan’s larger artistic world: cinematic, handmade, slightly haunted, highly musical, and built for people who want their tools to inspire new ideas instead of simply completing tasks.

"I think digital sound design should be like fine instrument making - shaping code and circuits with the same reverence a master luthier brings to wood, wire, and resonance"