Digi Music Maker

A new start, a new learning curve

Posted by Craig Bryant on October 23rd, 2011 | no responses

Well it’s been a long time between posts. It’s been a busy year for me on all fronts.

Amongst other upheavals, I have relocated to a beautiful, full blown, pre-existing studio in Balaclava.

This studio was custom built by the guys who built Woodstock Studios, and it is an extremely well designed and thought out facility.

I feel particularly privileged to have this space. As most of my fellow music producers operate out of a spare room, a padded out basement or a back shed, it feels unusually extravagant and indulgent for me to have a full blown studio.

Being first and foremost a musician and not a sound engineer, there are holes in my knowledge and experience in this kind facility. I am savvy enough to be able to join a lot of the dots and work things out for myself, but this is all going to take some time. The studio is completely fitted out with some of the best gear in the world, and being a lover of technology, I would consider it a travesty to not utilize this gear as much and in the best way possible.

I’ve ‘piggy-backed’ my existing system onto this studio system so I can continue to do my work, and intend to slowly merge into it, as I become more and more familiar with it’s wiring, and functionality.

Don’t Give Up

Posted by Craig Bryant on July 21st, 2011 | no responses

When I graduated from the VCA back in the early (early) nineties I didn’t have a very clear game ...

Keeping Up

Posted by Craig Bryant on March 1st, 2011 | no responses

I wonder if there were comparable pressures in the days when music was composed by quill and candlelight, ...

Drowning in digits

Posted by Craig Bryant on September 6th, 2010 | no responses

Maybe it’s me just getting older, but my attitude towards technology is slowly changing. I grew ...

Mixing too hot!

Posted by Craig Bryant on June 18th, 2010 | no responses

As a musician, I can’t really claim any official academic creditability as a sound engineer. I ...

The Creative Habit

Posted by Craig Bryant on May 20th, 2010 | no responses

I’ve borrowed this title from a fantastic book I read while in the States. It’s a book by ...

Are you a Musician or a Technician?

Posted by Craig Bryant on May 19th, 2010 | no responses

….Or are you both? These days I think you need to be an even blend of both…..or atleast you ...

Welcome to the Digital Music Maker Blog

Posted by Craig Bryant on May 10th, 2010 | no responses

Hi there, I have decided to begin this blog to provide some tips and instructions on producing music ...