Heavy Digital Audio

Born in Brooklyn, NY, a die-hard Yankees fan and baseball aficionado, Bruce moved to Los Angeles via Miami after having toured as a guitarist for artists including Tommy Shaw, Jaco Pastorius and KC & The Sunshine Band. Upon arriving in L.A., he quickly became a successful session player working for Mark Mothersbaugh, David Newman, and other top fil... m composers. Bruce began his composing career writing jingles for a long list of companies that include Budweiser, Michelin, Nissan, Nike, Purina, JCPenney and AT&T, then moved into the film and television realm, going on to write music for over 300 hours of network television, several feature films and TV movies. Along the way, he was always updating his rig with the latest gear and technology, something he has a passion for. Bruce was constantly building and retrofitting his own equipment to make things run faster, better, and more efficiently. A perfectionist and obsessed with quality, Bruce rebuilt and retrofitted his rig with the latest gear and technology, something about which he has always been passionate. In 2005 Bruce designed and built two DAWs for himself which he named Big Red and Big Blue. In 2012, he set out to build the fastest and most powerful PC-based sample player/DAW he could conceive, made with the highest quality components that were available. That year he custom designed and built the same PC-samplers for an impressive list of over 35 Los Angeles-based A-list film and television composers. Later that year In 2012 he co-founded Heavy Digital Audio with Armen Chakmakian, his friend of over 20 years and fellow musician/composer, and the Big DAWg was born! A native of Los Angeles, mountain biker, foodie and LA sports fan, Armen is also an accomplished musician and composer. His professional recording career began when he joined the GRAMMY® Award-winning band, Shadowfax as their keyboardist. Soon after, he received his own GRAMMY® Award nomination with Shadowfax for Best New Age Album, Esperanto, for which he co-wrote many of the songs. He has ...Read More