Giant Pygmy Audio (GPA) offers introductions and brief overviews on the following topics:

• managing a digital music collection


• digital recording, editing, mixing & mastering


• analysing digital audio


• making the transition from physical media (vinyl, tape, CD) and physical equipment (multi-tracks, effects peddles etc.) to non-physical media (digital files) and non-physical equipment (software multi-tracks, editors, effects etc.)

We provide trusted alternative resources should you require more in-depth information; so if you start at GPA hopefully you'll avoid a good deal of the misinformation, myth/fantasy, nonsense and outright deceit which infects the bulk of what people write and say about digital audio.

Why is there so much nonsense written about digital audio?

There is a profound connection between the way the audio industry sell their products (i.e. via marketing and PR in the form of "journalism") and the irrational, ill-informed beliefs of the majority who expound on audio related matters. The audio industry pumps out garbage information, "audio enthusiasts" / "audiophiles" digest it because it provides them with an excuse to make a purchase (garbage in), and in turn regurgitate it on blogs and in forums across the net (garbage out again).

Ultimately the "audiophile market" is a kind of appreciation society for things either irrelevant or non-existent formed around the "need" to create an excuse to treat oneself. Unfortunately a nasty side-effect of this is peoples' justifications and rationalisations for spending money on themselves end up presented as factual information.

The main purpose of Giant Pygmy Audio is to bypass this morass of misleading nonsense.