This site sits somewhere between code and music.
My day job is in IT at a small firm. Once work is done, I go back to my first passion: Music. Guitars. Writing. Recording. A big part of me always wanted to be somewhere in the music industry.
Life can’t always go the way you want, but there is always a way to be creative. I have been able to build a small recording setup at home — a DAW, some hardware, and more plugins than I probably need. That has become my creative outlet.
Recently, those two parts of my life started to converge.
I found myself getting pulled ever deeper into the world of audio plugins — reading about them, comparing them, watching videos on how and when to use them, and of course, buying them. At some point, I realized I was not recording or mixing anymore. I was just researching plugins.
So I tried to get a handle on it.
I started with a spreadsheet. It helped organize things, but it was just a list of what I owned. I moved to Airtable, which was more flexible, but basically it was just a better list. I tried Zite’s AI web builder, and that AI actually changed how I thought about the problem.
What I was missing was not better organization. It was a better way to make decisions.
That is when this turned into something else.
I am now designing a custom web application called Plugin Arsenal.
This site is mainly about that journey. As I work through ideas, challenges, and decisions, I will document it here. I do not know if anyone will ever read this, but that is not really the point.
This is a place to think out loud, to write through ideas and make my reasoning visible.
What you should expect from this site is not polished certainty.
You should expect process. You should expect ideas being tested, adjusted, and sometimes abandoned. You should expect a clearer picture of what sits behind Plugin Arsenal and why it is being built the way it is.
Plugin Arsenal is the tool.
DistortionJunky is the one building it.
That is what this site is all about.
