Bryan Clark
Founder & chief engineer
Bryan 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. Based in Nashville, his work connects performance, production, sound design, and creative technology.
A life on both sides of the glass.
His career began opening for Larry Carlton and grew across sessions, records, composition, and collaborations. He spent eight and a half years as an in-house producer at Blackbird Studio. His music has appeared on FOX, ESPN, VH1, Lifetime, the History Channel, and the Food Network.
His collaborations include Bonnie Raitt, Lisa Loeb, Phil Keaggy, Ma Xiaohui, and Kelsea Ballerini. Through Rainfeather Records, he has pursued independent, cross-cultural projects. His creative work ranges from the cinematic chamber-jazz world of 7 Secret Lives of Lucien Midnight to the art-rock project Madrigals for Mongrels.
Sharing what happens in the room.
Bryan has taught at The Blackbird Academy, the University of New Haven, Belmont, and Vanderbilt. He co-founded Modern Music Masters, writes the Recording Dojo column for Premier Guitar, and co-hosts The Earworm Podcast.
Why Briarwave exists.
Years spent with instruments, recording systems, and rare studio equipment shaped a particular way of listening. Bryan is drawn to the details that make a sound feel alive: the movement of a decaying space, the instability of a repeat, the texture that appears when a familiar process is pushed somewhere unexpected.
Briarwave gives that curiosity a home. Its plugins bring classic studio traditions into a modern creative workspace, with tactile controls and a distinctive visual identity. They invite you to listen, move a control, follow an accident, and find something you didn’t set out to make.
That spirit runs through DirtyVerb, Relay Room, SpiritBox, and Number 9: personal audio tools built to inspire atmosphere, movement, and discovery.
“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.”
— Bryan Clark
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