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The New Travis Dickerson Recording Studio

My New Home Since 2021

In my new control room.

When I left the large commercial building on Cozycroft Ave I along with my brother Lindy sought to replace it with a studio at my home. Though he was very ill at the time he was able to help design it, make the building plans and pull the permits and even help with the labor of construction. We got the main room complete when his illness got the better of him. Then the pandemic hit and it was in general just a miserable period. But after sometime I picked up the tools, some that Lindy had just set down and went back to work. Once the control room was finished it was still a matter of some time before vaccines allowed me to work with other muscians and collaborators. But with some up and downs the new studio is a wonderful place to work and I have been really enjoying making music with my friends.

The History of the studio 1990 to 2018

The Cozycroft Studio

In my Cozycroft control room.

I built this studio in 1990 along with my brother Lindy. The first part to be completed was the live room that we used for a rehearsal room for the band I had with my brothers and our drummer DJ Bonebrake. We shared the space with the band X while I constructed the rest of the studio. To that end, I sold my analog multitrack tape deck and bought a 24 track ADAT system as soon as the first ones came off the line. All the other gear was top of the line, the mics and preamps, I invested in an Augsburger monitoring system and picked George's brain with whom I had worked with as a consultant for other recording studios in LA, regarding the control room set up. While working with studio designer and equipment guru, Jay Kaufman, he gave the plans for a control room design that worked with George Augsburgers speaker systems. Also at the advise of my friend and mentor recording engineer and record producer Don Smith I bought a Soundcraft 2400 that I bought from Brett Gurewitz out of Epitaph Records studio used on a lot of classic records. Don was using one at Bob Dylans studio to record the traveling Wilburys and it was a favorite of Tome Petty, Dave Stewart and many other people Don had worked with. With the help of those amazing people and some luck I had a great sounding room. I had put up with a lot of scoffing from my studio owner freinds for ditching analog and going digital but I was getting really good results from the ADATs. The adats were never the weak link in a recording chain, it was always the talant then the gear in front of them. This was pre Protools and I was amused to no end just a year later when I would visit my big studio owner friends and find their Studer pushed aside and stacks of ADATS on the gear racks as the benefits of non-linier recording became obvious.
It wasn't long before I was recording X and thier friends and doing over dub sessions for the clients of the big studios looking to lower recording budgets for indy records. that brought other producers into my room. I became very busy and started Tdrsmusic records and took advantage of the internet to bypass the labels and distribute the records I was producing directly to fans.
Just a couple of years later Prools systems were released and I never looked back.
Some of the records we have made here:

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Clients, friends and collaborators.
Studio History
Some of the records we have made here.
Session Photos.

The new studio

Viggo and Travis:

Scarlet Rivera, Travis and Vince DiCola:

DJ Bonebrake:

Lance Henriksen: