Emergence of the Tiny Room Community: When Greg Spero got off the road after four years of recording and touring the world with pop singer Halsey, the pianist eagerly returned to his jazz roots. While forming and touring with his new jazz fusion group, Spirit Fingers, Spero also launched a small personal project space he dubbed Tiny Room Studios. From those humble origins as a 12x12 room in a Burbank warehouse, he developed a popular commercial and community space that has subsequently evolved post-pandemic into a larger full-service state of the art studio in Inglewood before securing its current location in Santa Monica. Drawing on his concurrent entrepreneurial background that includes the multi-faceted ArtistAI platform, Spero has developed Tiny Room Studios into a uniquely holistic experience combining a state-of-the-art recording facility with complementary spa-like wellness services including a cold plunge, barrel steam sauna, and massages.
The Recording Club: For veteran and independent artists who wish to take full advantage of Tiny Room’s multitude of offerings, Spero has created The Recording Club—an exclusive creative community focused on productivity, wellness, and community. The studio has world-class equipment for audio and video production, extensive backline, well-treated rooms, and all the amenities an artist needs to be creative. Membership, which starts at $450 a month, also includes access to all the wellness features as well as co-working areas, private lounges for meetings and gatherings, and weekly member activities including concerts, jam sessions, and master classes. Including $1350 a month studio credit, a membership’s full market value is $2500+ per month. Current members include the legendary Herbie Hancock (who introduced Spero to Buddhism) and Jon Batiste.
Studio Specs: Tiny Room Studios’ four rooms are designed for maximum efficiency in media capture. The smallest, a podcast room, has five 6K Blackmagic pro cameras and recording equipment set up to record a fully mixed podcast in one take. The main stage room is divided into a primary 25x45 space attached to a mixing room that’s approximately 2/3 size of the main room. The main stage has an Allen & Heath SQ7 digital console with 48 channels. The mixing room has a Trident 88 Series custom analog mixing board with PMC Mastering Speakers and Antelope Near Fields, new Mac computers with m4 chips, and an iso booth. The studio also has a Tama drum kit, Yamaha C7X grand piano, and a total of 12 cameras.
Quote from Greg Spero: “Through all my years of touring, I learned that a balanced lifestyle is essential to surviving the life of a musician or industry creative. It’s not healthy to just engage in the roller coaster of recording and touring without giving any attention to overall emotional and physical wellness. Today, artists are realizing that it is possible to have a healthy, happy, well-balanced lifestyle even in the context of this chosen perpetual struggle, by integrating the three pillars of Productivity, Wellness, and Community consistently on a daily basis.”
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