Boston's music makers
needed a stable place
to work. We built it.
Professional recording studios and creative workspaces — at rates artists can actually afford. We've been running this model for 15 years and it works. 3,000+ people a month use it. We're not going anywhere.
We're not a recording studio. We're what happens when a city's creative community refuses to be displaced.
Professional studio space in Boston costs $100 or more an hour. That puts it out of reach for most of the people who actually need it — emerging artists, independent musicians, producers just getting started. They either leave the city, make do with worse equipment, or stop making music.
We built something different. 20 professional studios at 960 Mass Ave. Every room fully equipped — multiple DAWs, industry-standard gear, no barriers between you and the work. At $10–40/hour. Not as a discount or a charity arrangement. As a model that's held for 15 years because we built it to last.
Somewhere along the way, we stopped being just a place to record and became a community. People started using us not just for a session, but as a home base for everything they were building in music. That's when we expanded — into workforce training, into 55 Morrissey, into defending the idea that Boston's creative workers deserve permanent space in this city.
"We felt community and belonging. And we saw possibility — something that had escaped us as creatives."
That's still what this is. Come record a song. Come build a career. Come be part of something that's organizing to stay.
Three ways to be part of TRC. One community behind all of it.
Everything we do maps to a pathway — from a first booking to a sustainable career to permanent creative space in Boston's future. Here's how it works.
Your first session or your thousandth — same rates.
We operate 20 professional studios and rehearsal rooms at 960 Mass Ave. Walk in, book online, or call ahead. No membership required. No audition. Every room is fully equipped — multiple DAWs, industry-standard gear — at $10–40/hour.
From a first session to a paid career in audio.
TRC Academy is a 12-week audio engineering and music business program taught by Berklee faculty. It's not a workshop series — it's a pipeline. Graduates walk out with industry certifications and direct pathways to named employers. 94% finish the program.
400+ creative businesses. One fight to stay.
At 55 Morrissey Blvd in Dorchester, we built a 35,000 sq ft creative hub from a vacant building — using our own reserves, without a guarantee it would work. It worked. More than 400 independent businesses operate there now. We're running the Amplify Boston '26 campaign to secure permanent ownership.
This isn't arts charity. It's creative workforce infrastructure.
Most nonprofit arts organizations work as intermediaries — connecting artists to resources they can't otherwise access. We built something different. We own and operate the infrastructure directly, which means we control who gets in, what it costs, and whether the doors stay open when the funding environment changes.
Keeping studios at $10–40/hour for 15 years isn't luck — it's what happens when you build the model around access from the start instead of retrofitting affordability onto something already priced for a different market.
"We're not asking you to fund an experiment. We're asking you to scale what's worked for 15 years."
When you invest in TRC, you're investing in proven infrastructure. The studios are full. The Academy graduates are working. The community at 55 Morrissey is real and established. What we need now is permanence.
TRC Academy: training → certification → employment.
The audio industry has jobs. It also has a serious access problem — most of the pathways in require connections, credentials, or money that a lot of talented people don't have. TRC Academy exists to change that calculus.
It's a 12-week program that covers recording engineering, audio production, and music business. Taught by Berklee faculty. Structured around real industry workflows. Designed to lead somewhere specific: an industry certification, a Bunker Hill Community College credit pathway, and placement at named employer partners.
94% of students complete the program. The completion rate matters because it tells you something about who we design for — not high-performers who would have figured it out anyway, but working adults from Greater Boston communities building new careers in music.
Two locations. One community.
47,500 square feet of professional creative workspace across Boston and Dorchester. Our flagship at 960 Mass Ave has been running for 15 years. 55 Morrissey opened in 2022 — and we're fighting to make it permanent.
960 Mass Ave
Our original location. 20 professional studios and rehearsal rooms. Open every day. Walk in or book online — same rates either way. Every room fully equipped, multiple DAWs, all gear included.
55 Morrissey Blvd
A 35,000 sq ft creative hub we built from a vacant building using our own reserves. More than 400 independent businesses operate here now. The Amplify Boston '26 campaign is raising the funds to make this permanent.
If you're building something
in music, this is your workspace.
Come record. Come train. Come be part of what 3,000 people a month have already found.
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