Studio East Recording & Music Centre

Studio East Recording & Music Centre Studio East was the outgrowth of a collaboration between Lauri W. Hyyti and David B. Little. The two parted ways by 1978.

Originally begun in the early 1970s, Lauri's music and David's technical skills had always complimented each other, even though there was always a rocky interpersonal relationship. In the early nineties Lauri's solo band Earthrider had been signed to Fraternity Records with the release of a single "Front Page News". The single had some success on college radio, and Shad O'Shea of Fraternity wanted

to release the single on compact disc. With CD being the latest mainstream package for music at that time, and a 70 minute storage capacity, Shad wanted to release more of the Earthrider catalog. That catalog consisted of basement tapes and partial tracks that needed sweetened or completion. This set the stage and groundwork for what became Studio East. The fall of 1991 Lauri contacted David, and the two set to work the winter of 1991/1992 in Lauri's basement retracking and overdubbing the catalog. Calls also went out to Bob & Mike Courter, Mark Lumpkin, David Gray, Chris Nation to help round out the songs. By late spring the two hatched the idea to finance upgrade gear by offering entry level demo services for other bands. The first client was "Midnight Poets" of Chattanooga, and with a week to go before the session Lauri decided to rent a building to create a proper workspace that was not in the basement of his home. Six-and-one-half days later paint was drying on the back half of the building that now contained a single live space for recording and adjacent control room. By August of 1992 David quit his day job to run the facility full time.

July of 1993. Studio East was the cover story for that month's issue of the Chattanooga Business Journal.
04/26/2026

July of 1993. Studio East was the cover story for that month's issue of the Chattanooga Business Journal.

The things you find typing the old phone number in Google...
04/19/2026

The things you find typing the old phone number in Google...

01/25/2026

There are only certain times of the year I feel comfortable sharing this.
Rare Animals "Tornado". Listen as David Hickman demonstrates how many syllables one can get out of a three letter word.

01/08/2026

Here's a little Running Live "Be My Day" produced by Derrick Monk

02/26/2017

http://dblittle.com/muzak/iBurn.mp3
1993 Rare Animals - Don't Feed The Animals "I Burn". 8 Track analog. Too much bad compression (Alesis dirty-6-dirty), too much fl**ge, but lots of fun with real recorded reverse reverb. The cough at the end had to stay...

The eventual live production company Bill Lewis and I formed after I left Studio East.
02/23/2017

The eventual live production company Bill Lewis and I formed after I left Studio East.

How 9316 Lee Highway Ooltewah TN looks in 2016
11/20/2016

How 9316 Lee Highway Ooltewah TN looks in 2016

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