West LA Studios

Relaxed, cheap, clean-​ish. Guy is friendly, sound leaks from the nearby rooms a lot worse than some other places I have played (was in room 5 and room 4 was really loud), but generally we had a great experience. When we got there the front desk guy was awol though because he was vacuuming a room. A few pissed off people were hanging around waiting but I just walked back there and grabbed him. Nice guy, good feel to the place, they even have a couple of crappy vending machines. They had everything we needed though, and some of the other rooms looked really decent, I regretted not paying the 6 bucks extra even though we were just trying to put something together fast. Will definitely go back and if you have a group of people you’re trying to play with then you should give them a shot, the price was cheaper than average and they did everything to make sure we were comfortable.

I will remember practicing here for the rest of my life. Ricky will be in my will. He’s upgraded the place and made it amazing. I’ve been coming in here for 3 years now and couldn’t imagine practicing anywhere else especially for the price!

Easily the best staff/​space in LA… My first choice for rock and roll and love. I’ve never been happier with a music room!

Best practice place I’ve ever played. Clean, and the drums aren’t total garbage cans, plus they provide their own cymbals with no extra charge. Appreciate the friendly, helpful staff and that there’s parking (as tight as it may be). Price is right too. AC, wireless, recordings, vending machines. It’s not flashy but why would you want it to be? You can’t go wrong. My only qualm is that I wish they didn’t have a two hour minimum for a dude who just wants to play drums for an hour (although they HAVE let me do it as a walk in). Use this place!

Friendly and helpful staff set the right tone for making music. The rooms are clean and comfortable, no problems with sound bleed from other rooms, and everything is set up and ready to go when you arrive. They do a bunch of little things that add up to an experience where everything goes smoothly. Thank you!

Parking is tight on the second level but it’s better than the street parking. also, their rental process is kind of wack. they always miss something.

This studio is EVERYTHING you need!
I’m the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Green Light Theory and I’ve never been happier with not only the service and genuine hospitality but also the equipment to work with. Granted, amps in most rehearsal spaces are used, the amps still pack a punch and help develop the real idea of a sound you’ll have «live» when playing your next show. Ricky and Alan are the GREAT owners of West LA Studios and are always around to lend a hand setting up any equipment and help your practice sound great. So many great features about this place that you’ll just have to come in and try it yourself with your music. The last detail to add about this place which is a big factor for me is how affordable it is and how understanding they are. The cancellation process is painless and easy, they work WITH YOU not against you. And practicing with my band that’s a 4-​piece splits the already low price to about $ 8 a person for 2 hours of straight uninterrupted practice time with great sound, not to mention great A/​C! OVERALL, 5 stars for personality and services. The band is a repeat customer and will be for a very long time.
(Ricky and Alan have stories for days by the way, ask them ANYTHING!)

Rooms and prices are great. Was looking for a place to rehearse with my band and found this place on Unilocal with great reviews so we decided to give it a shot. The manager rick was awesome, and helped us out a lot, and gave us room 3 which ended up being the perfect room. Will definitely be coming back to this place again.

I visited West LA Studio Services Rehearsal on Sunday, June 9^th, 2013.
We needed a convenient, reasonably-​priced location where we could host the training and new employee orientation for our latest group of Casino Babes Poker dealers. Rather than rent a room at a hotel, we decided to rent one of their studio rooms instead. We were VERY PLEASED with the outcome, and with the treatment we received.
We originally booked Room #2 for a 3 hour block of time, but needed to extend to 5 hours, and they accommodated us with no problem. I couldn’t get over how friendly the guy up front was to our staff and guests. The place wasn’t super fancy, but that’s not what we needed for our training class. Free parking, too.
In summary, I can’t comment on things from a musician’s standpoint, but as a businessman who received Gold Star treatment.
This is a great place for our training meetings, and we will gladly return again soon.

Really enjoy my time when I practice at West LA studios. The rates are very good for bands since you can split the cost. They provide everything you need and are great at helping you set up. Staff is friendly. Definitely recommend for bands who need a good practice space.

It is a great cheap place to rehearse if you are into the garage band thing. This is by no means a nice place. Everything works and is clean and they have a varying range of space that you can rent out. The staff is helpful and friendly.
There is nothing special that stood out to me that would scream a better review but they do have free coffee and parking which are nice bonuses in LA.
You aren’t bothered by other bands noise when you are playing but you aren’t completely soundproof either.
This is a great starting space if you are just getting beginning or don’t really care about your surroundings.

Have rehearsed here with various bands over the years — clean, roomy rehearsal spaces. Very affordable prices. I like they give a 30 minute buffer between bands to allow for load in/​out times.
Ricky (owner) is great to work with. Highly recommend.

The staff is helpful.
The equipment works.
The rooms are decent.
This place rocks.
The rest is up to you.
Warning–
(May be biased opinion as I manage the punk rock band PRB from Venice.)

–Update-​I wrote about drum tuning before I really knew how the whole thing worked… so forget it. If you want, borrow a tuner from the front desk and tune to your heart’s content.
Alan set me up, nice guy and very helpful-​he gave me a profound piece of advice that I hope I can talk to him about again. Being a beginer on the drums he helped me fix someone else’s error on the hi-​hat screws (they are stripped and kept coming loose, I hope they replace them-​updated — replaced!).
Soundproofing is good.
I came in to play drums and I paid the weekly early hourly rate.
No complaints, helpful staff.

First music studio I have ever been in. Cool space, deceptively large, and good equipment.

Oh man… let me tell you!
After hoping around from studio to studio in Los Angeles, I have finally found my home.
Okay so the place seems a little run down, the shower in the bathroom (shower?) is full of cleaning supplies about waist high and the parking up top is a little wonky…
But the Pros FAR outweigh the Cons.
–The guys sitting behind the desk are chill as all hell.
–The equipment being a little iffy sometimes is not an issue because if something goes out — it’s replaced on the spot. Usually the only stuff that goes on the fritz (twice in the 3 months i’ve been going) is the heads. PA has been fine.
–The rates are pretty damn resonable.
–COLD water bottles at the desk for $ 1 (medium sized too!)
–Awesome atmosphere. We usually book the small rooms but I could see us throwing some big party show in the larger rooms.
–Did I mention the nice workers? Here’s a quick scene from a year ago —
I’m meeting a friend. He gets lost and ends up in Beverly Hills (don’t ask.) and he’s about 45 minutes late. I’m giving him directions in the lobby. The front desk guy over hears me. When I get off the phone, he moves our studio time up one hour so by the time my buddy gets there, we’ve only wasted 15 minutes instead of an HOUR and 15 minutes. Too freaking cool.
We jam here every single week, usually tuesday or thursday nights. The desk guys are usually cool to see us and even asked if our music was inspired by the Devil. It’s not, but we are inspired by Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series!
ALL HAIL THE CRIMSON KING! (Google AHTCK if you’d like!)

Imagine being invited to some studio in West L.A. to see a friend jam with what is presumably a garage band, and then feeling levitated by a riotous heavy-​metal rock concert for the price of gofering an 18-​pack of MGD and two lemon-​lime Gatorades, paid for by the musicians.
That was a Saturday night with the group TSR, fronted by Tony C., left-​centerfielder on my Wednesday softball team. Ethics prevent me from reviewing this group which meets here bi-​monthly, so the studio will be in focus here. It’s located on an industrial block across the street from an EZ Lube and a car wash.
The front office area resembles a timeworn auto repair shop waiting room with a counter, soft-​drink vending machine, a cloth sofa and some chairs. The walls are covered with publicity photos of musician customers. Step further inside down a zig-​zagging, musty-​smelling, gray-​carpeted hallway, lined by wooden storage lockers, past studios numbered 1 thru 7, varying in size and furnishings, reflected in the rental rates.
As run-​down as the building interior seems, it becomes irrelevant inside your studio, air-​conditioned and furnished with a sofa and some folding chairs; more sofas in the larger studios. The indoor-​outdoor carpeting inside is intact and unscented. A ramp is available to the elevated stage, because the step involved is a doozy.
Apparently anything goes once you close the stage door, and the building is meticulously soundproofed, as it has to be. However, the doors cannot be locked, so a modicum of responsibility is advisable. The attendant mentioned that the largest studio, #7, is sometimes rented for parties that involve live music and dancing. It would be ideal for shooting a video similar to Robert Palmer’s «Simply Irresistible.» That is, if you were connected enough to line up 10 – 15 models to back up the lead singer.
The post-​rehearsal scene was remarkable, observing the band take apart the drum kit and remove equipment on dollies provided by the business, all in about 15 minutes.
Following this dual initiation to TSR and WLASS, mid-​May cannot arrive soon enough.

I’ve been here a handful of times, either just me and my drums or with my band. Nice guys, the prices are plenty competitive, and they’ve been more than fair making sure I get the complete time I paid for. The parking situation above the building is pretty interesting — you pull up your car to the front doors, throw your gear inside, and park up top. The bathroom is slightly rough sometimes, but I’m not paying to have the tidiest facilities around so that’s fine with me. Couches in the rooms (at least the cheaper rooms I’ve been in) make it comfortable. It’s the closest rehearsal studio to my apartment, and it’s reasonably priced, so I’ll be back.

I was referred to this place by another national touring artist and I just tried to book a room here for two hours at 7:30…the guy told me he didn’t want to book a room from 7:30 to 9:30. He said they want to schedule people from 7 – 9 or from 9 – 11 so they can fill the rooms. I have four guys coming from three different locations in Southern California and Portland… he has an empty room. I mean I don’t want to inconvenience them or anything so I can give them my money but as a new client I would have come back there with exclusivity if they had even tried to help us. Keep this restriction in mind when booking a room here. You practice on their schedule. Sorry Rick… gonna have to take our band elsewhere.

This place is super convenient, the staff is friendly and the prices are pretty good. The equipment is a little run-​down, but they will usually replace anything that you complain about. The bathroom is kind of grim. I strongly recommend not looking into the trash can, as I once did and saw something so heinous, so totally wrong that I was, in that moment, changed forever.