Looking for an affordable recording studio near you in Los Angeles?
It’s hard to choose just one. There are over 400+ registered recording studios in LA!
Below, we share our favorite hourly and monthly recording studios.
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🟠 Top Hourly Recording Studios in Los Angeles
🏴☠️ Pirate Studios
Location: Silverlake and Culver City
Price: About $18/hr
Pirate Studios offers affordable recording spaces in LA. Relatively clean rooms equipped with Yamaha monitors and vocal booths. The studios are managed remotely and you’ll receive an access code via WhatsApp.
📹 Peerspace
Location: All Los Angeles
Price: About $50/hr
Peerspace is an Airbnb-like platform for finding recording studios in LA from Hollywood to Malibu. With detailed listings covering everything from microphones to plugins, Peerspace is a great way to browse lots of studios quickly.
💲 Hush Money
Location: Downtown Los Angeles
Price: $45/hour or $300-$400/day
Owned and operated by musicians, they’ve got 4 unique recording studios available by the hour or all-day. Spacious and vibey rooms. Get help recording your song with an engineer for just a little extra. Rates are very reasonable and every studio is super clean and ready to hit record.
💇 The Barbershop
Location: Echo Park
Price: $35/hr or $50/hr with an engineer
Great views into the hills of Echo Park. Drums, guitars, and tons of other live instruments to make tracking a breeze. You can book online through an email form or by DMing, calling, or texting Scott directly. Artists like Grouplove, Grace Vanderwaal, and boy pablo have recorded here.
🦌 Golden Impala
Location: Silverlake
Price: $45/hr without an engineer or $75/hr with an engineer
High-quality microphones such as U87s and an Apollo 8 interface. Record live with Autotune or edit your vocals in Melodyne using their in-studio Mac computers. Ideal for vocal tracking. 2 hour minimum is required. Great for pop, hip hop, and EDM.
🟦 Opus Recording Studio
Location: North Hollywood
Price: $35/hr solo or $60/hr with an engineer
Link: https://www.opusrecordingstudio.com/
Opus is a high-quality North Hollywood recording studio equipped with Ableton Live 10, Logic X, Pro Tools, and a Universal Audio Apollo Twin Duo.
Opus Recording Studio has two recording studios, with or without a sound engineer. Each studio holds a maximum of four people. Both studios are ideal for mixing and mastering sessions, but are primarily used for vocal recording and production sessions.
If you’re in the Valley, Opus is a great place to quickly get into a vibey space to write and work on pop or hip-hop projects.
Opus Recording Studio provides a safe and comfortable environment for musicians to create 24/7.
🌺 Black Lotus (New in 2024)
Location: North Hollywood
Price: From $30/hr to $50/hr
Owned by Berklee graduates and passionate studio players, Black Lotus in NoHo offers two spaces with a third one coming soon.
Studio A costs $50 per hour or $400 for a full day, while Studio B is priced at $30 per hour or $200 for a full day.
They provide additional services such as engineering and musician hire, along with mix, edit, and master services with endless revisions.
The recording studio was designed to make it simple for artists to show up and start recording drums! What started as a way for the owners to record their own tunes turned into a way to offer affordable, world-class recording rooms to independent artists.
⚫ Broken Complex
Location: North Hollywood
Price: About $50-100/hr. Discounts for longer sessions or with an engineer.
Broken Complex Studios is a full-service professional music studio in North Hollywood, also offering mixing and mastering rooms.
The studio has a control room and a live room with space for a full band. There’s also a vocal booth, guest lounge, and a shower for longer stays.
Book for $50/hr (8 hour minimum) or $100/hr on your schedule. They also sell beats on their website through BeatStars.
🍥 MIX Recording Studio
Location: Downtown LA
Price: About $45/hr (3 hour minimum). Discounts for longer sessions.
MIX Recording Studio provides high-quality studio space and a range of additional services, including recording, mixing, mastering, production, podcast and audiobook recording, vocal production, tuning and editing, beats, and industry consultations.
They specialize in pop, hip-hop, and RnB, and EDM projects and you can easily book sessions with or without an engineer on their website.
MIX Recording Studio is an exciting studio space that makes creativity feel effortless. From the chairs to the walls, it's clear that this studio was built by musicians for musicians. This makes it an ideal place to finalize a mix or record a full pop vocal.
Get cheap and discounted recording space for less than $20/hr if you’re willing to work at night after 12 AM. They also offer free studio tours to connect with the industry community.
💗 FAM
Location: Westlake, East of Downtown LA
Pricing: $25-$40/hr without engineer ($30/hr with engineer)
FAM curates four different recording studios, each designed for inexpensive and efficient recording sessions in modern productions.
The artwork, lighting, and songwriting couches make this a fun space to channel your inner Billie Eilish. Connect to their Apollo Twin with your Macbook and get going with your project.
This studio rental ranges in price from approximately $25 to $50 per hour with only a two-hour minimum requirement.
Two studios are ideal for beat-making, vocal tuning, and editing, while the other two are best suited for dialing in a mix.
⭐ Featured Business: Perfect Circuit
This month’s featured LA music business is Perfect Circuit, a shop in Burbank. They sell synthesizers, modular gear, drum machines, effects pedals, MIDI controllers, and studio recording equipment.
”Our passion lies in exploring the endless possibilities of sound creation and manipulation.”
🔵 Monthly Lockout Studios
Need a dedicated recording space that's accessible 24/7?
Monthly lockout studios in Los Angeles provide the flexibility to record whenever you need.
Lockout studios typically cost $300 to $400/day or about $2,000 per month.
🇼 The Williamson
Location: North Hollywood
Price: $1,700-$3,200/month
Link: https://thewilliamsonstudios.com/
The Williamson is a private workspace in North Hollywood designed for people in creative industries. They have about 20 studios available at this location.
It offers production suites, recording studios, executive offices, and event spaces. They’re ideal for clients who want a discreet and quiet place to record and work.
You can secure monthly lockouts for studios, offices, and production suites with a minimum commitment of one year.
The Williamson offers a luxurious hotel-like atmosphere with 24/7 exclusive access, convenient parking, fast internet, daily cleaning, a rooftop deck for events, and much more.
〰️ Exposition Studios
Location: Culver City
Price: $1,800-$2,800/mo
Link: https://www.expositionstudios.com/productionlockouts
What started as a rehearsal studio became some of the best monthly production and recording lockouts in town.
They only have 8 studios right now, but you can get on the waitlist for whenever they open up.
Studios are soundproofed, very clean, and some have iso booths for vocals built-in.
📼 Beat Garage (Hourly, Daily, and Monthly Lockouts)
Location: North Hollywood
Price: $25-$50/hr or about $450/day
Link: https://beatgarage.com/
Booking: Apply online for monthly lockouts or call (818) 358-0099 to rent hourly.
BeatGarage offers both daily and monthly studio lockouts in North Hollywood.
Their live tracking rooms also double as rehearsal studios and can be rented in conjunction with their famous Studio B if you need more space for your songwriting or recording day.
Their main studio has an excellent vibe, is centrally located in the Valley, and comes equipped with drums, pianos, guitars, and anything else you might need to lay down a full song or demo.
If you rent monthly, expect quiet sound-proofed rooms that are designed with productive musicians in mind.
🦷 Snaggletooth Studios
Location: North Hollywood
Price: $500-$1,500/month
Although they’re primarily an hourly rehearsal studio, Snaggletooth also offers monthly lockouts for drummers and other small bands to record and rehearse.
These studios are ideal for solo drummers or artist projects looking to rehearse and record in the same space. Great for demos or running through a full live set. These rooms are designed to get loud.
🍋 LemonTree Studios
Location: Highland park
Price: About $3,000 per month
LemonTree is a premiere monthly studio lockout space located just outside of downtown Los Angeles. They don’t offer hourly, daily, or weekly rentals of any kind.
Located in Highland Park, LemonTree offers 20 boutique bring-your-own-gear production lock-outs for long term leases.
All studios are soundproofed and separated from each other to ensure quiet and clean recordings. The studios share live tracking rooms too. The live tracking room has talk-back monitors to each private studio. Since 2007, LemonTree’s studios have produced hits for Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Skrillex, and more.
📈 Lockout Music Studios
Price/Sizes: Unknown
Locations: Torrance, Long Beach, and Riverside
Sizes/Pricing: Unknown
All the rooms are sound-padded, acoustically tuned, and available 24/7 for use as a recording studio or beat-making studio.
The big selling point of Lockout Music is its location.
Most recording studios for solo artists are located in the Valley or Hollywood, but Lockout Music Studios are currently on the outskirts of LA County.
They plan to expand to more central locations soon, but currently serve a much-needed group of musicians who don’t want to spend two hours sitting on the 405 to get into the studio.
Musicians living in Torrance, Long Beach, and Riverside now have access to the same quality of gear and recording spaces as those in West Hollywood.
🟢 FAQs
How much does it cost to rent a recording studio in Los Angeles
Costs vary depending on the studio, but hourly rental rates typically start at around $40 an hour, with monthly rentals starting around $2,000.
What should I bring to the recording studio?
You shouldn’t need to bring anything besides your laptop or computer to a recording studio. Almost all studios have all the necessary gear you’ll need to record your song if you’ve checked their gear list beforehand.
You must bring those if you want to record your guitar or instruments. You should also bring any reference material you plan to use during your session, such as song lyrics and chord charts for other musicians.
As an aside, most podcast studio rentals in Los Angeles have equipment you can use already set up.
What should I look for in a recording studio?
There are fancy studios with vocal booths, drums rooms, and a wall of synthesizers and outboard gear. There are also small studios where it’s just a set of speakers, a microphone, and a USB recording interface.
Make sure your studio is equipped to handle the type of project you want to record.
Do you just want to record vocals? A cheaper studio might be able to handle it.
But if you want to record guitars through some loud amps, you’ll need to check that the studio has the gear you need.
If you’re looking for an ADR recording studio for voiceover work, check out this guide.
Do recording studios in Los Angeles offer discounts or promotions?
Generally, no. Most studios are privately owned local businesses. However, you can negotiate better deals if you book many hours at a time or for a full day.
Some of the bigger companies operating studios around town, like Peerspace and Pirate, do have discounts and promo codes, though.
How do I have a great recording session?
Preparation is key before recording. Familiarize yourself with your songs beforehand to save time. Ensure your equipment is in good condition, bring a backup instrument, and replace amp tubes and strings at least a week before recording.
Focus on your performance and how it relates to the song's message. Communicate your preferences to the recording engineer.
Record live with a band to capture the energy of the performance. Use a guide vocal as a reference point throughout the session.