About Us

Kingsize Soundlabs is the birthplace of some of alternative music’s finest recordings over the past 15 years.  Since it’s humble beginnings as a ½” 16 track project studio in Chicago’s Wicker Park area back in the early 90’s to it’s new home of the last 5 years in Los Angeles Silverlake area, Dave’s goal has always been to provide a comfortable, well equipped and affordable workspace for musicians. You won’t find the sterile uncreative atmosphere a lot of  top-of -the-line studios are plagued with. Also, Kingsize Soundlabs is filled with the gear and instruments needed to make a modern record. There are no additional fees for the good stuff! So, check out the site and give us call if you likey….

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Here’s an overview of the facilities…

The entire Kingsize Soundlabs (South) facility is a multi-use recording compound nestled within the beautiful city lights and scenic mountains of Northeast Los Angeles. The Rock Block, as many people call it, contains a variety of studios within two free standing buildings. All studios can be customized and outfitted with your desired pro audio equipment depending on your recording needs. We have many instruments, outboard gear, microphones, and HD3 rigs with loads of plug-ins, along with classic analogue consoles and recorders at your finger tips! Most are interchangeable between the studios which makes it a unique environment above and beyond many other studios. (See website for equipment details and reserve your room and desired setup).

The centerpiece, Studio A – “The Castle” is built around a vintage 32 channel Neve 8068 console and is accompanied with a 24ch 2″ MCI tape machine for the analogue lovers. With an HD3 Pro Tools system and a 32 i/o Apogee interface configuration, we have plenty of options for tracking and mixing. In addition to the nice array of outboard gear, this room comes with a Yamaha G2 baby grand piano, vintage upright piano, Hammond B3 organ with dual motor Leslie, additional Hammond organs, and loads of vintage analogue synths as well as amps, guitars, and drums for your choosing.

Next door to the A Studio is our newly outfitted Studio B – “MANT”. We are proud to announce we have recently partnered up with noted producer/engineer/mixer and all-around nice guy Rob Schnapf. “Mant” (half-man, half-ant) is the new parking place for Rob’s vintage recording space filled with outboard gear and his large collection of “bells and whistles.” This truly gives the room a cool vintage feel. MANT comes with a vintage “Class A” 16 channel Electrodyne console (formerly owned by the Sinatras), a ProTools HD3 rig, several amps, analogue keyboards and of course a Mellotron! This room will soon be outfitted with the long awaited John Musgrave custom MCI Console as well…

On the other side of Studio A is The Ship, owned and operated by engineer/producer Aaron Espinoza of the band Earlimart. Although Technically not a Kingsize studio The Ship has worked closely with Kingsize over the years and is one of the original studios on the block when we set up shop in the early 2000’s…

“The Annex,” the second building on the block, houses our Studio C, Mark Chalecki’s Little Redbook Mastering and Soundlabs 1 – 3 our project based overdub/mix rooms. Studio C, “The Cabin”, hosts a simple ITB setup using a Digidesign Control 24, HD3 and 16 i/o Digidesgn/Mytech converter combination. With classic front end from Quad 8 and floatable API mic pre’s, this room is ideal for smaller tracking, overdubbing, and mixing sessions. You can also customize your session with additional compressors, eq’s, and effects to maximize your recordings within a reasonable budget. This room contains a smaller live room suitable for recording most overdubs and a large amp closet ideal for isolation when needed.

Soundlabs 1 – 3, “The Capsules,” are smaller control rooms / ISO booth production rooms. These rooms offer a very affordable way of recording and mixing projects that need a lockout type schedule. The Capsules can be equipped as needed per project and can host visiting rigs as well. Let us help put together a package that meets your needs and budget!

Soundlabs 2 and 3 are also available for month to month lock outs. Please contact us for details if interested.

Last but not least, The Rock Block offers a spacious patio and with an open atmosphere unlike many studios in the hyper-competitive LA music scene. We do encourage daily cook-outs!

Kingsize Soundlabs (North) is a brand new facility focused on providing private month to month lock outs for independent music producers, writers and mixers. Located in Atwater Village Kingsize Soundlabs (North) offers 6 “plug and play” recording and mixing studios varying in size and purpose. At the heart of this facility is a 5.1 mixing theater designed to emulate the real world home theater along with 5 producer suites that included treated control rooms and iso booths. Gated parking and full kitchen on premises rounds out this top notch facility.