Funkadelic Studios

Funkadelic keeps my soul alive. I highly recommend them for practicing or recording. It’s become one of my artistic homes. The staff is so frickin nice and Dawn is simply the best – I adore her to total pieces!

Fantastic area, great staff. I cannot say enough good words about DAWN, what a great lady and what a great conversationalist. I showed up an hour early and she let me hang out and we had a great talk about the changing times, the changing culture, and the loss of appreciation amongst the current generation. Dawn should have her own talk radio show, I swear. The rest of the staff was helpful and though the auditioning process wasn’t as swell as I would have hoped, just the attitude and professionalism at Funkadelic made this a great experience– oh, and the prices are beyond fair, too. In New York today and especially in Manhattan? Yeah– Funkadelic is great. Highest Recommendation.

Clean, good gear, good staff, decent rooms & AC… What more could you want?

Nice studios, good place to be, easy to get to off any train from 42 street. It’s small but a good sound room and everything you need to record or do a show. highly recommend!

Besides having your own studio space at a monthly rental price, this is the next best thing if you are a teacher. I am a private voice instructor and I use Funkadelic to teach my students. They give me a price of $ 12/​hr which I can’t beat anywhere else in the area. The only thing is that I wish you could book on the ½ hour if they have the space/​availability, but they are firm about not doing that. Anyway, its a good choice and a central midtown location.

Funkadelic Studios is the best! Great prices, great rooms, really helpful staff. My first choice every time.

I have been using this place for well over two years now on a weekly basis. Great rehearsal space and affordable. Staff are friendly and very helpful.

GOOD STUDIO!
SUPER NICE STAFF, they work hard t make sure u got everything u need for ur musical needs…
other then that it is what it is a rehearsal studio.
in the room we get they got 1 marshall, 1 roland jc 120, and fender twin reverb.
pretty nice bass amp hartke and a drum set.
Pretty OK PA system.
Cheers.

I do solo drums here all the time and the rates are great, plus they have a huge selection of congas you can use for free. I also rehearse with heavy bands here, and it’s a bare-​knuckle kind of place so it’s good for that. However, if you’re a sensitive singer-​songwriter type or jazzer this is probably not the place for you, except during the off-​peak hours, unless you don’t mind being crushed like a bug by bands like mine.

Meh, is right. Maybe I should re-​evaluate this after I’ve been to a few more nyc studios but this one didn’t impress. Lots of rooms, I think I saw over 15.
The sound proofing, aint so good. I wasn’t in a room for recording so maybe that’s why. The location is pretty convenient if you take the E train.

Funkadelic Studios also dba MJ Studios Inc. which resides on the third floor of an office building. Funkadelic Studios houses a total of thirteen (13) active rooms well equipped with sound, lighting as there is also a recording music studio on the premises. Admission for $ 5.00 with patrons’ hand stamped allows patrons to hop six rooms (only six rooms were reserved for this event) in the course of the night. One room for a chill out lounge room; one room for percussion and wind instruments; one room for spoken word poetry open-​mic reading; and another for vocals. Room size vary in all thirteen rooms which gives a quaint audience for musicians/​artists to be acquainted and comfortable of performing in front a live audience overcoming stage freight.
Funkadelic Studios felt like a bar where located all on the same street of a live performance hop from room to room without ever leaving the building. For emerging musician artists and or established musicians Funkadelic Studios is a perfect venue for practice or debuting one’s talent.
A fellow prolific poet invited me for the spoken word poetry event which to my utter dismay the event did not begin until 9pm. There are soda machines and musical tool machines serving as emergency backup should musicians instruments brake a chord or lost a guitar pick. The rooms are insulated for soundproof as required by law and are equipped with functional A/​C ventilation. I rate Funkadelic Studios for lack of food.
I would not recommend Funkadelic Studios for youngsters under age 21 as the hours of operation for events, volume of noise, explicit language used are not kid-​friendly.

My band has been practicing there for more than a year, we started at the old location. The new location is a nice improvement — good food close by, better subway access (for me anyway). Inside everything has been taken up a notch — amps, pa, drums, loaner guitars are all in better shape than what was available at the old location. Cosmetically things are still coming together — that is you’ll see some building materials around, it looks like they’re finishing off the last few rooms. All in all the price is right and so is the vibe — keep up the good work Funkadelic!

The folks who work there are cool. Some of the gear is beat. The three hours for the price of two deal from 10PM to 1AM isn’t bad. The days of cheap rehearsal space in Manhattan are long gone, so this place isn’t so bad in today’s landscape.

FYI — Funkadelic has not upgraded their equipment, it’s still fairly horrible in that respect. Good news about that place is it’s fairly easy to get a room, and the 2 hours for 3 make things cheap. I still go there when every other studio is booked and I want to be cheap about it – 9 times out of ten, I have to bring my own amp though — and the drum symbols are tinny.

Meh. My band and I used to rehearse here based on the prices. After realizing that the equipment was horrible, the prices were going up, and they took away cassette recorders, we smartened up and realized it wasn’t worth $ 27+ an hour. Granted, they do have 3 hours for 2 on weekends, but still you’ll spend an hour getting everything to work. The staff was semi-​helpful, it was a case by case basis. I have memories here, but definitely not attached to this place.
Overall: Cheap. Simple. Subpar Equipment. Accessible if you are just starting to play. Barebones Rehearsal. You want starving artist, here you go.
Update: I went in mid-​February for a jam session. Tape deck recording is back. Didn’t use it. Same amps in the room, prices the same. Looked a bit different, added new things to vending machine. I didn’t see a plethora of changes. I’ll be back to check it out again, as it is the cheapest place to practice.