5150 Studios

5150 Studios is Wolfgang Van Halen's recording studio in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles. The studio was built by his late father Eddie Van Halen and is located at 3371 Coldwater Canyon Avenue in Studio City. It was built so Eddie Van Halen could have more control over the recording process than he had in the past. Every Van Halen album from 1984 onwards was recorded at 5150. They took the name for the studio (as well as the band's seventh album, 5150) from Section 5150 (almost always pronounced "fifty-one-fifty") of the California Welfare & Institutions Code, which allows a qualified officer or clinician to place a person under an involuntary psychiatric hold if the person is, "as a result of mental disorder, a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled." The studio is now used by Eddie's son Wolfgang Van Halen who used it on all three Mammoth albums and plans to continue using it in the future.