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5150 Studios is Eddie Van Halen's home studio in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The studio was built so that 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. The took the name for the studio (and therefore the album 5150) from the California Health and Safety Code section for temporary detention of insane people. There are currently rumors that Eddie is moving and is worried about what will become of his studio.^{[citation needed]}

Eddie said this about the studio^{[citation needed]}:

We've done every album since 1984 here. It's where I go everyday, where I go to hang out. I even come up in my bathrobe. I usually get up at about seven in the morning- hey, I got a kid. Sometimes I'll bring Wolf and he'll bang around on Alex's drums. This place is like Fort Knox. Nothing happened to it during the earthquake in 1994. It's all two-foot cinder block filled with cement. It ain't going anywhere. Donn Landee actually designed this studio. It just started out as a demo thing, a place where I could go and have fun. We built it with a very small budget in mind, and then as it grew over the years, we started to go,'F***, we can actually make records here! Let's buy a new console, let's buy this, let's buy that!' It's not like I started out saying let's have a professional recording studio at home- it wasn't like that at all. You should have seen what we did 1984 on; a $6,000 piece-of-sh** console that came out of United Western, an old green World War II thing with big old knobs and tubes. Donn rewired it to make it work.

• Edward Studio and Storage Pictures – photos of 5150 Studio

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