Close to Home Studio

09/07/2025

Practice made painless! Drop by Close To Home Studio and claim your discounted first 2 hours today!

08/13/2025

Come for rehearsal or just for the aesthetic!! We’ve got you covered.

08/11/2025

Getting the best mix at practice can be tough! Rest assured things will always sound great at Close To Home Studio. Don’t forget to come get your first 2 hour practice for $40! Book now!

08/08/2025

POV: You’ve got the studio to yourself and are deciding which room to use. Which will you choose? 🤔

11/22/2024

Hey gang! Benedikt, Cesar and Seth are looking for some advice. We want to find new folks to come practice at our studio, and we need some ideas about where to look.

You smart people got any bright ideas???

We've got the attached flyer to paper local brick and mortars, so names of bars, open mics, train stations, or other places that have good traffic are preferred, but also tips about any cool online spots like local music FB groups, subreddits, etc. about the Chicago or north/west/northwest suburbs are also appreciated.

We opened Close to Home Studio last December because it always seemed harder than it should be for us to find a place to turn up the volume and let loose when we had to get ready for a show. We've spent the past year slowly getting our s**t together and now have two fully functional, fully back lined practice rooms that we find quite comfortable 🙂

And if you yourself are looking for a place to practice but have never been to our place, head over to www.close2homestudio.com/landing-page to learn more and book a spot for yourself. Any new clients who book from that page get their first rehearsal for only $20 (discount applied at checkout after your session).

Save big on your first rehearsal Pay only $20 for your first practice at our place (up to three hours) When you book now. Book your first rehearsal for only $20 Getting the gang together is hard We make it easier Close to Home Studio is a rehearsal space in Des Plaines with all the amps, mics, instr...

10/10/2024

Hey gang. Our pal Jason is offering some free promo photos… see the comments for a classic snap he grabbed at a Lex Alley Project show at Montrose Saloon a couple years back.

09/13/2024

Hey gang! Announcement: we now offer live sound services. Here’s a vid of our latest gig, a block party in Rolling Meadows last weekend.

For some extra dough, we can even record your set and get you separate tracks to mix. And for a little extra above the little extra, we can mix a selection of your faves from the night. Here’s a link to a rough mix of another tune from that night, mixed by yours truly: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XWndrNVxDj5kTbOpTLK9X97eObox3Rf1/view?usp=sharing

Hit us up if you’re looking for someone to provide the PA and help you sound your best all night 😀

08/29/2024

Don’t be a sad drummer like this guy…practice before your gig! Click “book now” in our profile.

As always, new clients get their first rehearsal for $20 (up to 3 hours).

08/08/2024

Hello friendsies. If you have a Spotify account (free or premium—doesn’t matter), can you do us a favor and follow our band, Lex Alley Project on there? We’ve got a new album coming out, and the more followers we have, the more they recommend the album to new people.

Here’s the link: https://open.spotify.com/artist/43hqm557XanKapeah416W3?si=ztsQ1tcqTle5SvqdzTfe-Q

Thanks! As a reward, here’s a picture of Seth thinking about how much he likes you.

07/09/2024

Close to Home Studio: now with more gear per square foot than any other rehearsal space in the Des Plaines-Park Ridge-Mt. Prospect tri-muni area! 🤪