PIRATE.COM - Rehearsal Studios Avis 

Tolle Idee aber dreckig überschwemmte Toiletten. Defekte Toilette…
Studio selbst war zwar sauber… aber der Rest

Good service and good session
Great creative space

I just find it confusing, not very ethical and a bit immature of whoever’s involved in their management… Dalston Rehearsal Studio is a different studio, that’s their domain name, why would Pirate Studio call themselves with the name of a neighbouring business who have been there for years before them? Let alone the difference in quality, Pirate is like McDonalds and Dalston Rehearsal Studio is like a nice nice restaurant!

Das war ein Erlebnis :)
Kann ich jedem empfehlen der sich diese tollen Geräte noch nicht leisten kann. Hat 1A funktioniert und auch satter Sound!
Ich hatte sehr viel Spaß und war den Tag darauf gleich wieder da!!
Und obwohl kein Personal vor Ort war, wurde ein Problem das ich hatte, innerhalb von minuten gelöst.
( QR Code - WhatsApp und fertig.) 👌

Danke und bis bald pirate.com 🙋‍♂️

I always use the Whatsapp number to get help on bookings or damaged equipment.

Always fast replies, and give you the help you need.

The bathroom was unusable it was so dirty. Absolutely disgusting. Which also makes me think you’re not doing any Corona cleaning or precautions. I won’t be practicing here again.

Room was cancelled last minute with credit offered instead of refund. Musicians had already begun travelling from opposite ends of the country to attend the rehearsal.

Wasn’t made aware that alternative rooms were available an hour later.

When I finally arrived to an alternative room. Room 11, salford (the premium, most expensive room in the building) it was in such a state that it took almost 90 mins (half of the session) to get the sound set up. Leads everywhere, leads missing, on stage monitors were very crackly, power lead for one of the monitors missing, Snare skin was worn past being usable.

The room was advertised as having adjustable, coloured lighting which we were intending to use for recording footage.

Unsure if the footage will actually be useable as the state of the room in said footage is bordering on embarrassing and may be damaging to not only my brand, but also Pirates.

I’m not a high maintenance artist in comparison to a lot of my peers, I simply expect what was advertised and what I had paid for - a premium industry standard rehearsal space. This was not what was on offer and that is not acceptable.

Will be advising all musician friends not to use this site as it was a total waste of my money and more importantly mine and my musicians’ time.

For the first time, I booked a larger room for a group rehearsal. I specifically chose one with seating for the singers and that would accommodate us dancing as well. The ONLY way to determine that is by using the photos you have posted online. When I got to the facility, the room was NOTHING like that online. There is ZERO seating for anyone except the drummer. The room is FILTHY. To make matters even worse, the help number on the door is out of service, which was confirmed by Pete, who I had to wait six minutes to chat with through your online “chat now” system. I am infuriated and have no choice but to stay here for this rehearsal, because I have coordinated multiple schedules. I want a full and complete refund and for you to update the photos on your site so that others aren’t bamboozeled!!

Pirate been brilliant for the short term turn around with me finding a spot to finalise mastering. In the event any technical problems live in the room the team are good to go and at hand to deliver live support.

They're a long stay for myself and provide the right things so long as you know what you need and are not unprofessional and flakey going about things.

This location must be the worst Pirate studios in Europe. There is never toilet paper, the toilet is clogged with what toilet paper there was. There is rarely soap which is extremely unhygienic considering people are touching equipment for hours and use the washroom several times in that time. The kitchen sink has been flooded for days so you can’t even access water to drink. The place is filthy. The AC is always broken so after a few hours hours you are boiling in the small room. The coat hooks are broken and there is nowhere to put your things in a room supposedly for 5 people with 5 coats. Often knobs on the mixer are loose or completely broken. It is absolutely ridiculous how poorly managed this venue is considering how expensive it is to use the equipment - something which is supposed to facilitate a livelihood for many artists.

I love that they finally have an on site guy that can help with any queries.

Don is GREAT. Very helpful. Also though, this is not the place to record in my opinion there isn't soundproofing... Great for practice but you can hear everyone else's instruments.

I have visited Pirate Studios in Birmingham 5 times with a new band I’ve joined.

We usually go on a Sunday morning which is quiet and studio 14 is a great rehearsal space when everything is working.

Last two occasions we have had issues with equipment.

Problem is it is unmanned which seems like a good concept as you can access the studio 24/7 which is great. Problem is when something technical goes wrong there is no way to resolve it.

Last night we attended (Thursday 7-9pm which isn’t our usual rehearsal time)

I was shocked how much of a dive the studio becomes after 6pm.

I walked past a group of youths all smoking weed outside the main entrance doors (doesn’t usually bother me but these were youths all hoodied up. Not your typical rocker whose abit of a pot head). Our singer bought his 9 year old son to come along and watch live music so i thought this was abit shocking this was allowed to happen.

I also walked past 3 hoodied youths drinking with one vomiting thinking he was dying with his friends laughing at him drinking.

Tried to ignore it as we just wanted to rehearse.

Got into our usual studio 14 and found that we had no power to the sockets. We rang customer help and the advisor said they can’t do anything as it requires a technician. We offered to flip the breaker back on if they told us where it was but they couldn’t allow us to do that (fair enough I totally understand).

We were told we can either get a refund for the session and head home or we can accept a considerably smaller room with our rehearsal payment reimbursed for the inconvenience.

We accepted this and carried out our rehearsal in the smaller room as we came a long way as most of us are in Dudley/wolverhampton.

Our keyboard player who booked the room had an email this morning to say we will not be refunded for the rehearsal as mentioned on the phone.

Considering we were having to accept a major downgrade to what we booked and put up with all the youths doing drugs and drinking in gangs of hoodies everywhere we thought this was an unbelievable resolution to abit of a crap evening.

I think the studio needs to look into manning the complex with security and an on hand technician At the very least.

We enjoy using the studio on a Sunday morning but it would be nice to have the option to use it if an evening without it being used as a youth centre and the rooms being check after each have been used to ensure everything is working correctly.

I think the management need to look into the behaviour of an evening when the sun goes down as I wouldn’t bring my kids anywhere near the place of an evening.

We have unfortunately decided to attend our rehearsal booked in a weeks time (only because we feel we won’t get refunded due to this mornings email) and then look for another studio to use instead.

A lot of the equipment wasn't working well. The mics were constantly screaching, with loose cables that fell out and moved around. Plus the drum kit was in really bad shape, the ride had nothing to attach to, the kick wasn't working properly and the left crash kept falling off because it wasn't secured. Considering the room is £13/hour I'd expect better.

Amazing work ethic and always available to talk me through any problems that I have with the website or even when I am at the studio.
The studios are top and well put together

Jack over at Customer Service was an absolute legend and helped me out with my booking inquiries. The studios themselves are always kept tidy and organised, with even a spares closet if anything needs replacing mid-sesh. I highly recommend checking the guys over at Pirate, no matter what location.

Way too much bleed from the other rooms, we were mixing but it would have been impossible to record vocals

Im Raum 8 in Berlin sind schon viele Monate Regler kaputt und Federn. Durch die Security und Kontrolle ist durchaus sauberer geworden. Auf die Toiletten will man nicht gehen das ist eine Zumutung. Alles an sich wieder echt enttäuscht. Wenn man Miete für das Equipment bezahlt sollte es auch funktionieren. Ich habe das Gefühl Pirat-Studio ruht sich hier aus.

I arrived at my room at 9pm leave my belongings in the room to go smoke a cigarette i come back and theres a bunch of guys in my room saying they arnt going to leave. I dont understand how stupid you have to be to give my code to another group. I then contact support and ask for them to fix the situation and for compensation. They cancel my room and tell me i have to leave or rebook. I rebook the room and the idiot i was talking to then cancels my second booking for no reason. I spend £98 and i received mediocre service. I want a refund for my original booking!

I visited a Pirate studio yesterday and I needed technical support. I texted in WhatsApp, and I got helpful instructions in 2 minutes. It was really helpful and quick. I'm so satisfied, as always. Great place.