Call the room direct.

For booking, the fastest route is the phone. Describe the record you want to make and you will get a straight quote for the whole project rather than an hourly figure that answers nothing.

For 512 Studios Live, send links to your music and where you have been playing. For Austin Icons, audio or video submissions both work, and live footage helps.

2228 S Lamar Blvd, in the 78704, on the South Lamar strip. Under three minutes from downtown without traffic, which in Austin is a meaningful caveat — allow more between four and seven.

There is parking on site, and it is signed for customers. Load-in matters more than it sounds when you have a kit and four amps, so ask on the call where to pull up.

Someone in the building answers the phone, and it is frequently the person who would be engineering your session. You are not going through a switchboard.

Sessions run to the record rather than to office hours, including nights and weekends, so the phone is a better guide to availability than any posted opening time.