Category Archives: video

Record “acoustic metal” with the Hyrax at next week’s record release!

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Benjie

Punk and metal heroes The Hyrax release “Fistful of Critters” on Thursday, June 24 – and we’re celebrating with an open recording session at Backthird Audio. The boys will be back in the studio to re-recording two of the album’s … Continue reading →

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Cuter than Justin Bieber, kids sing Birthday Cheer jingle in the studio

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Kyle

On Saturday we had a couple of our favorite songwriters and composers Linda Golasky and Gail Quillman, along with quite possibly the cutest singers we’ve had in the studio. Nolan, Colin and Christian. They recorded a birthday jingle called “Birthday … Continue reading →

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Recording music for video

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Benjie

I got back into the studio last night to engineer a session for our friends at Jimi Allen Productions. Katharine Allen produced and played piano for BPM bassist David Caton, who brought an original arrangement of the church classic “More … Continue reading →

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Sure Thing Studios holds video shoot at Backthird with Jazz artist Donald Alford II

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Kyle

Today we had an exciting afternoon with a video production crew in the studio from Sure Thing Studios also locally based in Aurora. Thomas Egler and his wife Stephanie, the owners and operators of the production company, were here to … Continue reading →

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Recording original music for Audio Books

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Kyle

Today, Benjie and I spent the morning recording some original music as the backdrop for John Blumberg’s audio book version of Silent Alarm. The original composition by Benjie Hughes titled “Sparkling White” features an up-lifting piano melody and brilliant violin … Continue reading →

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Chase away your blues…

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Benjie

Call them the Plastic Band. Last weekend we had the pleasure of tracking with a crew of vocalists, guitarists and one mean blues-harp player to record an original ditty for Chase Card Services. That’s songwriter Gary Schmidt’s atrocious pun in … Continue reading →

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