The Studio

What is professionalism in music worth to you?
Professionalism means great-sounding drums and mixes you'll never need to apologize for. It means playing a real piano in a real live room. It means eye contact with your bandmates. It means being treated like your music is worth more than any price tag. Because it always is.

You and I are making music at an interesting time. Recording isn't just for famous guys in spandex — it's for everyone. You can record at other Chicago studios, or in your basement on a laptop — we'll even teach you how. But if you want to work with professionals, your choices are more limited than ever.

At Backthird Audio, our goal is to provide a professional recording studio experience that's available to anyone. We're a community studio. But we're a quality studio. We hold ourselves to some pretty high standards. Do you? Is your music worth that much?

If it is, this is your studio. Come on in.
Benjie Hughes


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Backthird Audio is a Chicago-area recording studio that also provides technical training, community-building and employment opportunities to musicians in Aurora, Illinois, and the Chicago suburbs, including Naperville, Oswego, Dekalb, Wheaton, Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles. To hire DJs, dance bands and other live-music services, visit Backthird Entertainment.