About us

Backbeat Studios

We treat your project like it’s ours.
Because that’s the only way we know how to work.

What does that actually mean?

It means we don’t wait for you to walk in before we start thinking.

Most studios start when you arrive. We start when you first send us the brief — asking not just what you need recorded, but what the content needs to do.

What’s the creative intent?
What’s the emotion you’re trying to move?
Who exactly is on the other end of this? And,
What does it take to make them lean in rather than tune out?

It may seem odd for a recording studio to be asking so many pre-production questions when you simply wanted to know how much it would cost to press the record button.

But we aren’t a recording-studio-for-hire the way most expect — and frankly, it’s not what your project really needs.

The Questions Most Recording Studios Never Ask

Here’s what twenty years behind the console has taught us: recording a voice for scripted content is the easiest part of the job. The gap between content that lands and content that doesn’t is rarely about technical perfection. It’s almost always an intent problem — the emotional arc was never defined, the message was shaped for the producer instead of the audience, and nobody stopped to ask what the content actually needed to do.

We close that gap before a microphone is switched on.

That’s what we mean when we say we understand creativity. Not that we have good taste — though we’d like to think so — but that we understand the thinking behind the brief. The commercial that needs to earn trust in thirty seconds. The podcast that needs to build authority over thirty episodes. The audiobook that needs to hold attention for three hundred pages. The broadcast mix that carries the story to its most natural crest before the edit.

Audio should never fight the audience.

Whether it’s a voiceover, a branded podcast, a film mix or a video production, the listener should never have to work for the meaning. Clarity, credibility and emotional precision are not things you fix in post. They are decisions made early in pre-production, guided during the recording, and shaped further through the edit.

That’s the investment we bring to every project.

Yours included.

Why Clients Come Back

Since 2006, Backbeat Studios has worked with brands, agencies, broadcasters and publishers across voiceovers, podcasts, audiobooks, broadcast post-production and video content.

We’ve helped produce a Mandarin audiobook of Lee Kuan Yew’s Hard Truths for SPH. We’ve mixed and finished broadcast and travelogue productions for television. We’ve hosted a remote ADR session for Marvel Studios’ What If…? live with Walt Disney Studios in California. We won the inaugural Best Audiobook Award at the Singapore Book Awards 2021. And we were producing podcasts in 2011 — before anyone had a content strategy for it.

The clients on our wall range from DBS and Singapore Airlines to Penguin Random House, Storytel, MOE and Disney. What they have in common is that they came back.

What We Do

Record in comfort in our spacious recording space of 3884 cubic feet. Acoustically designed with treated to meet the recording specifications for broadcast, voice-overs and audiobooks.

Voiceover recording — commercials, e-learning, corporate content, multilingual and bilingual
Podcast production — strategy, recording, editing, sound design, video podcasts
Audiobook production — narration recording, mastering, international publisher standards
Broadcast & film audio — TV post-production, dubbing, film mixing and audio finishing
Audio post-production — mixing, mastering, broadcast and online delivery

My Clients

Trusted by brands and companies, big or small.
Here are some of our clients who value the perfection of sound and a fun collaborative studio experience.