Meet the owners
Alec Boyd
The first studio Alec ever set foot in was Electrical Audio in Chicago: Steve Albini's room. He was a teenager, there for the summer, doing what interns do: running errands, cleaning up, cataloging reels of 2" tape. But he was also watching.
What he saw stuck. Albini engineering sessions with no Pro Tools rig, no safety net, just performance committed to tape. A producer who answered every question with a question — "does it sound good to you?" — and meant it. A DIY ethos that had nothing to do with cutting corners and everything to do with trusting the people in the room.
Alec moved to Austin at 18 to keep playing music. Over the years, he’s worked at Public Hi-Fi, Yellow Dog Studios, and Cedar Creek, all rooms that taught him the craft and the business of recording. In between studio gigs, Alec’s toured with Spoon, Caroline Rose, and Twin Peaks and released self-produced albums as Beach Street. He co-founded Hideaway because too many projects were dying before they started, priced out of rooms that cost more than the artists could sustain.