Hi, I'm Björgvin Benediktsson. I'm a musician, audio engineer and best-selling author. I help musicians and producers make a greater impact with their music by teaching them how to produce and engineer themselves. I've taught thousands of up and coming home studio producers such as yourself how to make an impact with their music through Audio Issues since 2011.
This weekend is NAMM and I’m taking in the craziness. I’ve gone to NAMM for the past ten years and it’s become less of a place to see new stuff, and more just a place where many of my friends are conveniently located in one place so that we can have a good time. A tagline...
After hours of grueling mixing work, you finally get to that finished mix you worked so hard on. It sounds balanced and punchy. You can pick out all the instruments clearly and they are playing together in unison, creating an intricate and amazing arrangement. You pat yourself on the back for a job well done...
You jump up from your chair and exclaim, “That’s it!” After hours of tweaking your snare drum you’ve finally gotten that meaty and powerful punch you were hearing in your head. Although you’re elated from your mixing session, it’s late and you’re exhausted from mixing Christmas jingles all day so you decide to call it...
The eleventh Yuletide Trickster to wreak havoc on your home studio is Doorway Sniffer. Don’t shoot the messenger dear reader. I didn’t make these names up. Doorway Sniffer has an acute sense of smell and with his long nose he sniffs out the nasal frequencies of your vocal tracks, making them sound telephony and thin....
Window Peeper is the weird voyeur of all the thirteen Yulebrothers. If you missed the previous ten, check out the blog to catch up). Suffice to say, he doesn’t get a lot of love in the post #metoo era, but that doesn’t stop him from sneaking into your studio and crashing your computer. It used...
Last night as you exited your studio, you were happy with how dynamic yet punchy your mastered mixes were sounding. Unfortunately for you, as you dream of dynamic waveforms, the next Yuletide Trickster sneaks into your studio. Sausage-Swiper is his name, and usually, he heads for the delis and grocery stores to soothe his addiction....
You’re happily dreaming away this morning when the eighth Yuletide Trickster rears his ugly head. Skyr Gobbler is a big fat meanie who sneaks into your studio and adds too much low-end to all of your mixes. He gobbles down his Skyr, a kind of Icelandic Yogurt, as he plays with your EQ curves. He...
If you’re just joining us in our Yuletide tale, check out the previous stories of the Yulelads playing tricks on your tracks right here. Today we have Bowl-Licker scurrying down the mountain to make a mess of your music productions. As you would expect, his schtick is to sneak into your house and lick all...
You’ve been working on your mixes long into the night when a sudden noise breaks your concentration. *Slam!* What was that? You hit the spacebar and the looped snare drum stops in its tracks. *Slam!!!* The sound reverberates throughout your home studio. The ringing flutter of your untreated room echoes in your ears and you...
Shivering down the mountain today is Pot Scraper, the fifth Yuletide Trickster to wreak havoc with your home studio mixes. As you would expect from his name, he loves to steal leftovers from pots because he’s constantly cold and searching for some semblance of warmth. He sneaks into your studio and with shivering hands finds...