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.
Are you interested in learning sound system tuning, but don’t have the time or resources to attend an in-person seminar? Nathan Lively is here to help. You may remember him from some recent posts: 6 Soundcheck Tips on How to Get the Band to Play at the Right Level and How to Get Good Data...
Contrary to what people might think, we don’t all live in igloos in Iceland. It’s only the really rich bankers we didn’t jail who can afford the maintenance costs. The rest of us in the middle class had to make do with our turf houses from the Viking era. Igloos are annoying honestly. They’re really...
Celebrities have it real rough in Iceland. Why? Because you can’t just name your baby whatever you want. There’s a FINITE list of first names you can be named, and there’s even a naming committee that’s responsible for approving and rejecting the new batch of names that come in every year. This is a tax-payer funded...
This Friday it’s my birthday and to celebrate, I put together the Ultimate Birthday Bundle for you to check out this week. It’s a collection of ALL of my training at a staggering 82% off! Check it out here! The Ultimate Birthday Bundle includes training to: Help you take your mixes to the next level...
This past Wednesday I tore a hole in my comfort zone and squeezed through it. It was like Jack Nicholson “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” mixed with the unimaginable pain of giving birth to bowling ball. I stood on stage in front of a room full of strangers and performed standup comedy for the very first time. It...
AJ writes grungy indie folk-rock songs in between his job as an arborist in southern Arizona. A laidback millennial hippie with a constant five o’clock scruff, he wears faded work t-shirts, flipflops and a trucker cap, his ginger manbun sticking out the back. Whenever he walks across the street to my studio, he brings a cup...
I hosted a 20-person workshop on mixing a song from start to finish yesterday at a local library. And I got an interesting question about keyboards and guitars. This person wanted to know where I would look in the frequency spectrum to make room in a mix that’s heavy in both rock guitars and keys....
I used to hate sushi. Cold, raw fish wrapped in seaweed and rice. Dipped into a black sauce with spicy green paste. Gross. This was really driving a wedge between me and my wife because she LOVES sushi. I can just see us screaming at each other in front of a couple’s counselor: “You said...
Back in my twenties, I chaperoned an underage indie rock group from Iceland to England while they were on tour. The town council owed the parents a favor, so they sent me to make sure certain members didn’t fall prey to liquor, vice, and sin. How well I did is a story for another day,...
I’m not sure if this is for you, but how would you feel if you knew exactly where to put the microphones on the drum kit to get the sound you hear in your head? Instead of wimpy drums that sound like a toddler playing pots and pans with a cardboard kick drum, you’d get thick...