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.
You know that moment after you’ve spent hours mixing and it’s sounding great in the studio? Then you listen to it in your car, on your earbuds or on your Bluetooth speaker, and suddenly half of the mix is gone because there’s no bass? It’s a constant problem to get your mixes to translate to...
Hey there, Happy Sunday! Hope you’ve had a good weekend. I wanted to give you a quick reminder that my weekend flash-sale ends today, so if you’d like to get my Quick Mixing With Stock Plug-ins training for free, you have to grab it before the day is over. The three-part video series usually sells...
One little improvement at a time. That’s all you need to get better. Small incremental improvements over time will grow your potential like a snowball. It’s the beauty of having a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. In Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. shows us that the most important thing...
Chances are, you’ve either learned my entire mix process through Step By Step Mixing, or you’ve seen me write about it ad nauseam. That’s Latin for “I can’t believe he’s going to bring this $#!t up again.” Don’t worry, I won’t. You’ve already heard enough about it for now. However, just because I have a...
Hey there, I’m leveling up my business in the next year and because of that, I’m looking for someone proactive and detail-oriented with excellent written communication skills to be my virtual assistant. If you’re a fan of audio production, enthusiastic about online business entrepreneurship and want to assist with building an education empire, please find...
On the cruise around Cuba, my mother-in-law looks at me with a puzzled expression. “I’ve never seen anyone eat a kiwi like that,” she says. I scoop another spoonful of kiwi into my mouth and realize that this is the only way I eat a kiwi. You cut it in half and then eat it...
Hey there, I’m leveling up my business in the next year and because of that, I’m looking for someone proactive and detail-oriented with excellent written communication skills to be my virtual assistant. If you’re a fan of audio production, enthusiastic about online business entrepreneurship and want to assist with building an education empire, please find...
After Friday’s post where I shared all my favorite one-star reviews for Step By Step Mixing, I received an email from one of my readers, Jeremiah George, who surprised me with one of the most detailed and thoughtful reviews I’ve ever got. Here’s what he had to say: “This is my very first Amazon review,...
One of my favorite pieces of hate mail I’ve gotten from my subscribers is: “When Emperor Trump invades Iceland I hope you get thrown into a concentration camp for your views you Anti-American piece of trash” I couldn’t help but be thoroughly impressed by the eloquence of this insult. Very concise. Leaves no doubt in...
Jon Acuff, in his hilariously written book Finish, goes to war against perfectionism. He walks us through how psychologically wired we can be to avoid the unknown. We don’t just procrastinate; we also actively avoid finishing things that could bring us greatness. Perfectionism is a myth. When you get close to perfecting something, you realize all...