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.
Want to get rid of nasally and harsh vocals but don’t know where to EQ? Is your voice sounding honky but you can’t figure out why? Or maybe your vocals sound buried under the rest of the mix, and you can’t get that present, clean, and clear vocal sound you hear in your head? If...
EQ’ing your mix bus is a delicate process. Too little and you won’t hear a difference. Too much and you might ruin your mix. But with a sprinkle of just the right amount of Goldilocks EQ, you’ll tighten the low end and remove the mud while adding presence and brightness that makes your mix stand...
In this video, you’ll find some of the best starting points for using EQ to shape your synthesizers and keyboard tracks: If you want to use the presets and EQ plug-in that’s in the video, check out the Audio Issues EQ plug-in. If you missed any of the other videos in the series, you can...
If you’re struggling to get your bass to cut through on small speakers, or just need a heavy low-end for your mixes, make sure you know about these EQ areas. In this video, we’ll look at the best starting points to think about when you’re EQ’ing bass. If you’d like to test out the Audio...
If you want your drums to cut through and the splashes of your cymbals to sing without adding harshness and piercing overtones, this week’s video is for you. Make sure you follow these overhead EQ starting points the next time you’re EQ’ing drums. EQ is only one of the five plug-ins I show you how...
If you’ve wanted your toms to hit harder, feel thicker, and punch through the mix, this week’s video is for you. You don’t want those tom fills to get lost in the shuffle (no pun intended?), so make sure you use these EQ tips to get them to cut through. Remember, if you’re tired of...
Next up in our EQ Starting Point series, we have the kick drum. We’ll expand on the common practices of the drum bus and try to enhance the flavor, punch, and power of the kick. We’ll cover taming the low end, cutting out boxiness, and the starting points for thump. In the next video, we’ll...
I couldn’t believe the words coming out of her mouth. It seemed like time slowed down as she said it. “Why?” my two-year-old asked. I’d heard stories, but now that the moment was happening, I dreaded every minute of what might come. And I knew there was no coming back from it. Now I had to...
If you’d like to get rid of boxiness and boom so that you can create a punchy and powerful drum sound, watch this video. In the first part of my EQ Starting Point series I’ll walk you through some of the presets in the Audio Issues EQ so that you can make better home studio...
I went a long time without a mix template because it wasn’t a thing back in the day of live analog sound. Mixing whatever the live bands threw at me at the dark and musty music venue wasn’t unusual. Each show would be different. Each show would have random bands, each with separate instrumentation so...