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 get the weirdest comments when you run ads on Facebook. Everybody wants to argue about everything, even when you run an ad with an image of a cartoon character. Like this one: I’ve used that image for years because it’s a nice representation of the home studio musician and producer I like to help....
Recently, there have been a string of posts in audio and music production groups about “gurus” and how they seem to be the worst thing mankind has to offer and I’m curious what you think. Although skepticism can be healthy, I wonder if it’s worth giving people the benefit of the doubt that they are...
EQ DAY was AMAZING! We had just shy of 150 people show up and most of you stayed for the entire THREE-HOUR session! Seems like EQ is a topic that we can all nerd out about for a long time, and I think we probably could’ve talked about it for three hours longer! If you missed...
The most annoying comment I see in the online audio forums is a variation of this nonsense: “You should only use subtractive EQ and never boost more than 3 dBs” This is…for a lack of a better term…absolute bullshit. And I’m willing to fight anybody who follows this advice as gospel. It’s just plain wrong...
If you’re anything like my other students, you love to geek out about EQ. You may find it equally fascinating and frustrating. Frustrating when you can’t seem to find that muddy sound that’s throwing a blanket over your mix. Fascinating when you turn a knob or boost a frequency and your mix just jumps out...
This is fresh on my mind, so I’ll just come out and say it: SEO is pointless when you’re starting your business! We dug into SEO yesterday inside the Creative Business Bootcamp. I wanted to share some thoughts with you if you’re wondering what marketing strategy to choose to grow your audio/music business. I told my...
People always tell us to think outside the box, and they would be correct. But throwing the box away to embrace creativity will have disastrous consequences because you’ll be left with unlimited options that will paralyze you. My suggestion is that if you want to create inside the box, make sure you create that box...
The Grammys were on Sunday and I could feel a disturbance in the force. I knew that somewhere, in the deep dark recesses of the internet forums, some commercial studio curmudgeon with his jaded mindset was shitting on the incredible success of people he would never get to work with. If anything, I feel sad...
It’s easy, you just gotta BARP…or Be A Real Person. Being a faceless brand or an unapproachable corporate entity doesn’t cut it, and in this quick conversation snippet we’ll dig into what it really takes. For Instantly Make Better Mixes: https://www.StepByStepMixing.com Build a Creative Business: https://www.BBenediktsson.com Unlock the Secrets of the Music Industry: https://www.IndieMusicAcademy.com...
