I’m Björgvin Benediktsson. I’m the author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, Step By Step Mixing: How to Create Great Mixes Using Only 5 Plug-ins, the creator of the Audio Issues EQ plug-in, and the founder of Audio Issues. I’m also a venture advisor for the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.
I’m an audio engineer turned writer, and I’m on a mission to help musicians overcome their imposter syndrome, create great-sounding music, and release their work.
I’ve worked as a live sound engineer, a broadcast recording engineer, a professional touring musician, a freelance mixing and mastering engineer, and an audio educator in both Iceland and the United States.
Since 2009, I’ve been helping people like you turn your rough recordings into finished records you can be proud to release. If you want to create radio-ready and release-worthy music that jumps from the speakers, you’re in the right place. My dream is for you to email me out of the blue one day and tell me you won an award for your music because I helped you make it sound successful.
Thousands of home studio producers like yourself have learned from my training, and my work has been featured in publications such as MusicTech magazine, Audiotuts+, The Pro Audio Files, and Recording Revolution, to name a few.
He didn’t do it, I swear! I stand before you today to argue the case for the falsely accused. The limiter is being charged with high crimes of loudness and dynamic squashing. Even though music is louder and less dynamic than ever, the fact is that it wasn’t the limiter’s doing. He was just a...
Whether you’re an engineer breaking into the live on how to achieve those goals.
What are you scared about this Halloween? If you’re like most us, chances are you’re scared of mastering. Mastering is like black magic. Especially if you don’t really know what you’re doing. You just insert the typical processors that the mastering engineers use and then you pray for the best. Usually, the results are less...
A melody makes a mix go ’round. For 99%(made up statistic) of music, the song revolves around the vocal melody. Especially when you consider how many songs use the same four chords, there would be no way to differentiate songs if you didn’t have the melody to tell you which one it was. So you...
When you use EQ, not everything needs to be squeaky clean and filled with high-end sheen. Sometimes it’s useless to add “air” to certain instruments. You don’t need to, and your mix might suffer for it. In some cases, too much high-end just adds hiss and noise instead of those clean highs you wanted. Give...
Digital Audio Workstations are wonderful things. They’re one-stop shops. They have every processor and synth patch you need to produce your next track. But given so many choices, do you end up choosing none? Have you stopped critically listening to your audio, and just resorted to laziness in your productions? Patch Laziness In one of...
1. Setup 2. Listen 3. Record 4. Listen 5. Repeat –@siggidori Image by: Rossco ( Image Focus Australia )
Today marks a milestone for Audio Issues. It’s time for me to venture into video and start giving you easy to use production tips in video format. That way you can see and hear the techniques that make your mixes sound better. Now, these videos aren’t super fancy. They’re just straightforward mixing tips. I’m really...
How do you use chorus in your mixes? People dont’ realize the versatility of the chorus effect. Just because something was so heavily used in the eighties that there isn’t a guitar solo without a massive helping of chorus, doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant for your modern mixes. Chorus is very useful for many things, such...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, when it comes to recording, mixing or any other aspect of music production: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.“ -Sun Tzu If you don’t plan your recording, mixing, or mastering session, then you’ll have a much harder time getting to your destination. Like the...