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.
It’s here! Master Your Mixes – my brand new training on transforming your mixes into professionally mastered records is now open! Here’s what one of my early students, Simon Rider from the U.K. had to say: “The ‘Master Your Mixes’ course contains so much invaluable information and, perhaps more importantly, shows how you can produce...
I made you a quick sneak peek video of one of the videos in my upcoming Master Your Mixes course you’ll find helpful if you’re confused what plug-ins you need for mastering: Remember to join the waiting list here if you’re interested in being the first to know when it goes live. Which plug-ins are...
Yesterday I talked about how one of your biggest problems is getting your mixes to sound as loud and competitively punchy as the professional records you compare your mixes to. It’s what a lot of my students struggle with, and the reason I’m putting together a training to help you overcome those struggles. If you’d...
Today we’re going to talk about EQ’ing guitars. In particular, you’ll learn to add definition, reduce boominess to make room for the bass, getting it to cut through a mix by accenting a specific frequency, and then finally adding width in the sides to make them sound wider without getting in the way of the...
You won’t want to miss today’s episode of Influences and References where you’ll hear us talk about these things: The creative process of finishing my new upcoming book – and what it’s about! The importance of a creative routine and the struggle to keep it up How to use inspiration from other creative works to...
The professional reference mix exploded out of the speakers – the bass was full, the mid-range was clear, the highs sparkled. And the vocals? The vocals popped out of the mix like the singer was standing right in front of me. I listened back to my mix and it fell flat on its face. The...
Have you ever wondered… Is Iceland really green and Greenland really ice? Is Björk our queen? Are Sigur Rós really elves? Did Of Monsters and Men evolve from real monsters? If you answered “wtf?!?” to any of those questions, then you’re going to love today’s episode of Influences and References where we celebrate Icelandic Independence Day! We’re...
Yesterday I squashed some of your fears about EQ by telling you that you can use it however you want as long as you like the end result. To recap: Subtractive EQ isn’t better than boosting. It’s just one way of using an EQ to get a good mix. You can boost and cut as much...
As someone who has been studying EQ for over 15 years now, let me bust one of the most annoying myths in music production: “Cutting is Better than Boosting and Boosting a Lot is Bad” This is what I think about this advice: Sure, subtractive EQ is a great method for getting rid of annoying...
Here is our happy hour chat with J. T. Cloutier, author of The Bedroom Super Producer. J. T. Cloutier is an award-winning Canadian music composer. His music has been featured with world-class brands such as National Geographic, Guess, Peugeot, Bell Canada, and many more. He is also the founder of Delicate Beats, a company dedicated...