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.
This week’s mix tip video features the song “Simon Taylor Denver Cash” by The Promise is Hope, and it’s a beautiful singer/songwriter-style folk song with acoustic guitars, dual lead vocals and spacious reverbs. I mixed and mastered the song and I thought I’d help them promote their release by doing a quick Youtube video to...
Mark writes in with a question about mixing philosophy I thought you might find interesting: “I’d love to know your philosophy for what to start a mix with? Drum kit first; introduce the bass, build from there – end up draping the vocal on top? Or get the vocal sounding how you want and mould...
We’re going live in about 30 minutes for another episode of Influences & References, our random show about music production, releasing records, failing forward, dealing with insecurity and imposter syndrome, and other high-fallutin’ fun stuff like that. Join us on these channels: Stream on Facebook Stream on Youtube It’s always more fun when you’re around,...
This week’s video is all about EQ’ing drums. If you’re struggling to find the right frequencies to: Get bigger kick drums Add punch to your snares Create explosive toms or Reduce boxiness in your overall drum sound Then this video is for you. If you’re tired of experimentation and want to finally know how to...
Join us for another Audio Issues Happy Hour – this time with longtime Audio Issues friend and host of the Reaper Blog, Jon Tidey! We’ll talk about music, mixing, which DAWS we like and why, and we’ll take questions from the audience so please leave your question in the chat so we can answer them...
What if Otis Redding had been lynched like Emmett Till? Does it not make your soul go cold, Robert Johnson being pulled over before the crossroads? What if Muddy Waters was shot? By another poorly trained hot-head cop. “Muddy was just jogging ’round the hood,” his neighbors had seen him a million times before. Does...
If you’re using Dropbox, WeTransfer or any other similar service to send mixes to your clients or colleagues – stop. There’s a better option and it’s designed exclusively for audio people like us. It’s called Filepass and it was created by Brian Hood of the Six Figure Home Studio. Brian and I have been friends...
What if you could stop worrying about whether your mixes were any good…and start proudly releasing professional-sounding records…every time you sat down to create a song? That’s exactly what I promise to help you achieve when you become an Insider. But…it’s not for everyone. Insiders is NOT for you if: You have a fixed scarcity...
We’re going live at 2 PM today for Influences & References, the podcast that talks about music production, mixing and the creative process (among a whole host of other unrelated things that come to mind). Join us on Facebook or Youtube at 2 PM PT. Ed is not only a regular Audio Issues contributor, but...
This week I’m proud to take in new Insiders members to our awesome community of musicians, engineers, and producers. If you don’t know what you get as an Insider, check out the details here. I understand that there’s a LOT of content inside the membership. You may not know where to start and it’s easy...