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.
If you want to add a bunch of delay to your vocal but don’t want it to clutter up the source vocal track, this week’s mix video is for you. By using a compressor that’s side-chained to the vocal, you can control the delay in a very musical way. One of the producer’s references was...
It’s Thursday and you know what that means! It’s time for another Audio Issues Happy Hour Q&A session where we share a beer and I answer all your questions about mixing and music production. Today I’ll be joined by my friend, producer, and engineer Ronan Chris Murphy at 4:30 PM PST, simultaneously streaming from both...
Now that I’ve got your attention, here’s what’s going on at Audio Issues today… I’m slowly losing it in lockdown but that’s not going to stop me from going live today for another episode of Influences and References. It’s the podcast where I’m joined by my co-host, Ed “Charles” Elefterion, where we talk about the...
Understanding the EQ can often feel overwhelming, but learning how to EQ properly is still one of the most important skills you can learn and you can’t overlook it. Equalization is on every track in modern recording. There is always something added, cut, or filtered. You hear jargon like: “Boost this frequency”, “put a notch filter...
If you’re looking for a couple of different ways to create separation between your instruments, this week’s video is for you. John Martin’s jazz-trio song, Engelenhart was a fun tune to work on and I discovered an alternative way to create separation between the piano and the upright bass in the lower-mids. Sometimes when two...
If you want to hang out with me and get your audio questions answered today, join me at another Audio Issues happy hour at 4:30 PM PST You can send in your questions ahead of time by pasting them in the chat here. We already have questions on: Mixing in mono How to use reference...
Happy Monday! It’s 9 o’clock on a Monday and the piano man is probably still asleep (although I doubt he went to work on Saturday because his lounge was probably closed). That sentence was brought to you by Billy Joel fans and quarantine alcoholics alike. This lockdown has just made my job even more demanding,...
If you want to learn a few tricks about spicing up your virtual instrument tracks, this week’s Mix Stream video is for you. We worked on a song called Twenty One by Wade Means, which I enjoyed working on immensely. Because the tracks were all midi tracks converted to audio, they were very clean-sounding and...
I watched a classic movie this past weekend. Or at least, that’s how my wife pitched it to me. Two hours later I had begrudgingly endured the 1999 classic hit, 10 Things I Hate About You with Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. It’s funny, there’s a scene at the prom in the end when there’s...
Hi there, In the last week or so I’ve been sharing the Full-Stack Producer video series from my friend Jordan at Hardcore Music Studio. If you were intrigued by the things he talked about in those videos, and want to take the next step to dedicate yourself to making professional-sounding records, he put together a...