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.
Now that the Black Friday insanity and Cyber Monday madness are over, how will it help you make more music? I’m sure you took advantage of some deals. There were simply too many to ignore. If you grabbed the Mix Mastery Bundle (which is still available at a hefty discount) or the Audio Issues EQ,...
So…you’ve spent eight hours trying to finish more music, but in reality, you’re just tweaking your tracks, thinking that you’re “mixing.” After all that, you end up with this: Thin-sounding top-end Masked instruments cluttered up with too much reverb And a boomy low-end If that’s the case, this post will walk you through the proven...
This post has very little to do with audio, but I’ve been getting so many questions about the volcano in Iceland that I thought I’d share what I know. There’s been a lot going on for the last month or so, but it wasn’t until this week that news outlets in English have been covering...
I received a concerned email from a subscriber regarding my DIY guide on How To Make an Album Cover. They didn’t like me advising artists to use Canva and AI instead of hiring graphic designers or visual artists. This brings up a larger question about the DIY mentality that I thought I’d cover in today’s...
I listened to the remixed “1962-66” and “1967-70” Beatles albums, and they blew my mind. In case you didn’t know, these “remixed” albums were done with “voodoo*” separation technology that allowed them to create better separation between instruments, even those that had been bounced down together to a single track. Being able to hear the...
It’s easier than ever to make your own cover art, and in this post, I’ll walk you through a simple step-by-step process on how to make an album cover even if you’ve never made one before. Album Covers VS Book Covers Before we start, let’s answer the question: Should artists make their own cover art?...
Today we’ll answer the question on every musician’s mind: What can Anna Kendrick teach you about music production? I’m sure you were wondering the same thing, and today you’ll finally learn that the answer is: Unsurprisingly, a LOT. If you haven’t seen the Pitch Perfect trilogy yet, you’re missing out. I might be oversharing, but...
I used to have a morning routine. Then my daughter showed up, took one look at my calm, zen-garden of productive writing, and threw a dirty diaper all over it. It didn’t matter how early I got, her ninja spider sense alerted her to me carefully tip-toeing to the living room. As soon as I...
I believe mixing should be fun. You’ve recorded your tracks and you’re ready to make them shine. But if you don’t do the necessary prep work, or pay close enough attention to the technical details of your tracks, your final mixes will suffer. So in this guide, I’ll guide you through an important series of...
If you’re a musician, producer, or audio engineer, and you’re struggling to grow your creative career, here are the two levers you need to pull to build a successful audio business. Lever One: Time 🕰️ It all started in a cockroach-infested apartment in Madrid, Spain. When I was starting my audio business that became the...