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.
A quick early translation trick I’ve been doing lately has been helping me control the low-end from the start. Because I always get a rough mix going on a one-driver mix cube, there’s not a lot of low-end bass response going on during that whole process. But because I also have a secondary monitoring system...
Is there harshness hiding in your vocal track? Want to find out how to wipe it out? Read on true believer! I got a revision request from a producer who thought the vocals were a little harsh in the 9 – 10 kHz area and he wanted them to sound a little smoother. Now, harshness...
I’ve got a mix confession to make. Although my studio setup is pretty sweet, it’s not where I make the final call on mix translation. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got Focal monitors with a sub, a pair of Yamaha HS5s and a Behritone mix cube. So I’ve got plenty of speakers to choose from...
Got an email from a subscriber yesterday that made my day: “My new album Parts and Labor just went up on Spotify, etc. and the Step-by-Step mixing and parallel processing courses are what pulled it over the finish line.” This is the sort of stuff that I live for. Being able to help musicians release...
One of the biggest problems you probably face is how to get the bass guitar to cut through without overwhelming the low-end. Too much low-mids and your mix sounds like it’s under a blanket and muffling the rest of the tracks. Too little an the mix sounds super thin. Just right and it sounds good...
Sometimes you get lost fighting frequency fires. A mix I’m working on has driving drums, powerful bass, hard-hitting guitars and edgy vocals. In a word, this song is awesome. And to make all that power cut through you sometimes keep adding and subtracting random frequencies depending on what you’re feeling. So you waste time. One...
If you’re finally ready to release your song, EP, or album, but don’t know where to start, let me help you. I’ve been talking to a lot of you lately and many of you share the same goal of wanting to release your music so it’s my hope that I can shed some light on...
Have you ever wondered just how much work you need to start making a living as an audio engineer? Yesterday, I got off the phone with a coaching student who wants to start making a living as an audio engineer and I jumped on a quick Facebook Live to talk about it. I walk you...
You know that moment after you’ve spent hours mixing and it’s sounding great in the studio? Then you listen to it in your car, on your earbuds or on your Bluetooth speaker, and suddenly half of the mix is gone because there’s no bass? It’s a constant problem to get your mixes to translate to...
Hey there, Happy Sunday! Hope you’ve had a good weekend. I wanted to give you a quick reminder that my weekend flash-sale ends today, so if you’d like to get my Quick Mixing With Stock Plug-ins training for free, you have to grab it before the day is over. The three-part video series usually sells...