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.
One of my least favorite Superman villains is Bizarro. He’s exhausting to understand and he’s not motivated by anything you can relate to. That said…I did dress up as Bizarro Clark Kent one year for Halloween… Overall Bizarro’s pretty lame…but his opposite-ness to Superman made me remember my Reverse-EQ method, which I’ll be calling the...
There are five stages to a professional sounding vocal. It’s not all about the microphone or your gear. Or even your acoustic treatment. It’s not even only about your singer. Unfortunately, even a bad singer can be…*gulp*…”fixed.” But there’s no autotune for a poor vocal melody or arrangement. There’s no Auto-Make-My-Songwriting-Better plug-in. Five Stage Vocal...
Mornin’ mon frére, Yesterday, Audio Issues contributor Ed Elefterion talked about writing memorable melodies as the starting point of crafting a catchy song. Today, I wanted to jump ahead and start thinking about all the best strategies for making sure that melody transforms into a production that blows people away. The vocals are the most...
Let’s talk about how you can be confident to finish your mix so you can be proud to release your music to the world. We talk a lot about how to start a mix, or how to get a rough mix going, but we don’t share as much about how you know when your mix...
Got this email from Ben, about mix bus processing. “Hello ever since I bought Step By Step Mixing…and EQ Strategies my mixes have dramatically changed to better, but I have a question, which is concerning the mixbus and master channel. I use EQ, compression and saturation on my mix bus before mixing as I learnt...
I think my dog Buckley knows my mix workflow better than myself. Especially when I’m finishing up a mix. He’ll be lying on the rug in the back of the studio as I’m doing my rough mix on the mix cube. I’ll be mixing the tracks like I show you inside Mixing With 5 Plug-ins,...
I’ve been taking improv classes and here’s what I’ve learned so far: It’s the best thing you can do to get out of your comfort zone. It teaches you to be incredibly present in the moment. It forces you to listen and act without thinking (often with hilarious results). Improv is kind of like the...
We had a blast answering your questions on our Q&A webinar yesterday. Not only did we knock out all the questions you submitted ahead of time, but we tackled some of the live audience questions as well. If you missed the live stream, check out the Q&A replay on Youtube below: Home Mastering Headstart –...
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We asked for questions, and boy did you ask them! I don’t think I’ve ever forwarded so many emails in one sitting! This was me yesterday, emailing all your questions to Ian: Meanwhile, Ian’s all Dr. Who like… We’re gonna have our work cut out for us and we couldn’t be more excited! Here’s the link...
Hey there, Tomorrow I’m teaming up with mastering engineer extraordinaire, Ian Shepherd of Production Advice, for a Q&A webinar on all things mastering. We’ll be covering: The difference between mixing and mastering, and how to master in general. How to make your mixes and masters sound good on every speaker How to get your music sounding loud...