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.
Whether you’re a musician making music in your home studio or a digital creator making online content to promote your brand, your recorded audio must sound great. You cannot get away with crappy audio quality if you want people to pay attention. People may forgive low-quality videos with sloppy edits but they’ll NEVER tolerate bad...
Remember when you were a kid and wanted to be an astronaut? No? Me neither. I was too into music to be interested in the cold vacuum of space. However, astronauts have the right idea when they’re blasting off into space because they use a pre-launch checklist to ensure they don’t kill themselves during liftoff....
A Step By Step Mixing reader and Audio Issues EQ user just wrote in: “What five plug-ins would you recommend for someone on a tight budget? I need an EQ, a compressor, reverb, delay, and saturation” If you have a similar question, it’s an easy answer. Just use the stock plug-ins in your DAW. Why...
Tired of Boomy Bass and Flabby Low-End? Download Your Free Guide: 6 Steps to Fix Your Muddy Mixes A reader writes in with a question about how to EQ bass guitar so I thought I’d take a moment to give you an in-depth guide on fixing many of the frequency problems you’ll encounter when mixing...
When you’re mastering your mix, the linear phase EQ is the tool for achieving the perfect equilibrium between the highs, mids, and lows in your music. Today, we’ll discuss why it’s so important, how it works, and when to use it. What Is Linear Phase EQ? Linear Phase EQ is the same as any other...
Setting up a home recording studio can quickly become expensive. Just a bare-bones studio to record your demos often requires a hefty investment in music production gear. But what if it didn’t need to be quite so expensive? What if you could get all that gear for much cheaper? In the last 15 years of working...
Here are my favorite Prime Day deals for musicians. Although Prime Day is yet another holiday of capitalism where nobody gets time off work, you get to use your money to pray to the god of consumerism. But hey, I’m only being half-sarcastic because who doesn’t like deals? So if you’ve been eyeing new equipment...
There are five stages to recording vocals to a professional standard. But 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 a badly recorded vocal...
When you look at those successful musicians with 100,000 subscribers, super-loyal fans, and exploding six-figure music careers, it’s hard not to feel dejected. It’s hard not to compare yourself with them and think that you’ll never get there. That path is so long, and you don’t know how to start. So you kill yourself with...
Want to get rid of nasally and harsh vocals but don’t know where to EQ? Is your voice sounding honky but you can’t figure out why? Or maybe your vocals sound buried under the rest of the mix, and you can’t get that present, clean, and clear vocal sound you hear in your head? If...