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.
Recently, there have been a string of posts in audio and music production groups about “gurus” and how they seem to be the worst thing mankind has to offer and I’m curious what you think. Although skepticism can be healthy, I wonder if it’s worth giving people the benefit of the doubt that they are...
EQ DAY was AMAZING! We had just shy of 150 people show up and most of you stayed for the entire THREE-HOUR session! Seems like EQ is a topic that we can all nerd out about for a long time, and I think we probably could’ve talked about it for three hours longer! If you missed...
The most annoying comment I see in the online audio forums is a variation of this nonsense: “You should only use subtractive EQ and never boost more than 3 dBs” This is…for a lack of a better term…absolute bullshit. And I’m willing to fight anybody who follows this advice as gospel. It’s just plain wrong...
If you’re anything like my other students, you love to geek out about EQ. You may find it equally fascinating and frustrating. Frustrating when you can’t seem to find that muddy sound that’s throwing a blanket over your mix. Fascinating when you turn a knob or boost a frequency and your mix just jumps out...
This is fresh on my mind, so I’ll just come out and say it: SEO is pointless when you’re starting your business! We dug into SEO yesterday inside the Creative Business Bootcamp. I wanted to share some thoughts with you if you’re wondering what marketing strategy to choose to grow your audio/music business. I told my...
People always tell us to think outside the box, and they would be correct. But throwing the box away to embrace creativity will have disastrous consequences because you’ll be left with unlimited options that will paralyze you. My suggestion is that if you want to create inside the box, make sure you create that box...
The Grammys were on Sunday and I could feel a disturbance in the force. I knew that somewhere, in the deep dark recesses of the internet forums, some commercial studio curmudgeon with his jaded mindset was shitting on the incredible success of people he would never get to work with. If anything, I feel sad...
It’s easy, you just gotta BARP…or Be A Real Person. Being a faceless brand or an unapproachable corporate entity doesn’t cut it, and in this quick conversation snippet we’ll dig into what it really takes. For Instantly Make Better Mixes: https://www.StepByStepMixing.com Build a Creative Business: https://www.BBenediktsson.com Unlock the Secrets of the Music Industry: https://www.IndieMusicAcademy.com...
Should you make TikToks? Blog posts? Youtube videos? Instagram carousels or Facebook Lives? With the number of different content types and social media sites out there, it’s more overwhelming than ever to increase your online presence. However, it’s a lot easier to figure it out than you think. Watch this video to find the right...