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.
You might be confused about what exactly you’ll get out of taking the Music Production Strategies course. And I understand. It’s not as technical and straightforward as learning to EQ a kick drum or compress a vocal. The technical engineering aspects are a little simpler to grasp. Because music, man music is made in so...
Inside my Music Production Analysis Cheat Sheet I spend a lot of time on three things. I call them the 3 pillars of production. They are: Songwriting and structure Arrangement and instrumentation Production and engineering It all breaks down into these things. But you could also say that they’re a pyramid of production. Because in...
Hey there, Exciting news today! After months of music research, listening to the same songs over and over again and creating the content you’ve been asking for, it’s finally ready! Music Production Strategies is open! Music Production Strategies is a 5 week course that analyzes some of the most popular productions throughout history. From Simon &...
One of the cooler mixing tricks at AES I learned from Andrew Scheps. In case you don’t know who he is you can listen to my interview with him here. Anyways, us some of his mixing tricks. One of the most interesting things I saw was that most of his processing was in parallel. Especially...
Man, we’re up to lesson 10 of the Things I learned at AES! I went there and took notes so you don’t have to 🙂 If you missed any of the lessons so far go check them out here: How Laziness Can Get You a Grammy The 3 Key Takeaways from Rumours by Fleetwood Mac...
Here’s another live recording tip from AES. When you’re recording everybody together in the room, you’re going to have bleed no matter what. So just to stop the negativity let’s call it blend instead. Sounds so much better already right? Well, when you have blend no matter what you can start focusing on what really matters. Which,...
Here’s one quick tip from AES this Monday morning. You know how some vocalists have a really hard time recording their vocals with headphones? They never seem to feel comfortable and they have pitch or phrasing issues, however well you create their headphone mix for them. Well you don’t need to record with headphones ever...
Finishing up this week’s “Thing I Learned at AES” lessons with this little rock vocal recording tip. If you haven’t read the previous posts you can check them out below: How Laziness Can Get You a Grammy The 3 Key Takeaways from Rumours by Fleetwood Mac The Different Career Paths in Audio Doing Live Sound?...
We’re up to the fifth part of the twelve part series of Things I Learned at AES. Here’s an exceptionally short tip for helping singers stay in place when recordings vocals, courtesy of Mike Senior who was spilling some of the tips inside his new Recording Secrets book. Use the Pop Filter as a Target...
Here’s a tip I picked up about using contrast to make your vocals translate really well. Mix translation, or making sure your mix sounds the same on any system, is a very important part of the whole mixing process. Making your mix sound great on your system but suck on others is pretty useless. It’s not...