RSR484 - Björgvin Benediktsson - How to Write, Record, Mix, and Release Your Own Music
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 134 minutes
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My guest today is Björgvin Benediktsson, an Icelandic-American author, audio educator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Audio-Issues teaching thousands of musicians and producers how to make a bigger impact with their music. Björgvin has been an audio engineer since 2006 and has worked with hundreds of artists as an audio engineer, mentor, and educator.
He is the author of multiple books, including the best-selling book Step By Step Mixing which simplifies complex audio jargon and transforms insecure musicians into confident mixing engineers. He has written over 1,000 articles on audio production and his training has been featured in publications such as MusicTech magazine, The Huffington Post, The Recording Revolution, SAE Institute, and Audiotuts+ to name a few.
As the founder of Audio Issues, Björgvin helps home studio musicians and project studio producers make a greater musical impact in their lives by teaching them the skills needed to grow their hobbies and careers. He does this by offering simple and practical music production and success skills they can use right away to level themselves up - while rejecting negativity and gear-shaming from the industry.
When he's not helping entrepreneurs, audio engineers, and other creatives, he likes to hang out with his wife, daughter, and dog in Tucson, AZ, play video games, and read comic books.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by atom audio, isotope, native instruments, |
| 0:08.9 | empirical labs, sound porter mastering, and trace audio. You're hearing my voice right now through |
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| 0:33.6 | It's a great way to help support this show. |
| 0:36.0 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:38.3 | The easiest way for me to make momentum on the song |
| 0:41.1 | was to get a drummer and a bass player and go into the studio |
| 0:44.6 | and record the bones, the foundation. |
| 0:47.5 | Because from there you can build, |
| 0:50.1 | but you're stuck in the studio, like, programming drums, you know, the easy drummer or like superior drummer or whatever. |
| 0:57.0 | Kill me now. I'm just like not a beat maker and I need I need help from people. |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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