Get Customized Coaching and Mix Training to Finally Add That Extra 10% To Your Productions

Take the Guesswork Out of Your Mix Workflow and Start Confidently Releasing Your Songs With 1-on-1 Custom Mix Coaching 

Are you afraid to release your songs because you don’t think your mixes are good enough?  

Are you overwhelmed and constantly tweaking your mixes without knowing whether they’re done?  

Do they make you want to throw your headphones in the trash and give up on your music for good?  

Or maybe you’ve been mixing for a while and you occasionally finish a mix you really like.  

But the rest of them? You're anxiously unsure about their quality.  

Don't get me wrong, they sound decent. You can hear all the instruments clearly and nothing truly stands out as being bad.  

But you can't help but wonder whether you can make it better…  

Wouldn’t you want to know if you're doing the right things the professionals do to their commercial productions?  

What if you had somebody who could tell you exactly what you needed to do to make your mix the best it can be.  

If that sounds like you, you're in luck.

Overcome the Overwhelming Feeling of Never Knowing Whether Your Mixes are Good Enough to Compete With Commercial Productions

If you want somebody that can coach you to make better mixes, with custom mix training that helps you improve from A to Z...where everything is personalized and focused on the exact music you're working on, not on some random multi-track that you don't care about, then my custom mix training is for you.

One On One Mix Training: Get Personal Advice That Solve the Exact Problems You Have With Your Mixes

How are you going to make your recordings and mixes better in the next month? And how are you going to reach more people with your music online? Are you treating your music like a fun hobby, or are you ready to take it as a serious business?  

Are you going to stick to the same stuff and stay stagnant or are you going to take action to improve?  

If you want to make your music jump out of the speakers, my goal is to help you do that. 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.  

My name is Björgvin Benediktsson and I run Audio Issues.

I've been an audio engineer for over 10 years and I help home studio musicians like yourself make a greater impact with their music by teaching them how to produce themselves. I’ve also played in bands for more than half my life, gigging both in my native Iceland as well as internationally throughout the United States.  

I've written over 1,000 articles on audio production that have helped thousands of audio engineers and musicians improve their music since 2011. I'm also the #1 best-selling author of Step by Step Mixing: How to Create Great Mixes Using Only 5 Plug-ins.

Although I do a lot of audio education, I also work professionally as a mixing engineer and producer with local indie bands as well as international artists around the world. In addition, I am an email marketing expert and an online business strategist who has helped multiple online business increase their online presence to get more exposure and make more money.

One-on-One coaching helps you overcome the exact production and career problems that are holding back your demo mixes from becoming professional productions.

Instead of making you take a course or read a book, I help you improve through a series of coaching calls and custom videos that teach you the techniques you need to know, using your own songs. That way, you'll learn exactly how to record and mix better sounding music.  

Jevan Cole of Meadow Argus Learned Through Custom Training

If you want to get better, you might be inspired by the story of my friend Jevan from Australia, who decided to take charge of his production skills.

Jevan Cole is the mastermind behind Meadow Argus, a '70s inspired Space Rock and Psychadelica project. He approached me looking for one on one tuition where he could get concrete answers to his mixing problems instead of endlessly searching through Youtube videos and online courses.  

He wanted to clean up his mixes and create space for all the instruments in the mix, but was having problems figuring that out on his own. 

He was getting the hang of compression, but it was taking him too long. All he could figure out was how to glue things together on busses but couldn’t figure out how to use compression for dynamic control on individual instruments.  

As is common with the many home studio musicians I talk to, he was confused with reverb and delay. He didn’t know what effects to use for each individual instrument and needed some sense of direction as to how to select the right reverb to create a sense of space in his songs.

Finally, he loved saturation because he felt it warmed things up without needing to think too much of it. However, he was concerned that because he didn’t understand what saturation was doing to the underlying audio, he might be doing something wrong.  

Now, I could’ve just told him that my Step By Step Mixing eBook would cover most of the problems that he was dealing with, but I enjoyed his music so much that I jumped on the opportunity to work with him.

After a bit more back and forth we decided on a combination of custom video training and one-on-one coaching via Skype.  

Custom Mix Training and Coaching Program

One On One Video Coaching

Jevan and I jumped on a video call and discussed everything he wanted to know to improve his home studio recordings. We talked about guitar and vocal recordings. I showed him how to acoustically treat his studio to get his instruments sounding better at the source, and we also discussed the finer points of compression and mixing theory in general. 

Basically, anything he wanted to know more about, I helped him understand.


Custom Mix Training Tutorials

I also took the multi-tracks to one of his songs and mixed and mastered it as if he were to hire me as his engineer. Then, once he was happy with how the mix sounded, I shot a complete mixing tutorial of how I mixed his song from beginning to end. 

I talked about how I set up my sessions, how I use EQ and compression on the mix bus, group busses, and individual tracks and how I use effects to create depth and space to get that final 10% professional feel.

This way, he could learn exactly how I got the mix to sound and he could reproduce those techniques on his other songs. 

Get One Custom Mix Tutorial That Teaches You to Mix Your Entire Album!

With the custom mix tutorial, he only needed to hire a mixing engineer for one song, learn some concrete techniques that worked on his music, and then mix the rest of the songs himself. 

Instead of spending thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on an audio school that would just end in more questions than answers, he was able to get his most burning questions answered in about an hour. 

In the end, I thoroughly enjoyed working on his music and helping him improve his productions, but don’t take my word for it...

What Did Jevan Think of His One-On-One Experience?

Here’s what he emailed me after our collaboration:

"Thank you very much for your extremely informative mix tutorial. I’ve only been mixing for a couple of years now and have been learning on the fly through books, online videos and a few courses sourced through the web (quite a few of yours by the way!).  

My main goal is not really to become an engineer and mix for other musicians (am not counting this out though) but to produce and release my own “space/psych/pop/ambient/whatever” music.  

As with all creative endeavors, feedback and collaboration are integral parts of any creative process so by deliberately isolating oneself as a “solo” musician can be quite a hard path as self-doubt, second-guessing and sometimes just pure, dead set confusion can set in.  

So, I guess, most of what you went through in the mix tutorial with my song was not necessarily new information to me, but because it was presented in such a logical and cohesive fashion, I really felt that I got a huge amount from it. Not the least being how to control the EQ. and utilize reverb effectively.  

Previously, I focused on trying to fix things with broad changes using only a couple of mix moves per track/issue, whereas you showed the true value of small incremental steps to get to where you’re aiming for with the mix.  

And in regards to the focus of a mix, I really think you ‘got’ my aim for a mix that sounds clear and cohesive but also a bit old school and analogue, a la some of the 70s music I’m so obviously influenced by.  

Another big takeaway for me was that mixing truly is a subjective artform along with the actual composition, arrangement and performance stages and that a clear goal before you start is if not a must, then extremely helpful. I’ll try to stop mixing as I write/arrange/track from now on!!”  

Other things I learned:  

  • Effectively mixing drums to provide drive and excitement.  
  • When to leave things alone!  
  • Not being afraid to use effects for creative sounds (eg the reverb on the guitar chords)  
  • Consolidation of some of the principles you addressed in “EQ Strategies”  

And I’m sure more things will show up in the future!"

Patrick Mercier Learned Game Changing Techniques For His Songs

Patrick Mercier is another home studio musician working in electronic music production who learned some game changing mix moves about panning, stereo widening and parallel compression that changed the way he approached mixing for the better.

"Thanks for the recording of our call. My initial impression is that you are going to be just what I need.  

As I’ve described to you - what I’m most in search of is validation that what I’m doing is either on or off the right path. But I got a lot more than that in this first call and I’m looking forward to the next 2.  

What I got out of the first call was way better than having that focused of a conversation about a single track. I got a lot more fear-negating / confidence boosting about mixing in general out of our first call. Listening to the way you talk about mixing is helping me to understand that it’s silly to think that there’s one way of doing things. I have to be proactive in understanding how I want my music to sound and then I can do any number of things to make that happen.  

The second call was so great. I had 2 aha moments...one during the call and one after.  

During the call it was understanding that proper manipulation of the stereo field requires a grounding in mono. That makes so much sense and is characteristic of the issue that I’m noticing with my understanding of mixing in general. I’ve spent a lot of time jumping right into the more complex solutions and have missed a foundational understanding of many simple concepts. In general, the most invaluable things that I’m learning are when you catch on to the fact that I’m missing these basic concepts. You’ll state the concept...and then so many other things will just fall into place in my mind.  

Understanding panning was one of those. Chasing low mids instead of lows to get rid of muddiness was another.  

After the session I messed around a lot with parallel compression. This is changing everything for me.  

The parallel compression on the drums (as you pointed to as a possible culprit) was contributing significantly to the peaks that I heard so I was able to tame that down and get rid of the peaks. But adding parallel compression to the bass was a complete eye opener. I’m realizing now that the bass sounded hollow prior to doing that. Mixing in some compression completely filled in the hollowness with wonderful, fat, meaty energy. So the bass now sounds super solid.  

Talk to you soon and thanks for everything. I can’t express enough appreciation to you for doing what you do."

Custom Coaching Packages Available

Custom Mix Improvement Program

  • Three 1-Hour Coaching Sessions
  • Video Recordings of Each Session for Your Reference
  • Personalized Video Feedback on Your Mix
  • Unlimited Q&A Emails

6-Month Online Music Marketing and Career Coaching

  • I lay out the digital strategy necessary for you to succeed with an online business in the music industry
  • I help you create a better online presence so that you can get more expsoure for your work, generate more subscribers and customers to your email list and help you develop an online business doing what you love.

Mix Improvement and Career Coaching Bundle

  • Audio Production Coaching
  • Video Recordings of Each Session for Your Reference
  • Personalized Feedback of Your Mix
  • 6-Month Career Coacing to Create a Successful Online Business in the Music Industry


Would You Like to Work Together? 

If you think you would like to work with me one on one to improve your productions, now's your chance.  

If you're looking for a mentor that can help you take your production skills to the next level, then a custom coaching program is guaranteed to help you out. 

I'm currently taking on new coaching students and I want to make sure I can create a custom program that helps you the best. 

If you'd like expert advice on making your mixes the best they can be, and confidently release your music knowing that they sound just as good as your favorite commercial releases, then don't hesitate to apply for one-on-one coaching.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Björgvin 

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