Hi there,

How's the new year treating you so far? I hope my emails have been helpful to you so far and will continue to be so in the new year.

I wanted to take a minute to thank you for being a subscriber this last year. Your continued support by reading my posts, engaging in the Facebook group or investing in my products really makes every year incredible.

All because of you.

I'll tell you, last year was a whirlwind of a year for me at Audio Issues.

I set myself a few goals at the start of last year:

• Being more engaged
• Bringing more value

More Engagement

At the start of 2017, I set myself the goal of interacting with all of my subscribers and followers even more than I had done before.

I had recently started the Home Studio Musicians group on Facebook, and today we've grown to over 3,000 kick-ass members sharing their music and production advice.

I'm very proud of the group and I take it very seriously.

You might not know this, but I don't let everyone into the group. I make sure they're just as passionate and interested in improving their productions as you before I approve their membership.

There are enough spammy groups on Facebook without mine becoming just another Troll-town for assholes to tell you your gear sucks.

I'm regularly in there answering questions and interacting with you guys, but my favorite part is seeing how amazing the other members help each other out. I've shared some great content from the group regularly in emails, and I'll continue to do so in the future. 

More Value

This year was also one of the most successful years when it came to delivering high-quality information and products.

You helped me kick off the year in February by sending my eBook, Step By Step Mixing, straight to #1 on Amazon. It's rarely dropped below the top 10 since publication and for that I am incredibly grateful for all of your support!

In April, you took your support even further and helped me make the Drum Mix Toolkit one of the most successful Audio Issues products of all time. It's obvious that making killer sounding drum sounds is a crucial aspect of punchy productions and I'm glad I was able to help you achieve that.

Of course, I couldn't have made these resources on my own. I wouldn't have been able to write these eBooks without the help of my content editor James Wasem nor done any of the tutorial videos without the great work of my video editor, Jes Sanchez.

Thanks guys, I couldn't have done it without you :)

In fact, James Wasem and I partnered up in July with our live sound training, Live Sound Basics, a crash course in the fundamentals of running great live sound and becoming an in-demand live sound tech.

In addition to all the free content on the blog, which is too much to mention, some updates to my Quick Mixing course and subsequent release of my eBook, Better Mixes in Less Time, I'd say that the year has been very productive and hopefully valuable to your productions as well.

Goals for 2018

Last year I worked with musicians all over the world, from America to Sweden and all the way to Australia.

Of all the production work I did in 2017, there was one thing that stood out that I'm hoping to do more for you in 2018.

One-on-one training and custom mix tutorials.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of working with other people was helping them improve their productions in a one-on-one setting. Instead of just working on their songs I would show them exactly how they should record and mix so that they could do it better on their own.

I realized that although you can learn a lot from courses and tutorials, you'll improve a lot faster when you get one-on-one instruction that's customized to your own piece of music.

So this year, it's my goal to help more home studio musicians like yourself, one-on-one.

If that's something you're interested in, just hit reply and say "I'm interested" and I'll send you more details.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Björgvin

P.S.

Tomorrow I'm going to share a story about my friend Jevan from Australia, whom I helped take his songs to the next level with a custom mix tutorial and one-on-one coaching.