About BeginnerStudio
Hi, I'm Bojan.
Engineer by day, musician at heart, and accidental home-studio builder.
That cassette changed everything. I played it hundreds of times on a little radio. To this day I still have the Final Countdown solo stuck in my head.
The Journey
~1990 Three chords and a damaged guitar
A friend started playing guitar, so I wanted in. My father dug out an acoustic from the attic — three holes from a pub fight, rusty strings, no pick. I carved one from plastic scrap. He taught me three chords. I played them for a year. My first real song was House of the Rising Sun.
Early teens From guitar to bass — the Yugo-Fender era
Music school told me I was too old to learn guitar. They needed a double bass player and I was big enough to hold one. My uncle gifted me a Tajfun bass — heavy as a brick, flatwound strings, sound that left a lot to be desired. But it was mine.
20s Rock’n’Rollo, death metal, and jazz funk
I played in a local rock band, briefly tried a death metal group (quit after six months to preserve my hearing), and eventually joined Stella Orchestra where we played jazz, funk, and everything in between.
17 years 500 live shows with Stella Orchestra
Half a decade of stages, soundchecks, and late nights playing music we loved. Then life took over — family, kids, a real job — and the instruments went quiet.
Later A cousin, a conversation, and a home studio
A chat with my cousin Primož reignited everything. We formed a two-man band, wrote original songs, and decided to record them properly. That meant building a home studio. I thought: I’ve been playing for 20 years — how hard can it be?
500+
LIVE SHOWS
17
YEARS PERFORMING
30+
YEARS IN MUSIC
The Hard Lessons
My first ever mix went to a professional mastering engineer. His response was blunt:
“Bojan, find professional help or find another job.” — And then he listed everything that was wrong. The list was long.
As an engineer by trade, giving up isn’t really in my nature. So I started over. I took online courses — mostly tips and tricks, no fundamentals. Six months later, I sent the same mix back. The verdict: “Yeah... I can work with it. But it still won’t sound like it should.”
Eventually a professional at a live concert gave me the real advice: work on audio fundamentals and your room and hone your musical skills to the core . If you don't understand how microphone and speaker works, how your room acoustics contribute to the sound, what EQ and compression does to your signal, makes no much of a sense doing anything in this filed. I had no idea what any of it meant in music context — but I dug in. Books, theory, testing, DIY, execute and repeat, upgrading and stripping my plugin collection, diferent DAW and so on and on.
After two home studios I finally converted the attic of my parents’ house into a proper musical space — my “creative men's cave,” as I call it, because we create music there and I we have fun doing it. It’s not perfect by any means, its always work in progress but I enjoy doing music there, my mixes finally translate well, makes me confindent in my work...
