The UBK Happy Funtime Hour
Two passionate audio engineering nerds --- Kush Audio gear designer and avowed analog snob Gregory Scott, and ITB mixing pro Nathan Daniel --- crack themselves up while answering listeners' questions about everything from gear and plugins, to the psychology of mixing, to what makes a song grab the listener's ears and heart and how to get more of it into your productions.
Whether you mix professionally on a 9000J or in your bedroom on Cubase, these ballbusting fanatics of sound will spark your thinking in creative new ways, help you bust out of your own limiting habits, and get you laughing in the process.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 219
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2021
Episode 19 - "Step Away from the Bass!"
- FOUR Question of the Week Winners!
- Getting Multi-Tracks to Sound Like 'A Band in the Room'
- Staying Nourished During Marathon Sessions
- Making Friends with Bass
- Business & TAXES
- "Irrational…
Episode 18 - "Hi Hats on Five!"
- Analog Summing: Does It Make a Difference? - Why Is High End Gear So Stinkin' Expensive?? - Invasive Cymbals… Look Out! - 3-8k Harshness: What's Really Going On? - Free UBK Plugins? - Balancin…
Episode 17 - "Analog is Up!"
- Elevating a mix from 'balanced' to 'GROOVIN'
- Getting a fresh perspective on your mix
- Making a mix 'smooth' rather than 'dirty'
- Plugins that emulate a/d converter clipping
- Getting more analo…
Episode 16 - "Everyone's Italian!"
- Multi-band Compression: yes or no? - Tracking sounds that serve the Production - Mix/Arrangement Analysis: Lovage - Is recording to SSD drives safe? - Clients who can't hear groove or subtlety …
Episode 15 - "Evolution, Baby!"
The Season 1 Finale of UBK Happy Funtime Hour is up! Over one hour long, for your listening pleasure! - "Question of the Week" Kush T-Shirt winner
- Mix Analysis: Arctic Monkeys!
- Using Compressors…
Episode 14 - "Aim for the Dog!"
- Question of the Week Kush T-Shirt Winner
- More on Configuring Subwoofers
- Time Align: Stretching vs. Manual Editing
- Knowing How Much to Charge Clients
- Widening a Mono Source without Damaging …
Episode 13 - "Good Luck With That!"
- Question of the Week Giveaway Prize Awarded!
- Plugin Marketing Claims vs. Plugin Truth
- Grump of the Week!
- Big Snares in Dense Mixes
- What Doesn't Go in the Drum Comp
- Beware of Too Much Isol…
Episode 12 - "I Don't Bathe Much"
- Why does Saturation add 'Depth' - How to say "Your Music Sucks"? - EQ tips for novices - another UBK Brain Training Exercise® - New Segment: "Grump of the Week" (!!!) - How Tempo dictates Arra…
Episode 11 - "Crime Pays..."
- UBK's patented "Complimentary EQ" technique
- 70's delay techniques & studio monitors
- Exactly how 'quiet' is 'quiet monitoring'?
- Better Mic Placement on Vocalists
- Whining Old Guys
- Managing …
Episode 10 - "You don't like Bing Crosby???"
- UBK doesn't really like 6k - what every client *really* wants & how to earn their trust - get new gear vs. get better with what you have - should you cut breaks on your rate to get a gig? - mor…
Episode 9 - "Humans Ruin EVERYTHING!"
- Balancing Glue with Separation
- EQ before vs. after Compression (UBK-1 vs. UBK Fatso)
- Pusher Video Update
- Troubleshooting Digital and Analog Gainstaging
- Addressing Frequency…
Episode 8 - "I Wanna Smell It!"
- Getting Past Walls & Creative Blocks in a Mix
- Small Moves, "Shaving the Mix into Being"
- Tucking Things Further Back with more Presence
- Mixing on Headphones vs. An Untreated Room
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Episode 7 - "I Love People…Now Go Away!"
- Getting a Juggernaut Low End
- Finding the Ideal Tempo
- Monitor Placement & Low Freq Tuning
- Arrangement: What It Is vs. What It Contains
- Being Ruthless with the Mute Button
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Episode 6 - "Audio Hoarding"
- Different 2-buss compression approaches
- Knowing When It's Done
- BACK IT UP and HIT DELETE
- Why 192k?
- Making it Bright but Not Edgy
- Mixing more Emotionally
- and mor…
Episode 5 - "Everyone's French!"
- Reverb Braintraining Exercises
- Earthquakes
- PONO: Will Anybody Care?
- Compression Before Saturation
- Arranging the Old Fashioned Way
- The Neuroscience of Compulsions
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Episode 4 - "I'm Not a Creep!"
- Deviated Septums
- Creating Width & Depth with L/R Contrast
- Reverb: Simple Starting Points for color & movement
- Colored A/D Converters like the B2
- Coke Snorting Investment Ba…
Episode 3 - "We'll Edit That Out"
- 192k meets the Studer
- Home Mastering Advice
- Nathan's version of Brauer's "5 comps on vox"
- Do We Really Need Another New Mic?
- Magic Frequencies redux
- Nine Days in Patc…
Episode 2 - "Find Your Inner Mongolia"
- NAMM (it's about the people)
- UBK's process for writing & self-recording songs
- Antelope's Orion 64 i/o Interface, Focusrite Red Compressor, Izotope's Denoiser
- The Magic of 1k
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Episode 1 - "Celine Lives" (aka "This Was Never Supposed to Air!")
A pilot that was never supposed to hit the air, we just grabbed crappy mics and yammered on for an hour with absolutely no purpose or direction. We found 10 minutes that were fit for public consump…