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 80 - "Cage Free Nuts!"
- Digital Precision VS Analog Tone?
- Kush Plugins VS Kush Hardware??
- Better Mixing through Limitations
- Minimizing Attack and Maximizing Tone
- Should You Share Unfinished Mixes?
- This week’s pl…
Episode 79 - "Make People Like You!" 2016's Best Of Professional Advice
BULLETIN: UBK had too much cake on his Birthday, so we’re bringing you another ‘Best Of’ episode chock full of our favorite bits of professional advice!
- When to Use Money to Fix Problems.
- We *s…
Episode 78 - "It's Barter Time!"
- How to Write a Good Song
- Making Drums Sound Roomier
- Getting a Chorus to LIFT
- Should You Mix Into a Limiter?
- Straight Talk about Weed
- This week’s plugin winner is…Ron from Continental Re…
Episode 77 - "I'm Better Than Youz!"
- Ambience: You’re Doing It Wrong
- Pre-Fader Sends? Why??
- Workflows That Actually Work
- Strugglin’ with Strugglin’.
- Can You Mix in a Car?
- This week’s plugin winner is…Taylor Bartholomew!
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Episode 76 - "Dither is a Dangerous Drug!"
- Parallel Compression Explained!
- Room Treatment or Instruments?
- What *did* happen to Hiphop?
- Getting your vocals to SIT.
- Pickin’ the right mic.
- Recording to tape: it’s all in the TUBES.
- …
Episode 75 - "Rarely Offensive!"
- Compression Is For Movement.
- Good News: Absolutely Nothing Matters!
- Dry 70’s Drums.
- How to Damage your Hardware!
- Getting Over Loudness Envy.
- How to College?
- This week’s plugin winner is…
Episode 74 - "6k! 6k! 6k!"
- Lyrics and Cliches: STOP!
- Ya Can't Touch a Plugin! - Does A/D Hurt Quality? - Mixing Sneaky Little Devil - Rocking Out vs. Protecting Hearing - This week’s plugin winner is…Rob “Soundbaker”!
…and…
Episode 73 - "I FaVOUR CoLOUR!"
- Choosing Sounds that Mix Themselves
- How Many Monitors Ya Got?
- Big Studios vs. Self Recording
- Accurate Bass in a Bad Room?
- Using Cassette for Color!
- Tubes, Transformers, and… Classical?
- …
Episode 72 - "What You Really Want is Coldplay!"
- Beginner Questions! - What exactly *is* a Mix Buss? - Handling Client Revisions - How to make a show! - What’s the Deal with Melody? - Our thoughts on Sampling/Remixing.
- This week’s plugin winner…
Episode 71 - "Cancerous Mole!"
In this Episode…
- Do Great Artists Really Steal?
- How to Make It LOUD
- How to Be Invisible
- EQ When Tracking?
- Compression When Tracking?
- “Burning In” Your Monitors?
- This week’s plugin win…
Episode 70 - "Stop Being White!"
- Should You Copy Other Artists?
- What Instrument Defines the Groove?
- How much EQ is too much EQ?
- Four Compressors on One Vocal??
- This week’s plugin winner: Ghislain Brindamour!
…and much, M…
Episode 69 - "I'm in THE INDUSTRY!"
- Getting a Foot in THE INDUSTRY
- Wider Mixes? Easy!
- Screw the Credit, Get Your Money!
- What’s NOT on your Mix Buss?!
- Rapid Fire Question Time!
- Don’t record yourself! Meditate!
- Mmmmm…Attac…
Episode 68 - "The Donut Button!"
- Using a DAW as a songwriting tool? Do it! (Or…don’t!)
- Printing a mix for a Mastering Engineer.
- Getting some VIBE into your studio, man.
- UBK Happy Funtime Rapid Fire Question Time!
- Transient…
Episode 67 - "I'll Be the Potato Chips!"
- Getting Drum Samples to Sound Real
- Recreating Other Arrangements!
- UBK Rapid-Fire Question Time!
- Broaching Touchy Subjects with Clients
- Putting on your Producer Pants
- This week’s plugin wi…
Episode 66 - "Dinner and Drinks!"
- Are Engineers Stuck in the Past?
- Turning Off Your “Engin-Ears”
- Finding Tutorials That Help
- GRUMP OF THE WEEK!
- This Week’s Plugin Winner: Benjamin Richards!
…and much, MUCH more!
Episode 65 - "As Long as You Pay Me!"
- The Dangers of EQ! Beware!!! - Mixing into a Master Limiter? - Templates are for Winners! - Our Favorite Analog Distortion - How to Finally, Actually (Probably) Grow Up
- This week’s plugin winne…
Episode 64 - "Gobble Gobble!"
- Staying creative with Option Anxiety. - Making Big Moves to Big Cities. - UBK Happy Funtime Rant of The Week Time! - Got a problem in the bass? It ain’t the bass! - Multi-tracking guitar and YOU! -…
Episode 63 - "Take a Hike!"
- Mic Preamps: Tools with 1,000 Uses - Making VI’s Sound Less FAKE - Getting Authentic Dub Music Effects - Do You Really Need Outboard Gear? - Recording Ensembles with One Mic
- This Week’s Plugin Wi…
Episode 62 - "Wide & Deep!"
- Artists Who Continually Rework their Art - Mixing Music Destined for the Background - Binaural Recording for Dummies! - Web Forums: Run Away!!! - Stereo Reverb? Why??? - Electronic Music, Live & E…
Episode 61 - "Suck My Big Fat Toe!"
In this episode...
- This Week’s Plugin Winner is…Brian Decker! - Another Badass Mix Critique! - Tracking with EQ vs. Moving the Mic? - Our Favorite Cheap Analog Gear! - Choosing a Good Reference Mix…