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 60 - "Honey, I'm a Failure!"
- Staying Inspired Over Time - Dealing with Insecure Singers - Tuning Your Ear for Compression - Supporting Your Partner - Rapid-Fire Question Time
- This week’s plugin winner is…Ete Kurttekin!
…and …
Episode 59 - "It's Hopeless!"
Nathan’s still sick, so UBK takes the podcast out for another solo run with…
- Tracking with UBK! - Gear talk with UBK! - Mix Critique with UBK! - Process and Perspective...with UBK!
- This week’s p…
Episode 58 - "UBK Flies Solo!"
Nathan is sick, so UBK tackles a TON of questions for your listening pleasure! Densely packed with gems…
- Mixing Questions! Mud! Reverb!
- Analog! PreAmps, Distortion, and Summing!
- Production! A…
Episode 57 - "Never Talk to the Cops!"
- Getting More *Contrast* in the Mix! - Compressing Spatial Effects: Why?? - Billing for Grunt Work is... Grunt Work - Drawing the Line Between Mixing and Tracking - When a Dead Room Beats a Treated …
Episode 56 - "Call Your Mother!"
- UBK's Vocal Panning Workflow
- Are Any Women Listening to Us?
- Boosting and Sweeping EQ: Quit It!
- Fostering the Sessions Creative Flow
- Recording with EQ and Compression...Why??
-This Week's …
Episode 55 - "I WANT CREDIT!!!"
- EQ That Reverb!
- It Takes Years to Dial Your Ears!
- Getting the Credit You Deserve
- Getting Smoooooooth Vocals
- The TRUTH about Analog Summing
- This Week’s plugin winner is…Alexander Rich!
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Episode 54 - "I Don't Think I'm Cool!"
- Can Plugins Make You Insane?
- Is Analog Gear Really ALL THAT?
- UBK Apologizes!
- What Would YOU Do with a Billion Dollars?
- This week’s Plugin winner is…Jampa Dawa!
…and Much, Much More!
Episode 53 - "You're Gonna Fail!"
- Making Art vs. Making Money
- How to Think About Compression
- Optimizing your Attitude for mixing
- Fixing Bad Acoustics with Software??
- Mid-Side Processing… Phooey!
- This Week’s Plugin Win…
Episode 52 - “Infinite Recursive Contradiction!”
- Monitoring! Dark or Bright? Or Both? HELP!
- Mix Critique! Fred PuaTuaa’s “Elegance and Intrigue”
- How to get an Analog Vibe when you’re working ITB.
- Does music theory affect your engineering?
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Episode 51 - "An ECKspecially Good Show!"
- This week’s plugin winner is…Adam Chavez!
- Panning, Panning, and more Panning!
- How to break up your mix process for optimal results.
- Mixing and Mastering, which one’s cart, which one’s horse?
…
Episode 50 - "Elastic Puzzles!" 2015's Best of Mixing Advice
Welcome to the first collection of juicy ‘best of’ mixing advice from the first 49 episodes of the UBK Happy Funtime Hour!
- Andrew Maury talks Spectral Analyzers!
- The Myth about Magic Frequencie…
Episode 49 - "-6dB for F*ck's Sake!"
- UBK Grump of the Week! - Why 6dB of Headroom for Mastering? - CoAxial Monitors: Yay or Nay? - Stacking Vintage-Style harmonies - Should You Reference Other Mixes?
- This week's plugin winner is...F…
Episode 48 - "Drink Your Drink!"
- Making VSTi Drums Sound Good - It's not the Reverb, It's You - Preamps: Do They Really Matter? - Tips for Mixing Meaty Guitars - Plugin Winner: Leonardo Telles!
…And Much, Much more!
Episode 47 - "Dancing Pubes!"
- Hip Hop is our friend. - Learning to Commit to sounds In The Box. - Being Unhappily Satisfied With Your Mix Translation. - How to Give Advice to a Professional Equal. - The Three-to-One Rule and …
Episode 46 - "Et-CETRA!"
- When Did We Discover Our Passion? - The TRUE Truth about PHASE - What the Heck is “Compressing for Tone”? - Panning & Treating Backing Vocals - How to Survive a Business Partnership - Brand New Seg…
Episode 45 - "Joe Barresi Spills it!"
In this episode...
- How Joe Builds a Mix - Why Joe Holds Workshops for You - Why Joe Uses 16 Analog Delays - Why Joe Stops at 44 Tracks - Why Joe Prefers Pedals to Plugins
...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 44 - "It's So Cold in the D!"
- The Correct Way to Produce Singers - WTF is Multi-Mono Processing? - New Segment: Funtime TRAINWRECK Time! - The old 'Start With Automation' debate - Sweat the Acoustics... but Not Too Much!
…and m…
Episode 43 - "Animals Don't Count!"
- Having Multiple Sclerosis & Pursuing Dreams - Do Cheap Cables Sound as Good? - Do 500 Modules Sound as Good? - Do Clones & Knockoffs Sound as Good? - Can You Phase Align Everything in a Mix?
and mu…
Episode 42 - "AM I DISTORTING!?"
- Shocking Audio Engineering School Exposé! - When Do You Consider Your Work ‘Good’? - De-Essing vs. De-Ethhing - Blending Acoustic and Electronic Sounds - Emphasis/De-Emphasis: When & Why
…And much,…
Episode 41 - "Tip Your Strippers!"
- What Exactly IS Mixing? - Listener Mix Critique! - When to Stop Tinkering? - Down with Homogeneous Stereo! - E-Lancing Sites: Blessing or Curse?
…and Much, much more!