The UBK Happy Funtime Hour
Gregory Scott (UBK) & Nathan Daniel
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.
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.
Episodes
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Feb 16, 2016 • 33min
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 Plugin Winner is...Dave Roth! ...and Much, MUCH more!
Feb 9, 2016 • 37min
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! …and Much, Much More!
Feb 1, 2016 • 44min
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!
Jan 26, 2016 • 35min
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 Winner is…Harold LaRue! …and much, much more!
Jan 19, 2016 • 35min
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? - This week's plugin winner is Gary Jamms! …and much, much more!
Jan 11, 2016 • 41min
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? - How to get out of your own way and just MIX. …And much, much more!
Dec 21, 2015 • 48min
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 Frequencies. - Session-wide phase alignment: Worth the effort? - How to balance Glue and Separation in your Mix. - How to approach your mix critique from different angles. - Joe Barresi talks Getting it Right at the Source! …and much, MUCH more!
Dec 14, 2015 • 39min
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...Fred PuaaTuaa! ...and much, much more!
Dec 8, 2015 • 37min
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!
Nov 24, 2015 • 41min
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 You! - This week's plugin winner is Kristofer Göransson! …And much, much more!
