The UBK Happy Funtime Hour

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

A very special episode of banter from the world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

The world’s funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!

- Generic Discussions!

- Generic Answers!

- Generic Humors!

- This week’s plugin winner is…a Generic Listener!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Mixing the Unmixable!

- Overcooking the Mix!

- A/D: Embrace or Replace?

- Reading Spectrum Analyzers!

- This week’s plugin winner is…Will Smith!

…and much, MUCH more!

• Fix Your @#$! Room!
• Duck Your @#$! Delay!
• Automate the @#$! Vocal!
• Master That @#$ Song!

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This week’s plugin winner is...Luke Bjornsenn! 

...and much, MUCH more! 

• How to Arrange a Song!
• Hearing Thru Other Ears!
• Fletchers & Munsons!

­ This week’s plugin winner is...Zac Schmidt! 

...and much, MUCH more!

• Demo It First!
• Get Your Own Sounds!
• Bass is a Distraction!

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­ This week’s plugin winner is...Ian Stewart! 

...and much, MUCH more!

• Personal Limiting & You!
• Artist Identity & Branding!
• Being “In It” & Hating “It”!
• Sidechaining the Bass!

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This week’s plugin winner 

is... benbav! 

...and much, MUCH more!

- Using Cracked Plugins!

- Bass EQ “Fundamentals”!

- Wideners Explained!

- LUFS Explained!

­ This week’s plugin winner 

is...Aditya Kamath! 

...and much, MUCH more!

This week's plugin winner is...Chris Prescott!

• Balancing ‘Life’ & ‘Dreams’!
• Playing the Social Media Game!

• Foresight & The Brain!

This week’s plugin winner is… Kris Booth!

• How to Grab the Listener!
• Our Favorite Reverbs!
• A Very Adult Discussion!

This week’s plugin winner is… Ron “manticolorjam”!

• Stop Waiting!
• Start Backing Up!
• Keep Experimenting!
• Ride the LOLlercoaster!

This week’s plugin winner is… David Lomelino!

What Does Oversampling Do?

Vertical Melodies Explained!

Mono Really *Does* Matter!

Mixing Extra Drum Channels!

This week’s plugin winner is… nobody!

Monetizing live recordings!

Practicing more efficiently!

Helping the depressed!

Are routines necessary??

This week’s plugin winner is… Jack Byrne!

• Get Space in a Song!
• Listen Loud and Quiet!
• Where to Use Kush EQ’s!
• Charge More Than the Pro’s!

This week’s plugin winner is... Chipi Chipi! 

...and much, MUCH more!

- Funtime Signal Chains?

- Tracking Without Headphones?

- Preserving Dynamics with Compression?

- Fattening Up Sparse Tracks? This week’s plugin winner is... Finn D. Dueffy! 

...and much, MUCH more! 

- Studio Drumming = Different? - Real Ambience = Depth? - Analog Summing = Meh? - Parenting = Drawing Lines?

- This week’s plugin winner is……… Nate Yancy!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Highpass that Compression! - One Guitar is a Record! - Knowing Music vs. Knowing Sound! - Do Converters Really Matter?

- This week’s plugin winner is………Stoyan (ssttoo)!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Budget Vocal Mics! - Doing What You SORTA Love! - It’s All a Distraction! - Monitors When Traveling!

- This week’s plugin winnerS ARE………Nick Barnshaw & Kostas Papadapolous!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Easy Acoustic Treatments!

- Kaaaayy-YAH!

- All Effects are Parallel!

- Destructive Habits!

- This week’s plugin winner is………Benjamin Dingle!

…and much, MUCH more! 

- Getting Depth ITB! - Lowpassing Like Analog! - Strumming Like the 70’s! - Recording Like Good!

- This week’s plugin winner is………Nathan Whitney!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Humans vs. AI! - Does Anything Matter?? - Refreshing Acoustic Guitars! - B-STOCK ROCKS!

- This week’s plugin winner is………Eitan Brown!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Monitors v. Headphones! - Clients v. Drummers - Phase v. Imaging! - Friends v. Family!

- This week’s plugin winner is………John Whitt!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Phase Plugins Don’t Work?? - Don’t Kill the Room! - Software IN Hardware?? - Mastering Your Own Mix! - Starstruck Nerds!

- This week’s plugin winner is………Ray Foo and Jacob Born (retroactively)!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Converters vs. Preamps! - Logic vs. Pro Tools! - Routing Your Reverbs! - How to Buy Kush! - Listening Burnout!

- This week’s plugin winner is………Audrius Lelkaitis!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Kush vs. Manley! - Spending vs. Investing! - Getting ‘In the Zone!’ - Compressing Bass & Kick - Our Favorite Shows!

- This week’s plugin winner is….. Ronny (rohformat)!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Stop Regretting! - Start UBK-erizing! - Keep Cheating! - Quit Facebooking!

- This week’s plugin winner is…..!

…and much, MUCH more!

- When Is a Mix Done? - Making Sounds ‘Tougher’! - Analyzing vs. Enjoying! - Compression While Tracking! - Mix Bus Essentials!

- This week’s plugin winner is….. Gregory McMurtrie!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Sample Guilt! - Open Hi Hats! - Synesthesia! - Gain Staging pt 4!

- This week’s plugin winner is… John Covell!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Reverb: EQ it! - Compression: Record it! - Cover Song: Write it! - Money: Talk about it!

- This week’s plugin winner is… nobody!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Which Plugins Go Where? - Engineers vs. Musicians! - Mastering for Vinyl! - Pets, Anxiety, and Love!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………David Gilden!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Dealing with Hearing Loss! - Dealing with Noise! - Dealing with Gains! - Dealing with Family!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Tokyo Speirs!

…and much, MUCH more!

- ITB Beats Consoles?? - Why Dirt Sounds Good! - Rear Port Lovin’! - Getting Session Work!

- This Week’s Plugin Winners Are………Gabe Bierman and Callum (cjnixon)!

…and much, MUCH more!

- When Mastering Sucks! - Pre-Mastering Chains! - Mix Buss Dynamics! - Cheaters Win!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………PJO!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Choosing the Right Reverb! - Live vs. Studio Mixing! - Lo-Fi Recording Tips! - Making Pop Arrangements!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Emily Vernaillen!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Sexism? What Sexism??? - Every Decade, Explained! - Extreme Gear Talk! - Just the Right Amount of Wrong!

…and much, MUCH more!

- More Vocal Mixing Tips! - Mix Buss Tips! - Subbass Tips! - Sound Design Tips!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Diogo Guedes!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Vocal Mixing Tips! - Analyzers vs. Ears! - When To Use Expanders! - Running Efficient Sessions!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Joe Clar!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Gear for Tracking! - Panning Techniques! - The Limits of Layering! - The Limits of Love!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Axel Hirczak!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Writing Cool Intros! - Analog Style Plugin Chains! - Evolving Your Voice! - Shattering Creative Plateaus!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………James Huval!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Master of Work / Life Balance! - Master of Fragile Artists! - Master of Vocal Compression! - Master of Bedside Cameras!

- This week’s plugin winner is… [NAME]!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Getting Mixes LOUD! - Moving to Pursue Your Dreams! - Different Songs, Same Settings! - Habits for Creativity! - What is “The Sound of Neve!”??

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Keelan Ohara!

...And More!

- Do Engineers Need Music Theory? - High Pass vs. Low Shelves! - Headphones for Dialing Effects! - Career vs. Family!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Andres Azpiri!

...And More!

Mix engineer extraordinaire Greg Wells is coming this month to the UBK Happy Funtime Hour podcast! (Sylvia Massy is coming too, in January!)

Send us your questions for this grammy-winning, multi-instrumentalist engineer/composer, and you know us... nothing is too off-the-wall or inappropriate to be considered!

Ask away!

- Is “Writer’s Block” Real?? - Learning to Hear Distortion! - Hearing Impaired Engineers! - Mixing Live Tracks, ugh!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Gary Griffith!

...And More!

- How to Network & Make Friends! - High Ratio Compression Tips! - Setting Up a Subwoofer! - Making Everything Artistic!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Kelly (dollyrots)!

...And More!

- Mixing With Severe Hearing Loss! - Working With Stereo Stems! - When & How we use Automation! - Pursuing Dreams vs. Paying Bills!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Drew Epton!

...And More!

- Adding Spice to Flavorless Drums! - Slathering Vocals in Buttery Air! - Cooking Plugins for Chef UBK! - If We Weren’t Mixers, We’d Be…???

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Michael B!

...And More!

- Serving the Emotion of the Song! - Getting a Smooth, Linear Mix Buss! - Getting Motivated to Work on Music! - Dealing with Anxieties around Mixing!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Chris (Black In Bluhm)!!

...And More!

Sylvia Massy is coming to the UBK Happy Funtime Hour! Hurry and submit your questions for this Grammy winning engineer with scores of Platinum and Gold records and a distinctly creative approach to all things recording!

http://www.ubkhappyfuntimehour.com/

- Does Compression Add Warmth? - Does Ableton Summing Suck? - Adjusting to ITB Mixing! - Who Uses Summing Boxes?? - Separating Mixing from Writing!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Cory - AKA Droid Sauce!!

...And More!

- Compressors: FET vs. VCA vs. Diode! - Taking a Mix to the Next Level! - Punchy, Tight Guitar Stacks! - UBK Does Hillbilly Heroin! - Drum Buss Compression!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is………Thorsten Meyer!

...And More!

The funniest podcast on music production and mixing presents Episode 129 - “Happy Scumtime!”

- How to “Practice” Compression! - What’s Wrong with Electronic Music? - Corrupting Young Minds! - Music that Inspires Us!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Al Westrick!

...And More!

- UBK Got Mastered! - Getting Soft, Overdriven Drums! - EQ Ear Training? - How Many Sets of Monitors? - When Clients Never Finish!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is……Geoff Southall!

...And More!

- How to Sound as Good as Us! - Mixing Vocals to 2-Tracks! - Can “The Industry” be Saved?? - IR’s for Guitar Cabs?? - Linked vs. Unlinked Compressors!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is……Greg Goekler!

...And More!

The funniest podcast on music production and mixing presents Episode 126 - “Simen Says!”

- Transient vs. Tone! - Our Favorite Reverbs! - Our Favorite TV Shows! - Tune Drums to the Song! - How to Get More Clients!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Chrissy Richardson!

...And More!

The funniest podcast on music production and mixing presents Episode 125 - “Now I’ve Got You, You Son of a Bitch!”

- Bad Mixing Advice! - Good Relationship Advice! - Our Worst Audio Moments! - Our Favorite Emails!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Anonymous!

...And More!

- Every Mix is a Mix! - Mixing From the Gut! - Why Hate on Behringer?? - “Disciplined” vs. “OCD”!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Villem Rootalu!

...And More!

- Balancing Kick vs. Snare! - Are Dynamic EQ’s Compressors? - Getting That 70’s Vibe! - Don’t Hate on Slate! - Plugin Input Levels!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Brian Leighton!

...And More!

- Headphones for Mixing! - Why No Soundcloud?? - Life Advice: Girls! - Watching Mix Porn! - Parents vs Art!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Jorrrrrrrgeeee (Jorge Conde)!

...And More!

- Analog Girth & Space! - Tune Drums to the Song! - Get the Right Mic! - Choosing the Right Career! - The Hardest Advice Ever!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Nobody!

...And More!

- How Nathan & Gregory Met! - DIY Acoustic Treatments! - Finding Hidden Distortions! - Multiple A/D Conversions?? - Car Test vs. Studio Monitors??

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Dustin Duwa!

...And More!

- Multiband vs. Regular Comps! - Sad Horse Stories! - Should Clients Get Stems?? - Bad Sound at Live Shows! - Subscribing to Hardware??

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Mike Whatever!

...And More!

- Does A/D Matter? - Unmotivated for Music?? - Is Music Like Therapy??? - Should You Collaborate????

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Enrico (91gringos)!

...And More!

- Parallel EQ Explained! - Headroom and VI’s! - Optimizing Your Rig! - Balancing Life & Music!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… C. Smith!

...And More!

- New Kush Plugin Teaser! - Subscriptions vs. Buying! - The Politics of Sampling! - Getting Better, Faster!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Joaquin Etchegoyen!

...And More!

- What IS a Transient? - Getting Good Mix Feedback? - Breakthrough Moments? - Fuck Off Politely?

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Ángela Enríquez!

...And More!

- When Clients are WRONG! - Producing While Engineering! - Effects: When and Why! - Peace in the Loudness War!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Julian Fader!

...And More!

- Simulating Analog Workflows?? - 10dB Cuts on Vocals?? - Are You a Salesman?? - How to Compare Mics?? - One Speaker Mono??

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Jude (sevenjude2)!

...And More!

- Self-Producing Vocals! - Compressing Saturation! - Expanders: When? Why?? - Mixing INTO Mastering Chains?

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is…… Caskré!

...And More!

- Mistakes We Stopped Making - Track EQ vs. Buss EQ - Internships: Worth It??? - Music Theory: Worth It???

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is Gunnar Nagle!

...And More!

- Hating Yourself and Your Mix! - Reversing the Mix Buss! - Doing Things Without Permission! - Handling Harsh Sibilants!

- This week’s plugin winner is… Karlis Steinmanis!

…and more!

- The Worst Intro EVER! - Creativity vs. Tradition! - Marketing vs. Bragging! - Regret vs. Acceptance!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Greg Berne!

...And More!

- How to Start a Mix! - Compression vs. Automation! - How to “Find the Time”! - Getting Good at Everything!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Tim Keen!

...And More!

- UBK Goes Deeper ITB! - Advice from the Future! - Improv in the Studio! - Workflow Beats Sound! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Bobby Balow!

...And More!

- Compressing Sample-Based Music! - Complexity vs. Simplicity! - The Magic of Pre-Delay! - All You Need To Know About Mono! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Ryan Raffa!

...And More!

- Why Vocals are Hard To Mix! - Hit Men LOVE La2a’s! - Room Treatment: Why?? - Writing: Escape the Rut! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Bunmi Solomon!

...And More!

- Sizeful Drums! - Working with Limited Gear? - Getting A “Professional” Sound! - Cleaning Up Messy Sessions! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Enrico (Redblackredmusic)!

...And More!

- Ordinary vs. “Extraordinary” Compressors - How To Gain Stage With Plugins? - Can Noise Help Your Mix? - How to Mix Two Tracks! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Sharon (Kearney Music)!

...And More!

- Attacks: Slow, Medium, or Fast? - Does Mono Compatibility Matter? - How to Arrange an Album! - Great Mixes vs. Great Songs! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Chris Vail!

...And More!

- Our Latest “Eureka” Moments! - Why Can’t Artists Finish Songs?? - How to Produce While Engineering! - Why Everything Sounds Like Ass! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Robert (Bag of toys)!

...And More!

- What Exactly Is a “Pro Mix”? - Hi Pass WHATs? - Yet Another Phase Lecture! - Rapid Fire Question Time! - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Daniel Kassulke!

...And More!

- Why Mix At Low Volumes? - Does Bussing Degrade Sound? - Drum Samples: When? Why? - EQ'ing: Frequencies, or Notes? - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Sergey!

...And More!

- Reaching the Next Level! - Talking to Clients About Money! - That 70's Doubled Vocal Sound! - The Ups & Downs of Collaboration - This Week’s Plugin Winner Is..... Mrs Jason Ferguson!

...And More!

- hi-passing too much? Back it off! - How did UBK and Nathan get so smart? - Monitoring at low volumes. . . How low should you go? - What makes a record memorable?

- This week’s plugin winner is..... Tim Scanlon!

...and more!

- Watching Out for Signs of Burnout - Taming Dynamic Music vs. Crushing It - Rewriting a Song? Recapture the Passion! - Arranging Tunes the UBK Way!

- This week’s plugin winner is..... Dave Tate!

- Ladies Need More Than 90 Minutes - Seating Vocals into the Mix - New Gear: Do You Need It? - Who Does Multibuss Compression?

- This week’s plugin winner is... Dhaitanya Das!

...and much, MUCH more!

- How to Get Into The Music Production Mindset! 

- Uplifters and Downlifters..what they are why use them!

- Nathan shares one of his tracks! 

- How to really win over mixing clients! 

- This week’s plugin winner is…..OMAR ! 

…and much, MUCH more!

- Estimating mix time for your clients! 

- De-essing vocals to make them sound SMOOVE!

- Old Man of the Week Time! 

- Get to know the bass on your NS10’s! 

- This week’s plugin winner is…..Kevin A. Reed!

…and much, MUCH more!

- An ECKspecially good bit of mix perspective!

- Delegate your way to a better you!

- UBK’s Favorite Meditation Practice.

- Go Outside and Recharge Your Brain!

- Watch your Compulsions!

- Tune in next week for another plugin winner! 

…and much, MUCH more!

- Asymmetrical Drum Mic Technique!

- The Basics of Hearing Compression.

- Puttin’ Stuff on Your Mix Buss!

- All the Ways You’re Sleeping Wrong!

- This week’s plugin winner is…Roland Guerin!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Finish Your Ideas!

- Break Projects into Chunks!

- Room Correction Software: INCORRECT!

- The Wrong Way to Network

- This week’s plugin winner is…Scott H Stephenson!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Limitations Foster Creativity?

- Distractions Limit Creativity??

- Being a Pro Has Downsides???

- Hint: Small Moves

- ITB Gain Staging: It’s a Thing!

- This week’s plugin winner is…Frank “dufaultfrancois01”!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Check us out on Patreon!

- Tracking with Analog Compression !

- Josh Franklin’s 1 year anniversary!

- Getting movement from a simple arrangement.

- Guitar Mic Techniques and YOU!

- Stop Comparing your Tools!

- This week’s plugin winner is…Raphael Nuñez!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Fostering the Creative Flow

- Amp Sims vs. Crappy Rooms

- Templates = Faster Mixes

- Tambourines with Balls!

- Using Multiple Reverbs??

- This week’s plugin winner is…Robert ’Robbies88!’

…and much, MUCH more!

- Favorite Analog and Digital Effects!

- Printing Stems and YOU!

- Recording Claps and Snaps.

- What on earth is Peak Limiting?

- Tracking vocals in a tiny room.

- Monitoring: If it works, keep doing it!

- Expectations of Analog Summing.

- Special Thanks to FILMWERELD for this week’s Outro!

- This week’s plugin winner is…Mark Gonzales!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Struggling with Snares and Claps!

- Saturation & Heavy Track Counts

- What on Earth Does ‘Musical’ Mean?

- The Yin-Yang of EQ

- Linked vs Unlinked vs. Dual Mono vs. Stereo

- Big Console Mixing, In The Box!

- This week’s plugin winner is…iTunes Reviewer Speed101!

…and much, MUCH more!

- Procrastination: Cure it Tomorrow!

- Is Sound Getting Better, or Worse??

- Improving Your Suck!

- Organize That Session!

- Higher Sample Rates: Worth It?

- This week’s plugin winner is…Archie Francis Miller!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 plugin winner is…Wayan Raabe!

…and much, MUCH more!

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 *still* Don’t Care About Surround Sound!

- RE-Visiting the RE-Branding of Nathan Daniel.

- Are Expensive Mics Worth the Cash?

- Why Do Engineers Keep Secrets?

- You Booked the Session, Now Manage It!

- Tune in next week for the next Plugin Winner!

- 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 Recording Studios!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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.

- This week’s plugin winner is…Rob ‘NT’ Weber!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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…Dan 'Soundsmith' Smith!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 much, MUCH more!

- 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?

- This week’s plugin winner is…Josh Evans!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 is…Raj Bobo!

…and much, MUCH more!

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 winner is…Andreas Tengblood!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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, MUCH more!

- 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…Attack Walls…

- This week’s plugin winner is…Archie Miller! 

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 designing and YOU!

- Staying inspired as you get better at your job.

- How much does your gear matter, really?

- This week’s plugin winner is…Axel Hirczak! 

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 winner is…Edward Enlo!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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!

- 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 winner is…Michael Williams!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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! - Can new gear solve old problems?

- This week’s plugin winner is…Jinzōningen Jū Roku-Gō!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 Winner: Alex ‘Run by Dogs’!

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 & Energetic!

- This Week’s Plugin Winner is…Ken Barnum!

…and much, MUCH more!

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 - Are Effects part of the Arrangement?

…and much, MUCH more!

- 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 much, MUCH more!

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 plugin winner…Paul Smith from Lewisberg, PA!

…and much, much more!

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! Audio Perspective for Video, What!?

- Randomness! Too Many Corey’s? Too Much Muzak? Too Many Cows to Find a Job?!

- Business! Clients!  Changing Arrangements!

 This Week’s Plugin Winner is…Imtiaz Ahmed!

…and, much—well actually, that’s a lot. What more do you want!?

- 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 Room

- This week’s plugin winner is…Rick James!

…and much, much more!

- 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!

- 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!

- 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!

- 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!

- 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!

- 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!

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!

- 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!

- 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!

- 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!

- 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 Segments!

- This week’s plugin winner is…Jack Russ! Come on down and claim your prize!

…and much, much more!

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!

- 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 much much more!

- 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 much, much more!

- 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, much more!

- 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!

UBK grills a gifted pro and learns: - How he Gets a Smooth Midrange. - How he Gets a Loud, Punchy Sound - Which Verbs he uses on Which Sounds - What Studio tech he Wants Re-Invented

and then Andrew grills UBK & Nathan!

Must hear!!!

- Yet Another Kush & Sly-Fi Plugin Winner!  - Are Apple Earbuds the New NS10’s? - Knowing when Money can Solve Problems   - When Internet + Networking = Fail - You Booked the Session, Now Manage It - Tube Traps: there can Never be Enough!

…And much, much more!

- UBK Happy Funtime Withdrawal? We’ve got excuses/answers! - Worrying about conversion: is the juice worth the squeeze? - Agreements! Contracts! Advice! - Mixing High-gain distorted guitars: Help! - A long list of reasons why this podcast is amazing. - Recording electric bass in a home studio.

...and much, much more!

- Compression: New York vs. Vermont

- Mixing the Instruments You Play - MONITOR MORE QUIETLY - Recording and Mixing in the Same Space - Phase Correction: Does it Help? - Choosing a Song's Style

and much, much more!

- This week’s Kush Plugin winner! - How to work in a Real Studio for the first time - Go-To Mix Bus settings, yea or nay? - So…is UBK on the green stuff when he builds? The answer is not what you think! - What do you do with Mid-range monitors? - Should engineers share their mixing secrets? 

…and much, much more!

- High End Gear: What's all the Fuss? - Thoughts Not on Streaming Music - Live Electronic Music = Live Music - Transparent vs. Colored vs. Moist vs. Fluffy - Professional "Enhancements"

…And much, much more!

- What to do when your phone rings during a session. - Want a free plugin? Ask a question! - Automation: Controller? Mouse? Magic? - Mix critique with Jesus Romero’s “Deslices” - Creating space in an ultra-dense mix. - Mastering: How? What? Huh? When? - Perspectives on overproduced music. - Monitoring techniques in a crappy room.

…and much, much more!

- How to win free Kush plugins - Mix Critiques by UBK and Nathan Daniel - Making Music, not Sounds - The Magic of Serial Compression. - Coping with Unfinished Songs. - Midrange Monitors: Friend or Foe?

…And much, much more!

- The finer points of mixing duets

- Learning to use your ears before your plugins

- Recording vs ReAmping: Fight!

- Using phase to diagnose insanity

- Getting energy into your mix

- Creating space with subtractive EQ

- The magic of the Time Domain

...and much, much more!

- Breaking Down Kavinsky's Nightcall - UBK's Desert Island Mics - Programming vs Playing - Who's the Producer Here??? - Mixing Dense Electronica …and Much, Much Less!

- Female Human Audio Engineers - Mix It Like It's Someone Else's - Why iLok?  Why??? - Studio Spaces in High, High Places - Judging if Your Work is Any Good - The Age Old Desert Island Mic Dilemma

…and much, much more!

- DIY Marketing of DIY Music

- Dealing with Bugs & Crashes

- The Car Test: Truth, or Lies?

- Spirituality and Physics

- What Exactly Is "The Source"?

- Live Tracking a Band in the Studio

- Dealing with Odd Vocal Timbres

…and Much, Much more

- What Exactly is Mixing Anyway?

- Getting Past Your Own Crap

- Part 2 of Natural Reverb & Mic Placement

- Analog Processing Gotcha's

- How Many Tracks is 'Too Many'?

- Checking Your Ego at the Door

…and much, much more!

- A Step-by-Step Definition of Mixing?

- Mixing Sub Bass in Sub-Optimal Rooms

- Helping Clients Become Better Arrangers

- When Your Gear Equals a Famous Studio B

- Gear: Power it Down, or Leave it On?

- Stacking Delays

- What Kind of Desk for your Computer?

...and much, much more!

- Room Treatment vs. Room Correction Software

- How You'll Be Judged as an Engineer

- Rebranding Nathan Schreier

- The Sound of Jazz in a 100ft tall Church

- Switching gears from Mixing to Mastering

- Enduring the Brutal Southern California Winters

...and much, MUCH more! 

- Learning When Less is More

- Getting New Clients and Earning Their Loyalty

- How to Please Unpleaseable People

- Stop Obsessively Re-Doing Your Songs

- Troubles Compressing the Overheads

- Sweetening an Already Mastered Track

- Knowing What Frequencies Need Adjusting

...and much, much more!

- Which Mix Compressor for Glue?

- Suggestions for minimal mic setups on drums

- Converters: how hard to to hit 'em

- Getting to Automation Earlier in the Mix Process

- Overrated Gear: Why Are People Buying It?

- How many stages of Saturation & Compression?

And much, MUCH more!

- Dealing with Musicians who Overplay

- Taking Gear Out of the Rack... and Into Your Bed

- Neve vs. ART Preamps

- How to Raise Your Rates, and by How Much

- Investing in a Room You Won't Be in Forever

- When Mixing Becomes a Battle

and much, much more! 

- Getting Stereo Depth from Mono Sources

- Tracking Vocals with Compression

- Getting Space in Modern Metal

- Proximity Effect: Friend or Foe?

- Killer Results with Random Mic Placement

- Crosstalk: When Does it Matter?

- Clariphonic YES, Bassophonic NO...?

- Samples vs the Real Deal

- Expensive Mics: Worth It?

...and much more!

- Forming a "Vision" of the Mix

- UBK's Favorite Frequencies

- Getting Electronic Drums to Leap Out

- Best time of day to Mix

- Technically Better vs. Creatively Weaker

- Reznor-esque Drones & Soundscapes

- How Passive EQ's really work

and a LOT more!!!

- 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 Headphone Mixes"!

plus Uncensored Bloopers and much, much more!

- 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? - Balancing, Faders, and Controlling the Space - Headroom Advice for Mastering - Is Mono a Thing of the Past? - More Grumbling about The French

- 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 analog into digital sounds

- Surround Sound: does the industry care?

- Is it better to sound 'New' than to sound 'Good'?

- How far is too far when polishing a mix?

- Learning to hear more subtlety & nuance

And bonus blooper reel!

- 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 - Cracking open the dark tone of ribbons - Expensive monitors: worth it? - PLUS: Uncensored Blooper Reel!

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 to Alter Note Lengths & Timing

- How Bright is Bright Enough?

- Knowing what the Next Step is

- What's included in your Mix Rate?

- How to Choose your Clients

- OTB Workflow Problems: Solved And more... enjoy our longest episode yet!

- 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 It

- Recharging & Refreshing Your Brain

- Running an Engaging Session as an Introvert

- Where & How to Get Inspiration

- 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 Isolation

- UBK Saturates Everything!

- Self-Doubt... WTF?- Subwoofer Faux Pas

- 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 Arrangement choices And much more, another action-packed adventure for mixing & production nerds everywhere! Enjoy!!!

- 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 Multiple Deadlines

- Happy Funtime's Analog Vocal Chain

- Singing with Feeling

Enjoy!

- 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? - more on getting a tight bass - do good arrangements still need automation? - brain chemicals & musical evolution - is new gear a good business investment? - when to stop trusting your ears on a mix

This one is DENSE, enjoy it twice! Gregory Scott | UBK

- Balancing Glue with Separation

- EQ before vs. after Compression (UBK-1 vs. UBK Fatso)

- Pusher Video Update

- Troubleshooting Digital and Analog Gainstaging

- Addressing Frequency Balance via Arrangement

- Bouncing Tracks Together = Commitment

- Lo-Fi sounds in Hi-Fi productions

- Pro's and Con's of Mixing While High

- People: Good Crazy vs. Bad Crazy

- and more!

- 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

- You don't want "dead", you want "dry"

- Getting mix critiques on the Internet... hmmm....

- and more!

- 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

- Gainstaging and When to Keep Levels Low

- Getting Free Stuff by Signing Up for the UBK HFH list

- and more!

- 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 more!

- Reverb Braintraining Exercises

- Earthquakes

- PONO: Will Anybody Care?

- Compression Before Saturation

- Arranging the Old Fashioned Way

- The Neuroscience of Compulsions

- and more!

- 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 Bankers

- Tweak Your Setup to Maximize Creativity

- Davíde Pensadieux

- Monitoring at Incredibly Low Volume

- Reference Mixes: Yes or No?

- and more!

- 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 Patchbay Hell

- and more!

- 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

- Meditation

- We're All Thieves

- and more!

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 consumption and made it episode numero uno.