The UBK Happy Funtime Hour

Gregory Scott (UBK) & Nathan Daniel•www.ubkhappyfuntimehour.com

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.

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Episodes

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 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!...

Apr 28, 2014•32 min

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 - You don't want "dead", you want "dry" - Getting mix critiques on the Internet... hmmm.... - and more!

Apr 28, 2014•33 min

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 - Gainstaging and When to Keep Levels Low - Getting Free Stuff by Signing Up for the UBK HFH list - and more!

Apr 28, 2014•4 min

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 more!

Apr 28, 2014•32 min

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 - and more!

Apr 28, 2014•30 min

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 Bankers - Tweak Your Setup to Maximize Creativity - Davíde Pensadieux - Monitoring at Incredibly Low Volume - Reference Mixes: Yes or No? - and more!...

Apr 28, 2014•9 min

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