- 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!
