Gregory Scott (UBK) & Nathan Daniel

The UBK Happy Funtime Hour

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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...

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Gregory Scott (UBK) & Nathan Daniel

Episodes

Episode 5 - "Everyone's French!" 28.04.2014 30:21

- Reverb Braintraining Exercises - Earthquakes - PONO: Will Anybody Care? - Compression Before Saturation - Arranging the Old Fashioned Way - The Neuroscience of Compulsions - and more!

Episode 4 - "I'm Not a Creep!" 28.04.2014 8:34

- 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!

Episode 3 - "We'll Edit That Out" 28.04.2014 30:13

- 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!

Episode 2 - "Find Your Inner Mongolia" 28.04.2014 34:25

- 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!

Episode 1 - "Celine Lives" (aka "This Was Never Supposed to Air!") 28.04.2014 10:49

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.