The UBK Happy Funtime Hour

- 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...

- 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!