The UBK Happy Funtime Hour

- 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...

- 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 Bri ght 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....

- 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 i...

- 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!