The UBK Happy Funtime Hour
The UBK Happy Funtime Hour is a podcast about audio engineering and music production hosted by Kush Audio gear designer Gregory Scott and ITB mixing pro Nathan Daniel. The two answer listener questions covering gear, plugins, the psychology of mixing, and what makes a song emotionally connect with listeners. Aimed at both professional studio engineers and bedroom producers, the show mixes practical advice with humor and candid conversation. It encourages creative growth and helps listeners break out of limiting habits.
Episodes
Sparkle? Fuck You! (Ep. 234)
The world's best, funniest, and only podcast on music is back, and we're doing the same shit we do every other week! Enjoy!!
Uncle Bob! (Ep. 231)
The world's best, funniest, and only podcast on music is back, and we're doing the same shit we do every other week! Enjoy!!
A little POOSH into the COORUS! (Ep. 230)
Mmmm... This Coffee is THICK! (Ep. 229)
The world's best, funniest, and only podcast on music is back, and we're doing the same shit we do every other week! Enjoy!!
The Outhouse of Your Dreams!
The world's best, funniest, and only podcast on music is back, and not just in Estonia!
1 Colon 1 Mixing!
The world's best, funniest, and only podcast on mixing and music production is back with another extraordinarily prescient and insightful episode!
Brainwashing Shampoo!
The world's funniest and only podcast on engineering and production gets a visit from Gregory's 6 year old son!
WE'RE the gurus! (Ep. 225)
The world's funniest, best and only podcast on mixing, music production returns for yet another epsiode of questionable quality!
Welcome to DAW TAWK! (Ep. 224)
The world's funniest and most absurd podcast on mixing and production somehow just got even stupider. You're welcome!
It's the Gary and Mason Show! (Ep. 223)
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing. Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Bastards of Wisdom! (Ep. 222)
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing. Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Cold, Rainy, and Stupid! (Ep 221)
My EQ Works For EVERYBODY! (Ep. 220)
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 219 Finale
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 218
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing bringing you a solo Nathan episode! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 217
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 216
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 215
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 214
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 213
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 212
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 211
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 210
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 209
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 208
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 207
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 206
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 205
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 203 - The Boob Tube!
- How to Start a Mix! - EQ that Reverb! - BIG Metal Guitars! - This week's plugin winner is…Chris Krasnow ! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 202
The funniest podcast on music production and mixing presents Episode 202 - "Tuned to G Whiz!" - Low-Mids = Vibe! - More Automation Gems! - How to Live Your Life! - How to Run Your Business! - This week's plugin winner is…Josh Richard! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 201
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 200
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 199
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 198
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 197
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 196
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 195
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 194
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 193
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 192
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 191
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 190
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 189
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 188
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 187
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Conversations with Joe Chiccarelli - Part 2
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Conversations with Joe Chiccarelli - Part 1
A very special episode of banter from the world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 184
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 183
The world's funniest podcast on music production, engineering, & mixing! Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 182 - Let Us Know When You Fail!
Someone wins a plugin every episode, listen to find out who!
Episode 181 - "Generic Episode!"
- Generic Discussions! - Generic Answers! - Generic Humors! - This week's plugin winner is…a Generic Listener! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 180 - " Unmixable!"
- Mixing the Unmixable! - Overcooking the Mix! - A/D: Embrace or Replace? - Reading Spectrum Analyzers! - This week's plugin winner is…Will Smith! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 179 - "@#$!"
Fix Your @#$! Room! Duck Your @#$! Delay! Automate the @#$! Vocal! Master That @#$ Song! This week's plugin winner is...Luke Bjornsenn! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 178 - "Who's a Good Boy?!"
How to Arrange a Song! Hearing Thru Other Ears! Fletchers & Munsons! This week's plugin winner is...Zac Schmidt! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 177 - "Boundaries Bro!"
Demo It First! Get Your Own Sounds! Bass is a Distraction! This week's plugin winner is...Ian Stewart! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 176 - "Intimate Personal Limiter!"
Personal Limiting & You! Artist Identity & Branding! Being "In It" & Hating "It"! Sidechaining the Bass! This week's plugin winner is... benbav! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 175 - "Speaking of Apologies!"
- Using Cracked Plugins! - Bass EQ "Fundamentals"! - Wideners Explained! - LUFS Explained! This week's plugin winner is...Aditya Kamath! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 174
This week's plugin winner is...Chris Prescott!
Episode 173 - "Not Threats… Promises!"
Balancing 'Life' & 'Dreams'! Playing the Social Media Game! Foresight & The Brain! This week's plugin winner is… Kris Booth!
Episode 172 - "It's a Potpourri!"
How to Grab the Listener! Our Favorite Reverbs! A Very Adult Discussion! This week's plugin winner is… Ron "manticolorjam"!
Episode 171 - "I Hate My Life!"
Stop Waiting! Start Backing Up! Keep Experimenting! Ride the LOLlercoaster! This week's plugin winner is… David Lomelino!
Episode 170 - "UBK Flies Solo… Again!"
What Does Oversampling Do? Vertical Melodies Explained! Mono Really *Does* Matter! Mixing Extra Drum Channels! This week's plugin winner is… nobody!
Episode 169 - "Achieving Success!"
Monetizing live recordings! Practicing more efficiently! Helping the depressed! Are routines necessary?? This week's plugin winner is… Jack Byrne!
Episode 168 - "Of Pants & Shame!"
Get Space in a Song! Listen Loud and Quiet! Where to Use Kush EQ's! Charge More Than the Pro's! This week's plugin winner is... Chipi Chipi! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 167 - "I Need a Shower!"
- Funtime Signal Chains? - Tracking Without Headphones? - Preserving Dynamics with Compression? - Fattening Up Sparse Tracks? This week's plugin winner is... Finn D. Dueffy! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 166 - "Totally BroFi!"
- Sample Rate v. Aliasing! - Width in Electronic Pop! - What's a "Pro Mix"? - What's "Real Music"? This week's plugin winner is... P. Tunch! ...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 165 - "Vive la Résistance!"
- Hearing What Isn't There! - Resisting What Isn't There! - Tuning Drums to Notes! - Hire a Damn Acoustician! - This week's plugin winner is......... Kevin Cowrange!...and much, MUCH more!
Episode 164 - "This is How You Were Made!"
- Studio Drumming = Different? - Real Ambience = Depth? - Analog Summing = Meh? - Parenting = Drawing Lines? - This week's plugin winner is……… Nate Yancy! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 163 - "Spicy Cocaine Sex!"
- Highpass that Compression! - One Guitar is a Record! - Knowing Music vs. Knowing Sound! - Do Converters Really Matter? - This week's plugin winner is………Stoyan (ssttoo)! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 162 - "Speaking of Puberty!"
- Budget Vocal Mics! - Doing What You SORTA Love! - It's All a Distraction! - Monitors When Traveling! - This week's plugin winnerS ARE………Nick Barnshaw & Kostas Papadapolous! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 161 - "Kaayyy-YAH!"
- Easy Acoustic Treatments! - Kaaaayy-YAH! - All Effects are Parallel! - Destructive Habits! - This week's plugin winner is………Benjamin Dingle! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 160 - "Robbing the Entitled!"
- Getting Depth ITB! - Lowpassing Like Analog! - Strumming Like the 70's! - Recording Like Good! - This week's plugin winner is………Nathan Whitney! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 159 - "I'm Being Repressed!"
- Oppressive Mixing! - Oppressive Sessions! - Oppressive Mindsets! - Oppressive VI's! - This week's plugin winner is………Jordan Gilby! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 158 - "Artisanal Mixing!"
- Humans vs. AI! - Does Anything Matter?? - Refreshing Acoustic Guitars! - B-STOCK ROCKS! - This week's plugin winner is………Eitan Brown! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 157 - "There's Always a Cost!"
- Monitors v. Headphones! - Clients v. Drummers - Phase v. Imaging! - Friends v. Family! - This week's plugin winner is………John Whitt! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 156 - "Smedium Slatte!!"
- Phase Plugins Don't Work?? - Don't Kill the Room! - Software IN Hardware?? - Mastering Your Own Mix! - Starstruck Nerds! - This week's plugin winner is………Ray Foo and Jacob Born (retroactively)! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 155 - "Chronic Longorrhea!!"
- Converters vs. Preamps! - Logic vs. Pro Tools! - Routing Your Reverbs! - How to Buy Kush! - Listening Burnout! - This week's plugin winner is………Audrius Lelkaitis! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 154 - "Singapore Times!"
- Kush vs. Manley! - Spending vs. Investing! - Getting 'In the Zone!' - Compressing Bass & Kick - Our Favorite Shows! - This week's plugin winner is….. Ronny (rohformat)! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 153 - "The Face of Regret!"
- Stop Regretting! - Start UBK-erizing! - Keep Cheating! - Quit Facebooking! - This week's plugin winner is…..! …and much, MUCH more!
Episode 152 - "Just a Blazer!'"
- When Is a Mix Done? - Making Sounds 'Tougher'! - Analyzing vs. Enjoying! - Compression While Tracking! - Mix Bus Essentials! - This week's plugin winner is….. Gregory McMurtrie! …and much, MUCH more!
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