Dub
The echo chamber and the console. Explore the space and resonance of Dub Reggae.
Curated Articles & Guides
Explorations of the spaces between the notes.
The Ghost in the Console and the Studio as an Instrument
Early Dub Reggae pioneers taking existing reggae tracks and stripping the recordings to bare bones allowed producers to transform the mixing console into an active participant.
Read Article →The Console as Component
Jamaican dub pioneers rejected the paradigm of acoustic transparency, utilizing spring reverbs and high-pass filters to construct vast negative spaces.
Read Article →The Subsonic Register: Bass, Pressure, and the Tactile Threshold
Dub bass sits below the threshold of hearing — in the register where sound is felt through the body, not heard through the ear.
Read Article →The Dropout as Structure: What Dub Does With Silence
When King Tubby pulled a fader to zero mid-bar, the silence hit harder than the bass ever did. How dub made absence into the most powerful event in the room.
Read Article →