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The dub high-pass filter

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The high-pass filter on King Tubby's mixing board, famously swept live to strip bass out of a mix and slam it back in, becoming one of dub's signature dramatic gestures and an example of studio electronics used as a performance control.

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Type: technology
Confidence: Well supported
Era: Open era →

Musical & sonic elementsTechnology, recording & industry

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Story · Well supportedKing Tubby's soldering iron: the engineer as author

How a Waterhouse repairman turned a mixing desk into an instrument and became the uncredited composer of dub.