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King Tubby's mixing board

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The hand-modified mixing desk at the heart of King Tubby's Dromilly Avenue studio, built up from an obsolete MCI console acquired from Dynamic Sounds around 1971 and rewired with home-built filters and effects sends that let Tubby 'play' the desk as an instrument.

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Story of King Tubby: The Electronic Genius That Invented Dub Reggae

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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.