Episode 089|What Is Dub? The Revolution of Acoustic Reconstruction
Overview
Dub is one of the most revolutionary movements in modern music production. Emerging from Jamaican reggae studios in the late 1960s, dub transformed the recording studio itself into a musical instrument.Rather than composing entirely new songs, dub producers created radical remixes of existing recordings—removing vocals, emphasizing bass and drums, and manipulating the mix using echo, delay, and reverb.