A wearable subwoofer? Meet the Basslet

Linus is kinda cool. He wears strictly sandals and white ankle sox, he's very DIY, he tells it like it is, and even his squeaky voice will grow on you. A bonus for musicians: he has good ears. A classic is his review of the Pono Player. That triangular audiophile mp3-player, sponsored by Neil Young. You don't remember? Never mind.

lIL sLiPpy - SweaTiNg L1ke A Ho0Ker iN cHuRCh

LIL sLiPpy - SweaTiNg L1ke A Ho0Ker iN cHuRCh by Creme Organization

Bass Mekanik ~ Subsonic Bass from JA to Miami

Bass Mekanik is a legendary car audio producer. His career started in Byron Lee's studio in Kingston, Jamaica. Then he went to Miami and discovered the 808 boom. "All things have a resonant frequency. For example, the resonant frequency of planet earth is like 7.83 hertz." Check out this interview.

Mysteries of Dubb ~ Ancient Acoustics

Man has worshipped the Gods of Bass ever since the beginning of time. In the days before the pyramides, when there were no cities and no agriculture, the best places for bass worship were caves. Because caves are the ready-made dub studios of mother nature.

How to mix bass like a pro

Uberdude Dave Pensado has a crucial YouTube channel. Pure science.

Interplanetary soundbwoys are full of big chat

This is the subwoofer of ESA’s Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF), a test facility which subjects satellites to the same noise a launcher produces as it takes off. The ESA soundbwoys claim to have the most powerful sound system in Europe, they also claim their system can kill people at maximum output. Full of big chat we say..

Mysteries of Dubb ~ How low can you go?

Back in the 80's most people didn't really understand the power of the 808 bass drum. Then Chuck D of Public Enemy came along. Being a philosophical kind of person, he posed what is perhaps the most fundamental question in modern music: Bass! How low can you go?

Commodore 64 bass guitar

Radically rethinking bass design & C64 chiptunes

The bass player... well you have to watch

Speaker that works best in the 5 – 50Hz range

Wanna construct your own Giant Speaker? Check this little tutorial.

Musical Numerology #6 ~ Binaural beats, entrainment and brainwaves

The claim: we can manipulate our brain and our state of mind by listening to binaural beats; ultra low frequency sounds in the region of 1 - 12 Hz. Our brainwaves synchronize to the frequency of these beats, making us feel creative, relaxed (alpha waves) or meditative (theta or delta waves). This kind of sync is known as entrainment.

Bass Frequency ~ Talking Miami Bass

Some oldskool imagery featuring a couple of Miami Bass heroes. Otto von Schirach says some nice, memorable things. Part 2 is over here.

Mega fiddle ~ madd science meets big bass

We like people who design their own instruments. And we especially like madd scientists who are obsessed with big bass.

Discovery of the HIGGS FIELD: implications for BASS music?

The discovery of the HIGGS BOSON is great news for DUB scientists. It's a big thing, like the discoveries made by Einstein about 100 years ago. But having said that, DUB scientists are not really surprised by the news of the so-called GOD PARTICLE. It's just a confirmation of DUB theory, which is always a bit ahead of ACADEMIC theory.

Bass haters ~ a reissue with too much bass?

Here's a quote coming from a Jack-purist who thinks Rush Hour’s House of Trax reissues have too much bass:

Feeling the bass ~ and those other sounds as well

Everybody knows that bass is a sound that's meant to be felt as well as heard. But how about this:

"About a year and a half after her stroke, a 36-year-old professor started to feel sounds. A radio announcer’s voice made her tingle. Background noise in a plane felt physically uncomfortable. [...] 

Female alligators want big bass

Science News reports: amorous alligator males produce a 18 to 20 Hz sub bass rumble to seduce females. But that's not all. Hidden in this sound there's an even deeper bass at half the vibrational frequency, 9 to 10 hertz, producing Faraday waves.

DIY mastering for dubbers

These short mastering tutorials by Dubspot are very clear and to the point. The workflow and the suggested control settings for the combination of iZotope Ozone 4 plugin and Ableton host in part 1 should translate well to other hosts & plugins. Watching these videos won't turn you into you a skilled mastering engineer overnight but it's a good introduction to low budget mastering.

How bass works ~ fundamental bassology

Scientist on mixing dub live & electronics

busting the myth of eq presets