Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Gunshot sounds in stereo

I was driving home to lunch just now when the sound of a bullet ricocheted throughout the car.
Don't worry, the echoing shot was merely a sound effect providing the lynch pin to the song "SHOOTER DUB," a collaboration between two of Jamaica's revolutionary record producers.
OSBOURNE "KING TUBBY" RUDDOCK helped pioneer dub reggae -- predominantly instrumental versions of existing recordings created by significant manipulation in the studio.
On "Shooter Dub," King Tubby integrated the use of a gunshot sound effect into a mix of a track originally produced by LEONARD "SANTIC" CHIN (the nickname derived from combining the nickname of his friend, drummer Carlton "Santa" Davis, and "Atlantic").
Tubby would have been familiar with the sound of gunshots.
Writing in the liner notes to "THE ROUGH GUIDE TO DUB," Steve Barrow noted that Tubby's studio "was located in the heart of the 'war zone' in the Waterhouse ghetto" of Kingston, Jamaica."
A gunshot might have been familiar to Tubby, but the sound make me jump as I drove home.

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