Bass — platter #

A reading platter for the low end of a dance track: how the Jamaican dub bass line was played, recorded and mixed and what the drop-out and return do to it; how dub techno and UK dubstep carried a filtered sub into 4/4 and half-time 140; how the wobble was built, why it dates, and what replaced it (FM growls, formant and wavetable movement, resampled neuro passes, riddim's gated squares); and the sub/mid law, distortion staging, LFO rates in beat divisions, sidechain constants and phone translation that a bass generator has to get right. It also covers the screwed 808 of witch house and cloud rap, because the track it feeds is a witch-house / big-room hybrid. A sub-platter within the papers platter, parallel to chamber-platter and rhythm-platter.

The platter exists so that pop/dance/synths/wobble.mjs, pop/dance/synths/skrill.mjs and the climbalift bed in pop/notespatial/ resolve "how low is the sub", "what rate does the wub run at 140", "where does the drive go" and "why does it vanish on a phone" to a cited fact and a numbered rule, instead of to taste on the day.

Posture #

Index and original restatement only. No source text is reproduced here. Digest entries are written in AC's own words and exist to specify code. Every fact carries a key into sources.json. Magazine tutorials are cited as tutorials, not as the artist's method; forum threads are cited as consensus and flagged; where a figure is a rule of thumb with no source, the digest says so in the rule itself and again under Debts. No number is invented.

Shelf #

Shelf	What is on it
dub	Tubby, Perry, Scientist, Pablo; the MCI desk, the Altec high-pass, spring and tape; the one drop; the drop-out
sub	sine subs, 30/40 Hz cuts, mono-below-100, the vinyl and PA reasons, the missing fundamental
dub-techno	Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, Deepchord; band-passed chords, dotted-eighth echo, the desk as instrument
dubstep	FWD>>, DMZ, Mala, Skream, Loefah; 140 half-time; the sine sub
wub	Reese, wobble, growl, formant, wavetable, notch/comb, neuro resampling, OTT, riddim
808	TR-808 as bass, trap 808 tuning and glide, chopped and screwed, SALEM, cloud rap and Drain Gang
translation	sidechain constants, distortion staging, mono/stereo split, the 250–700 Hz phone band

Digest #

Entry	Question it answers
01 · dub bass	How the dub bass line was recorded and mixed, how it sits against the one drop, how dub techno and dubstep carried it into electronic music, and where the mono-sine-with-harmonics rule comes from; twelve rules and a tools block for a sub/bass-layer generator
02 · wub bass	How wobble, growl, neuro and riddim mid layers are made, why the resonant sweep dates, LFO rates at 128–140, sub/mid separation, drive order, sidechain, phone translation, and the screwed 808; twelve rules and a tools block for a mid/808 generator

Use #

Read the Unit paragraph first: it converts the digest's tempos and note divisions to ms and Hz so a rule can be applied without arithmetic. Facts are for arguing with; Rules are for implementing. A generator should take its constants (register per layer, split frequency, LFO divisions, gate shape, sidechain attack/release, drive order) from the Rules and cite the rule number in a comment. When a rule says "rule of thumb", the constant is tunable and should be exposed as an option, not hard-coded. Debts list what is reconstructed rather than sourced; a Debt is a place to go looking, not a license to guess.

Sources: sources.json, an object with a sources array of {key, title, author, year, url, kind, note, checked}; an unchecked entry may not be cited in a paper.