While Tubby was working as a recording engineer, he accidentally discovered the appeal of stripping a song of its vocal track. Carl Patterson's Psalm Of Dub (1971) was the first dub record. In 1972 Ruddock bought a two-track tape recorder and experimented with reverb and other effects. When he got together with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, Blackboard Jungle (1973) was born: the first stereo "dub" album. It was a Copernican revolution: the engineer and the producer had become more important than the composer. During the next two years, Tubby perfected his home studio recording, particularly with and echo delay device. In 1974, Tubby started a collaboration with Bunny Lee that led to his most inspired productions, The Roots of Dub and Dub From The Roots. Tubby mostly improvised at the mixing board, as if it were an instrument. His remixing work became more and more radical, leaving almost nothing of the original song.
a collaboration with melodica player Augustus Pablo led to the hit Baby I Love You (1975) and another seminal work, King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (1976).
Tubby raised an entire generation of recording engineers, who went one to become innovators of Jamaican music, such as Prince Jammy (Lloyd James), soon to become a trendy producer, and Scientist (Overton Brown).
King Tubby was murdered in 1989.

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