Big Bass Blast

A pressed fizzy either holds its dome, fizzes for half a minute and floats, or it cracks on the rack and bleeds oil onto the paper. The difference is in the weights, and the weights are arithmetic you can do before anything goes into the mould. Big Bass Blast is the bench where that happens. 1. Pick a mould. Five are drawn to true scale — hemisphere pair, fluted dome, ring, tube and a six-cavity sheet — and each one sets its own cavity volume, fill mass and yield. 2. Weigh the batch into its phases. Dry, wet and add-last, with 35 stock lines to draw on: bicarbonate and acids, clays and salts, butters and oils, colourants, embeds and toppers. Every line carries its craft role and its typical and maximum usage percentage, and a rail turns as you cross it. The totaliser has to close. 3. Read what the batch will do. Big Bass Blast works out the acid-to-base balance ⚖️ against your target 🎯 ratio and reports the deviation in grams, then computes the gas yield, how hard the piece will fizz and for how long, the pack density that decides whether it floats or sinks, the crack and warp risk from binder moisture, the oil load that leaves a ring round the tub, and the colourant load per tub volume with its staining margin. The fizz timeline 🕒 is drawn as a curve, and the tub is drawn in the water colour the batch will actually make. 4. Press it and let the rack count down. Each piece sits on the shelf with a cure ring running off the humidity you set, and a nine-fault atlas — cracking, warping, bloom, early fizz, oil bleed, dye spotting, crumbling, pitting, flat fizz — names the cause chain behind each one, the bench figures that predict it, and the fix. Apply a fix and it edits the batch you are working on. 5. Pull a colourway off a photograph. Point the camera 📷 at a tile, a fabric or a flower and Big Bass Blast lifts four colours out of the picture and converts each one into a per-layer colourant load in grams for the colourant family you work in. No lye and no caustics — this is the fizz, the press and the cure. Nothing here is a stored note 📝 and nothing is looked up: every figure is computed from the batch in front of you, and the whole bench runs offline 📴.