South End Transmission Booth

Analog signal architecture

Custom rotary potentiometers, direct-drive turntables, and discrete class-A preamplifiers feed our 320kbps uncompressed live feed directly from Dock 4.

Hardware Specifications

Pure physical chain

Every vinyl transmission runs through matched elliptical diamond styli into custom tube phono stages. We avoid digital summation boxes, routing both decks directly into a discrete discrete master bus before analog-to-digital conversion.

The broadcast room utilizes floating timber flooring and three-inch mineral wool bass traps tuned specifically to 42Hz. Voice lines pass through large-diaphragm broadcast dynamic capsules with passive transformer balancing.

Zero Algorithmic Interference

Human curation demands real friction, warm tubes, and deliberate airtime.

No automated loudness wars or predictive queue scripts govern this booth. Every transition is executed by physical hands responding in real time to the room.

Acoustic Standard

If a record has surface noise or delicate dynamic swings, our listeners hear every microvolt intact.

Marcus Vance, Head Sound Engineer

Resident Auditions

Transmit your frequency

We review unsolicited physical cassettes, uncompressed archive links, and proposals for two-hour live broadcast slots weekly.