Signal Path
w/ Mara Quist
How recorded sound actually works — one gain stage at a time.
[ Independent since 2019 · six shows · listener-funded ]
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Earshot is an independent podcast network — six shows about sound, music and the people who make them, produced slowly, mixed properly, and released when they’re ready. No algorithm in the signal chain.
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CUEDSignal Path · #84
The loudness wars are over (we lost)
0:00CH 01 — Cold open41:07
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[ The shows ]
Six shows. One rule: it has to sound like somewhere.
Every show on the network is made by the person whose name is on it — no content calendar, no house style. If an episode isn’t ready, the feed waits.
Dead Air
w/ Errol Fane
Histories of radio stations that signed off and never came back.
The B-Side
w/ Juno Reyes
Musicians on the song that almost made the record.
Night Bus
w/ Sam Okafor
Quiet documentaries, recorded after midnight, mixed for headphones.
Patch Notes
w/ Lena Vogl
Synth builders, bedroom producers, and the machines between them.
Foley
w/ Dot Marsh & Iggy Brand
The people who make movies make noise. Celery, gloves, gravel.
[ Latest episodes ]
The broadcast log.
Fresh from the mix bus. Hit cue it up on anything below and the deck at the top of the page will load it, wave and all.
- JUL 10
Signal Path · #8441:07 The loudness wars are over (we lost)
Two masters of the same song, fourteen years apart, and a meter that refuses to lie. Mara walks the whole arms race — and what streaming normalization quietly did to it.
- JUL 08
The B-Side · #12138:12 Three chords, wrong order
A demo that sat on a hard drive for nine years because the bridge arrived before the verse did. Juno gets the band to play both versions back to back.
- JUL 03
Patch Notes · #9747:55 A filter you can hear smiling
Lena visits a two-person workshop in Tallinn that hand-matches transistors for a ladder filter clone — and asks whether “character” is just tolerance drift with good PR.
- JUN 27
Dead Air · #5255:40 The transmitter in the corn
For 31 years, WKRN-AM broadcast crop prices, tornado warnings and one very strange overnight jazz show to four counties. Then the license lapsed on a Tuesday.
- JUN 24
Night Bus · #3329:03 Last stop, Harbor Road
One route, one driver, one binaural rig taped to the luggage rack. Recorded between 1 and 4 a.m. Best heard the same way.
[ The hosts ]
No headshots. Voiceprints.
You’ll never see their faces on this site — you’re here for their ears. Each portrait below is the host’s waveform, nothing else.
Mara Quist
Signal Path
Mixed live radio for twelve years. Owns three loudness meters, trusts none of them.
Errol Fane
Dead Air
Keeps a shelf of reel-to-reel tape rescued from station skips. Digitizes on Sundays.
Juno Reyes
The B-Side
Session bassist turned interviewer. Asks the question the liner notes never answered.
Sam Okafor
Night Bus
Records everything at 4 a.m. because, quote, “the city finally stops lying to the mic.”
Lena Vogl
Patch Notes
Built her first synth from a kit at fourteen. It still drifts sharp. She calls that a feature.
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