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Episode 03 · · 58 min

The Last Analog Desk

Tomasz Berg has kept the night on the air with faders, a humming lamp, and a screwdriver.

With Tomasz Berg, Broadcast engineerAnalog / Craft

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  1. Mara Voss

    Tomasz Berg has spent forty years at a desk that still prefers its hands. Patch bays, worn faders, a lamp that hums in E.

  2. Tomasz Berg

    Digital is fine. I use it every day. But a desk you can repair with a screwdriver teaches you humility. When something fails you can point at it. That matters when you are live and twelve people are waiting on the other side of a night.

  3. Mara Voss

    Do you miss the noise?

  4. Tomasz Berg

    I miss knowing which noise was mine. The new rooms are clean. Clean is not the same as honest.

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