Comedy and prank-call radio in the browser is easy to make loud. Making it feel terrestrial is harder. Real AM and FM fail in familiar ways: selective fades, multipath quieting, mains hash, the neighbor with a power tool, the telescopic antenna you bumped. We spent a long stretch listening to those failure modes and building an Audio Experience that borrows their character — without pretending we’re an RF lab.
The useful lab rule was simple: duck the station, leave the noise honest. Weak signal should sound noisy, not like someone turned the master volume down. Beyond that, most of the craft is ears-first A/B: keep the textures that read as radio, delete the ones that read as a broken stream buffer or a synth preset.
We’re keeping the exact graph recipes in-house. This note is the public version: the intent, the product surface, and where to hear it. The same Dialer's Lab work also shows up in chainDRiVE when you want to print radio grit to a file.
Try it live on KAOS-FM — Audio Experience → AM or FM.