How do they record "The Best Of a Nick Ferrari"? It never sounds distorted live, but always at the weekends sounds dreadful? In the Digital era, I can't understand how it can sound so bad, unless they keep their levels too high?
The Best of Nick Ferrari is one of the most shoddy, unprofessional, badly put together programmes I've ever heard on the radio. They start topics midway through a sentence, cut to a new topic before finishing the previous one, items are played out of sequence and the sound is often poor. It's sounds like it's been produced by an infant using old cassette tapes, a pair of scissors and sellotape.
suggests the "value" of that slot to them... it isn't worth a presenter or spending any time on it... its only suitable for one "employee"... but he does the other 6 of them!
I'm still on good old steam-driven analogue, so I'm not all that picky about sound quality but, having heard some of the Best of... live, I'm conscious of how badly it's edited. Last week they cut the punch line from a guest's anecdote. My theory is that they give the experienced techies the weekend off and let the work experience kids loose.
Nice to 'see' you Richie.
Morning all.
I am also using "Ye olde Analogue Spy"
Jolly Good Morning everyone...:):)
JOB getting some serious stick from callers to John Stapletons' programme this morning on his interview with NIgel Farrage. "Childish" being one comment that stuck with me.
Just imagine what the Mail and Sun would say if a BBC interviewer treated David Cameron that way. LBC thinks it's equivalent to the BBC, it isn't, its just a bit of silly Red Top Tabloid fun ok for a laugh but nothing else.
The Best of Nick Ferrari is one of the most shoddy, unprofessional, badly put together programmes I've ever heard on the radio. They start topics midway through a sentence, cut to a new topic before finishing the previous one, items are played out of sequence and the sound is often poor. It's sounds like it's been produced by an infant using old cassette tapes, a pair of scissors and sellotape.
The podcasts aren't that much better, take ages sometimes before they're available. And the audio sounds very compressed, yes I know MB=£.
JOB getting some serious stick from callers to John Stapletons' programme this morning on his interview with NIgel Farrage. "Childish" being one comment that stuck with me.
I've just had to switch John Stapleton off. Fortunately there are some experienced callers putting in the point that O'Brien can constantly interrupt and completely talk over interviewees childishly and obnoxiously as he did with Farage.
Trouble is there's just as many inexperienced callers who aren't used to Brien and don't realise how deliberately bullying he can be, that are phoning in to John Stapleton too. Most enfuriatingly of all Stapletion himself confesses to not hearing the interview and can only defend his LBC 'colleague' in a very general and distant way.
By the way I try to keep politics out of this thread but as many posters in previous pages felt it necessary to aver their negative views of UKIP, I am going to declare that after my recent spell of long term unemployement I have a 'Vote UKIP' poster displayed in my window. UKIP reflect my views more an more and I thank god they speak the truth the other parties dare not. Sorry, rant over.
Edit: It's taken me 25 minutes to compose this message so the subject of discussion on John Stapleton may well have changed by now.
Why are so many people on here calling the James O'Brien's interview with Nigel Farage a debate and calling one participant a winner? It wasn't a debate, it was a political interview and as such there can't be a winner because the roles of the participants are very different.
James O'Brien seemed very well prepared and asked some very good questions and Nigel Farage didn't really stand up to the questioning as well as I expected. He mostly encounters very sympathetic interviewers (step forward Nick Ferrari) and it is unsual for him to be put under the level or scrutiny the Mr O'Brien subjected him to. The fact the his communication director stepped in to end the interview was quite telling as it must have been apparent to him that Mr Farage wasn't coping that well with the questions being put to him.
100% correct.
Some of the criticism of O'Brien has been odd.
I've heard some criticising him for the way he pronounces Farage, which is ludicrous.
Surely, it's a regional thing, the way you pronounce it?
I, myself pronounce it the same way I pronounce the word garage; in short, the way O'Brien pronounces Farage, so how is that a point of criticism?
If that's all some people have on O'Brien, he has nothing to worry about.
I've heard some criticising him for the way he pronounces Farage, which is ludicrous.
Surely, it's a regional thing, the way you pronounce it?
I, myself pronounce it the same way I pronounce the word garage; in short, the way O'Brien pronounces Farage, so how is that a point of criticism?
If that's all some people have on O'Brien, he has nothing to worry about.
Surely it's only common courtesy to pronounce a person's name the way they say it themselves? But aside from that, long-term listeners would know that O'B knows how to pronounce 'Farage' correctly and indeed used to say it that way himself until he started his more recent campaign of venom and personal spite when he took the decision to say "FARRidge" (to rhyme with 'marriage'). So regional accent doesn't come into it with O'B.
I think that throughout yesterday's encounter he modified it to FARR-arge with the emphasis on the first syllable but with a hard 'G', and that might have been fine if one didn't know that he was deliberately avoiding saying it correctly, but as his parting shot in winding up the interview he slipped in a "FARRidge" the last but one time he said the name.
Much as I disagree with O'B I will admit that he had some sticky questions for the UKIP leader but he undermined his arguments by continually bullying and hassling, asking a question and then jumping in and picking up on every word Farage uttered and not allowing him to speak in answer to the original question. Quite apart from anything else this alienates a section of the audience that may well have been uncommitted beforehand. As things turned out I suspect the interview achieved very little if anything at all.
Brian wastes so much time (to use his own phrase), playing the man not the ball in the Farage interview. One LOL moment is when he keeps talking about Farage's position as company secretary of a co that has been wound up. Farage counters with "Have you ever worked in private business?" to which Brian says "No, I am an ordinary person, I don't understand how these financial institutions work". This says everything about Brian. How many small businesses are run by "ordinary" people in the UK? Brian has a naive world view from his public school to a job provided by his father. No idea about "ordinary people". Sadly, I think Brian will have gained more votes for UKIP as many people will see this interview as a media stitch-up.
Top Tips: Champagne Socialists; Ensure you can say you wouldn't have any concerns about a group of Romanian men moving in next door to you by living in a hugely expensive suburb such as Chiswick.
It is amazing how people can all hear the same broadcast (JOB / Farrage) but yet disagree who was the better of the two!
Tis true
I have just listened again to reinforce my thoughts. James used his usual verbose style of interviewing - which is 'bullying' & constant repetitive butting in. This done to destroy his 'victim's' train of thought and subsequently, trip him/them up......
What have Farage's bilingual children got to do with anything and Is JO'B - an ordinary person ?? ;-)
From the level of accolades received from fellow presenters, JOB's head will be unable to fit through the studio door, on Monday......:D
Ken and Dave are now doing a pro Brien/anti Farage bit too. They have just played a clip of the bit where Patrick O'Flynn stepped in to time out the interview and are now ridiculing his action. You could also hear Brien speaking over Farage and firing more questions without even listening to Farage's first answer.
Completely pointless. Not an interview more a gestapo style interrogation.
Time to switch off again having tuned in for all of a minute or two.
Just read a tweet from ex-LBCer Nick 'tie-myself-up-in-knots-and-end-up-arguing-with-myself' Margerrison, who reckons that he and The Max were the two 'outsiders' at LBC.
No, Nick, you were the outsider, not James, because no-one could work out a single thing you were ever on about.
Nick was bloody good on LBC and certainly a lot better than the camp Christo.
Top Tips: Champagne Socialists; Ensure you can say you wouldn't have any concerns about a group of Romanian men moving in next door to you by living in a hugely expensive suburb such as Chiswick.
I wish that people in the media wouldn't keep saying "Romanians" when it's patently obvious that their objections are to Romas. Why the coyness?
The constant 'but he married a German woman' thing gets me every time.
Farage has always emphasised he loves Europe the place, like many people do.
It's Europe the political entity he and a huge number of people have reservations about. Is that really too complicated for foaming-at-the-mouth critics like O'Brien to understand or just an attempt to come over like they're in the playground, which is what happens.
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The Best of Nick Ferrari is one of the most shoddy, unprofessional, badly put together programmes I've ever heard on the radio. They start topics midway through a sentence, cut to a new topic before finishing the previous one, items are played out of sequence and the sound is often poor. It's sounds like it's been produced by an infant using old cassette tapes, a pair of scissors and sellotape.
I am also using "Ye olde Analogue Spy"
Jolly Good Morning everyone...:):)
And as for the editing it can be very poor.
I've just had to switch John Stapleton off. Fortunately there are some experienced callers putting in the point that O'Brien can constantly interrupt and completely talk over interviewees childishly and obnoxiously as he did with Farage.
Trouble is there's just as many inexperienced callers who aren't used to Brien and don't realise how deliberately bullying he can be, that are phoning in to John Stapleton too. Most enfuriatingly of all Stapletion himself confesses to not hearing the interview and can only defend his LBC 'colleague' in a very general and distant way.
By the way I try to keep politics out of this thread but as many posters in previous pages felt it necessary to aver their negative views of UKIP, I am going to declare that after my recent spell of long term unemployement I have a 'Vote UKIP' poster displayed in my window. UKIP reflect my views more an more and I thank god they speak the truth the other parties dare not. Sorry, rant over.
Edit: It's taken me 25 minutes to compose this message so the subject of discussion on John Stapleton may well have changed by now.
100% correct.
Some of the criticism of O'Brien has been odd.
I've heard some criticising him for the way he pronounces Farage, which is ludicrous.
Surely, it's a regional thing, the way you pronounce it?
I, myself pronounce it the same way I pronounce the word garage; in short, the way O'Brien pronounces Farage, so how is that a point of criticism?
If that's all some people have on O'Brien, he has nothing to worry about.
It's just as bad!
Surely it's only common courtesy to pronounce a person's name the way they say it themselves? But aside from that, long-term listeners would know that O'B knows how to pronounce 'Farage' correctly and indeed used to say it that way himself until he started his more recent campaign of venom and personal spite when he took the decision to say "FARRidge" (to rhyme with 'marriage'). So regional accent doesn't come into it with O'B.
I think that throughout yesterday's encounter he modified it to FARR-arge with the emphasis on the first syllable but with a hard 'G', and that might have been fine if one didn't know that he was deliberately avoiding saying it correctly, but as his parting shot in winding up the interview he slipped in a "FARRidge" the last but one time he said the name.
Much as I disagree with O'B I will admit that he had some sticky questions for the UKIP leader but he undermined his arguments by continually bullying and hassling, asking a question and then jumping in and picking up on every word Farage uttered and not allowing him to speak in answer to the original question. Quite apart from anything else this alienates a section of the audience that may well have been uncommitted beforehand. As things turned out I suspect the interview achieved very little if anything at all.
Tis true
I have just listened again to reinforce my thoughts. James used his usual verbose style of interviewing - which is 'bullying' & constant repetitive butting in. This done to destroy his 'victim's' train of thought and subsequently, trip him/them up......
What have Farage's bilingual children got to do with anything
From the level of accolades received from fellow presenters, JOB's head will be unable to fit through the studio door, on Monday......:D
Happy weekend to All x
Completely pointless. Not an interview more a gestapo style interrogation.
Time to switch off again having tuned in for all of a minute or two.
Nick was bloody good on LBC and certainly a lot better than the camp Christo.
Nick M was extraordinary. He argued with himself and got annoyed. A very odd man.
Yes definitely. The thinking man's presenter.
I wish that people in the media wouldn't keep saying "Romanians" when it's patently obvious that their objections are to Romas. Why the coyness?
Farage has always emphasised he loves Europe the place, like many people do.
It's Europe the political entity he and a huge number of people have reservations about. Is that really too complicated for foaming-at-the-mouth critics like O'Brien to understand or just an attempt to come over like they're in the playground, which is what happens.
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Let's just say Romanies then, or Gypsies?
Obviously, LBC management disagreed.
Exactly right, Mike.