[Aled]

Hi Aled,

Firstly, I'd just like to say it's really good to be able to directly talk with the producer of the show! Now, my question is this; during the broadcasts from the "Big Bangor House" (as you called it!) you were able to talk directly to Fearne in the studio in London at the beginning of her show. How is this done? I've always thought it can't be by internet, but I'm not sure whether it's done by satellite.

Thanks in advance,
Phil

Hi Phil

We broadcast down 'lines' that are installed a lot like ISDN lines. I don't know all the technical details but I believe it's 4. 2 are combined to make a high quality stereo line, with 2 as reserve. There is then two ways of hearing Fearne, one is to reverse one of the lines and have London output piped back to us or the other much easier / cheaper option is to listen to the radio. Genuinely. It creates a slight delay in the headphones but we're quite good at working with a slight delay.

Aled

[Aled]

Aled

Will the show be streamed online this summer like last July??

Or has it not been confirmed/Arranged/You know the answer but are swore to secrecy??

No streaming I'm afraid. That was a trial, and we're still waiting for the answer to come from the BBC Trust.

[Aled]

Aled.....I have been listening to one of the old podcasts when you first had Steve and his table of pain on. Carrie said that it was how she imagined child birth to feel......any chance you can find out which is worse? Thanks DD

Next time I speak to her - I'll ask!

[Aled]

The new running orders on listen again aren't very specific. Since the introduction of chapters the running orders consist of track listing and not much else. The old running orders gave a brief description of what was discussed in each link and that was far better than it is now.

I don't think the music should be more worthy of mention than the chat when the Moyles show is heavily speech based. If I hear something in the show that I particularly want to hear again and I cant remember when I heard it, the running order as it stands isn't really much use.

Cant we go back to a summary of each link?

EDIT: 01/06/10 The latest running order is back to how it used to be today!

I'm with you there. We're going through a bit of trial and error on those pages to see what fits / works best. There's a bit of tussle between techie people at the BBC, production teams and what the listener / user actually wants. These will change quite a bit over the next few months before we settle on a format.

I personally think they look too techie and messy at the moment. But we're on it.

[Aled]

A bit of a geeky question, but I'm increasingly wondering how the handovers work. I've heard it referred to a number of times where a 'button' is pressed to hand over control. Does this mean only one studio is on air at a time and the sound from the other studio is turned up? At what time does the handover happen? Is it always after the closing jingle or does it depend on whenever chris decides to hand control over?

There is a correct way and an incorrect way to do it at Radio 1.

We do it the incorrect way

Dev fades our studio up and pays the 6:26 news jingle, Dom and Tina talk. And then from that point on our studio plays everything out. Other news beds, end jingle, pips and cheesy opener.

Once we're out of the pips and the cheesy opener's started they 'offer' network and I accept it.

We have a switcher at the back of the studio that has whatever networks you want on it. Ours shows Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra. So if there's ever in the news weird things happening like something that happened with Westwood and another with Radio 4 it's all the networks offering network at the same key junctions.

That is really intresting. So Your accepting the network from dev's studio and then you control the studio...

so in effect. dom plays the cheesy song at 6:30 in your studio. but dev can in theory override that until he gives the network over too you...


couple of questions on that...
1. When handing over too jo in the past, When would you send the network too their sudio. when they have pressed their jingle too go into the first song i presume.
2. What happens when you have too go into evacuation mode. effectively what happened too vernon a couple of months ago... Dhow do you go about that?
3. What is the correct procedure too hand over.

Cheers

Ooh we're really getting geeky now!

1) yes, after they play their first song
2) easy, we put a CD in! (But Broadcasting House can control the output anyway)
3) new studio plays tone which we monitor to check it's the same level, in our last song, we hand network over so that they have control for the handover.

[Aled]

Aled the team join into the carpark catch prase jingle how come it seems like so much hassel or way below you to join in ?

Oh dear. Thats a perfectly good joke wasted on you then!!



Ok, so its like this.

Chris plays a jingle with bum-bum-bum etc sound on it.

Chris then encourages the rest of the team to join in, calling it 'bumming', yeah? With me so far?

The joke is, Aled doesn't join in with the 'bumming', because "he doesn't do that"......? Y'see?!?!?!

The only gay member of the team claiming he doesn't do 'bumming'......

Jeez.

Couldn't possibly comment.

[DevilsDuck]

Aled.....I have been listening to one of the old podcasts when you first had Steve and his table of pain on. Carrie said that it was how she imagined child birth to feel......any chance you can find out which is worse? Thanks DD

Next time I speak to her - I'll ask!

thanks

[dimtimjim]

Couldn't possibly comment.

Tis a quality gag, one which makes me smile 4 days a week.

[joelkennedy]

Hey Aled,

Two quick questions, well I hope will be quick to answer!
Trying to clarify what 'prefade on the backstop' is. At least I think that's what it is called. Is that where you have the channel down, and it automatically activates PFL and then you can hear what is coming through the channel when the slider is completely down? Wouldn't that become very difficult to use, cause I would forget to lift the channel up!

My last question: What microphones do the Radio 1 studios use? Chris comes across nicely on the radio, and wondered what microphones you used. Would they be condenser microphones?

Thanks,

Joel

[Travis Bickle]

Couldn't possibly comment.

Tis a quality gag, one which makes me smile 4 days a week.

I always pride myself on 'getting' the Moyles show and its humour, but I never cottoned on to that joke. I always thought that it was simply a minor joke that Aled didn't play along with the bum/bom or whatever it is they say. Dom was the one who did it on his own for ages in the past and it was "bom" he said.

I never got the "bumming" reference you mention and whilst I can see the possibility of what you say, I think you may have over thought it and in fact the joke is simply that Aled wont play along for no reason in particular.

I may be totally wrong though, and the person who thought Aled felt too worthy to play along is clearly a fool who most definately doesnt get the humour!

And thanks for answering my question, Aled.

[richardtomlinson]

What microphones do the Radio 1 studios use? Chris comes across nicely on the radio, and wondered what microphones you used. Would they be condenser microphones?

I would imagine that they use Neumann U87 condenser microphones:

[jocky85]

Couldn't possibly comment.

Tis a quality gag, one which makes me smile 4 days a week.

I always pride myself on 'getting' the Moyles show and its humour, but I never cottoned on to that joke. I always thought that it was simply a minor joke that Aled didn't play along with the bum/bom or whatever it is they say. Dom was the one who did it on his own for ages in the past and it was "bom" he said.

I never got the "bumming" reference you mention and whilst I can see the possibility of what you say, I think you may have over thought it and in fact the joke is simply that Aled wont play along for no reason in particular.

I may be totally wrong though, and the person who thought Aled felt too worthy to play along is clearly a fool who most definately doesnt get the humour!

And thanks for answering my question, Aled.

I'm with you Travis. I thought he was just doing it on purpose like crashing Rob DJs vocal every week

[donnadelday]

Hi Aled. How r u ?. I'm ok. Would it b possible if u could Scott Mills if he could book Sam & Mark off of Tmi 2 b on the show please.

Thank u
DJ DD

[q]

What microphones do the Radio 1 studios use? Chris comes across nicely on the radio, and wondered what microphones you used. Would they be condenser microphones?

I would imagine that they use Neumann U87 condenser microphones:

It's not just the microphones they use that make them sound nice, dynamic compression on the mics helps too.

[SAV1OUR]

Are you Gordon Smart mingling in?

Bloody hell.

PS - You might also wish to consider that Aled is in Ibiza. ..Just a thought.

[SAV1OUR]

Yep, it's all at sea. Bit like you.

[DevilsDuck]

Are you Gordon Smart mingling in?

Bloody hell.

PS - You might also wish to consider that Aled is in Ibiza. ..Just a thought.

Didnt know Ibiza had no internet access,will have to remember that.

I love a good bit of sarcasm in the evening!

[biggspuds]

so come on aled whats the crack with the big man moyles!
do i need to take my cd`s to work with me or will chris be on air on monday?
im a trucker an i start adout about 2 am an finish just after the show.
i love mills but cant be arsed with him in the mornings.
chris dose a wicked job! an todays golden hour was the best ever (probably coz you was not there to pick aqua barbie girl or the usual crap u like) no offence!
but most of your tracks are bobbins.

o an can i have a sheperds pie please

[biggspuds]

so come on aled whats the crack with the big man moyles!
do i need to take my cd`s to work with me or will chris be on air on monday?
im a trucker an i start adout about 2 am an finish just after the show.
i love mills but cant be arsed with him in the mornings.
chris dose a wicked job! an todays golden hour was the best ever (probably coz you was not there to pick aqua barbie girl or the usual crap u like) no offence!
but most of your tracks are bobbins.

o an can i have a sheperds pie please

Yes Chris will be on air on Monday.

are you aled?

[Aled]

I don't know to be honest!

I've been on holiday and will be turning up tomorrow morning - I hope the rest of the team will be too!

[SAV1OUR]

Best to produce your own show just incase, just remember your birthday a couple of years ago! Good luck!

[chrysostom]

I'm anticipating the biggest wind up tomorrow morning for the opening link...

will have to stay away from here until i can iplayer the show so the suspense isn't ruined.

[Aled]

Chris and the team will be on tomorrow morning.

[Johnny 1989]

Aled has spoken, enough of the panicking now please

[biggspuds]

ALED! why didnt you go clubbing with kylie??? are you mad???