There is a terrible misconnection with what goes on in the X Factor studio and what we see on the telly.

Tonight there were one or two really indifferent performances, not helped by the usual atrocious sound mixing. Frequently the the singers were drowned by the taped backing vocals.

I think the sound is being mixed on the floor as if it is a live show. They should pout the mixing desk up in the gallery. They do keep going on about it being a competition to find a recording artist but they don’t let us hear the voices – they are drowned in the mix flooded with reverb and hard to appreciate.

Also – they aim to get one big note just before the end, which means the songs are pitched way to low at the beginning. Most of them sound out of tune as the struggle to hit the low notes at the start of the songs. Enough – they are making me drivel!