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I’m moving from live talk radio to live tv sound. I will be running the mixer and I haven’t been in a tv studio before. The set up is generally a presenter an up to four guests like a political talk show. Apologies for some very simple questions, 1) Do you just leave all the mics open in case someone jumps in or just tend to leave the presenter mic and guest that is talking and leave the other mics a little down and push up with they go to jump in. Are noise gates ever used? 2)If guests change between ad breaks are guests given different lav mics or are they swapped and what’s the best way for knowing who has which mic? 3)Besides mics ie lav, boom etc does any other sound go through the mix desk for example sound from vt inserts? 4)I have seen a good few sites where it shows where to place a lav mic but I cant seem to find anywhere where it shows how to wire the cable in the clothing back to the transmitter for men and women and how to attach the transmitter?? 5)If a show had a band perform and the band played the back track and the vocal was live. What format is this played off and who plays it. Or how is this normally done?