I know diddly-squat about how media/TV/sound is all mixed together in those big trucks and then sent out over the airwaves, so may be taking out of my vuvuzela.

But...

Surely the pitchside mics send one audio feed to one channel on a mixing desk. And the commentators, if not in a sound proof box, at least talk into mics in a John Motson-esque style, so there's little background spill, and that goes to another channel on the desk. And surely the broadcaster is given those individual feeds and mixes them how they like?

Therefore, these supposed "experts" on TV who say "ahh - you can't notch out the frequencies because it'll take the vowel sounds out of the commentary" have missed the point? ie it should be possible to EQ the pitchside channel, and leave the commentary channel alone?

Or doesn't it work like that? Just want to be clear from all you pro-audio/broadcasting guys round here so I can present a coherent rant about football pundits down the pub...

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