Audio Mixer Training Made Easy

If you're looking for a better, more effective way to train others on your team to mix audio like a pro, you're in the right place. This is a challenge that many have tried to solve in different ways—often with limited success. Traditional training methods tend to eat up a lot of time and still leave volunteers feeling overwhelmed. In this post, we’ll step into the shoes of your volunteers and explore a new tool that gives them real, hands-on experience—without demanding too much of your time or risking the integrity of your live mix.

Table of Contents

• A New Way of Audio Training
• The Many Challenges of Training Sound Volunteers
• How RemoteMix Transforms Audio Training for Volunteers
• Train on a Live Mix—Without the Pressure
• Create the Right Environment for Training
• Match Access to Skill Level
• An Interface That Invites You In
• Training That Grows With Your Team

A New Way of Audio Training

Imagine this: Your live event just wrapped up. You oversaw the mix, ensuring everyone—both in the room and watching online—had an excellent audio experience. You take a deep breath, step out of the booth, and walk down the hall to a quiet room nearby. There, you find your newest volunteer, smiling and energized, sitting at a laptop where she’s been working on a private training mix of the same event.

She tells you she felt far more confident this week than last, and can’t wait for you to hear her mix from the event that just wrapped up. You then sit together, reviewing the recording. You give live feedback—pointing out what sounded great, what you might’ve done differently, and sharing a few tips to help her improve even more next time. By the end of your discussion, you realize she’s ready. In just a few short weeks, she’ll be running the public livestream mix—and she couldn’t be more excited to hear the news.

It’s a perfect scenario where both your audio mixing volunteers and their trainers come out on top. It’s hands-on, empowering, and super efficient, and we're going to show you exactly how to make this a reality for your team. But first, it's worth taking a quick look at why a lot of traditional audio mixing training hasn't quite succeeded in the past.

The Many Challenges of Training Sound Volunteers

Learning to operate an audio mixer is no small feat—but teaching others how to do it can be even more daunting. Professional audio engineers often spend years honing their craft, studying everything from signal flow to the nuances of EQ. But volunteers? They’re a different story.

Most volunteers stepping into the sound booth aren’t aspiring engineers—they’re students, parents, or church members simply eager to help their community. Their time is limited, their background is varied, and they’re often thrown into live environments where the stakes feel high. What they want is to contribute, not get overwhelmed.

Unfortunately, traditional mixing consoles can be complex and intimidating. For a first-time volunteer, learning to run sound can feel like drinking from a firehose. After all, most people are lifelong listeners that know what sounds good to them but don’t have much of a grasp on the terminology that makes up audio engineering or the knobs, buttons, and faders that help modify them.

Additionally, both your house mix and your livestream mix are important. It can be hard to determine when it’s the right time to allow an up and coming volunteer to take hold of either mix, knowing that their modifications might lower the quality of experience of those watching and listening.

Finally, in most venues, the sound booth is a shared space with a mix of people managing lighting, projection, video switchers, and cameras alongside your mixer. There’s rarely time or space to pause, experiment, or coach in the moment, especially if your booth is directly connected with open air to your live venue.

How RemoteMix Transforms Audio Training for Volunteers

At BoxCast, we understand how challenging it can be to train volunteers on the complexities of live audio mixing. That’s why we created RemoteMix—a powerful tool designed not only for production teams, but also for training environments where clarity, control, and accessibility matter most.

RemoteMix allows you to control your digital audio mixer from anywhere, offering flexible access to your house mix, livestream mix, or even a dedicated training mix. Whether you’re working with a brand-new volunteer or helping an existing team member sharpen their skills, RemoteMix gives you the ability to train in real time—on real audio—without risking the live event.

Train on a Live Mix—Without the Pressure

One of the best ways to learn audio mixing is during a live event—when musicians are performing, speakers are moving, and the crowd is reacting. That’s when nuance matters and quick thinking counts. But until now, giving someone that kind of real-time experience meant handing over control of the actual mix—which is something that most teams simply can’t afford to risk.

With RemoteMix, you don’t have to. You can provide volunteers with access to a separate, private mix that mirrors the live environment—without affecting the house mix or livestream. For instance, your production livestream mix could be on Bus 13 and 14 and you can use a separate aux send for your practice mix on Bus 15 and 16. They’ll still hear all the changes in dynamics and energy, but any adjustments they make stay isolated. It’s hands-on learning, with a built-in safety net.

Create the Right Environment for Training

Sound booths are rarely ideal for teaching. They’re often cramped spaces, packed with focused operators managing lighting, projection, and video. Even when they’re quiet, they’re not built for coaching or conversation.

RemoteMix changes that. Since it works from anywhere with internet access, you can move your training session to a quiet office, a classroom, or even someone’s home. You’re no longer tied to the booth. This makes it easier to talk through concepts, troubleshoot, and give real-time guidance—without disrupting a live production or whispering behind someone’s shoulder.

Match Access to Skill Level

One of the most important aspects of training is pacing—and that includes how much control you hand over. With RemoteMix, you can customize how much of the mix to work on based on your volunteer’s experience. Focus on one channel at a time, or group multiple channels into simplified Virtual Groups for a more guided experience. As their confidence grows, you can expand their access and responsibilities accordingly.

This level of flexibility ensures that volunteers aren’t overwhelmed on day one—but they’re also not limited as they grow. Crawl, walk, run has been a successful learning process for quite some time, after all.

An Interface That Invites You In

Let’s be honest—mixing consoles can be intimidating. To the untrained eye, a digital mixer looks like a maze of knobs, faders, and cryptic labels. Even seasoned volunteers can feel overwhelmed when faced with complex routing or EQ settings. Many of them are comfortable with the basics, but still feel overwhelmed by much of what they have at their fingertips.

RemoteMix was built to be different. While it offers professional-level functionality, it presents it all in a clean, approachable, and intuitive interface. Volunteers won't be greeted by a confusing wall of controls—they'll see only what they need, exactly when they need it. And yes, it even looks great doing it!

When technology looks and feels approachable, it becomes easier to teach—and easier to learn.

Training that Grows With Your Team

There's a lot of magic to RemoteMix. It’s not just a remote mixing tool—it’s a smarter, safer, and more flexible way to train the people who want to learn how to mix. Whether you're onboarding a first-timer or sharpening the skills of your team members who have been around for a while, RemoteMix gives you the power to teach at any level.

But the real magic of RemoteMix isn't just in what you read; it's in what you experience. Why not try it out for yourself? With a free tier available, you can get up and running with no cost, no risk, and no pressure.

Happy mixing—and happy training!