I bet you didn't know how useful "non cleaning" items can be for cleaning.
A toothbrush is great for your teeth, but it's also handy for cleaning tight spaces. Baking soda is used for cooking, but it also helps clean produce and surfaces. Coffee filters keep grounds out of your coffee, yet they're great for cleaning glass without streaks. And before Play-Doh became a kids toy, it was created to remove coal soot from wallpaper.
All of these examples illustrate the same idea. Products may have one primary use, but they often end up being incredibly useful in entirely different scenarios.
This principle certainly applies to our newest live production tool, Mixing Station Anywhere, and the reasons why are pretty intriguing.
Mixing Station Anywhere unlocks remote audio mixing for digital mixers. It gives audio professionals the ability to control their front of house or live stream mix from their home studio, while traveling, or from anywhere they want with an internet connection.
That remote access is the primary value proposition, so it's naturally the way we talk about remote control most often. After all, remote mixing is new territory for a lot of teams, and the technology behind it is genuinely pretty groundbreaking.
But Mixing Station Anywhere doesn't actually have to be used from an airplane, another country, or a hotel room to be valuable.
It's just as impactful inside the building where your live event is taking place.
So in this blog, we'll walk through several ways teams are using Mixing Station Anywhere onsite to improve their live production workflows.
Separate Broadcast Booth
Quiet Room Mixing
Improved Monitoring + Interference
Ideal Training Space
Final Thoughts
Some broadcast booths share the same room as the live event. Others sit in a nearby annex dedicated to audio and video production for all mixes.
Either way, most production spaces tend to focus primarily on front of house audio, and the stream mix then receives far less attention.
Mixing Station Anywhere allows teams to create a clear separation between the house mix and the stream mix. You’d be surprised of the value that comes from simply moving the person responsible for the broadcast mix to another location in the building.
This move creates a dedicated environment where every conversation and decision is focused entirely on the stream audio.
It also means you can listen the way your viewers actually listen. Monitoring the stream through a laptop, tablet, or phone speaker gives you a much more realistic understanding of what the audience hears.
And if multiple people are collaborating on the mix, they don't have to whisper quietly around their front of house teammates. Everyone in this new room is now focused on the same thing, which makes communication easier and collaboration far more effective.
If you're anything like me, you probably work best in a quiet space. Though some people can focus in the middle of a noisy room, many others just can't.
When there are multiple conversations, speakers, musicians, and audience noise happening around the person focusing on your stream mix, there’s a good chance their ability to focus drops quite a bit.
Mixing Station Anywhere gives team members the flexibility to step into an environment that works best for them, even if that’s just a room or two away in your event space.
For volunteers or engineers who prefer silence while concentrating on detailed audio adjustments, the ability to move to a quieter room can make a huge difference. It won't matter to everyone, but for the people wired this way, the flexibility is incredibly valuable.
When you're mixing front of house audio inside the event space, there's a real advantage. You can physically feel how the mix interacts with the room and make adjustments accordingly.
But mixing the stream audio from that same environment is much harder.
Your stream mix isn't designed for a room. It's designed for small speakers on phones, tablets, laptops, and smart TVs.
That creates a totally different listening environment.
So when you’re in the room of the event trying to focus on the stream mix while the front of house mix is blasting around you, it becomes difficult to isolate what you're actually hearing in the room versus online.
Mixing Station Anywhere solves this by allowing the stream mix engineer to move to a quieter area within the building, where the broadcast mix can reign supreme.
They can still monitor the live audio and video feed in real time while making adjustments, but without the front of house mix interfering with their ability to hear what the broadcast audience will hear.
This gives you a better chance of cleaner monitoring and a more accurate stream mix.
If you're new to audio mixing, sound boards can be intimidating. Large analog boards with 16 channels look more complicated than they are, and digital mixers sometimes feel even more overwhelming.
Faders are fairly intuitive. But EQ, compression, and dynamics processing can feel like an entirely different language, especially if you’re a rookie.
So many volunteers end up sticking to a few controls they feel comfortable with and ignoring the rest of the board, which is a shame.
On top of all this, training in a live environment is also risky. When hundreds or thousands of people are in the room, even a small mistake can cause a pretty uncomfortable moment.
This pressure makes live training difficult, but thankfully, Mixing Station Anywhere creates a much better training environment.
Instead of learning in the middle of a live event mixing front of house, you can sit with a volunteer in a quieter space and walk through the broadcast mix together. You can explain what you're adjusting and why, gradually handing over control as they grow more confident.
Because you're sitting right beside them, mistakes become learning opportunities rather than stressful moments.
And if someone is completely new, you can even train on a private channel where no real viewers are listening at all, eliminating all risk and pressure.
This flexibility makes Mixing Station Anywhere a powerful tool not just for mixing, but also for growing your team's skills.
We get it. It's right there in the name.
Mixing Station Anywhere can be used anywhere.
But it's not just a remote tool. It's a flexible audio infrastructure solution that can improve how teams mix, collaborate, and train inside their own venue.
As more teams begin using it, we're confident even more creative workflows will emerge. And as the product evolves, new features will continue to expand what's possible for live production teams both onsite and remote.