We’re proud to share that Mixing Station Anywhere won AV Technology’s NAMM 2026 Best of Show award.
That recognition means a lot. NAMM isn’t just another trade show. It’s where new ideas get pressure tested by real audio professionals who know exactly what works and what doesn’t.
But awards only matter if there’s substance behind them.
So what made Mixing Station Anywhere stand out? Why did it win? And why should audio professionals care?
In this post, we’ll break down the core reasons Mixing Station Anywhere earned Best of Show, and why this new approach to live stream audio mixing is changing how audio pros think about their work.
Front of house mix isn’t good enough for live streams
Hybrid and remote work matters for audio professionals
Loud venues aren’t the best place to mix your stream
Mastering multiple consoles is unrealistic
Audio technology should always keep improving
Final Thoughts
Before streaming, live audio production was straightforward. If it sounded good in the room, the job was done. For recordings, engineers could tweak things later and take their time perfecting the mix.
Live streaming started quietly around 2010, then exploded in 2020. Now most organizations that host in person events also stream them for people who can’t attend.
The problem is that many streams still rely on the house mix. This works fine in a venue filled with people, speakers, and natural acoustics, but it performs poorly on a phone, tablet, laptop, or pair of earbuds.
These additional listening environments couldn’t be more different.
So the house mix typically ends up being “average” at best to “pretty rough” at worst for online viewers.
Mixing Station Anywhere fixes that. It provides live video and audio feeds with real time control of a dedicated live stream mix. That lets someone mix specifically for the people watching online while sharing the same kind of remote listening environment that they do.
This improvement is obvious once you hear it, yet it’s been ignored for years by so many live streamers. Your online audience clearly deserves more than a copy of your house mix with the help of Mixing Station Anywhere.
Some jobs will always be in person. Still, hybrid and work from home roles are now baked into how our culture operates.
It’s not just software companies. Medical professionals, therapists, accountants, lawyers, and countless others now work remotely at least part of the time.
That shift created an unspoken expectation in our society at large. If a job can be done remotely without sacrificing quality, workers now expect that option.
From a different angle, like so many others, I get more done at home than I ever did in an office. I get to see my family in the mornings and at lunch instead of commuting and eating a sandwich twenty miles away. So my work benefits by working remotely, and so does my life.
Audio professionals are people too.
Many of them would love to work remotely occasionally or even full time. For years, that was basically impossible. Until now.
Mixing Station Anywhere makes remote mixing practical without sacrificing control, quality, or confidence. Engineers can log in before an event, mix from wherever they’re most effective, and log off without spending half their day commuting.
They can even mix an event a few hours west in the morning and another an hour east later that day, all without leaving their desk. This not only makes their work more convenient, but gives them the focus to actually improve the quality of their work in their optimized personal space.
That’s a real work / life upgrade.
Libraries are quiet for a reason. Silence helps people focus. Even small noises can break concentration.
When I write, I listen to ambient classical music for the same reason. It helps me get into a flow state and stay there.
Now back to audio.
Mixing front of house in a venue makes sense. You hear your changes in real time. But mixing a live stream in the middle of a loud room works against you. The house mix bleeds into everything you hear and distracts from what the stream actually sounds like.
It’s like trying to have a serious conversation with your spouse while your baby and toddler are screaming at full volume.
Mixing Station Anywhere solves this by letting engineers choose an environment built for focus. A quiet room with zero competing noise. Just live video, live audio, and the space and controls to make precise decisions.
That clarity changes everything, and it’s another reason why Mixing Station Anywhere is special.
I play guitar. Martins and Taylors sound different, but they’re tuned the same way, the strings are the same, as are the action and neck profile. Once you know how to play, the transition between instruments isn’t that hard.
Digital mixers aren’t like that.
Each brand organizes advanced controls differently. Since digital mixers don’t need physical layouts organized serially in a channel strip, important settings end up buried in different menus across models. Jumping from venue to venue means relearning where everything lives, often right before a live event.
One of the most underrated strengths of Mixing Station Anywhere is a radically different uniformity.
It connects to all major consoles, but the web interface stays the same. Learn it once, and you can control any supported mixer confidently.
It’s like using the same video game controller for every car in a racing game instead of relearning 500 dashboards and drive controls. Game changer.
Mixing Station became a staple years back because it solved a real problem. It untethered engineers from the console, but only within the bounds of their local network.
That was a big step, and like all good technology, it deserved to go further.
That’s where BoxCast came in.
We partnered with Mixing Station to bring browser based interface, remote control, and live video streaming together with digital mixer control. The result was Mixing Station Anywhere, a platform that lets engineers mix from anywhere in the world with a network connection.
Innovation works like that. You take something great and push it forward, and audio professionals deserved this step forward.
Since our founding in 2013, we’ve believed that live streams only succeed when both video and audio are produced well. This partnership brought that belief to life in a new way, and we’re only getting started.
At NAMM, we kept demoing Mixing Station Anywhere for everyone who visited our space. Eventually, most people asked about pricing.
This was the point when most of them started laughing. Not because they disliked it, but because they expected it to cost far more.
We understand that reaction. We could charge more, but instead, we chose widespread accessibility. We want this award winning technology in the hands of audio engineers and hobbyists everywhere to help them evolve their processes to better fit their needs.
Winning Best of Show in 2026 at NAMM means a lot to us. Still, we’re not done. We imagine a future where audio mixing isn’t limited by physical presence, even when the gear itself has gone digital.
If you want to see what Mixing Station Anywhere can do, follow the link below and try it out. We’d love for it to take your audio production to new places, literally.
