Mix Insights
Where experienced perspective meets your Sunday sound.
Most mixing content online assumes we all enjoy great mixing environments. An ideal PA deployed in a perfect space. Unlimited time. None of the constraints any of us actually work inside every Sunday. But the room is the biggest variable shaping our decisions. The engineer mixing in a 400 seat chapel with a point source system and fabric chairs is solving a completely different set of problems than the engineer mixing in a 1200 seat room with a line array, reflective surfaces, and a balcony. Console programming decisions. Monitor workflows. Broadcast matrixing. Sub deployment. Room nodes. Mix position and sight lines. All of it shapes what is possible on a Sunday and what is not. Most of the advice online skips past that. It works in theory. It does not account for your room, your system, your team, and your church. What changes things is outside experience applied to your mixing approach. Someone who has been in hundreds of rooms understanding how to adapt from one challenge to another. Someone who can hear your service in context and help you make clearer decisions inside it. Not more presets or opinions only engineers care to argue about.
Clarity in the room you are responsible for, serving the people that worship in them.
Mix Insight Client:
"I recently stepped into the role of FOH engineer for our church, and Gene has been a big help in navigating that transition. Through reviewing my mixes and show file structure, I've made significant improvements in a short amount of time. Not just in how I approach individual sources like vocals and drums, but in how I manage the SPL dynamics of an entire service. What sets Gene apart is that his experience is rooted in real-world environments, mixing for so many of the worship artists we all listen to. That experience has been a blessing for me at this stage of my career." - D. Bousselot
My own version of Mix Insights as a FOH Engineer.
Artist Managers
Artist Managers
Artist Managers
To my left is Phi’s manager. He has mixed more PW shows than just about anyone anywhere. When I stepped into the FOH role, it was invaluable to have him at different shows walking the room, telling me what was happening in places I physically could not be while mixing. He would catch things I could not hear from behind the console. The mix was better because he was there. Some things can only surface when someone else is listening alongside you.
Music Director
Artist Managers
Artist Managers
Next to me here is Lauren’s music director at her Carnegie Hall Show. Full orchestra, choir, full band. He had just flown in after music directing the Super Bowl Half Time Show. The level of perspective he carries is rare. When I get time with him, the insight he offers changes how I approach decisions in the room. Not because I am incapable, but because the best outcomes happen when experience is shared and I get to ask questions, and understand what he's hearing.
Downstream & Beyond
One mix that works in the room as well as everywhere else.
Your mix might also be the livestream. The social media clip that goes up that night. The archive someone listens to on Monday morning trying to remember what they felt on Sunday. It might even be the in ear mix your musicians rely on to lead confidently.
Every decision you make carries beyond just the room. I think about that constantly because I live it. My mixes are uploaded to a shared drive every day. They go online every night. They are reviewed by artists, management, music directors, lighting designers, and production teams who are listening for details most people never notice.
This level of accountability shapes how I listen to everything, including your mix. I am listening to how your decisions translate across the platforms your church depends on to reach people beyond Sunday morning.
One conversation with the right person can sharpen perspective in ways that compound over months. Often these sessions are worth revisiting every few months. The stage evolves. The team evolves. And experienced engineers know better than to change more than one variable each week.
The engineers who book this care enough about their craft to invite collaboration into their process. Whether they have been mixing for two years or twenty, fresh perspective makes a difference at every stage.