So I’m here again lol. This question is to my pro audio engineers. What’s a book or certification or online course would you recommend for a beginner engineer who wants to grow in the audio space. 🙏🙏✌🏼

Hello everyone, So I need help figuring something out, My church is hosting a leadership meeting for our denomination and we’re hosting on Teams. I’ve been tasked to figure out how we’re gonna do this without having audio feedback when questions are being asked in the meeting and the meeting will be streamed from our system live as well. Please any help or direction to help will be appreciated.

I was mixing a youth night once, and the drummer had a snare mic that was picking up everything—cymbals, toms, even the bass player’s amp bleeding in. The snare itself sounded okay, but the bleed made the whole mix messy. So I dropped a gate on the snare. Problem solved… or so I thought. During the service, the drummer hit a couple of softer ghost notes, and the gate completely chopped them off. The snare went from alive and natural to robotic and awkward. People in the band even looked back like, “What just happened?” That’s when I realized something important: a gate is powerful, but it has to be set carefully. What a Gate Actually Does A gate is basically an automatic mute. - When the signal is above the threshold → it opens. - When the signal is below the threshold → it closes (or reduces volume). In live sound, gates are mostly used to clean up drums or noisy stage mics. How to Use a Gate in Church Sound 1️⃣ Kick Drum - Gates keep the mic from picking up bass, stage rumble, and monitor bleed. - Tip: Set threshold so it opens on every kick, but not on the bass guitar. 2️⃣ Snare Drum - Cleans up hi-hat bleed (the biggest offender). - But don’t set it so tight that ghost notes get chopped. 3️⃣ Toms - This is where gates shine. Instead of open mics picking up cymbals all service long, gates only open when toms are hit. Cleaner mix instantly. 4️⃣ Speech Mics (Sometimes) - Gates can reduce background noise, but be careful—if set wrong, they make the pastor’s first word of every sentence disappear. ⚡ Pro tip: Start with a slower release time so the gate doesn’t “slam shut” and sound unnatural. The goal is transparency, not obvious chopping. Have you ever had a gate save your Sunday… or completely ruin it? Drop your story—I know I’m not the only one who’s had a snare vanish mid-service 😅. — Nate

Hello all, how do I change the inputs (channel 12 and 13 effects) with other channels (mics) in the Behringer x32?