diff --git a/lib/component.js b/lib/component.js
index d9a5077a..66ed88a8 100644
--- a/lib/component.js
+++ b/lib/component.js
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ define(
     './advice',
     './utils',
     './compose',
-    './registry'
+    './registry',
+    './logger',
+    '../tools/debug/debug'
   ],
 
-  function(advice, utils, compose, registry) {
+  function(advice, utils, compose, registry, withLogging, debug) {
 
     var functionNameRegEx = /function (.*?)\s?\(/;
     var componentId = 0;
@@ -91,7 +93,7 @@ define(
 
         type = event.type || event;
 
-        if (window.DEBUG && window.DEBUG.enabled && window.postMessage) {
+        if (debug.enabled && window.postMessage) {
           checkSerializable.call(this, type, data);
         }
 
@@ -224,7 +226,7 @@ define(
     function define(/*mixins*/) {
       // unpacking arguments by hand benchmarked faster
       var l = arguments.length;
-      var mixins = new Array(l);
+      var mixins = new Array(l + 3); //add three for common mixins
       for (var i = 0; i < l; i++) mixins[i] = arguments[i];
 
       Component.toString = function() {
@@ -240,7 +242,7 @@ define(
         return prettyPrintMixins;
       };
 
-      if (window.DEBUG && window.DEBUG.enabled) {
+      if (debug.enabled) {
         Component.describe = Component.toString();
       }
 
@@ -262,7 +264,7 @@ define(
         }
 
         this.toString = Component.toString;
-        if (window.DEBUG && window.DEBUG.enabled) {
+        if (debug.enabled) {
           this.describe = this.toString();
         }
 
@@ -289,8 +291,10 @@ define(
       Component.teardownAll = teardownAll;
 
       // prepend common mixins to supplied list, then mixin all flavors
+      if (debug.enabled) {
+        mixins.unshift(withLogging);
+      }
       mixins.unshift(withBaseComponent, advice.withAdvice, registry.withRegistration);
-
       compose.mixin(Component.prototype, mixins);
 
       return Component;
diff --git a/lib/logger.js b/lib/logger.js
index 2c89b1bd..d2e7a341 100644
--- a/lib/logger.js
+++ b/lib/logger.js
@@ -68,14 +68,12 @@ define(
             action,
             '[' + name + ']',
             elemToString(elem),
-            component.constructor.toString(),
-            fn && (fnName = fn.name || fn.displayName) && '->  ' + fnName
+            component.constructor.describe.split(' ').slice(0,3).join(' ') //two mixins only
           );
         }
       }
     }
 
-
     function withLogging() {
       this.before('trigger', function() {
         log('trigger', this, util.toArray(arguments));