Many here use them? I think they are awesome, but some people say unless you spend megabucks on a really high end one they are not worth it.

I know Ant uses a Mackie (8Bus I think?) which is a little pricey for me and I'm sure in Dave The drummers studio pics I see a big arse analogue desk.

I was looking at the Alesis Studio-32 which isa 16 Channel with direct outs on each channel for easy multitracking into a DAW, I can pick one up locally for pretty cheap. I know Alesis make great studio monitors, anyone ever used one of these mixers?

Should I go for this, or pick up Cubase SX3 for almost exactly the same price... I'm leaning towards the mixer myself...

Any other good ones? Good points/Bad points about using analogue desks?