Thanks for the responses guys. I'll say no the you're mate's Mackie FILTERZ as I'm in Australia and the shipping would likely kill me ;) Plus I can get a good price on a mixer here.

Anyone know anything specifically about Alesis mixers? Are they good or crap? I know they make kick arse montitors, and are famous for their FX units, so I'm guessing they would be good sound quality..

The thing that really interests me about this mixer is it has direct outs on each channel which which will make it really good for multitracking and doing hybrid analogue/digital audio stuff. IE, doing stutter edits and other funky shit by bouncing tracks to audio in logic, chopping it up/morphing/generally wrecktifying the audio, and then routing it back out through the mixer, etc...