i use a mackie 1604 and a yamaha 01v

most of my analog kit goes through the mackie along with all my outboard fx and that. Mackies sound great and have good headroom. with the mackie all the controls are there in front of you, it makes it alot easier to twist things up

the mackie then goes into 01v, digital desks are handy cause you can save your settings for the track that you are currently working on. Also you have built in effects compressoin delay. You can use it as a control surface for cubase its just not as hands on as an analoge desk, you have to hoke through screens and that

dont know which mixer i would choose if i could only have one :!: