A couple of things...

I'm not one to put down a brand, I know that some equipment/products made by a brand may be faulty, or misstreated and therefore will not be the example to judge a whole company by, but I've got to speak against a brand this time... I Hate Mackie equipment. Hate is a strong word, and I mean it! The gear I have used in the past has been functional, but usually not as well appointed as most, and it costs a lot more (my mixer, which has the features of a $1000 mackie, only cost me $300 and it's still 100% working today!!). Again, I've not tested every single peice of ear that Mackie has made, but the gear I have used has been, For the most part, crap! The mixer at church is a Mackie ( I was not running sound when the gear was purchased... that's for sure!) and we've noticed a really bad amount of crosstalk ( when a signal {one of the microphone inputs} can be heard through the routing path of another/other channels. ) THis is usually a problem you find on really cheapo crappy boards, and even then, it's not usually that bad. All the channels were behaving this way, and I even went back to the board to look at things (we have a new soundguy at church) and couldn't figure it out... We had a microphone turned off, no signal was being sent anywhere from that mic channel, yet we could hear it (faintly) through the speakers. What kind of Crap is that? Macklie crap. Daniel, the young man who is running the sound now (moved here a few weeks ago ) agrees with me, Mackie is a no-no, I guess we'll have to deal with it for now, but I just had to say something to someone.....
added 06/20/06...Now to fix my adsense bar...It is advertising for those mixers I just spoke out against.... Behringer has always been good to me, I love my Behringer mixer. I use a Yamaha Mixer with Nasty Habits, it is a little limiting, but I really like my Behringer. My brother bought a Behringer for his church and he loves it!! certainly does the job!! I've even used Allen and Heath boards, they are great!! Eventually I'd like to get some experience on a Midas or SSL or Neve (studio) board. I can't imagine the possibilities with a pro mixer (allen and heath, ssl, neve, midas) and Saw Studio software, that would be killer!! add on some Joe Meek processing and MOTU interfaces, life would be golden!! Behringer rocks!!!