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Around 1997, I had a Mackie 24/8 bus, it was a fine mixer and incredible value for the money. Mackies were derided by many professionals, even back then, but I could never find fault with mine, even after upgrading to expensive preamps and other outboard gear, my Mackie always sounded great to me.
I eventually replaced the Mackie with a Sony dmxr100, an even finer mixer (with a price tag to reflect) that lasted with me only about 4 or 5 years, thanks in great part to Sony’s discontinuation of the product and lack of support for its pro division.
Since then, it’s been itb for me, happily so.
(with a fair degree of outboard, mostly guitar pedals these days).
In the late 90's, I reverted to a Mackie 24-4 for a few years, just to put together an inexpensive home studio. I'd been working for years on large boards; TAC, Sony, SSL, API, Trident, Harrison, etc... and the Mackie sounded just fine, to my ears, FWIW. I did some of my favorite recordings for myself and other clients in those years, recordings that still stand tall today, IMO. That old SOS article is...
telling.