Willow is awesome

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Sorry about the unrelated thread title. I am very tired, and that movie rules.
On to my question. I am looking into buying a board for both live and studio use. I don't like the pre's on the Behringer or Yamaha boards. I tested out a Mackie 1642 and it sounded good to me. I have pretty much narrowed it down to the Mackie 1642 VLZ and the Soundcraft M12. I like the A and H Mix Wizard, but its a bit more expensive.
I was almost completely sold on the M12 until I realized it lacked busses. This board seems like it would be great for the studio, but the lack of busses is restrictive live. The Mackie has 4 busses, but I hear a lot of people complain about their Mackie boards.
My bad consists of me on guitar/vocals, a bassist, and a drummer. We may add a keyboard player down the road. I think either of the boards would be sufficient for a while as far as channels. The M12 does have 2 more mono though.
What the crap should I do?
 
Whatever you do, buy it used. You can get used Mackies for dirt cheap no a days.

Its a hard question to answer really though. Mackie preamps arnt bad but they arnt great.

Danny
 
I have a Mackie 1642 and I like it quite a bit.

It is the only board I've ever owned - so my base of comparison isn't too great - but it's got a lot of features for the money. Two headphone outs with separate volume control, control room/monitor connections with separate volume control, busses as you've mentioned, 8 direct outs (great for recording), 4 aux sends/returns, inserts on each channel, etc.
 
I guess I am a bit nervous to buy a used mixer unless I know the seller.
 
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