I’ve been on the fence of buying an used Xtramix about half a dozen times during the past 5-10 years, but it’s still quite an investment (about 4-5k new, ~2k used I suppose), especially for someone who doesn’t earn anything from music and needs about half that amount of channels and busses.
I wish they, or someone else, made something about exactly half of that - sort of a premium 2-3U home studio mixer. Roughly the equal or greater channel count, routing options and quality to something like a 12-14 channel Mackie VLZ, no EQ, no FX, normal analog mixer with normal knob per function control.
Something like that would be perfect for most of the home studio setups I’ve had. However, most compact rack mixers out there are either meant for installation / bar use and don’t really have any studio routing options to speak of, are of suspectable quality, have only a couple of channels, or are designed to be remote controllable digital brains that do anything you want provided you use a touchscreen or a tablet.
(I guess this is also a request for hints whether something like this exists - the closest I’ve found is Alesis Multimix 12R but even that is sort of halfway there…)
