Once you"ve used the PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 Digital Mixer, you"ll never want to go back to an old-school analog mixer. With StudioLive mixer"s incredible signal-processing power on every channel, easy store and recall of every setting, and the ability to record it all with just 2 mouse clicks, you"ll get spoiled fast. Easier to use, better sounding, and flawlessly integrated with state-of-the-art software, the digital Presonus StudioLive 24.4.2 delivers the most creative environment possible for both live performance and studio music production. The StudioLive 24.4.2 is a fine choice for those who want to mix small- to medium-sized shows and worship services. It"s also a great choice for club systems, corporate applications, educational institutions, or as the hardware core for a project studio. Inside the StudioLive audio mixer you"ll find high-headroom XMAX microphone preamplifiers, a built-in FireWire recording and playback interface, more than 90 signal processors, a big library of DSP effects, 10 aux buses, 4 subgroups, extensive LED metering, mixer save and recall, channel-strip save/recall/copy/paste, talkback, and more. Yet, despite its many controls and features, it"s compact and easy to transport. With the StudioLive 24.4.2, you can build live mixes that glisten with clarity and detail, and then record and enhance the performance. Get creative in the studio. Build mixes, loops, sound effects, and more, then bring them out to your show and mix them with the live performance. Process channels using your favorite plug-ins and completely automate your entire performance. StudioLive 24.4.2 revolutionizes music production, opening endless creative possibilities. Experience the ease of analog with the power of digital. When PreSonus designed StudioLive 24.4.2, one of their primary goals was to provide a familiar interface that would keep all critical controls visible and accessiblenot buried inside multiple menus. Sit down at a PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2, and you see real hardware Mute and Solo buttons, trim controls, and clearly labeled, individual knobs for parametric EQ and dynamics processing. The master sectioncomplete with Talkback, Monitor, Cue, and a choice of headphone sourceslooks just like the master section on an analog board but with far more power and flexibility. Aux sends have their own controls. Every channel has a big, bright meter display. Basically, if you"ve ever used an analog mixer, you"ll be right at home with a StudioLive 24.4.2, and even if you"ve never used a mixer before, you"ll quickly be able to create quality mixes and recordings. The StudioLive 24.4.2 mixer is for those of you who want more than 16 channels but want to keep your system compact. It has more than six auxiliary buses, a fully parametric EQ. You could use an enhanced gate with Key Listen and Key Filter features, and a Threshold control on the limiter would be handy. A stereo graphic EQ on the mains is mandatory but you also want graphic EQ on the subgroups and auxes at timesfour dual-mono, 31-band graphic EQs would do the job nicely. No problem! You get all of these enhancements and more with the 24-channel, 10-aux, StudioLive 24.4.2. A gigantic console in a small package thanks to the Fat Channel If StudioLive were an analog console, it would have 4-foot-long channel strips packed with knobs and buttons or it would require a massive outboard rack of expensive signal processors. That"s because each channel has its own studio-grade compressor, limiter, gate, 4-band parametric equalizer, and high-pass filter. In all, PreSonus packed 43 compressors, 43 limiters, 43 gates, 24 high-pass filters, and more, into one remarkable Fat Channel. Engaged by pressing any Select button, the PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2"s Fat Channel features extensive EQ and dynamics for every input channel, every aux output (incl