This mixer is a bit on the pricy side and it may take a moment to figure out how it works with all it's qwerks, but you will never need another mixer in your life! Because this Zoom LiveTrak L-20 does EVERYTHING.
In my band we are a 3 piece. Vocals/guitar, bass and drums. And we bought this to record band rehearsals and maybe do some studio recordings. But since this also works as a normal analog mixer we hooked up 3 different wedge monitors through the Monitor Out outputs and made individual mixes for each of us. And with the save function we can save presets so we never have to dial anything in ever again. Dial your mix in once, save it and never touch it again!
You can record using an SD card in the mixer itself or connecting it to your computer and use as an Audio Interface like a Focusrite Scarlett to your DAW. When recording on the SD card you will get a master mix and all individual tracks that you can mix later at home.
The sound is good with a bunch of headroom on the preamps and no dealbreaker clipping issues that we have experienced so far. If anything is holding us back it's our speakers haha! I have also out of curiosity tried plugging my guitar and multi fx pedal straight to the mixer and playing that way, works great. But I realized a real amp is preferable depending on which PA/monitor wedge speakers you have.
The one and only con I can think of is that the build quality is not super robust, it's plastic so don't manhandle it too much. But it will for sure survive sitting in our rehearsal space and the occasional trip outside! Just be conscious that it's not unbreakable and you're fine.
All in all 4/5, the only reason it's not a 5/5 is because of the build quality.
