It's a great buy. Compact, plenty of features and sounds great.
A&H make tons of great mixers but I find their ZED range the easiest to use by far.
Realistically, there's nothing on this mixer you don't want - like quirky difficult to understand switches and unwanted features that take up space.
All of the features are clearly marked and are the ones that are truly useful like led lit mute and pfl buttons are what every-day operators want to see.
The best features I find on this desk are:
- 3 pre-fade Aux channels for 3 seperate monitor mixes
- Very easy to use (and good sounding) FX section
- 100mm faders
- Inserts on every channel
It's a reliable and easy to use workhorse that gets the job done and sounds great. If I had one complaint it would be the lack of direct out's but smaller mixers rarely have those!
Anyway, no issues to report after one year of heavy use; just a quality mixer.