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If you do not already have a power amp and loudspeakers, it might be worth investigating all-in-one portable P.A. systems.
Features I would like in a desk for your type of gig, and low cut on each channel, swept mid controls.
In build reverbs are also a nice feature.
The low cut is useful for stopping unwanted low frequencies getting into the audio.
A swept mid control very useful for cutting any unwanted frequencies; having a fixed frequency may work but is quite limiting.
For example a band I play with have two males singers, one who benefits from a cut at 2.5 kHz, whereas the other's voice benefits from a cut at around 600 Hz. Both use an SM58 by the way, so the difference is not due to the mic.
Acoustic guitars, in my experience, benefit greatly from judicious cutting of troublesome frequencies. You may of course have a separate pre-amp for the acoustic which should give you more flexibility.
Features like the 7 channel graphic on the Mackie ProFx8 aren't that useful as the bands are to wide. You may get lucky you might not.
If you don't mind going used then an Allen & Heath Zed 10fx or a Soundcraft FX8 would be a good choice for you (although the FX8 is not that compact).
I would still also recommend the Zed 10fx , ideal for what you want
We used to have a lot of old Studiomaster spares, complete desks as well as Soundcraft desks and external power supplies but since everything went digital we sold a lot of it and actually threw away a few Studiomaster desks including a 16:4:2 and the same with an extra 4 channels fitted. I sold by own personal Soundcraft Spirit Studio 32 channel monster as well
Nowadays we use A&H QU 16 and 24 and rent in anything bigger.
Always happy to help with the repair of any desk but the older stuff is time consuming to work on so it's not always an economical repair
On a separate note do you hire out your QU’s? I tend to keep Mix Wiz and Zeds as hire and only hire Qu and ILive to people I trust to be able to use them...... the old analogue v digital debate again!
For larger channel counts we use a company in London that do good hire rates on GLD and iLive .... just a ball ache driving up there and back !
It has fx, HPF (low cut), mute. The mid is fixed at 2.5k which may work out to be useful.