I have an A&H Qu-pac mixer, and it's a pretty cool piece of gear. We've used it for practice, recording live shows and to record our first album. It records to and can play back from a USB drive, up to 16 individual tracks I believe, plus I think a stereo 2 track mix on 17-18, at a fixed 24bit/48k sample rate. Plug in a wifi router and you can control your mix and playback from an iPad (possibly an iPhone as well but it might be a little cramped on the small screen). It also has an LCD display and knobs and buttons for direct controls, and preset/scene saving which was fantastic to go from live settings to studio settings with a button push. I would just plug in a USB stick, hit record and capture a whole jam session. Afterwards plug the stick into my laptop with Cubase, import and mix any keeper tracks. It did lose a mic pre on one channel after I'd had it a year or two (past warranty), but I've read that those are swappable. I just put a 500 series dbx pre in line on that channel and kept trucking. It was just the floor tom, after all. The Qu-pac was kinda spendy at 1500, but there's a newer model, the Qu-SB for 1000 that I would go with today if I was in the market. Still 16 channels but no LCD interface or buttons on the unit. Anyway, if you go the A&H Qu-* route, I can try to help out if you ever have questions. I'm getting a brandy new interface next week since we're focusing more on studio recording and I'm after improved AD/DA conversion and stuff, but I'm keeping the A&H for any live events I have to do.