Mackie Onyx24

We have a group that can go up to 16-18 elements between musicians and singers.
And we do not always have a proper sound engineer available.
This model is an excellent compromise for our needs:
Lots of channels
Simple to use
Good quality overall and sound wise
Easy to carry around
Blue tooth for background music
Recording interface for every channel in external DAW and of main out on SD card.

We are very happy with it, the results and the overall quality so far.

The features are "what you see is what you get" by looking at its layout. So do not expect fancy parametric equalizers, main independent equalizer, extra faders for L/R, groups, DCAs, load of monitoring outputs.

The basic features are there and work well.

The alternative would have been going fully digital (XR18 or X32 from Behringer, or the DL32S from Mackie), but the main drawbacks were price and complexity of going 100% digital (which we might still want to do with an XR18 for smaller venues and reduced group size).