If you could live with knobs instead of faders I'd recommend a similarly priced Allen & Heath ZED10FX as a vastly superior alternative to this Mackie board.

Needing a mixer that day ended up getting an Allen & Heath mixer and much happier for it

And some of the effects on the comparably featured Allen & Heath Zed 10FX are actually awesome and editable on the fly, which greatly enhances a live performance

The A&H worked perfectly on my gig.

The A&H worked perfectly on my gig.