After a while, you get stuck with all the variable high pass, gates, comp and parametric EQ even on low end consoles like the Presonus Studio Live (which I like). Makes it difficult to go back to a simple analog desk which seems now like an "open channel" factory...

Interesting that you like the Presonus, haven't used it but it"s a lot cheaper than a Yamaha L9.
any more thoughts on it?