[Guest post by Nick Hampton]  I became a member of the digital age a little over a year ago when my church decided on replacing our analog Mackie 24.4 mixer after it blew up in the middle of our Easter service. The Mackie wasn't my favorite by any stretch of the imagination, but it was analog and as long as you know what all those faders and knobs are doing, then all you had to do was sit back and dial it in. I had used that same Mackie for 10 years and I kept the original manual with me at all [keep reading]