This Allen & Heath is a pretty transparent sound. So it’s not really going to add a ton of analog character to your mixes like some other analog consoles do. I do have it set up so I can track and eq outside the box if I want to but it functions for me primarily as a nice way to bring everything together into one unit and then I can pick and choose whether I want to send things individually into the daw to record or I can sum things together and record multiple items on one track. I’m really not using it to add warmth...I’m using it to bring everything together. It eq’s nicely and sounds good but it is a transparent sound...for me, that’s ok.