Moving the faders remotely from a MIDI fader box is a rather creepy experience. It's the right size and shape, the controls are in the right place, and it's a breeze to use. There are some other drawbacks to the desk. The effects processors are fairly basic. While the flanger, plate and gate reverbs are quite useable, the hall reverbs are a little grey and the phaser is a bit ineffectual.
All effects are mono send.
I wish there were a master bus insert for the BBE so I could deliver balanced signals from the mixer for stage use. For that matter, a separate volume control for the headphone jack would be nice. Some of the MIDI control is sluggish, but robust. The fader mechanism is rather cute. Each fader has a conventional miniature electric motor with a drive band to a larger nylon pulley, and the spindle of this drives a wire which is carried along the length of the fader, around another pulley at the top, and back through the fader knob itself via a couple of tiny tensioning springs.