You havn't told us what sort of music you intend to make. That is key.
The O2R is good for dance or electronic music not so much because it may or may not have "aggressive" eq (you can easily get aggressive digital eq via a multitude of plug ins so I wouldn't buy an O2R for the eq) but rather because of its cost and automation features. Whilst however the mic pre's are usable they're certainly nothing special. You won't get the desirable artifacts that an analogue desk will give you from an O2R but then depending on the style of music you're doing that may not be a problem.
Dance music is cheap to produce and the O2R certainly offers plenty of "bang for your buck" in the second hand market with it's recall capabilities.
However purists would probably choose a good analogue desk if they were thinking of doing more than just dance music. That isn't to say that good dance music cannot be done on an old analogue desk because there are numerous examples of that (and yes the Trident does have an aggressive eq which is why together with their pre-amps they are popular for tracking guitars).
If you're on a budget like 1200 whether it's pounds,dollars or euros you can forget a Trident 80b or Series 70 so we shouldn't become distracted and lose focus on djklocek's original question which is that he's on a small budget and needs at least 32 tracks. That limits the options considerably.
That said digitally you're looking at an O2R or a D8B. I've heard good dance mixes on both 02R's and D8B's but of those two I would go for the D8B just becasue it's newer but the O2R may be cheaper second hand I'm not sure.
Analogue wise, Soundtracs Topaz, Solo, IL3632,MX series or Megas (Sountracs are in general very reliable desks), Soundcraft Sapphyre, Spirit,Delta, Ghost, etc but 32 tracks is going to be the problem as that's at the rarer end of cheaper desks.
Size may also be a factor, what space have you got? Do you want a large desk or a small one? Between budget, size and musical style, you should be able to whittle it down to a few contenders.
Finally bear this in mind, the choice of mixing console is just one of the links in the chain to making music. These are just tools, it's how you use them that counts. I've heard some amazing records done on cheap desks and some aweful ones on very expensive desks. In short if as an engineer you know what you're doing you can work with most desks within reason and get good to great results - just don't expect the desk or for that matter any single piece of equipment however legendary - to do it for you because it won't!
