I did another gig with this on Saturday, it went great. I was mistaken, there ARE clip lights on the channels. They're on top of the multipurpose meters & I had mistaken them for part of those meters. I also discovered that there are many more outputs availabe to record than I had thought, the Capture software that came with it can only do 18, but with Studio One, which also came with it, you can record, in addition to the 16 mic inputs and the stereo bus, the 2 stereo aux ins, the stereo tape inputs, the 4 submasters, the solo bus, the talkback mic, the FX returns, even the send outputs. Any combination up to 32 tracks. I used an 8 channel outboard mic pre feeding the aux inputs to get a few more mics into the system, worked great. You could also connect a second Studiolive through firewire & record the 32 normal channels. This is a very flexible device indeed.