Just one piece, not "all Peavey, or all PAS" please.
Also, I totally agree with the Venice complaints. The layout is amazingly bad for such a respected company. And they're obviously not interested in updating it either. They do other silly things like not putting channel numbers on the rear of large format consoles so you have to label them yourself or have no idea what channel your patching into.
You know the Venice does sound good though and I really can't hate gear that sounds good. I'd rather mix on a Venice then most Mackies. And in small/medium club land a Venice is kind of a luxury. I CAN hate using it though.