No, I get it. It’s a reasonable question.
The channel strip will give you access to EQ, compression, high pass filter, and gate. With a single mono or stereo out for the whole kit I would argue that EQ will be unnecessary since you will tune your drum sounds within the brain and probably don’t want the CQ coloring that. You won’t need a gate since you don’t have any open ambient mics. You may or may not like the sound of some added compression but I probably wouldn’t start with it. Finally, it seems unlikely that you’ll want to use a HPF since all of your drum sounds come through (including kick). Although, some folks still like to apply a really low HPF to the kick (~20hz) as they feel it will clean up the signal from things that likely won’t be reproduced anyway.
Bottom line is I would personally start with a completely flat traditional channel and see what you think. You could experiment with the low set HPF and compression if desired.
Also, any reason why you wouldn’t want to run a stereo mix into two (linked stereo) channels on the CQ? Can you pan instruments within the brain? Will you run FOH in stereo? It can be nice to have some of the drum sounds panned while keeping kick and snare centered. Just a thought.
.
.
