Hi Keith,
Thank you for taking the time to respond. Was not aware that input/output stereo linking was related to the core and not on the software side so allow me to amend my request: we really need to be able to stereo link channels and it really needs to allow linking for any two channels. It’s an essential feature of a professional console.
The reason I asked for such specific processing on FX sends and returns is that especially on snare I don’t want a large amount of the frequencies exciting the reverb that I’ll be sending to Foh. Even eq’ing the return side won’t remove a large amount of the harmonics excited by sending full spectrum signal to it. And also I like to crush the verb on the return side.
I’ll play around with effects as channel inserts and see if it has the flexibility to accomplish what I want.
Thank you again for your time, I look forward to the future of the SQ and what it can do.