Hi Lou,
Thanks for the reply! I will definitely apply your advice. I have taken a look at the internal effects and they are definitely quite nice. The pedals I have are not cheap, one of them is an Eventide Space pedal which is a very nice reverb and the other is a Strymon El Capistan which is a tape echo emulator that is well and truly outstanding and goes all over everything. Finally the routing question also had to do with sending out to a hardware sampler that can also mangle and add effects to audio in real time. Definitely loving this board so far. Allen & Heath have done a great job, but my opinion may not matter a ton as this is my first hardware mixer.
