Mixer Questions

[Jon Southwood <gamut@mcleodusa.net>]

Getting ready to finish off (for now) the building of my looping rig,
with the purchase of a mixer.  I'm almost positive that I'll be getting
a Behringer 2642A Eurorack, because at $400 (from Musician's Friend) I
haven't seen anything with comparable features (in particular the 6
auxes).  To the questions:

1.  Has anyone had experience with this mixer, or one of its close kin,
that can give a quick review?
2.  Two things I'm planning on doing with it, that I want to make sure
are possible (and don't have easier ways of doing them):
        a.  I plan on using one aux (say aux5) to send into a long delay 
(set
100% wet) and then use another (say aux6) to send to my se-70 for pitch
shifting the delayed signal which will then be fed back to
aux5...outside of being very careful with levels, this should work,
right?  Is there an easier way that might not take up so many mixer
channels?

        b.  I recently got a used Vortex and want to be able to send just 
some
of the signals to it (instead of the whole mix).  According to the info
at the Behringer site, there are inserts on the main outputs, but not on
the subgroup outputs.  My thought, then is to route the signals I want
going to the Vortex into a pair of subgroups (say 1&2), feed sub outs
1&2 into mixer inputs that are assigned to subgroups 3&4.  If I then do
not assign subs 1&2 to main, but do assign 3&4 to main, it should be a
roundabout way of doing what the insert would do...right?

If these are foregone conclusions with using a mixer with auxes and
subs, I hope you don't flame me too much---this will be my first
experience dealing with a mixer (beyond the three inputs on my peavey
kb-100).


As an aside, I switched ISPs a couple days ago, and lo and behold was
able to unsubscribe the old e-mail address and subscribe the new e-mail
address all by myself...


Cheers,

Jon Southwood
gamut@mcleodusa.net