Mackie, Zoom, and Allen & Heath have mixers for 300ish buck, with 10ish inputs and are fairly featurefull. I wouldn't count on the interface doing everything y

Mackie, Zoom, and Allen & Heath have mixers for 300ish buck, with 10ish inputs and are fairly featurefull. I wouldn't count on the interface doing everything you dream of, even if it seems like it can based on specs. I owned the allen & heath, but traded it for the mackie one. It's okay, but there's a few annoyances. Keep in mind that the FX send will also require a return (may sound obvious, but it's not to everyone), therefore, it will consume an input; they basically never have a dedicated return (it's pretty much pointless). The FX send itself might not be really necessary, but I don't know enough to say for sure. I think they could just label it AUX, and that any auxiliary, or monitor send can work for FX... I'm not sure. I've used them before and the FX to monitor / sample.