Best Light Weight Mixer for Loop Touring

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Andy Owens, in his really excellent article on
travelling in the GAIN STRUCTURE thread (wow, I've been doing this for a 
long time
and I learned several things from you)
said,

"...............Rance Cm 86 mixer (THE BEST LOOPING MIXER ask me 
why..)........................."


Why?


I, myself endorse and tour with a DTar SOULSTICE, Mix Blending System
http://www.d-tar.com/solstice.shtml

I like this a lot

It has two channels (line and XLR inputs per channel) with volume and 
three bands of powerful eq on each channel.
Phantom power for mics on both channels.
Channel Inserts (which I used for my footpedals) on each channel (in the 
back)
Master Effects Send (to my looper) with a separate effects mix on the 
front of the unit
A tuner out (that can be used to go to my wireless earphone system 
(maybe the best single purchase I"ve made
for live performance, espeically given that I use live microphones.)
with a mute switch if you want to use it as a tuner output.

Then it has Mono line out or Balanced XLR out and two post eq sends on 
the back of the unit

    * 8.5" wide x 6.5" deep x 2.7" high
    * Weight 2.9 lbs.


It is a half rack space but is two rack spaces high.   

My only critiques are that it is too well built (meaning it's heavier 
than I wish it was, but this means it will really
last a long time) and, in a perfect world,  I wish that it was only one 
rack space in width and height and
had 2 auxiliary sends.       Pretty small critique considering that it 
was designed for acoustic musicians
to accurately blend the signals from two different pickup systems wiht 
great flexibility and
not for a found sound/multi instrumentalist like myself.    It's pretty 
great.

What else do you guys like?