It depends what your trying to do...but in my experience even reason stock sounds can be used to make some ill hip hop music....somtimes u may need to tweak but I have alot of tracks with straight up stock joints with maybe some delay and reverb
dude shouldnt have kept touchin dude..you dont need to poke sombody in the chest. and keep touching a person after they already told u to stop to battle.
http://www.tweakheadz.com/how_to_hookup_a_mixer.htm
really good artical I came across today, helped break down alot of information about how to use a mixer in your studio with maximum flexibility.