Beginner setup question mixing and line-level out

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Beginner setup question mixing and line-level out

I'm new. I assembled a mixer from a kit and now realize it doesn't give me line level out. Maybe that's OK and I will actually want to chain it into another mixer. It kind of works but all the gain knobs are near zero and moving them a teeny smidge raises the volume a lot when I connect to my recorder or other gear. I made a video where you can see my basic attempt at recording from the rack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zb_4-e0Uo0

In time I will be adding sequencers, some percussion voices, etc. I'm going to need more channels but I also want to be able to do sidechaining/ducking.

I think I could do sidechaining by running this mixer into a dual VCA (for L+R) that is fed an envelope and from there into another mixer to bring in something like a kickdrum I'd be sidechaining against - and preferably that mixer would have line-level out.

A question about this step: If I want my kickdrum to be panned left or right, is there a way to adjust the ducking such that the other voices are turned down the proper proportional amount? i.e. a kickdrum in the left channel doesn't need the right channel to duck as much? Would I use an attenuator on the envelope for the R channel? Am I overthinking this? What modules would you use to do this?

Thanks for reading!

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