I was looking for something compact and simple for solo gigs, to mix my stereo tracks with my mic input (and optionally my guitar) and feed a mixed signal directly into a PA power amp. This product looked really promising and the construction was really solid. But when I used this for a live setting, it failed miserably. The mic gain was so badly mismatched with the other inputs it was ridiculous. I could not get sufficient volume on the mic channel even after maxing everything. And once the master output was maxed, it was impossible to balance the signals from the other channels. Needless to say, I did not have a good performance that night :-(