I went to my local music store today to buy some guitar strings and left with the strings + this cute little mixer. I’m a sucker for Behringer’s cheap and useful products. This mixer will come in handy for live performances – both my own and ones that I organise. It’s perfect for laptop gigs, with some extra inputs for a mic, guitar and a few other things. The built in effects are surprisingly good, especially the reverbs, which will take a load off my poor old laptop’s CPU. An excellent purchase for $180. The only downside is that it doesn’t do surround sound (that would cost at least a couple of hundred more) so I won’t be using it at my gig this Friday, but it will get plenty of use in future, I’m sure.