I bought this mixer for my 6 piece band and we have four voices, guitar, bass, keyboards and drums so pretty much every channel is taken up, yet there are still spare inputs, should we need them, by using one of the aux returns. We move our equipment around in our own cars so we need to keep our equipment load light and so this small mixer fits in very well. There are compressors on the first four channels we use for vocals and these are great for the times when the singers get excited! We only use a little reverb on the FX, but there are many other FX patches to choose from, once we get a little more experimental. There are some people who belittle Behringer products - I think they believe that low price means low quality, I have bought a lot of Behringer equipment in the past and have found it to be of good quality at a good price. I got the mixer and case offer saving us some money as the total brought the order into the free shipping range, saving 15 euros.