I bought it because why not, it's very inexpensive and it's always nice to have another small percussion instrument in studio. Sound great, I recently used it on a song I recorded very quickly, I'm neither a percussion player or mixing engineer but I played that shaker on it and mixed the song and that shaker is one of the best things in the song, it sounds great, cuts thru the mix and fills it, I played the same rhythm that was played by hit hat in the drum loop I made for it, but shakers works better, when I was mixing the song I was so excited about the shaker sound and I was glad I decided to play percussion on it. Overall, nice shakers and shakers are great percussion instruments, sounds great in the mix.