I purchased mine sometime around 2K. It has been working strong from day 1. I'm the bass player and cannot sit down and use a console. This machine has worked great. If you are a musician, this is well worth the money.

It's inexpensive so that also means the patterns are somewhat simple. But I've found it is far better than nothing. Hope this helps.

Not a bad over all controller if you are only looking to run one tree of lights. I am running two, so I ended up running 4 more extension cords across the front of the stage. Not a big deal, but I couldn’t change up the lighting patterns for each side of the stage. As well, I couldn’t add anymore lighting into the mix. I will say that the stand-by is great at the end of songs, and the full-on is awesome for those times when the whole band kicks in. However, size of the pedals, and the fact that the full-on and stand-by pedals are side-by-side make it cumbersome at time. The onboard mic worked Ok. It has a ¼ inch in but I never got to use it. I didn’t know if it was balanced or unbalanced? I would have to say that this would be a keeper if it just had more channels.

I bought one and just had to buy another. Now I can have sepertae back and front lighting schemes without the need for a light man. It's sturdy and dependable so far. Awseome amout of uses. Can't be beat for this price.

I just purchased my second one. This outfit works exactly as it supposed to. It will aslo chase in any of the preset programs at any speed or intesity and it is all user controlled. I ran 16 POar 38s with no problem. I'm going to use the second one to control the custom made lighted backdrop behind the band. The built in mic doesn;t work well but the tape out signal on my mixer gives me "total" control over the input voltage which definately affects the chase acticity. I have hand built syetms for twice the money that didn't coms close.