I had purchased a Line-6 Spider Micro to play with my guitar in part because I thought I could use it for vocals as well as guitar as it has a mic in jack (plus its portable). That worked ok, but it was a little weak on the vocals side. Plus, I wanted to be able to use two mics; and the Micro's mic output was dry, with no effects.

The Nady seemed like a solution for what I wanted; I could mix in a couple mics and it had some echo effects to add a little depth. for this price --what the heck.

After buying the unit, I am very pleased. It does what it promises. I can mix in multiple mics and the digital echo effects add depth to the vocals, which work well. I'm running the mixer off a 9 volt battery, and it is clean.

Even more of a bonus, the Nady significantly increases the db output (50 db, it claims) level of the line. When the straight mic input was set so low you could barely hear it, running it thru the Nady resulted in an output so loud I had to turn it down.

So then I thought about running it through my stereo. I have a little 90 watt home theater surround system with pretty dinky speakers and a subwoofer, but it's loud enough for our apartment. When I had plugged the mic straight into the aux-in RCA jack (with an adapter), the output was so low that I could barely hear it even at full volume. Something to do, I think, with the impedance of the mic or something like that, I don’t know I'm not a techie. I figured I'd have to buy a pre-amp to use a mic with the stereo system.

So I ran the output from the Nady mixer thru an RCA splitter and plugged it into my home stereo receiver. With the Nady, output was as loud as it could get without feedback (turned about halfway up) -- more than sufficient for my little home pa needs. I'm no expert in pa systems, but it sounded pretty good to me (and my girlfriend). I suspect that with a powerful home stereo system you could use the Nady to make a pretty decent pa out of it.

I also plugged my electric guitar into one of the mixer input jacks just to see what would happen, and got a more than adequate output level though my home stereo receiver, and again, the quality seems pretty good to me. How can I describe the volume? I could use vocals and the guitar as loud as, for example, music plays thru the system without distortion. In fact, in retrospect I might have saved on the amp, and bought an effects pedal like the Digitech RP50 and run my guitar thru this little mixer and thru my stereo system, and had plenty of volume for my needs. Maybe too much distortion would blow the speakers, I don’t know.

In short, this little mixer has effectively turned my home theater stereo receiver into a more than adequate pa system complete with echo effects. Very happy for the money spent.