As I'm a singer in a band I do have a tambourine on stage but for the more acoustic songs I felt the tambourine was too loud, so I start using shakers.
I first bought the blue twist shaker and as nice as it sounded I noticed it was very hard to hear out front, so I bought the loudest of the three and this one seems to power trough a bit better although I do love the softer sounding shakers that sound like they are filled with sand,
this one sounds like its filled with rice if that makes sense?
This one is the one I would go with in a full band set up.