My hobby is to record, stream, and live mix stage talks. Earlier I used a mic splitter with an 8 ch sound card and a live desk, roading big racks and laptops all over, but now this desk saves a lot of space for me. I can connect all the mics, insert a simple SD card, select all the channels I want to record, and I am done. I really like the sound of the preamps, it is so easy to use the scenes, I really love it!