B205D : A little wonder

I bought this primarily as a fill in monitor for my Bose L1 Compact - believe it or not my duo plays gigs too small for the keyboard player to sit forward of the speaker line. It's worked brilliantly. It also adds useful midrange fullness at high volume in bigger venues. I knew it would make a difference because I had worked with little Yamaha MS202 speakers in the past.

I would have liked to have bought the TC Helicon Voicesolo because of the effects, better quality speaker and the slick mic stand mount. Alternatively the Behringer B207d for it's bigger speaker, extra input and SD card slot but I was on a budget so went for getting as much as possible out of this model and supplementing it when I needed to rather than paying for facilities I would only use occasionally.

Since then I have also used it as a PA in its own right for solo gigs with backing tracks or guitar, sometimes plugged into a small 8" domestic sub for 'thump'; as a front end mixer to add inputs to the Bose, a practice amp for everything including bass, to play around with pedals, at open mic nights and jams for guitar (it's kept up with drum kits). It travels in a camera bag I picked up for a fiver at a second hand shop and doesn't break my back or leave me feeling hassled if I take it along 'just in case'.

I can't think of anything I wouldn't try it for. Every system has it's limits, even the biggest, and every system benefits from being used cleverly. I'm very pleased with this indeed. I'm saving/looking for a bargain reverb pedal now!

Five stars for facilities at this price, weight and size.