Hi Steve, I don't want to hijack your thread here, but you are the man to talk to. I'm usually playing low volume gigs with friends: a couple of acoustic or electric guitars, djembe or tabla. People are singing usually without a PA so they set the highest volume and you must stay under it. I don't want to bring too much amp to this gig and have to run my volumes on amp and bass super low. Kind of like bringing a 100W Marshall stack to the gig, it's just too much. I'm looking at a shuttle 6 with the 12T or maybe the shuttle max 6 and a 12T or the Neox 112, depending on what comes my way on the Talkbass classifieds. I like the idea of the 2 channels with the max, and the simplicity of the shuttle 6. Thanks, Dan