Thx for the encouragement. I read thru most of that thread. This mixer at least gives me the option of plugging in a guitar, mic or line in. Before all I had was an 1/8" stereo to dual mono 1/4" hosa cable. So I had 2 line in's to the soundblaster. Now I can at least plug in stuff with an approximate match of impedance and levels.
From what I read about the bigger Behringer multi mic pre I'm sure this thing I have is bottom of the barrel in terms of fidelity. Since I have no budget anyway I figure this will help teach me some basic, hard lessons. I already have a Shure SM-57 so now when I have friends over to write/record, we have not one but three shitty options. lol.
Last week alone I had 2 different friends over and we spent half our time trying to re-wire shit to get the right combo of monitoring and playback. I had to do something. Besides I had a Marshall Microstack head sitting here collecting dust, as most probably do and a near even trade was too good to pass up. Something useless for something usefull. I just wish this thing could stream 8 channels over USB.
Look for some awful tone clips soon fellas. Ha ha!
Though I would recommend giving 
