My understanding is that SafeSound has a channel strip in the pipeline that includes EQ. If the performance is as sweet as claimed for the P1, that could be a damn near an ideal solution for a lot of people going to disk: nice mic pre, instrument and line inputs, compressor, expander, EQ, limiter, and monitoring. What other box can do all those things well, doesn't cost $2,000, and isn't made in China? This is all speculation until it arrives, but I'm interested.