…the filters yes affecting the sound plus the M/S en/decode

Not that the multiband part isn’t useful, i could see it in fact being very useful on certain hip hop/EDM tracks.

Being an alternative to my MLA 4 sounds great to me (in fact I’ve used the MLA 4 on an M/S matrix with just the mid going into the unit and looping the side insert going back into itself just to compress the lows on the mid channel)

It really would have added to the versatility of the unit if each section could be bypassed. A straight stereo clipper, high shelf, output gain on three knobs sounds excellent to me

I’m a big Elysia fan: museq and xfilter mastering edition user.