definitely, but it really does make me wonder about the voice channel. taking out teh tube compressor from the pc1, adding what appears (based on controls on the front panel) to be one channel of mpa gold preamp (which is definitely an improvement), and modifying the eq section for more pro features - well all good except for removing the features of the compressor.

but the voice channel has the de-esser .... is that the only difference between it and the pc2 now? if so.... makes ya wonder if the voice channel will disappear or not since the vc's de-esser is VERY good compared to many de-essing products I've used, even very expensive ones.