John Oram discusses the effects of group delay on EQ performance and sonics. Check out the Hi-Def EQ: www.john-oram.com/ Check out Opal: www.acustica-audio.com/store/...
what is this guy reading?? yes length of your channel strip changes the appearance of an element in time. you're better off having all the same compressor on all the same channel with ALL the eq's switched either in or out... rather than having 24 channels with or without EQ and three of them through two different compressors.
and frankly I think youre better off with a split rather than completely filling an inline when it comes to summing because the large and small faders have their own time delays