Ok so I voted for global EQ, but I'd really like some features REMOVED such as the USB audio card thing.

The POD HD should NOT be  thought of as do it all including the kitchen sink! It's a guitar processor. I voted for Global EQ, but I would like to remove the USB audio interface driver thing because many should be able to do without it. If you want to record buy a decent sound card and use the SPDIF, XLR out but let the USB be only for editing patches, maybe that would spare some DSP power to run more and maybe better EQs and other effects, amps etc.

People are expecting to Run the HD as a sound card through USB simultaneously as they edit patches, meanwhile pressing the footswitches while recording in some DAW. I've done that for funand that's when I ran into trouble, but it wasn't for any serious recordings! I don't expect any one machine to do that and I believe many of the problems where pods are starting to reboot is due to this USB driver abuse. Line 6 should at least seperate the two uses of USB, use one or the other at least. Make it so when you use the Editor, the USB audio driver is stopped and vice versa.  For any serious work, I disconnect USB and record throught the XLR or SPDIF and that's more than enough for recording.

I'm all for the 4-band parametric EQ, but I seriously doubt line 6 will implement it because I believe it would require a serious overhaul of their effect block software architecture.  If you notice, no effect has more than 5 parameters.  I believe this goes beyond the idea that none of the effects needed more than 5 parameters - I think it was baked into the architecture.  Maybe it saves DSP or memory, but altering this may have serious ramifications and Line 6 would have to devote a lot of manpower to making the change and testing it.

My biggest problem right now is that for some of the EQ effects, I'm not using all the parameters, but I bet DSP is being allocated as though I were.  So let's say I'm using 2 parametric EQ's but am not using the "highs" or "lows" params on either.  That's basically 4 EQ functions of DSP I'm losing.  Since I've switched to mostly using Dual Amp tones, this means I'm possibly losing a whole effect.  My bottleneck isn't effect blocks - it's DSP.