[frenchman]

I have given up using Channel Strip a few month after having bought them, as I got random muting of tracks and things of the sort when opening sessions whith over 5 or 6 CS intantiated : not always easy to hear right away that one of the tom mics or the bottom snare mic just vanished from the mix...
Somehow some people are using them with no problem but I have moved on to Sony EQ and Dynamics plugins without the slightest regret...