You will however hit the channel lock bug.

Actually, I won't. It's good to be on the alpha team.

I've temporarily worked around my immediate issue by re-allocating certain bands. It's just that overall, I don't think 6db of correction is a lot of range for the bass and treble controls unless you're already using the EQ effectively and you only want slight nudges of bass or treble "on the fly".

The bits are packed as tight as they can go - so unless we can find some revolutionary method of quantum storage where each bit can hold more than one bit of information then we're out of luck.

Well, the article talked about how you might think you're packing the bits tightly, but you're really not packing them as tight as they can go. Without going into genuine data compression, they had methods of allocating the bits in a set of bytes that was quite interesting, and it surprised me when I read it.

I can't find the article reprinted on the web at this time, so I'll see if I can get the text of it to you somehow.