I have one coming to my local SamAsh for me this weekend, but came across something on one of the other R09 threads here that disturbed me. Does this unit allow you to monitor while recording? One of the other posts mentioned that it might only allow monitoring after recording, not during, and that sort of scares me. I do prefer to check my recording from time to time, making sure that there is no noise in the signal path that my level meters would not detect. I'm not neurotic about it, but I would prefer to make sure all sytems are still go while the recording is happening.