he is sooooo gay
anyhow,
Going head to head with Summit, Neve (1073!), Grace and Manley... Just lol, ive never dumbed down the vlz at its time but thats the wrong ballpark and another league junior.
Other than that VLZ always been solid and bit above budget but still in the budget range but these days theyre going to have a hard time competing with Behringer since they have Midas pre's which is hard pass on.
If you dont know how nice midas pre's are, ask some foh engineer anywhere and i bet 99% of the time that even the Behringer is in favor.
In the end its about the pricetag and in this case durability; if you want your stuff to be usable after the apocalypse then you wont go wrong with a VL and an sm58 but i dont make it a daily habbit of throwing around mixers or driving over them.