I did own a VLA II for about a year and sold it, still a good budget comp/limiter for the price that I would recommend just didn't need six channels of VLA and prefered the older version by a hair so I moved it along.
Basic, solid, good recorder but kind of difficult to pull tracks off if you are recording multitrack recording of full length shows. Much easier to deal with if you are working on a five minute song as the file size for transfer is much more managable.