Aurora GTQC

Thanks I will do that. There is some information on the website about the owner, but it sounds kind of exaggerated. He mentions building a lot of high end studios but I don't think there has been much in the way of commercial studio construction in quite some time. Maybe it was years ago.

Tony does not have a physical store in Providence (or anywhere for that matter), just online sales. I haven't gotten any hardware from him, but have grabbed plugins without incident.

Anyway, if you pop back over to the other site, you'll notice that an obscene amount of the fanfare for those products comes from the owner mentioning his products in a million threads, and Tony doing the same. I haven't used anything Aurora, but the admit of tooting their own horn has turned me off a bit personally. YMMV. Good luck.

Hi Yotonic,

Its crazy how personal this stuff is. I owned a pair of GTQC's for about a year. I was pleasantly surprised at how heavy they were. I also loved the routing options - especially the ability to use serial compression, flip the order, etc. I didn't love the sound as much as I had hoped - however, I am certain it is because of how the piece fit into the complete chain. At that time I was tracking a lot with a U87 and using Apogee conversion. As a part of that particular chain, I found things a little fizzy on top. I am sure my impression would have been totally different with a softer mic or less "pretty" conversion.

It is probably pointless to say I preferred my vintage 1066's (more harmonically complex) , but I didn't have them at the same time and I had changed my AD by that time as well.

Geoff was very cool about answering questions via email. I purchased mine as a special request as part of a larger order through Vintage King, so I have nothing useful to add regarding their USA vendor.

Best of luck - there are so many cool options - it can be paralyzing.

MJH

The guy is fine. I've bought several things from him.

He doesn't like me very much...see the aforementioned thread.

In this day in age almost every manufacture has a part of their dealer agreement specify a "Minimum Advertise Price", the lowest price you can advertise, some have gone as far as considering any communication via Internet advertising, a Phone quote is the best way to get the lowest quote in general, as well as real stock or comunicate your desire to know actuall availability .
Also most sales people will put those who are in their physical presence as first priority those who the actually have to talk to second, behind their biggest clients.
Also it is easier to "read " somebody's BS on the phone than in writing, and to drop some information you may not on record on the phone.

Ther was a MAP program that at one time included all written , and verbal quotes, I could sell this Quasi German gear for anything I wanted I just couldn't quote you below MAP till it was invoiced. The Lawyers and I got around this by quoteing that it was "less than $.01 above the MAP price "and invoicing it for what ever the hell I felt like.
When the distributor realized we , one of the largest dealers, found a hole in their MAP Policy they liberalized it.
MAP is in most industries ( some even include sale pricing and timing ). It is not price fixing that requires collusion amongst those who control pricing of those who control a monopolistic portion of the market (ie all the mic vendors would have to get togather).

In guessing since you are looking at the GTQC you are set on finding that "Neve" sound without the Neve price? I've tried all the Neves and for my money Heritage Audio knocked it out of the park for genuine Neve sound. Just one mans opinion though. I'm sure you'll like the GTQC as well.

Good move!