Hi DGA. Just saw your post. I've been away on holiday for a couple of weeks. I was very tempted to get the VL 3 Extreme but I felt I had never used my V 2 properly, so I'm learning to use that at the moment. Also I had the Nova Guitar effects already and an unused Boss looper. I'll wait and see what comes out next at TCH. TCH never give any warning or hints, and I know if I bought the 3 Extreme, the next week they'd bring out a new product! It certainly would have been a lot easier to just plug everything into the VL3, but it has forced me to dig into BIAB a bit more.
Lambada...,
I got the VL3 ext as a gift from my family for my 60th birthday. My younger brother has a V2 and he uses it exclusively in his studio. Lots of bells and whistles there. I wanted the Extreme for the backing tracks feature. SO I could play my BIAB .wav files while I perform. NO need for a computer or iPod at the gig. The VL3ext holds 300 min of loops or backing tracks combined in its internal memory. I don't save loops I just use the looper and erase the loop. So 300 min of Backing Tracks is a lot.
TCH was just purchased by The Music Group (Behringer) last quarter of 2015. So on their forum page they have a discussion thread called VL4 wish list or something like that. They said last year VL4 is a ways out due to that purchase "Don't expect a VL4 any time soon." But when they do announce or show the VL4 they are sure to drop the price of the VL3 at least $150.00 to $200.00. That is what they did with the VL3 when they announced the VL3ext.