Boy, I guess I have successfully hi-jacked this thread.
As an aside, regarding the aformentioned GTR set-up I decided to alter it a bit. With the 103 I changed the compressor to the ADL1000. This helped out a little on some of the grit imparted from the mic and really tapered the tail of the note significantly-the ADL clamped down and spit it out very quickly. No more than 1.5 to 2 db of gain reduction was ever applied. When I get a free moment I'll offer up another sample. This one has approximately 31 guitar tracks in the chorus section with a healthy amount of background and harmonized vocals.
I was using this newly modified set-up on another song from the same artist and my studio partner stopped in during the tracking to take a listen. He was in utter disbelief that this set-up would work so well. He stepped over to the Vintech and flipped the phase-none to speak of. Although, I did opt to slide the tracks (13ms on the 103) a bit until they opended up and sounded the way I wanted.
Anyway, just thought I'd share. Thanks for listening.