The unit was chosen over many competing units and options from SPL, Dangerous Music, Manley and Crookwood to name a few, primarily for it's low noise audio path and its extensive routing options for both the mastering chain and for monitoring.

The console is designed and built by the genius that is Leif Mases who has a great history in the industry for both his equipment and studio work. With production, engineering and mixing credits for various household names over the years including Black Sabbath, Jeff Beck, Europe, Led Zeppelin and Abba he has had a very solid path through the industry and consequently has an exceptional understanding of the needs and wants of a studio embedded in his equipment design.

Click here to see some of Leif Mases' production, engineering and mixing credits.

Leif Mases' equipment brand Maselec have made serious inroads to high end studio facilities worldwide since their inception and the introduction of the retrofit 9001 equaliser for SSL 4000 consoles. The Blue Pro Mastering line up of gear alone includes many other options from Maselec such as the now classic MEA-2 Equaliser, MLA-2 Compressor and our more recent addition, the MPL-2 De-Esser and Brickwall Limiter. All astounding pieces of hardware.

John Webber, Blue Pro's senior mastering engineer comments 'The MTC-2 is undoubtedly the perfect centre-piece to a world class mastering facility. Workflow is improved tenfold and the console has a few top class sonic tricks that makes it unique to other console considerations'.

The MTC-2 supports up to six inserts with switching to M-S (sum and difference) on inserts 1 and 2. Unique features also include the stereo width adjustment which is designed to add width to the stereo image without having any effect on the audio when in mono. The eliptical filter alongside is also a very useful tool which puts stereo signals below 40Hz to 360Hz in the centre of the image and can cut 'out-of-phase' signals, also without altering the mono sound. This feature is heavily used in disk cutting but is also very helpful in mastering for digital formats to help control recordings where there is excessive activity in these lower frequencies.

Blue Pro would like to thank Leif Mases at Maselec and Adam & Mark at Funky Junk for all of their efforts in relation to choosing and installing the MTC-2 at Blue Pro.