TB MBC 4+

The Swiss Army knife of mastering

TB have done something very clever with this app. While it has the usual polish and expected quality, the surprise is how much it does. For under a tenner it can credibly compete with Fab Filters Pro-MB, Pro L2 and Saturn 2. All at the same time. Yes, those apps are truly fab, and offer stunning options. But how many options do most IOS based music makers actually need. TB MBC offers more than enough to cover most needs and styles. It’s also more intuitive and easier to get to grips with than the sheer complexity of Fab Filters apps. So for those new to music making and those who are more experienced, this is a must have app.

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Just superb …. I use the whole suite of TB apps .. they are equivalent to or rival or surpass the performance and versatility of all competitors I have experience with 🙏🙏🏿👍👏👏🎩

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Built for iOS & iPadOS - 3 or more FX into one slot.

iOS/iPadOS and Apple’s baby DAW are the mainstay of my music, so if an offering for Mastering or multi-processing a solo track in GB comes along, that can place 3 or more functions into one FX slot, eventually I will try it. I don’t have any criticisms of TB’s MBC, and having the pre-eminent rival’s complete suite, it’s best to just point out the obvious.

Probably, if you were the Brian Wilson of your time, you could better a ‘packaged’ all-in-one FX like this. Using the individual component offerings for EQ, Limiting, Saturation, etc, you may well extract every last ounce of musicality from a modest mix. The main issue is practicality however - if you are in GB, you will run out of slots and be having to decide which critical aspect of Mastering you can do without (!). Luckily, it’s not as clear-cut as that, and the main rival without crowing about it, builds-in aspects of other functions, to their main EQ offering. BUT…

…this is an awfully competent FX suite, compact and clicked together and not only conveniently complemented with presets (‘Masters Fav’ and many others for component track/single instrument use, for example, which you can duplicate a safe copy of, tweak and rename as your own), but built with precision like a well-honed Rubix Cube kit would be. In short, ToneBoosters have produced a substantive alternative to rivals, that has made the shortage of slots in Apple’s mini-GarageBand for example, into a benefit.

TB MBC has a fair bit of expertise built into the presets, and the comparison mix/master I just did, produced good results. In a day’s time it would be hard to tell which was which - and the mastered song at the end, is merely different between rivals, but none of the leaders are bad in iOS/iPadOS FX processing. This is up there, and I don’t feel the need to denigrate alternatives in saying that. Did I say it saves you at least 2 FX slots?! That’s a lot out of a total of only 4 in GB, after all.