Mission Control is a NASA-Grade master volume control. There's a ton of monitor controllers out there, but they all have one major flaw... too many features. Believe it or not, this is a really bad thing when sonic purity or total transparency is desired. Switches degrade sound quality. The more switches you have in the signal chain, the lesser your sound quality. Don't you want to hear exactly what your mixes sound like?
Silver and Gold! Input and output jacks are Neutrik XLR jacks with silver pins. Silver plated, teflon insulated wire with silver solder. Wired point to point. Expensive 24 position non-shorting Elma rotary attenuator.