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chrisp200
New member
If I choose to get the MBox, do i still need a soundcard, or does it come with it? if not how does it hook up to the computer
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Carter
Total gear slut
It hooks up thru a USB connection so you can keep your old sound card. You do not have to buy a new sound card.
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chrisp200
New member
You mean the soundcard that come with the computer? does it work well enough?
Carter
Total gear slut
When you are using a USB connection it totally by-passes your sound card in the computer period. Put it this way, the M Box is the sound card. I hope that helps you out
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logan01
New member
The MBOX is a soundcard
As you are probably well aware the Mbox is a soundcard with 2 xlr balanced inputs (double as trs and quarter inch unbalanced for guitar, bass etc..) and 2 balanced trs outputs. It comes with Pro Tools 6.x and a bunch of extra light edition programs including smapletank, amplitube, live and reason. If you can get the MBOX factory bundle that includes these extra RTAS plugins :
- moogerfooger Analog Delay by Bomb Factory
- JOEMEEK SC2 Compressor by Bomb Factory
- JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer by Bomb Factory
- Cosmonaut Voice by Bomb Factory
- Maxim by Digidesign
and should only cost you an extra $40 - $50.
The Mbox also has two insert points for routing the input signal to external gear (e.g routing a vocal recording through a valve compressor before it hits the hard disc for recording). The only thing missing is a midi interface.
Those can be picked up as a usb version. Edirol do one called the UM-1SX and should only cost you about $70.
All in all the MBOX package is a great starter setup. Great quality card bundled with the industry standard for audio recording 'Pro Tools'.
Go for it, you won't look back!!
As you are probably well aware the Mbox is a soundcard with 2 xlr balanced inputs (double as trs and quarter inch unbalanced for guitar, bass etc..) and 2 balanced trs outputs. It comes with Pro Tools 6.x and a bunch of extra light edition programs including smapletank, amplitube, live and reason. If you can get the MBOX factory bundle that includes these extra RTAS plugins :
- moogerfooger Analog Delay by Bomb Factory
- JOEMEEK SC2 Compressor by Bomb Factory
- JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer by Bomb Factory
- Cosmonaut Voice by Bomb Factory
- Maxim by Digidesign
and should only cost you an extra $40 - $50.
The Mbox also has two insert points for routing the input signal to external gear (e.g routing a vocal recording through a valve compressor before it hits the hard disc for recording). The only thing missing is a midi interface.
Those can be picked up as a usb version. Edirol do one called the UM-1SX and should only cost you about $70.
All in all the MBOX package is a great starter setup. Great quality card bundled with the industry standard for audio recording 'Pro Tools'.
Go for it, you won't look back!!
bennychico11
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whoa...another old thread unearthed from the grave
