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Topic: M-Audio Black Box? |
Dean Parks
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Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2006 11:20 pm |
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| Anyone tried this unit? It's a pod-like amp modeller with efx. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 15 Oct 2006 8:03 am
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| I haven't, but like you I'm real curious. Local stores seem to stock the POD but not this - my past experience with M-Audio has been great and I'd like to give it a shot. Plus, it looks less expensive than a PODXT and just as, if not more, versatile. They also have a foot controller - $49. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 15 Oct 2006 8:18 am
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I just looked this thing up - wow. Musician's Friend is giving away the foot controller if you buy the box for $200 smackers, hmmm. It looks a bit like a veiled attempt by M-Audio to get you hooked on their own "M-Powered" Pro Tools programs, but so what? A dedicated S/PDIF output right into the computer and away you go. Hmmm.... I do wonder if their 100 presets are as useless as the ones on my Digitech Genesis 3, I'd really rather have the space for my own.
Black Box
MF Box + footie |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 15 Oct 2006 9:05 am
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I already use their Mobile Pre USB as a computer interface, with an ART tube preamp in front that provides phantom power to mics as well. I've ben looking for something to run direct that would give me the variables of aPOD...bt not the sound, which I find somewhat weird. There seems to be some tonal overlay in a POD's sound that bothers me, altyhough I don't always hear it...but it's enough to have kept me from buying one.
I woldn't min using their Protools version - it can't be any more of a brain-twister than Reason. I think what I REALLY need to do is either get a new Mac or upgrade my 500mz processor, though.
Then again, the easy way would be my existing setup, the Black Box, and Garageband, which is really underated as a recording tool IMO. It's especially helpful for me with left hand problems; I can use my Oxygen 8 as a trigger for instruments I'd otherwise play, and it works pretty darned well. No completed songs yet, but experiments have shown me it will work for what I want to do...mostly.
Then again, having a son who is a recording engineer gives me access to things way over the top if needed.... |
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