MBOX 2 Pro Announced

[dolivas]

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...s&ref=mboxproa

yawn, snore, steep crap...

get with the times Digidesign.

[Whoopysnorp]

Isn't the main complaint about the Mbox 2 that the preamps are kind of sub-par? I'd much rather see them fix that than rush a Firewire version to the market.

[smopo24]

Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp

Isn't the main complaint about the Mbox 2 that the preamps are kind of sub-par? I'd much rather see them fix that than rush a Firewire version to the market.

is that the only difference between the regular mbox and the newer version? what a rip. whatever happened to the focousrite pres that were in the origional mbox?

[Nubus]

We discuss it a little bit here.
haw haw.

I have to admit I would buy one of these to act as a dongle if I had an extra bag of gold bars lying around.
I had an original Mbox for a while and only sold it due to the speed of the USB on my poopy old iBook. It ran great using a super fast PC laptop.Come to think of it that was only after Protools went past v.5. Weird how when a new OS comes out your old gear doesn't work anymore.

[smopo24]

yea, a studio i worked for never switched from os9 to os10 because of their huge stash of pirated plug-ins. it caused a lot of other problems that we had to find ways to work around (none of which i can recall in my caffinated stupor). ahh, those were the days.

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by smopo24

is that the only difference between the regular mbox and the newer version? what a rip. whatever happened to the focousrite pres that were in the origional mbox?

The original Mbox1 did have focusrite designed pres, but whether or not they sound better than Mbox2 I dunno. I kinda doubt it, based on the size of the Mbox and all I'd imagine there are many sacrifices made to the pres in order to lower the noise floor. They also ditched the inserts with the mbox2, which I happened to use.

[Whoopysnorp]

Originally Posted by Nubus

The original Mbox1 did have focusrite designed pres, but whether or not they sound better than Mbox2 I dunno. I kinda doubt it, based on the size of the Mbox and all I'd imagine there are many sacrifices made to the pres in order to lower the noise floor. They also ditched the inserts with the mbox2, which I happened to use.

I've never personally used an Mbox but I know I've had multiple people tell me that the pres in the 2 aren't as good as the ones in the original. On the other hand, maybe they hadn't personally compared them either and they were just going by the Focusrite name. Who knows. I suppose whatever differences there are between two little pres like this are bound to be miniscule anyway.

It's pretty lame to 86 the inserts though.

[Gareth*]

This actualy looks cool, because of the s/pdif and word clock you could hook a realy nice preamp digitaly. That's something that you used to have to buy a digi 002 to do. Then you could still have the portability of the Mbox for protools editing and things like that.

[Gareth*]

I sort of take back what I said in the last post because "** Mbox 2 Pro does not support external sync at 88.2 and 96 kHz sample rates" What's up with that digi?

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by Gareth*

I sort of take back what I said in the last post because "** Mbox 2 Pro does not support external sync at 88.2 and 96 kHz sample rates" What's up with that digi?

yeah.
and whats up with not offering word clock sync on the 002? hmm. Could it be to sell the MAudio boxes that do?