Avid MBOX Studio USB Audio Interface with FREE! Groove3 Subscription

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SKU: HL01115066_HL00370545

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Bring professional recording power to your personal studio. Powered by Pro Tools Studio, the MBOX Studio USB audio interface provides everything you need to make music and more. From finding inspiration and composing ideas to recording, monitoring, and mixing the next big hit, its intuitive design puts pure creative power at your fingertips, reducing your time to fun.

MBOX Studio is designed with only the highest quality components, preamps, and audio converters in its class, enabling you to capture and mix up to 24-bit, 192 kHz audio from input to output. Variable Z opens up a whole range of tonal options. And with built-in real-time EQ, delay, and reverb, plus independent cue mixing, you can deliver your best performances with low-latency tracking.

Features include:

Quickly Bring Your Ideas to Life
Easily create, record, edit, and mix music, plus podcast and live stream, without technology getting in the way.

  • Access a full range of functions right from the interface to keep your creativity flowing
  • Capture and mix music in pristine sound quality with four mic preamps and premium convertors, with the ability to connect eight mics
  • Record with mics, instruments, effects, and more with 21 x 22 simultaneous I/O

Create Grammy-Level Productions
Shape and enhance tracks with over 130 studio-coveted plugins—from authentic emulations of classic compressors, EQs, and other outboard gear to innovative instruments, reverbs, filters, and other sound-processing plugins.

Get Unmatched Monitoring Flexibility
Track and monitor performances like a commercial studio with outputs for two headphones, two stereo sets of speakers, and Bluetooth, plus cue mixing and a built-in talkback mic. No other audio interface in its class provides as many options.

Expand & Accelerate Your Workflow
Write music and score films and TV shows with Sibelius Artist. Manipulate pitch and time with Melodyne 5 essential. Automate your workflow with SoundFlow Cloud Avid Edition.

A Guitar Player's Dream
With Variable Z on instrument inputs, you can change up the tone of your guitar when recording direct to complement your effects chain. Play through the world’s greatest amps with Eleven MK II, bx_rockrack, tons of emulated stompbox effects, and more included. Integrate your own outboard effects. Reamplify tracks. And stay pitch-perfect with the built-in tuner.

Endless Creative Possibilities
MBOX Studio is more than the simple USB audio interface of years past; it expands and accelerates your workflow. Map its buttons to access your favorite functions fast. Jam with your iPhone over Bluetooth. Record voiceovers and design sound for picture. Podcast and live stream with Loopback mixing. Even use it as a standalone monitor controller, and if you've got access to two, you can capture your entire band.

Peform Actions at the Touch of a Button
Along with dedicated switches and encoders to control a variety of functions, you can perform frequently used actions fast using four assignable user buttons. Even customize the button colors to fit your design aesthetic or mood.

Work With Your Favorite DAWs and Apps
Get the freedom to create with what you want. You can use MBOX Studio with Pro Tools and all other popular DAWs, content creation, and media streaming applications.

Produce Professional Podcasts & LiveStreams
Record yourself and your guests, optimize each mic tone, and add real-time EQ and effects. And with Loopback enabled, you can capture your dialogue along with audio played from another application, ideal for podcasting.


Hardware Specifications:

  • Simultaneous I/O: 21 x 22
  • Audio Resolution: 24-bit, 44.1/48 kHz 21 x 22; 24-bit, 88.2/96 kHz 17 x 18; 24-bit, 176.4/192 kHz 8 x 10
  • Built-In DSP: Avid FX—EQ, Delay, Reverb, Tuner
  • Mic Preamps: Four (4)
  • Phantom Power: +48V switch
  • Dimensions: 4.1 x 11.3 x 8.9 inches
  • Weight: 6.1 lbs
  • Computer Connectivity: USB-C 2.0 (includes USB-A adapter)

Inputs & Outputs

  • Analog Inputs:
    • 2 combo mic/line/instrument inputs with Variable Z (impedance) on the front panel (inputs 1–2)
    • 2 combo mic/line inputs with Variable Z on the back panel (inputs 3–4)
    • 4 line inputs (inputs 7–8 shared with FX Returns; can also be used to connect four dynamic mics, which don't require phantom power)
  • Analog Outputs:
    • 2 stereo monitor outputs (Main and Alt)
    • 2 headphone outputs
    • 2 Hi-Z switchable FX Loops Sends
    • 1 Hi-Z out to amp (mirrors FX Send 2)
  • Digital Inputs:
    • 1 Optical input (8 channels of ADAT or 2 channels S/PDIF)
    • 1 coaxial S/PDIF input
  • Digital Outputs:
    • 1 Optical output (8 channels of ADAT or 2 channels S/PDIF)
    • 1 coaxial S/PDIF output
  • Other I/O:
    • MIDI I/O
    • 2 footswitch/expression pedal inputs

A/D Conversion:

  • Mic Preamps
    • Max Input Level: 14 dBu
    • Gain Range: 60 dB
    • Dynamic Range: 112 dB
    • THD+N: 0.001%
    • EIN: -129 dB (A-weighted)
    • Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.125 dB
  • Line Inputs:
    • Max Input Level: 14 dBu
    • Gain Range: 60 dB
    • Dynamic Range: 112 dB
    • THD+N: 0.001%
    • Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.125 dB
  • Instrument Inputs:
    • Max Input Level: 14 dBu
    • Gain Range: 60 dB
    • Dynamic Range: 108 dB
    • THD+N: 0.004%
    • Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.125 dB

D/A Conversion:

  • Line Outputs:
    • Max Output: 19 dBu
    • Dynamic Range: 110 dB
    • THD+N: 0.002%
    • Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.125 dB
  • Monitor Outputs:
    • Max Output: 19 dBu
    • Dynamic Range: 110 dB
    • THD+N: 0.0012%
    • Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.125 dB
  • Headphone Outputs:
    • Dynamic Range: 102 dB
    • Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.2 dB
    • Output Power: 120 mW > 32 Ohm
  • Hi-Z Output (Reamp)
    • Dynamic Range: 103 dB
    • THD+N: 0.002%
    • Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.3 dB

 


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