M-audio Black Box -- Are The Models Good? Options

[muleboy]

Just wondering if anyone has experience with the Black Box? The USB / s/pdif outs make it singularly attractive at $199 [compared to comparable POD with only MIDI controlling, no digi out], but I'm wondering what your experience is with the modeling/cabinet simulation.

I gues what i mean is: does it sound good?

[Wilko]

If you're looking for inexpensive emulations, you may want to check out the behringer v-amp 2.

It's not too expensive as you can see here.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Gui...ects?sku=480674

There is also a rack mountable "pro" version for $70 more.

I personally havn't had a chance to hear the amp models on the Black box yet, but my dad said it sounded pretty good when he saw a demonstration of it at the local store.

I personally use a Pod XT, and if you can muster up the extra cash, I'd swing it for the rack mountable version (pod xt pro). My guitar teacher was saying something along the lines of it having an ability to loop the clean signal back through the Pod XT pro and reprocessing it to another track. That could be a gateway to some seriously huge tonal possibilities!

If you're short on cash though, I don't doubt the black box will give you what you're looking for. I'm not sure if it has the room/cabinet/mic type/position emulation that the pod XT does, that stuff is pretty amazing.