Avid MBOX Studio USB Audio Interface for Pro Tools

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.

Sound incredible with a powerful USB audio interface
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.

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
-Record with mics, instruments, effects, and more with 21 x 22 simultaneous I/O

Everything you need to make music
Plug in and play right away with Pro Tools Studio, MBOX Ignition Pack, and more. Whether making beats and parts with virtual instruments or connecting real ones to your computer for recording, you have a massive collection of tools, plugins, instruments, loops, and samples ready for you to explore, get inspired, and keep you in your creative zone.

Create GRAMMY-level productions
When you need to sound your best, nothing delivers like Pro Tools. Pro Tools Studio makes music production fast and easy, enabling you to work with audio, MIDI, notation, and 4K video all in one application.

Elevate your sound with world-class processing
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 and 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. And get Inner Circle rewards worth over $2K for free.

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.

Technical Specifications

Computer
Avid-qualified USB-equipped Mac or Windows-based computer (see details)
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
4
Phantom power
+48V switch
Form factor
Desktop interface
Dimensions (H x W x D)
4.1 x 11.3 x 8.9 inches (105.2 x 288 x 225.3 mm)
Weight
6.1 lbs (2.8 kg)
Computer connectivity
USB-C 2.0 (includes USB-A adapter)
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)
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
Included hardware and accessories
MBOX Studio USB interface
USB-C cable
USB-C female to USB-A male adapter
Power adapter
Registration card
Included software
Pro Tools Studio 1-year subscription
Sibelius Artist 1-year subscription (desktop and mobile app)
MBOX Control
Celemony Melodyne 5 essential (part of the Pro Tools Studio bundle)
SoundFlow Cloud Avid Edition (part of the Pro Tools Studio bundle)
Included plugins and sounds
All plugins included with Pro Tools Studio
MBOX Ignition Pack
Baby Audio Vibe Box-exclusive plugin only available with MBOX Studio
BPM Create-MBOX Producer Toolkit with sounds and samples
Brainworx A/DA Flanger-A/DA Flanger stompbox emulation
Brainworx Ampeg SVT-VR Classic-Ampeg bass amp emulation
Brainworx bx_bluechorus2-Boss CE-2 Chorus stompbox emulation
Brainworx bx_console N-Neve VXS console channel strip emulation
Brainworx bx_greenscreamer-Ibanez TS 808 Tube Screamer emulation
Brainworx bx_megadual-Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier emulation
Brainworx bx_opto compressor-all-around compressor emulation
Gauge LUSH VOX-parallel compression + processor for vocals
Avid Loopmasters Sample Pack (part of the Pro Tools Studio bundle)