JASON DONNELLY: Welcome to Gearwire. I'm Jason Donnelly and we're looking at the Mbox 2 Pro with Pro Tools LE 7, and this is actually the factory bundle so you're getting an additional set of plugins. What a great piece and it is quite affordable and it's a great way to get yourself into Pro Tools LE.

So here we have the Mbox 2 Pro. It's a FireWire MIDI and audio interface. It supports up to 24-bit, 96 kHz. You've got tons of outs and ins in this guy. In the front panel, you can see you have instant access to adjusting the levels on two inputs. We also have a monitor switch and two headphone outs so you can have two headphones going at once and you can adjust the levels on each one, and that's on the front. Let's look at the back.

This is the back of the Mbox 2 Pro. You've got your mic/line in 1 and 2, you've got your aux in, phono with a ground or stereo set of left and right quarters. You've got monitor outs and four line outs, 1/4" again. You got your SPDIF I/O, a couple of 1/4" stereo actually out for our line out 5 and 6, footswitch, word clock, FireWire and MIDI I/O. Not bad for the price and very affordable.

And so that's the Mbox 2 Pro by Digidesign. Stay tuned for some feature segments where I will dive into some of the plugins that come included with the factory bundle. This is Jason Donnelly with Gearwire.Com.