SMALL, POWERFUL and AFFORDABLE! Sonicake Matribox Guitar Multi-Effects

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Some of the new off-brand effects units have been getting ridiculously expensive! Fortunately for us, Sonicake has the Matrixbox, a stereo amp sim and effects powerhouse, complete with expression pedal. The price is $130, and this thing packs a punch. It has 99% of all the bells and whistles as the more expensive units. Let's check this out.
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@snapfinger1 Год назад

Young players have no idea how lucky they are to have access to the inexpensive gear & instruction on channels like yours.

@gameroftheyear1000 Год назад

Oh I know lucky I am haha my old man has been playing since 1982 and he’s also left handed so he was at an even bigger disadvantage when he had his choice of guitars and gear due to there not being very many pieces of gear in the wild. So having channels like guitar max, I’ll even say I’m happy that I have access to it and try not to take it for granted. Also with tab channels as well, I’ve been able to learn songs within minutes, my old man said to learn just one song in his day, it was a record player or recording songs off the radio on his boombox with a tape player and doing it all by ear. Yet another thing I try not to take for granted. Having both of these avenues available has helped me to learn guitar at a frightening pace.

@snapfinger1 Год назад

@@gameroftheyear1000 everything is at a frightening pace these days. A full length mirror is essential for south paw guitarists.

@neww0lf611 Год назад

Even for young players this is modern😅

@user-vh8oe5cz8h Год назад

Thats right!!

@camilosaavedralopez3757 День назад

Im 17 and just starting out. I’m really grateful. I have a Zoom G1on multi fx pedal, it’s pretty good, I can recreate some tones and have access to pretty much any pedal or tone configuration I could want. I can also play with headphones so I don’t disturb my neighbors. It’s great! And I’m glad I get to take advantage of that

@andrewawakened628 Год назад

Wow. Inexpensive guitar plus inexpensive multi-effects, but sounds like a million bucks! This is really the golden era for guitarists on a very tight budget.

@gameroftheyear1000 11 месяцев назад

Truly is a time to be alive as a guitar player. Most budget brands have really stepped up in terms of quality and that’s mainly due to modern innovation on having the pieces of wood constructed. Not only can they do it faster now, but more efficiently and accurately. Sure QC may let a lemon squeak by every now and again and a bad guitar will get out of the factory, but I feel like that’s a small minority today. Then you have brands like Harley Benton and Squier which give you a Floyd special or Floyd 1000 for a $400 guitar! Even back when I started playing with crappier guitars with Floyd rose specials, which are also not the greatest quality bridges, those guitars were still at least $600 to buy used due to the Floyd being on it. So we really have come far in terms of good gear at reasonable prices.

@zerosoma33 8 месяцев назад

Dude yea I’m so jealous. My first amp was a brand new Behringer GM110 which was pretty freaking fancy back then, I did well - it was a Tech 21 rip off - but it still sounded like ass with the DI out for worship and recording, and the speaker sounded like hissy garbage. Still, it was my amp for 2 years. My first real amp was a Crate Excalibur. Bahaha

@patrickgormley2806 Год назад

Max, I'm a 68 year old guitar player and have played for 50 years. I have really enjoyed your channel over the past several years because of your honesty and candor. I don't know if you know about the Washburn Wi64 but I think a demo of this guitar would be interesting . The guitar doesn't have standard tone controls. The "tone" knobs, when all the way up have the pickup in double coil mode but as you turn down the control, the pickup starts blending one of the coils out of the circuit until it's single coil. Here's the kicker, no hum, no buzz. The sound is truly unique IMO.😊 And yes Rock On!

@miroslavmp Год назад

This is brilliant tech!!! I'll have my eye on it from now on. ❤‍🔥 Thank you for introducing us to it, it's perfect for beginners!!!

@juancarlosgranados4425 Год назад

You sold the product to me with that intro.

@johnbutera5805 Год назад

He'll YEAHHH... cuz he's Max!!! He can make a tin can sound great!! Hahaha

@Falasi4 Год назад

Looks like a winner! I've got the Sonicake Boom Ave for bass and have used it live about 30x a year for the past few years - amazingly quiet running directly to the house system with the built in DI. Great and simple controls to get more than all the sounds I need. Fits right in my case so I never forget it. Works amazing with my passive 5 string bass or my passive/active 6 string bass.

@rickbrunet2559 Год назад

That little box seems awesome! The sounds are really good

@TylerJohnstonGuitar Год назад

Over 130 effects for the price most folks charge for an OD. Can’t beat that. Size is board friendly too.

@norseman61 Год назад

Great playing! It’s cool that one of the settings makes it possible to play just like you; the “Max Hormone” setting!

@kevinmyles6369 Год назад

Got it! Sonicake did their best making them really cheap for people without any big budget. Now after 3 months working with the unit I noticed couple unfortunate issues that makes it not perfect obv but still good enough for some applications. First of all there is a certain latency when switching channels, FX. Other point is when cranking the volume of any overdrive/distortion/effect value the sound starts clipping so that means they used cheaper components in China that cannot deal with high increasing levels so bare that in mind when using the unit. For the rest it's still fun and useful. Mainly at home for recording and such..

@Roanadi080 Год назад

Does the sound go off whenever you switch from one preset to another? Like there's a latency between preset when you change it?

@kevinmyles6369 Год назад

@@Roanadi080 sometimes yes, and gotta watch with the volume levels when you dial in amps and cabs cuz starts clipping when too loud so be modest with those settings. It's not a Kemper, Helix or Fractal but does the job very well if keep in mind those levels... You can always crank main volume knob if need more to come through FOH or poweamp

@AllanGildea Год назад

Cheers, Max! Great unit.

@wasteddude9387 Год назад

Dude, you're like son of Gandolph for me. I'm starting a MAX library of effects and guitars. No regrets, man. Thank you for giving me back my life. You rock and you rock. VIVA Max!

@bnastali Год назад

Love your reviews! I want it now...

@Rocktalk101 Год назад

great review and great sounding little pedal with a lot to offer I think I am going to have to pick one of these up.

@71ibanez Год назад

I recently got mine off eBay,£60 posted,brand new in box,good fun with plenty of features and really easy to use😊

@sgt.grinch3299 Год назад

That is a beautiful instrument. I wonder where I have seen that before. Smokin Intro Max. Make the guitar sing!

@codyclarke Год назад

I really like the sound on this. Clever little unit!

@audiomonster303 Год назад

I have amps that have no multi-FX just Real Spring Reverb, so this is exactly what i needed, thanks friend! I just rock out the living room so its perfect. Some of my amps just arent crazy on the distortion also, so this will add some JUICE to the FX loop.

@mikestroud9969 Год назад

Sounds good. Thanks man 👍💪💯. I purchased a Nux Mg30. It has Looper , drum machine, tuner. Everything. It cost me $300. Its well worth it. Love it. Just hope these things last. 👍💯🎸🎸

@user-ok7tl4rk7f Год назад

Been waiting for you to do a review on that pedal so I can believe what you say Thanks Max

@GuitarMAXMusic Год назад

No problem!

@bulletsforteeth5029 Год назад

Got one of these paired up with my TRIO+ for better control over drum demo's, works like a charm for what I'm doing.

@zit1999 Год назад

Oh man, that is good guitarplay right at the begining. Wish to hear more ✌️

@GuitarMAXMusic Год назад

Thanks a lot!

@Russell_Optics Год назад

Definitely a lot of features for $130 with power supply. I actually thought the acoustic setting sounded pretty good coming from a super-strat. Using it as a headphone amp with effects/looper is one of the biggest selling points IMHO for a lot of people.

@GuitarMAXMusic Год назад

Yes! The acoustic sim was surprisingly good!

@keithsmith9889 Год назад

To me the acoustic sounds like a vinyl guitar. Not bad but not really what I would have expected

@gameroftheyear1000 11 месяцев назад

@@keithsmith9889 in my experience, there will never be a masterful AC simulator. They all have enough digital processing sound behind them to be noticeably “fake” sounding and it’s honestly just way too distracting to listen to for me, so I just avoid AC Sims. But that’s me.

@mitchpattimusic Год назад

Sounds dope. I'm a solo performer and want something like this to replace my pedal board for my small venue gigs, but I'm absolutely not buying something expensive (Helix, Kemper, etc) for bars and coffee houses lol. This might be the one.

@calbrockocat8728 Год назад

I love my SoniCake Twiggy Blues pedal. It was $80CAD and has the OD, reverb, delay and compression all right there. This amp pedal looks you can plug diect into a cab and go. Who needs a $2K US amp these days if you are only practing at home with it 99.9% of the time?

@jimqartworks Год назад

awesome, thanks

@JTB-- 11 месяцев назад

I like having a Drum machine in these units. Sometimes it's what it takes to get the juices flowing for creating new riffs

@JanavarKan83 5 месяцев назад

I’m just glad there’s still demos where the host doesn’t play the stereotypical blues riff for 30 minutes.

@garmisra7841 8 месяцев назад

nice job. You play like Criss Oliva and everyone who followed him in Savatage, which - understand - is a compliment of the highest order as far as I'm concerned.

@Jackie_Rosewood Год назад

Looks very interesting !!🎸🎸🤘🏻🤘🏻

@matthesson5618 Год назад

Yeah great little pedal!!!! I feel the hardest part is taking the time to read the manual and actually taking the time to learn the ins and outs but once you do you're set!!!

@gameroftheyear1000 11 месяцев назад

This right here. Mine didn’t even come with a manual 😂 lucky I found the PDF manual online and went from that. But yes, once you finally get used to navigating the menus and figuring out how to make adjustments to fine tune everything, it opens it up wide and it’s fun to get lost in trying new things for hours. I personally just took the stock presets and made my own alterations to them and renamed them for different genres, it’s been a huge part to help switch tones quick depending on what I’m playing and with my pitch shifter, I can change tuning and playing style tone on the fly which is a huge bonus for me.

@sharkman4928 Год назад

I just ordered one!

@caseylee12 Год назад

Well, I bought their Rockstar multi-pedal after watching your video. This should be just as good, I'm gonna try one out. Thanks Maxx! (actually, I'll probably use the drum machine feature with the looper for practice)

@FrazySting Год назад

Damn that actually sounds really good.

@joshcooper1963 Год назад

ive used sonicake stuff for 2 years now and its the best really......budget minded guitarists will find none better

@ianbrown5486 Год назад

Good video i like this effects box will buy my first 😊

@johnborger Год назад

Ok, I'm going for the 20 points. -Vlad Von Emrik -What's a description? - One question: Why doesn't it have stereo outputs? - Why would you say the "Drum machine is the best you've ever heard?" It's not the best. Love the video! :)

@lukeshort7092 Год назад

Dude had to stop video and comment after opening shred...I've listened to you playing for years on your videos .always thought yeah he can play but not all that....but that shred you done here is awesome ..your a great player ..

@GuitarMAXMusic Год назад

Thank you! Rock on.

@cancelbubble6535 Год назад

It's worth it for the drum machine/looper to practice improvising. That's a big selling point which was really missed in the demo, IMO.

@gameroftheyear1000 11 месяцев назад

Eh the 90 second loop isn’t all that great and the drum machine I used maybe on a few occasions. I have it all rigged into my pc though, so loading a backing track is essentially better and faster personally. But I agree, it’s a good component, especially towards beginners, to learn how to play in time and obviously just to have fun and goof around. The looper is also great for that!

@celsopereiramagalhaesjr3216 Год назад

It sounds killer! Really liked it. I will end up purchasing it. Is there going to be more versions of this, like a version like the Gp200 lt and Gp 200 from valeton?

@mikescott5655 Год назад

Nice Hammerfall lick 🤘🏻

@Maxze Год назад

Ordered this one as a fastsmall substitute pedal until i get the cash for a HX Stomp to replace my Boss NS-2, IR Loader and compressor pedal and to get a Pitch shifter for 2 songs live instead of changing bass, will be nice fiddling with it :D all demos have sounded exceptional so i have my hopes set high!

@kevinr.3542 9 месяцев назад

I just ordered one from Sweetwater for $80 in excellent condition. I'm so stoked. I still use a Johnson J Station for my headphone/desktop set-up because of the convenience and the good stereo fx. But it's got some outdated tones from 1999. Its pretty stale other than a few tones. Amp and cab sims in 99 were garbage. THIS sounds absolutely amazing and has so many amazing features. I also ordered 2 other pedals for $50,.chorus and octave for my amp rig. Im getting 3 sick pedals for $130. We are so lucky these days to have so many affordable options.

@jeffsadie9496 Год назад

I love the sound of the Funky OD setting. To me, the hardest sound to get is the slightly overdriven sound. Clean Fender Twin or Roland Jazz Chorus sounds are fairly easy...and common...in these multi effects units, and so are Marshal, Mesa, and Soldano extreme distortion....but edge of breakup are very, very hard to get, and that's the one I want the most because of the type of music I mostly play. Very impressive.

@MiroslawBlazek-Gdansk Год назад

Try to put a low-ratio compressor before the OD and/or amp in the signal chain. Additionally, you may want to put a high-ratio compressor or brickwall limiter right after the OD or amp (with its threshold set at- or slightly below the audible OD breakup point).

@jeffsadie9496 Год назад

Thanks. I will try that.@@MiroslawBlazek-Gdansk

@MiroslawBlazek-Gdansk Год назад

@@jeffsadie9496 Going a step further, you can drop a high-shelving filter or EQ between the first compressor and the OD and raise some treble there. This will allow you to recreate the "bright" boost present in classic Fender amps (among many others).

@raideepu4 4 месяца назад

Gotta buy this

@BAK87 5 месяцев назад

I liked the HammerFall demo \m/

@stallionstudios Год назад

Thanks for the review. Have you reviewed the Flamma FX100 pedal that is similar? I have a few Flamma pedals which are cheap but great. Can't go wrong with a 30CAD pedal that is still metal and built well. Also there is the Valeton GP-100 in the same price range.

@blablybla 10 месяцев назад

Really cool form factor, but how does it stand sonically against something like Valeton GP 100 or Mooer GE 150?

@wasteddude9387 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Max. I'm currently on a destiny/fate binge right now for reasons that should bore anybody. I'm telling you because so far, I have the Groove ST from Kana Music in Canada, the Latitude Equator through Amazon, the Sonicake Matribox, the Boss IR-200, and I should be receiving the Harley Benton ST-62BK Hot Rod at the end of September. I'm also ordering cables and patch cords from Runway Audio. By the way, I was wondering if you ever considered sharing info about recording facilities. Could be war stories, the transition from 2-inch tape to pro-tools, your current experiences... I doubt I'm the only one into that stuff. Anyway, great video again. Thanks!

@GuitarMAXMusic 11 месяцев назад

Good idea on the recording stories! I might do that!

@thedeadaselvis5118 Год назад

I just had to order one. Its just what I'm looking for.

@australier263 Год назад

I'm No. 1000! Perfect!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🌄😘 The old red bone from line 6 is still so incredible too!

@cb-ez7pz Год назад

I had wanted to find out more about this unit. How did you record the output? To an interface, using it as its own interface or to an amp? Thanks

@martinclayton7260 Год назад

I'd love one of your Harley Benton super Strats, I love the colour. It's a perfect mod platform.

@celsopereiramagalhaesjr3216 Год назад

Only modification would be the sustainer pickup from Tony veinz

@ferenclucas2842 Год назад

I bought it and it's really good. More than enough for any recording I want to do the price us a no brainer

@keithsmith9889 Год назад

Sounds decent for the price and options

@rockerfred Год назад

I bought one but cannot figure out how to shut it off so you can use other pedals or have a clean sound with reverb

@todrattle Год назад

Max Does it emulate the multi effex floor pedals like your video of the distortion chorus delay pedal they put out Loved the zakk sounds and was wondering if it does it too

@officialdandaman Год назад

Aloha Max, I had a Boss Looper & my Peavy Vypyr VIP amp has built-in effects so I recently got me a Zoom G1X4 effects unit with 50 effects, drum tracks, looper, & a wah-wah pedal for only $135 & luvin' it. Check it out when you have time. It also comes with plug in for getting more custom effects online. I use da Zoom effects more than my Peavy amp. 😉🤙

@EmKruzmusic Год назад

I might get one

@ricke4240 Год назад

Cool.

@fernandoqueixada8741 9 месяцев назад

Can I use different effects and ir configs on each stereo channel independently? Like AC30 on the Right and a JCM900 on the left?

@chasedartez4218 Год назад

Hey Max, do yo know if your signature guitar model is available in Left Handed?

@williamvelez6522 Год назад

It's a pretty cool pedal...

@Folklabwithsrija 6 месяцев назад

What amph you are using in this sound test ? Sounds good

@CLEEPER1 Год назад

I bought one from watching this video. Lots of cool sounds but a lot of searching for the sounds. Is there a quick reference manual anywhere? It didn't come with one

@EdwardJohns-be6ri 6 месяцев назад

I've been watching your show since you had the mohawk. And then Behringer 412 cabinet I'll come in and lots of times I like your wife's channels too and I watch both your channels any other channel can you just say hi one of these days?😢

@ehdforlife Год назад

You didn't even mention the free software for editing. But, good job.

@sworuponguitar 11 месяцев назад

What would you choose Mooer Ge150 or Sonicake Matrixbox??

@junito1957 8 месяцев назад

MY 1990 JACKSON PRO HAS THE SAME CONFIGURE AS YOUR GREEN GUITAR HB IT THAT TOGGLE SWITCH A HIGH GAIN SWITCH?

@kantaigen7153 9 месяцев назад

does it have latency when recording to macbook usb ?

@thomasd9237 Год назад

Max, I'm disappointed in you ... I didn't hear you making Aeronca sounds with that (LoL, teasing of course ☺️) 👍👍

@saul2234 10 месяцев назад

Hi is this better than the zoom g1x4

@johnericksen2278 Год назад

You play so good. Do you play in a band? If so, what band?

@davidwootton8731 Год назад

How does the expression pedal sound ? 🤔

@adams.555 Год назад

How would this run with the bass?

@NofreedomofspeechonYouTube Год назад

Is it better than MooreGE100

@turtle-ps5it 5 месяцев назад

Can someone help me? I can’t for the life of me hook it up to my computer. It just says “no device found”

@zefMusic 8 месяцев назад

is there whammy fx?thanks

@batphink2655 Год назад

Hi Max how would you rate this to the Valeton GP-100? Much as I love my GP-100 I cant quite find or create the distortion I seek which is a smoother one.

@TheAmiciNoctis 10 месяцев назад

Were you able to achieve that distortion you were looking for? I'm undecided whether to buy this or the GP100. You can put two distortions on this one but it has less compared to the GP100... Help 😅

@frankfortmarine Год назад

Would have liked to see you use the pedal.

@djay6651 9 месяцев назад

I love my pedals, ut yhese newer multi effects are off the chain.

@russellbrooks3622 Год назад

Very similar features to the Digitech ElementXP that I've had for 7 or 8 years. I use it as an interface for direct recording on my PC, as well as using the PC for a practice amp and playing along with jam tracks on youtube. I'm sure this would be great in that role as well.

@jamdalf4343 Год назад

🤘

@peterhicks6328 Год назад

I would use the drum part as an affordable drum machine.

@David-mw8db Год назад

Getting high on their own supply was funny!

@100chords Год назад

Max this sonicake pedal has pc software like fuse by fender !!!

@ymelfilm 11 месяцев назад

the acoustic simulator sounds better the the Helix Stomp ?!!

@GeisT22487 Год назад

Sold...

@vesslewis9166 Год назад

I have a neighbor that loves my DigitechRP360XP that I bought new without a box from an auction for $25. A new from a store is unaffordable for him (outdated at this point too). This is an excellent "in" for him I believe. Shared.

@JakobCreutzfeld2562 Год назад

Same specs, same size like the Valeton GP 100.

@WarlockCore Год назад

Nice, just bought one for 116.00 fr ship new

@thepatriotrocker8001 Год назад

What I would like to know is, can you create your own tone patches say for instance a George Lynch tone and then a Van Halen tone and assign them to each footswitch so you can toggle back and forth on-the-fly?

@jaminjimlp Год назад

I'm sure you can and I'm sure they have a GUI interface for PC and Mac where you can do whatever tones you want and save to the user preset bank

@thepatriotrocker8001 Год назад

@@jaminjimlp Thanks 👍

@FoodFolksandGuns Год назад

You can, but the limitation is that you usually have to program them next to each other as presets (for example GL tone is preset number 198 and VH is 197 or 199). I have a similar budget modeler (the Mooer GE 150) and that’s the only way. No “scenes” within a preset like in more expensive units.

@DavE-FM545 Год назад

💥⭐⭐⭐⭐

@stevehobbs1199 Год назад

I need something like this little system, £130, can't go wrong, if I had spent £1000 on a high end end system, I couldn't do it the justice, I am not that good anyway, only a bedroom stringer.😊

@heavymetal6910 8 месяцев назад

The price is good, but those factory presets are abysmal

@BuckFlicks Год назад

Man, about 95% of those all sounded the same to me. Would have been nice to hear more varied tones. But I get it. Did you try the editor on the computer? That’s a sticking point for me. Gotta have robust PC control.