Sonicake Matribox Multi Effects Processor - the best $130 spent on guitar gear?

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The bang-for-your-buck is high with the new Matribox multi effects unit from Sonicake. How they crammed all of these sounds in this little unit and got away with charging $130 for it? I have no idea, but I was pleasantly surprised to find some fun presets and sounds quickly with the new Matribox.
I've long been curious about Sonicake, a newer entrant into the mini pedal and budget friendly effects space. Diving into the Matribox seemed like a good starting point, and color me impressed with what the folks have done in this unit! Not only do the effects and amps sound solid, but the interface is user-friendly, yet detailed, and the feature set is impressive for a unit of this price. Pair it with the option to edit and manage presets with a desktop editor and it's really a nice package.
All the sounds you hear in this video, including drums and bass, were produced with just the Matribox, an impressive nod to the unit's versatility. I've genuinely enjoyed finding my way around this pedal and think it might be a great option for certain players watching. Check it out!
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00:00 Intro Sketch
01:25 Overview
04:03 Specs & Features
05:25 Review
10:01 Preset Samples
18:24 All Reverbs
26:20 All Delays

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11 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 61

@commonsensehill372 Год назад

I bought this too. In my opinion, it was money well spent. I absolutely love it.

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

that's great to hear! it's a fun little unit - tons of cool sounds to discover and the price is right. Thanks for watching!

@jdotte Год назад

Fantastic channel! I started following you a few months ago and have been really blessed. I lead music in for church’s gathered worship and had been using the Pod Go, just upgraded to the Helix Floor. But this has its own place for sure! I’m so impressed by the price, tone and features. Will probably get one as a back up and for new musicians at our church. Thanks!

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Thanks for the sub - appreciate the support and glad you're enjoying it! Yeah, I reviewed the Pod GO and have been really loving that unit. It's in a different league, specifically with the UI and the tones across the amp models and effects, and obviously the functionality of a bigger floor board...but as an entrance into that world, the Matribox might be a useful piece for some. Get to know the multi effects world with Matribox, then upgrade to the POD or Helix? Might be a good route.

@unknownpresences5627 Год назад

I was wondering why I kept seeing so many soniccake videos popping up, cool to see new gear from them Cool stuff

@bpmore Год назад

Best demo of this pedal yet. Thanks!

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Pumped to hear that - thanks for watching!

@ferenclucas2842 Год назад

Great video. Tuned in because I ordered this right after I saw it demoed the first time. Love the use of it for ambient tones that's what I am after

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Glad to hear , thanks for watching!

@emill3186 Год назад

Love your channel! All of your demos have been so helpful in finding the right gear for those ambient sounds--demos which are hard to find otherwise. Would love to see you do a demo of the Valeton GP-200!

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Glad to hear it man! I’ll have to look that one up.

@GuitarBard96 Год назад

pretty damn good for the money. will definitely recommend to people who don’t have good gear yet

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Год назад

I have been playing for over 30 years and have great gear and i would still highly recommend one of these!

@tonytaylor5087 Год назад

Sonicake is solid. Have a bunch of mini pedals that totally work for anything.

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Right on! Which are your favorites of the minis? I have a couple I'm checking out soon...

@abraxasjinx5207 7 месяцев назад

I would really like a demo of the looper and the wah pedal.

@junito1957 7 месяцев назад

i order one from amazon will be coming in 4 days,cant wait!!!

@AmbientEndeavors 7 месяцев назад

good deal, hope you dig it!

@joseanjs32 11 месяцев назад

Lovely playing,i came here for a review,i stayed for your playing ,1+sub

@AmbientEndeavors 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the sub! Appreciate the kind words and thanks for watching :)

@paulguapi6488 Год назад

Great review, you learn a lot to make environments with a low budget, please, could you do a review of the Mooer Ge150 🙏

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

I'll have to check that one out!

@framzoid 10 месяцев назад

Whoa, you got that Slowdive sound without having the coveted (expensive and hard to find anymore) Yamaha FX500. I'm impressed !

@AmbientEndeavors 10 месяцев назад

Yeah definitely some fun shoegaze-y sounds in this one!

@mr.d.572 11 месяцев назад

I have one of these, it's my first multi-effects unit. Honestly wasn't happy with the sounds UNTIL I started running it into a compressor that has volume and tone control. That smoothed out the harshness and enabled better control over the bass and treble. Now it sounds fantastic. I have tweaked a few presets and am generally happy with the sounds. I'm primarily a blues rock player. Youre right, it lacks the nuances and refined sound of a more expensive unit, but for the money, ease of use, versatility and usefulness, it is hard to beat. And I'm surprised that I don't see it on any top 10 lists of budget multi-effects units. Instead I'm still seeing pedals that came out in 2015-2016! Surely this is better than some of that much older technology. What would you recommend as a next step up from this, something that is still easy to use and not too expensive? (maybe $500 and under).

@AmbientEndeavors 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and chiming in! I'd highly recommend the Line6 POD GO / POD GO Wireless. I have a few videos with it, but it really is a big step up with sounds/features and navigation. Creating and managing presets is great, and the amps are far superior to anything on the Sonicake, and they're always making improvements and additions.

@mr.d.572 11 месяцев назад

@@AmbientEndeavors Thanks, I'll take another look at that one (the POD GO). I remember scratching it off my list based on how it looked, the size, and the screen, and I moved on to looking at the Helix models. But I'll give it a new look and will check out your videos on it, thanks again 👍

@adamelos 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video. I bought it yesterday as it was on Black Friday offer, £78.20. So far, so good. I like the sounds very much. It's the first guitar pedal I ever bought, so I can't make any comparisons, which I wouldn't anyway. I just like it, and that's that. One minus, though. A power switch would be nice.

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Год назад

For $130 this unit is incredible! Show me another multi effect unit that can do what this does and has as many features for under $150? God i wish these were around back when i was first starting! The sound is very HI fi and clear/precise. This unit is worth buying just for the delay and reverb effects alone!

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Totally, such a great tool especially for folks just getting into effects and such.

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Год назад

@@AmbientEndeavors Yeah i really wish this kind of gear was around back in 1985 when i was starting. I played for hours and hours on what i had( Kramer Baretta and a Marshall combo amp and a few pedals)which was OK i guess but if i had one of these i don't think i would have put the guitar down!😁

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Год назад

@@AmbientEndeavors Oh i forgot to mention i did also use a Rockman X100 with headphones a lot at night to practice. this unit is like a Rockman on steroids!

@ArtoftheDial Год назад

Easy enough, PODHD 300. Sure they are used units but the fact it has multiple foot switches makes it a more viable unit for use beyond setup tone, record tone environments/purposes.

@briane.paulson 3 месяца назад

Just bought one

@AmbientEndeavors 3 месяца назад

Cool! How are you liking it or what are you most excited about if it’s still on its way?

@john1guitar Год назад

I need these presets, sounds so beautiful!

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Thanks! A lot of them are only slightly tweaked stock presets found on the unit 👍🏼

@These_go_to_eleven_1959 Год назад

@@AmbientEndeavors Even the high gain sounds on this unit are extremely good!

@lawrencegenereux8567 10 месяцев назад

Skip to 10:00 if you actually want to hear the pedal. If you're here for pontification, the first 10 minutes is excellent. Either way, it's worth the listen

@AmbientEndeavors 10 месяцев назад

Thx for watching !

@Jianemba 8 месяцев назад

The intro is beautiful. I just ordered this i am new to guitar. Does the looper allow you to save tracks, loops, drums on the devicec to upload to pc, or create an audio file?

@Mario-jn5zq 8 месяцев назад

I got it and it good a much better and easier amp emulation than my spider V60 . With my spider i needed to eq and all presets were nearly unstable.With just a little bit tweaking i got tones that are perfect for my taste.

@AmbientEndeavors 7 месяцев назад

glad to hear you're digging it!

@Mario-jn5zq 7 месяцев назад

@@AmbientEndeavors sorry I just read it now... I mean unusable instead of unstable 😅 sorry Auto correct

@michaelbonali6151 Год назад

Sounds cool! How does the amp modeling quality compare to units like the Iridium, the UA Dream 65 or ACS1?

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Honestly wasn’t blown away by the amp models. The bassman and matchless models stood out to me as solid, but many of the others were pretty uninspiring, at least at first glance. Of course you could experiment with IRs as you like, but I’d reach for one of those you referenced before this unit for amps alone. ..and again they are each about 3x the price of this, so just depends on what you’re looking for.

@michaelbonali6151 Год назад

Great, thanks for the objective feedback! I just recently discovered your channel & love your quality of work. Very helpful & enjoyable stuff. Keep up the good work!

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

appreciate that!

@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?

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Hey! So you can, you'd have to create those presets back to back, and you can use the footswitched to increment/decrement presets. Make sense? The footswitches let you either scroll through your presets OR turn on/off a module that you assign it to.

@thepatriotrocker8001 Год назад

Thanks I appreciate that👍

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

of course. if you're in the market for one of these, please consider using my affiliate link - you'll get 10% off your order and it helps the channel a bunch! it's in the video description.

@thepatriotrocker8001 Год назад

@@AmbientEndeavors Will do👍

@JeremiahQ. Год назад

Can you run this with the Helix at the same time ?

@AmbientEndeavors Год назад

Don’t see why you couldn’t, but there’d a lot of redundancy

@JeremiahQ. Год назад

Yeah I get you. I was thinking of using the Matribox as more of an ambient reverb pedal and the helix would be the main unit. Curious how they would sound together in a church setting