The Sonicake Matribox II Pro is Here and it's only $299 Review & Tutorial Guide

[@paulhicks3595]

A good, comprehensive and very lucid review. All killer no filler, as they say. Thanks.

[@eddieholmes3236]

There are a lot of these, but this is amazing value for money. Great playing in the jam!

[@omen3766]

Shane that intro jam track...you were ripping there...very 80's rock....blues tones. It's got it all!

[@KTGHATS]

This unit is extraordinary. I have one. The touch screen is amazing looking in person, some of the stereo delays and stuff are so modern and expensive sounding, not all of them, but some of the sounds are really high end, like strymon-esque. The “studio reverb” he used is so expensive and lush sounding. Like a gate or something. This is NOT the multi effects you remember from back in the days, it’s more like a Helix quality, killer stereo patches. Maybe 10-15% of the patches were useless compared to other multi effects where like 85% of the, are bad. This is a useable, easy to navigate system and the sounds are just surprisingly great.

[@matthck1]

Does this unit have scenes or a set list feature you can have onboard for a live setting?

[@vincentvincent8798]

How about the latency?

[@toddflowers8052]

I'm impressed Shane ,nice demo and review......great playing too !

[@WeldyMcwelderson]

You and the band sound great Shane! Cool mix at the start 🤙

[@bradhignite8384]

wow man channeling some warren haynes there great intro wasnt long enough ,that is one of the best play throughs i have heard from you and i been watching for 5 or 6 years, keep it up your sounding great these days.

[@starmorpheus]

Super in-depth video Shane, always appreciate your hard work!

[@TheRange7]

Too late to watch tonight, but it looks and sounds awesome Shane. I'll catch the rest tomorrow. Cheers from Chicago mate.

[@ajelltone7320]

Been looking for an in depth focus for this unit. Thanks so much !

[@caseyodonnell6621]

I've played around with a couple of these affordable multi effects boxes. I have the Flamma 150. It's okay but requires a lot of tweaking. The original matribox really impressed me because there were a lot more usable tones right out of the box. The time based effects in it were really impressive particularly for only costing 100 bucks or whatever it was. Looks like they're keeping with the trend and offering a lot of value for money. Nice review.

[@thelolguy007]

This sounds great and your playing was awesome mate. What a great fit 👏👏👏🤘

[@BenjaminKanarek]

Great review! Powerful playing Performance as well!!! Thanks! I just ordered mine.

[@TheConspiracytheory1]

Once again Shane an absolute belter of a demo thank you

[@calbrockocat8728]

Sonicake makes solid and affordable pedals. I have the Twiggy Blues and their Octaver and both do their jobs very well. Can't afford Fender's $2k modeller extraordinaire? This unot is 1/6th the price. 2 cons for me- no Bluetooth and the fact that there is already a ton of units out there. Excellent in depth review, Shane! WHat a machine for $300US. Incredible!

[@timothy5974]

I have this little Bluetooth receiver about the size of a matchbox. Hooks my iPhone/ipad via Bluetooth for jamming. 👍 plugs into aux via 1/8”

[@justice100forwin2]

Awesome review Shane the channel just gets better and better and your playing is on fire! Both the NUX -MG 30 and this pedal are the same price and I would really value your opinion on which one you would go for as I am ready to drop my cash on one??

[@JTB--]

Great Intro Jam Shane. This Matrix II Pro reminds me a little of a Hotone Ampero with the effects and MAC/PC Software... and its build reminds me of a MOOER Effects unit. I have a hunch there is ONE Essembly Factory in China that makes ALL of these Chinese Effects Processor/Modelors for the different companies because there are just so many similarities between units. Of course each company makes their own "Copy Cat" FX, Amps, Heads etc... I've played a lot of these modelers and Hotone seems to have cracked the code the best so far on FX/Pedals, Amp Cabs, Heads

[@marklisa17]

Cant believe the flexibility of this unit. Can either add too or replace 6 pedals on my board. This gizmo has it all at bargain bin prices. ❤

[@mattzach34]

Looking to get this vs the valeton gp200 for live use every weekend. Which would you recommend? Great video btw!

[@duster722]

Solid intro Shane. Somebody’s been woodshedding!

[@raz3375]

Amazing review purchased one straight away

[@intheblues]

Glad it was helpful and I hope you enjoy it! :)

[@r.a.fiallos234]

This looks awesome-layout is extremely similar to the Mooer GE 250 (which I have), especially the back of the unit. Love the XLR outs. I actually dropped my GE 250 and it broke my big selector knob…still works but I’m unable to tweak settings on the fly anymore-only via USB/computer. I may have to pick one of these bad boys up because the mooer unit rocks but it’s pricier.

[@guitar_hiro]

This looks awesome! Between this, the dnafx from harley benton and the new nano cortex, I’m regretting the simplifier dlx I got last year 😅

[@bluematrix5001]

Finally someone that know how to review a Product!!..what is that cool green Guitar and which humbuckers are you using?

[@intheblues]

Thanks, BluesMatrix! It's a Maybury Guitars Upscaler Fishook S (made in the UK)

[@darrenhunt7838]

Wow! Excellent value for the money!

[@alanohagan6999]

Opening jam - awesome 🤩

[@leondantas]

Sonicake as a Hotone brand seems to be using the Ampero II as a base plataform for this unit. Do you think it has the same sounds? thanks for the video

[@LuisJimenez-pb3ge]

This may become my backup for my GX100!

[@ericj1332]

Great vid! Thx for taking the time. Can you dial in a dotted eighth note echo? I use that a lot on my Headrush Thx

[@11000038]

I trust your reviews. Ordered arriving tomorrow. Lots of pros but the decider was high impedance selectable for acoustic piezo pickups on my fiddle & guitar. I did consider the boss me90 but I wasn't really impressed with preamps, limitations, input impedance, or overall sound.

[@amaturemusicians]

Is there a tap tempo and are the foot switches "soft" switches? Thank you for your time! Really nice reviews by the way!

[@RadityoPramAdi]

I believe you can assign extra footswitch for tap tempo.. it looks pretty similar to Matribox ii.

[@davidsparks6146]

Just once, I would like to see some real world demo,...on stage, hooked up the PA system,... live at a gig... sound recorded live from out front of the PA so we can gauge how it would really sound and work in that environment. Not through an amp...

[@TheChristafershawn]

I just bought the larger Tonex pedal so I am good for now but thanks for the demo Shane. Peace.

[@carlos_castanaut]

Regarding the looper it seems it has a pre and post mode and maybe you had it in pre so the sound of your recorded loop will change if you select another preset.

[@RobertB-w1j]

Nice job. Had to ask, how close is this to a Helix?

[@BojanTepic]

Amazing value for money

[@jamalabdul2009]

I think Sonicake should call this unit “The 1980s Ultimate Emulator “! I’ve been listening to a lot of Phil Collins and I hear a lot of those guitar tones in this unit. What do you think is the best out of these multi effect units? You’ve done plenty of deep dive videos on several units and I’d like to know your opinion on which ones you like best. 😎🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@fredriksandegren1948]

But isn't this another Valeton or an Ampero? They have a lot together and thy sound really good!

[@zachpaynter2774]

I just ordered mine after the exp pedal on my gp200 died, i shook my head in disbelief when you dragged in a second amp in the tutorial... $400aud and you have dual amps in signal chain!!! I cant see much hype apart from the reviews on youtube, people seem to be seriously sleeping on this pedal. IMO the amps sound much more convincing than my gp200.

[@monsirto]

Looks nice but I won't be buying as I have the MG30 which is just fine for me. You really can't go wrong with Mooer, Valeton, Nux etc. They are all "recordable" and I am sure this unit is the same. What a time to be alive, eh!?.

[@hodshonf]

I have an MG-30 Looking at this for the balanced outs

[@monsirto]

@@hodshonf Definitely a plus! As I said, you can't go wrong and the quality is there in the cheaper units now.

[@markerf16]

I also have the MG30

[@matthck1]

Is there a scenes in the presets or a set list function for a live situation?

[@ejazz666]

Shane, can we get these here in Oz yet?

[@7139Harry]

Actually I wound up purchasing the original one as well and running it through the effects loop of the MB-2. Is there anything better to run through the loop for 129 bucks ? Dual amps, effects and endless combnations now available 😀

[@tonvks]

Is it possible to multi-select an effects on stomp mode?

[@evilpicklebluesband]

Great sounds you got out of it for me it's just to much going on to worry about.

[@jazzsounds8159]

Sweetwater has the left handed prs se silver sky in stock.😊

[@วงศ์ยศป้อมอารี-ช4ภ]

Help me please In Stomp mode Can on/of mudule more than 1 module Ex. Crtl 1 stomp for on drive and on delay together. Crtl 2 stomp for on Reverb and drive same Crtl 1 but low gain more than Crtl 1

[@TheWannabeBusker-z9c]

Sounds ok

[@alvinvillanueva4718]

Sir, is it possible to stock 2 or more drives in one patch or 2 modulation pedal in one patch?,.thanks in advance,.

[@jonlloyd2599]

Hey Shane, on an empty patch, when I add a volume pedal, it does not work. Any idea how to make the volume pedal work on patches made from scratch?

[@LouCondon-j1v]

Have you played with Any of the Fractal products especially the AXE-III and the FM9

[@seancook2264]

How does this stand up against something like the Boss ME90 or Valeton 200? Choices choices!

[@arnoldaduca1322]

Does it have a harmonist?

[@michaelogden5093]

Not seeing it on the USA Walmart link?

[@sage_ytc]

this or the valeton gp200?

[@1rwjwith]

As a player who at this point is just playing small bars, clubs parties etc I am still working out the best way to amplify the all in one modeling units LIVE? …In most situations the P.A. Is just not going to cut it. I have a Boss Gt-100 which is on of the older ones that came out the best way I have found now is to use an Orange solid state amp, pretty flat eq with the gain all the way down so I am only using the GT-100 preset, preamps , it sounds quite good but any suggestions on LIVE amplification?

[@onefatstratcat]

You can have your cake and play through it!

[@chrisgmurray3622]

Is it just me, or do all those overdriven presets sound the same? It certainly sounds as if the clean presets are, but we didn't get to hear many of them. The drum thing is all well and good, but is there a bass preset and looper, so you can build a normal sounding track. Many of the other multi-systems don't have anything with which you can make a convincing bass track, even though this is needed in order to make a realistic finished recording.

[@intheblues]

They sound wildly different on my studio monitors and iMac speakers. The video is 38 mins long with plenty of samples. Check the description

[@chrisgmurray3622]

@@intheblues Yes I watched the whole video, and I see there is a looper, but every time I hear about one of these models based preamps, they never specify as to whether there is a good bass guitar sound to use when building a drum based practice sequence. I suspect this pedal is no different. Why does no one do this? Also, maybe I'm hearing your personal sculpting of patches, which will tend to be made by you and therefore similar. I'm listening through a Yamaha 5.1 amplifier through Electrovoice Interface 2 speakers for my left and right with the Yamaha subwoofer and rear speakers. My EV hi fi speakers are a two way system ,but include passive drivers for an authentic acoustic reproduction. I'll try listening again, but I've noticed this before on your videos... maybe it's just the way you tend to make your presets... ie it is not a criticism. The unaltered presets did sound a little different,but all had far too much gain for my taste.

[@jonlloyd2599]

Hey can you help? I'm new to this. Do you have to have the unit on to download the firmware and software? Is there a special process? And which USB Asio driver do I need? Confusing

[@AceBambam]

so you can't assign the expression pedal to Delay time controls?

[@distortiontruthBOS-RP]

Two comments.1. Don’t always wind the guitar volume down when you finish playing, I like to hear the noise floor. 2. Sometimes please let a note or chord sustain completely before muting. Thanks. Like your demos, of course.

[@drfitbro]

Sir how is this compared to valeton gp200?

[@jundaryll1734]

Can i use two modulation at the same time? Like a preset

[@gusmileto8263]

Hey Shane could this plug into a guitar amp (Eg Tweedtone 20 on clean setting?)

[@mine_all_the_time0793]

Any word on the fender champion ll?

[@Derrickkhroun14]

hi, i just got it im plugging into the lap and in the DAW it does appear as connected but it says the hardware its set up to midi or something and the app doesnt read it it says device not connected can you help me? please! and there is a function in the global settings says in out A.Gt or E Gt which one? what is that?

[@Craig_KCfan]

Hi Shane, can this be plugged directly into an amp, or do have to have a effect loop, which my amp does not have. Thank you Craig

[@Kenji-ds9rf]

You should be able to use mono L out direct to an amp.

[@warzsawa80]

In this version. Can you put 2 delays at the same time?

[@BenjaminKanarek]

Yes

[@Xaelrik]

Hey guys, I'm looking for a unit at the moment. Can't decide which is best between this, nux mg30 or boss gx100. I'm interested with modulation, delay and reverb. I also like the boss md500, dd500 and rv500 but is it worth the price difference? Thanks :)

[@lucianomateus351]

This or Valenton GP200. Gp 🤣🤣🤣

[@hodshonf]

How do the bass amp models sound clean fingerstyle?

[@lucianomateus351]

Sounds cool 🤤

[@guitaraj27]

What is the bits rate and sampling frequency?

[@hodshonf]

16 and 24 bit, 44.1k

[@nestorgomez686]

Are the presets from the matribox II compatible with this one?

[@intheblues]

Good question, I am not too sure it is. I'll see if I can find out any info

[@nestorgomez686]

​@@intheblues👍 👍, i just bought the matribox II about 3 months ago and it's a great pedal i love it but now I want this one, let me know if you find out I appreciate it thanks

[@jigbabasa9835]

gp200 upgraded ! wow

[@musicdreamerish]

Nice, but so many of these things on the market, and the used market is filled with them for 100 dollars or so On Ebay. Vox Tonelab, the Zoom models, of course the Pod stuff. After owning a dozen of these things over the years, I don't even use the 2 I still have. I have the Boss Me80, nice unit, and an old Pod XT, not to mention Amplitube 5 max and rarely even use that. I now just put my Tube amp in my closet surrounded by packing blankets and a 57 and have a much better recorded sound than any of these boxes have ever given me. They are convenient if you are on vacation or need to play using headphones late at night, but even my old Pod XT is just fine for that. It will be interesting to see some comparisons with the other usual suspects as far as the sound goes. Good playing, by the way. I was enjoying the tasty phrasing.

[@Yogi231faza]

Może i dźwięk jakiś uzyskasz ale zawsze to będzie cyfra i nigdy nie uzyskasz z cyfrowego urządzenia takiej dynamiki jakie daję ci lampa gram od wczesnych młodych lat bo gram od liceum a teraz mam 52 lata i uwierz mi wiem co mówię przeszedłem wiele instrumentów wiele gitar wiele efektów i wiem że można się zamknąć w 8 efektach w 10 efektach swoim pedalboard i to wystarczy ale nic jeszcze raz powtarzam nic nie zastąpić i dynamiki lampowego wzmacniacza. Jak sobie grasz w domku o tak to możesz sobie grać zabawa cała się zaczyna jak to weźmiesz na próbę albo na koncert wtedy zobaczysz co to jest warte. Pozdrawiam serdecznie

[@padawan9127]

Hi can this do scenes

[@650thunderbird]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@crapmalls]

Tempting

[@roscius6204]

So I'll assume FX loop is mono...... Bup Bah

[@tiomkinnyborg2289]

I love these pedals. So much power and great sounds at a good price. But when is somebody going to release control software for Linux? All we get is PC(windows) and Mac. Windows is ultra spyware and Mac is an expensive walled garden with overpriced everything. The funny thing is that the OS inside these units is Linux so there is no excuse just laziness. So I'll pass yet again on this offering. Maybe next time?

[@emann2007]

Sounds good but that green relic made the video difficult to watch...🤮

[@zachatfield]

dude can rip

[@johnbrooke9948]

Another digital sounding box that comes from "china'.

[@trevorarthurson6815]

NOT $299 it’s $376.07.

[@intheblues]

It was said to be $299 USD/EU in the press documents which is in-line with the price on the links I posted including Amazon DE, Sonicake's Global Site and many others. Check the links to the Sonicake Site in the description, it's correct.

[@trevorarthurson6815]

@@intheblues Sorry, I thought you were an Aussie. My mistake.

[@richardsoane6192]

@@trevorarthurson6815 Hi Shane and Trevor, I just bought one now for AUD 269 (incl postage to Coffs Harbour) on eBay. I recently bought the Mooer GE300 Lite for AUD 1,049 which is pretty good so I cannot wait to compare. The Mooer you have to tweek the factory sounds just as much.

[@Kenji-ds9rf]

​@@trevorarthurson6815The Dollar/ Euro are universal currencies. Shane is catering to world audience, not just down under.