mbox2 and airport security scanners

[dobryden2]

anyone know if the aiport scanners will ruin the mbox2?
i plan to take it as carry on luggage...

[ondruspat]

I highly doubt that x-rays or scanners at the airport will do any harm to your equipment.

The screeners themselves are another question, I remember a news report of a vintage microphone blown up by screeners because it was a unknown electrical devise!

[casperfun]

I would show them it, so they wouldn't think this electronic device with wires and knobs is not a bomb (as seen throgh the scanner).

In this day and age where they take your bottled water and nail cutters, I prefer my investment safe, instead of some person in airport security with no knowledge of audio taking the mbox and mishandling it as some threatening device.

Good airline security would question that device anyways, so its best to show them exactly what it is.

[rmessick2]

funny this is a topic,I purchased my mbox in florida and put it in my suitcase for the flight back to ny.they opened my suitcase and thoroughly inspected my mbox and it's contents.But at least they left me a courtesy note.

[dobryden2]

cant wait til oil runs out, travelling these days is a chore...ahh the days of turning up to heathrow half an hour before a flight...

[JMS40]

I regularly carry on a shoulder bag with an EQ/DI combo box, two heavy duty 1/4" guitar cables, spare batteries & guitar strings.
Only once in the past 6 years has the security scanner inquired about it as it passes through X-ray.
10 passes through security in the last 7 months alone.
Didn't even turn a head.

I am prepared to give an explanation every time. Actually I would welcome an inquiry.
Kinda makes me nervous when they don't ask...

On the other hand, I check my guitar in an ATA case and it often shows signs of having had a going over.