Boss Katana Artist leaked....

Musicman20

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/boss-katana-artist-100.1902110/

Legionreturns

Ooooh... Interesting! Much moreso than the air thing. That's got my attention

p90fool

I'm thinking I may as well hang on to my 100w Katana now - with the footswitch, cover and expression pedal I spent nearly £450 on it in October, the amp itself is probably only worth a ton now. 

I vowed never to get involved with digital crap again, but the Katana suckered me in.

monquixote

It looks like a fairly subtle upgrade to put the V2 features into the HW buttons.

Doesn't make me regret my purchase.

JayGee

MIDI on a combo would be nice to have (and I really hope they’ve done that) but I wouldn’t buy a new amp to get it...

Voxman

Oooh - knobs on the side. Now for me that's a HUGE plus because I have limited space and can stack an amp on top of it!  Now I'm seriously interested!

 And they added new three way rotary switch knobs for Cabinet Resonance and Line Out Voice selection

Strangefan

Looks like boss it getting into planned obsolescence..... Shame

darthed1981

p90fool said:

I'm thinking I may as well hang on to my 100w Katana now - with the footswitch, cover and expression pedal I spent nearly £450 on it in October, the amp itself is probably only worth a ton now. 

I vowed never to get involved with digital crap again, but the Katana suckered me in.

Well surely it still does whatever you bought it for?  Though I've been keeping up on all the threads

I'd personally pay more than a ton for it, if that makes you feel better.

Legionreturns

Boss are not happy about the leak! 

They've been chasing this down today and having it removed from sites where possible. 

andyoz

Ahhhh, I'd assumed Boss leaked it on purpose...look at all the free promo already

EricTheWeary

andyoz said:

Ahhhh, I'd assumed Boss leaked it on purpose...look at all the free promo already

Yep. 

Bridgehouse

EricTheWeary said:

andyoz said:

Ahhhh, I'd assumed Boss leaked it on purpose...look at all the free promo already

Yep. 

Yeah, and they are in a "huff" about it and not generating any more fuss themselves at all..

Trude

How did they manage to make it look that ugly? 

monquixote

Strangefan said:

Looks like boss it getting into planned obsolescence..... Shame

I'm not sure as that looks like it's built for the V2 features which are already on the v1 amps unlike Blackstar who won't let you do a V2 firmware upgrade.

p90fool

darthed1981 said:

p90fool said:

I'm thinking I may as well hang on to my 100w Katana now - with the footswitch, cover and expression pedal I spent nearly £450 on it in October, the amp itself is probably only worth a ton now. 

I vowed never to get involved with digital crap again, but the Katana suckered me in.

Well surely it still does whatever you bought it for?  Though I've been keeping up on all the threads

I'd personally pay more than a ton for it, if that makes you feel better.

Well I've got mine up for £160, but it's still a great sounding amp even if it doesn't do exactly what I want.

If someone wants to buy it I'll sell it, but quite honestly the amp is probably more use to me than the fuzz box money I'd get for it now.

Just annoyed at myself really, I have an attic with about six grand's worth of digital studio gear at retail prices from 15 years ago, current value about £1.87p, and I always said I'd never go digital again.

Boss seem to be planning obsolescence at a record breaking rate. 

darthed1981

p90fool said:

darthed1981 said:

p90fool said:

I'm thinking I may as well hang on to my 100w Katana now - with the footswitch, cover and expression pedal I spent nearly £450 on it in October, the amp itself is probably only worth a ton now. 

I vowed never to get involved with digital crap again, but the Katana suckered me in.

Well surely it still does whatever you bought it for?  Though I've been keeping up on all the threads

I'd personally pay more than a ton for it, if that makes you feel better.

Well I've got mine up for £160, but it's still a great sounding amp even if it doesn't do exactly what I want.

If someone wants to buy it I'll sell it, but quite honestly the amp is probably more use to me than the fuzz box money I'd get for it now.

Just annoyed at myself really, I have an attic with about six grand's worth of digital studio gear at retail prices from 15 years ago, current value about £1.87p, and I always said I'd never go digital again.

Boss seem to be planning obsolescence at a record breaking rate. 

It's probably more the other way round, you are used to valve amps that are primitive enough to be timeless and the digital stuff is just like other digital stuff, tellys, phones...

However, as long as it functions the Katana you own will be exactly as good as it is today, the fact a marginally superior model has been released doesn't mean much except for value, and you can't take it with you.

darthed1981

Also, it might turn out to be really expensive, the new Air one and the cab both are.

Musicman20

I think it will be fairly pricey compared to the normal range. 

bingefeller

I wonder if they will be releasing any smaller Katanas......

stickyfiddle

darthed1981 said:

p90fool said:

darthed1981 said:

p90fool said:

I'm thinking I may as well hang on to my 100w Katana now - with the footswitch, cover and expression pedal I spent nearly £450 on it in October, the amp itself is probably only worth a ton now. 

I vowed never to get involved with digital crap again, but the Katana suckered me in.

Well surely it still does whatever you bought it for?  Though I've been keeping up on all the threads

I'd personally pay more than a ton for it, if that makes you feel better.

Well I've got mine up for £160, but it's still a great sounding amp even if it doesn't do exactly what I want.

If someone wants to buy it I'll sell it, but quite honestly the amp is probably more use to me than the fuzz box money I'd get for it now.

Just annoyed at myself really, I have an attic with about six grand's worth of digital studio gear at retail prices from 15 years ago, current value about £1.87p, and I always said I'd never go digital again.

Boss seem to be planning obsolescence at a record breaking rate. 

It's probably more the other way round, you are used to valve amps that are primitive enough to be timeless and the digital stuff is just like other digital stuff, tellys, phones...

However, as long as it functions the Katana you own will be exactly as good as it is today, the fact a marginally superior model has been released doesn't mean much except for value, and you can't take it with you.

Exactly. Camera guys do this all the time, constantly jumping on the new gear bandwagon every time a new shiny is released, as if somehow their current Really Good Camera somehow knows it’s no longer the newest model and starts taking less good pictures.

p90fool

I'm aware of all that, totally agree with you and am not really that bothered about the financial hit as it's already paid for itself a few times over, but I'm running out of room!