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Someone'll buy one and dissect it on the internet soon enough I guess.
In the meantime @timmysoft is right, these things will walk out the shop door without our help.
Even though I have a looper pedal, a Trio etc. I always just plug straight to katana. If your significant other is really into her tidiness if you have no spare room or office, garage etc. this will give you another option...
I think Boss / Roland pricing is all over the place. remember the first Waza amp, basically a fairly decent, if slightly plastic sounding, brown sound. That'll be £2.2K please, plus £1K for a cab! Then the "inspired by" katana comes out and it's arguably under-priced. can't help think that the success of the Katana means they are gunning for more margin missed first time around with this new one.
Waza pedals and Blues Cube look like two other things that are over priced IMO.
I think Roland make some reasonable products, but as a general rule the extra they charge over the competition for some things isn't really reflected in supirior build quality, it's kind of prosumer level, built to a price but sold for more than that.
I think things like the Boss pedals and Roland V drums are professional products, much of their other stuff often falls in between. Personally I hope there becomes a little more competiotion in the wifi/bluetooth 3rd amp market, I'm sure if somebody like Mooer released something of this ilk it would be half the cost and made in the same place.
On the other hand, Boss pedals, Roland amps, this new Katana thingy I keep hearing about, all seem (to me) reasonably priced. I must admit I was surprised at the cost of the wireless version.
Time will tell. If they can't shift them then there might be a bargain to be had in 18 months.
Either that or Marshall will do the same with the CODE, as it seems word has finally filtered down to Milton Keynes that 100W / 100KG valve stacks haven't been all the go since Motley Crue were bothering the charts.
Edit except the attenuator
Back in the very early 1980s we had a video recorder with a wired remote control, which seems absolutely ludicrous now. Perhaps the same will be true of guitars in another ten years.
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