Boss Waza craft

agibbo

Has anyone tried any of the Boss Waza craft pedals? Stupid name, but the idea behind them sounds promising!

meltedbuzzbox

someone is selling one in the classifieds... they might be able to shed more light?

capo4th

If Wayne Rooney has anything to do with em I'm out. Would like to try the delay though......

Pete24v

I have the Blues Driver, standard mode is like a standard pedal. The custom mode is pretty much the Analogman mod.. I like it.

Fancy trying the Delay as well.

ICBM

Stupid name, yes. The switch logo thing looks hideous. I'm not keen on the pandering-to-snobbery 'Inspected in Japan' sticker either… as if Taiwanese inspectors can't do a good job.

Hopefully they sound better than they look.

jpfamps

The marketing dept at BOSS weren't having their best day...........

Having said that £129 for a DM-2 looks good value to me.

richardhomer

Does anyone know how 'authentic' the circuits are? I'm assuming the DM-2 for example, can't be built around the chip used in the original, as I'm guessing it was discontinued ages ago?

In other words, are they essentially modern circuits which sound similar to the old ones?

Johnnyseven

Pete24v said:

I have the Blues Driver, standard mode is like a standard pedal. The custom mode is pretty much the Analogman mod.. I like it.

Fancy trying the Delay as well.

Does the standard mode still have the fizzy sound when picking individual strings at lower gain like the original has? If so does the custom mode fix it?

Pete24v

I can't say I've noticed any fizz, just big warm drive on the custom mode and thinner with more high end on the standard side

Pete24v

This demo pretty much sums it up

agibbo

I currently own a Monte Allums Blues Driver...bought from this very forum. I really like this pedal, but I'm guessing there would be no point owning the Waza craft version too.

slate

The delay STILL isn't actually available yet - almost a year since they announced it .
Every retailer advertising them as "pre order" in the UK keeps continually putting the estimated delivery date back a month, every month.

Sassafras

Pre order from Anderton's. You should get a HUGE 5% discount. With the money you save you could buy yourself a bar of chocolate or a newspaper!

slate

Sassafras;543418" said:

Pre order from Anderton's. You should get a HUGE 5% discount. With the money you save you could buy yourself a bar of chocolate or a newspaper!

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randomhandclaps

ICBM said:

'Inspected in Japan' sticker either… as if Taiwanese inspectors can't do a good job.

I bet Blair wishes he didn't OK those cheaper Taiwanese guys who were charged with looking for Iraq's WMDs now.

joeyowen

I was at the Boss stand on the weekend at the guitar show, and I asked one of the reps, why include the old mode if the new one is so much better?

He jokingly said, how else are they supposed to hear the improvement? Which was followed by a very short, serious look haha!

The demos all sound good, but they are produced in such a way to make annnyy pedal sound good. I can't see myself buying one soon, i still feel there will be better out there

slate

joeyowen;544444" said:

I was at the Boss stand on the weekend at the guitar show, and I asked one of the reps, why include the old mode if the new one is so much better?

He jokingly said, how else are they supposed to hear the improvement? Which was followed by a very short, serious look haha!

The demos all sound good, but they are produced in such a way to make annnyy pedal sound good. I can't see myself buying one soon, i still feel there will be better out there

did they have the DM2 ?
And did the rep say when they would be available?

joeyowen

slate said:

joeyowen;544444" said:

I was at the Boss stand on the weekend at the guitar show, and I asked one of the reps, why include the old mode if the new one is so much better?

He jokingly said, how else are they supposed to hear the improvement? Which was followed by a very short, serious look haha!

The demos all sound good, but they are produced in such a way to make annnyy pedal sound good. I can't see myself buying one soon, i still feel there will be better out there

did they have the DM2 ?
And did the rep say when they would be available?

In a display case, and 'soon'

hugbot

The new one does sound better to me, original mode is essential to please the purists I suppose 

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ICBM

The original sounds much better to me.

ab2014

The original mode sounds fine and close enough to me the custom mode seems to distort/colour the tails too much for my liking.