New Boss Wazas....

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Also, for the DC-2w, note that you can press all buttons in combination like on the rack unit, the original DC-2 has a cam to only allow one selection at a time.
 
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Also, for the DC-2w, note that you can press all buttons in combination like on the rack unit, the original DC-2 has a cam to only allow one selection at a time.

From the demo I say yesterday, only 2 can be used at a time together, not all 4.
 
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I used to say this guy was a bit of a goof but I'm eating my words now, lately he's really starting to kill-it in all the various aspects of the gear-review/demo-video world.

 
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Hmm everybody must feel the lowered sales by now....
Roland/Boss never reissued stuff before the Waza series...now they do...the normal series uses SMD parts now....so the costs are really driven down...
Even my old work place has turned to making small pedals now, shrinking the series into pedals that still sells...meaning that the Made in Denmark stuff is declining fast now...

The other pedal makers are also downseizing on a faster rate now, the clever ones sold off their brands and such some years ago....
It is being streamlined very tightly now, the underground names are still very interesting....but you can see the trend....like Hollywood...recycling old plots in a new shiny armour....
One day it will wear out....some still think that all this is a golden age of sorts...well not for most of those who makes all this crap for a shrinking clientele!

What the change will be is anybodys guess...but it is changing rapidly, and some of it is quite cool, others seems to be tired and somewhat worn by now...
 
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I wonder if something will come after the pedal craze (modellers would be my best guess), or if we are just seeing the death throes of the guitar as a mainstream phenomenon.
 
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Well to me all of that is still in its infancy in many ways....it really needs to be more userfriendly.
And to be honest....they should stop "emulating" old stuff...because it will never be the same...they live in two different worlds...
Make stuff that sounds good and is easy to operate....

We are still in the cluttered unfocused phase...shooting wildly to left and right hoping that something will stick!
Guitarplayers are still for the most tech challenged people, like phone or computer users.....
And the next thing is this, if it is too hard or takes too long time...most will still drift away(that was also the norm when I was a kid, but made even more obvious today).

The Net has not made people any more the clever...there is just more unsorted information to shift through....mountains of opinions and stuff like that....
As a mainstream instrument I think it is already dead, it has big nice niche though....maybe it will change with the upcoming generations, as they certanly will grow tired of the tech craze.....our generations and the one before did invent this current thing, so we still think(for the most part)that it is all the rage.....

Another thing is also a problem, nobody takes stuff apart anymore, or see anybody else doing anything....
As most is digital today and a delivered in a package that is just for instant useage...
Tinkering with tech is now for people with special knowledge, the tools are also specialised and not found in many public places...
This will create a different dynamic, my mum and dad taught me how to solder, my dad taught me how to fix my own bike, he also taught me some basic mechanics when I was a kid and had mopeds and dirtbikes.

He also taught me basic knowledge in electronics and I learned about simple programs, just to show me how a computer would react to commands....(he wrote math books for his classes, programmed his own tools for the computer and so on)
Most stuff today is already embedded by somebody else...technical minded people are more rare these days, even making houses today is mostly prefabricated assemble jobs....don't make them go beyond that...they do not have any knowledge for that.

And so on!
Anyways that is how I see the world is going towards, and it is beginning to show in effects and all the surrounding sphere of accessories...... essentially most would be quite happy with simple easy to use stuff...just look how everybody is treating a compressor as something that is a black art...and guitar compressors are simple simple versions....(blend in seriel pedals with a musiclevel signal is really really lowtech...and just serves to compensate players lack of any real knowledge of compressors)
And everybody thinks it is the cats meow......read TWO's posts about it really!

Anyways enough of all of that....haha wrote to much as it is!
 
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I also think that we are in an era where guitarists in big bands don't have the exposure they did in the 80s. We have guitar magazines, but I wonder how many guitarists actually subscribe and read them these days- they used to influence buying decisions and also influence what kind of gear the companies would come out with next. On the other hand, with all the connection we have via the internet, I don't see companies listening to users much, either. So I think we are in the 'shot in the dark' times as far as gear development.
 
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...unless you want a Rockman, in which case the 2010s kinda suck. ;-)
 
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Maybe the next waza models will be a compressor, phaser, or an upgraded ns2. I'd probably bite on a waza PH-1r.
Now they've done the MT-2w I really doubt an HM-2w will be any time soon.
 
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Wow, the more I look at it, the more I like the DC-2w. A true multi chorus with no knobs is something I need on my board, and that's coming from a guy who hates choruses.

From the clips I've heard, all the presets sound good, and I won't be down on the ground fiddling with it instead of playing.
 
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I'm seeing a meme here: Wazacraft everything.

Gibson Les Paul Custom Waza
Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB Waza
Marshall 1959 Plexi Waza

etc...

(needs pics)
 
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Waza = add a switch and a couple of components to a pedal and charge 3X as much. (Okay, maybe just the SD-1 version)
 
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