Re: New Boss Wazas....
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!