A new Wazacraft pedal is on the way

[Pepe]

Waza Craft should be a guarantee for a Made in Japan BOSS pedal. I think that's a good thing.

[Old_Iron]

Waza Craft should be a guarantee for a Made in Japan BOSS pedal. I think that's a good thing.

Agreed, but it breaks the line that has been of re-releasing their own pedals.

Now, any new pedal can be a waza craft.

With waza craft prices...

Before this one, I thought the waza craft line would finish sometime, but now it seems they can go on releasing everything with waza craft prices.

And why TB-2? There was a TB-1 before? Are they considering the original Tone Bender as TB-1?

As a collector, I have this tendency to expect patterns and coherency in the Boss line, but money can break any pattern.

[Pepe]

Are they considering the original Tone Bender as TB-1?

I think that's the answer.

[laurie]

I know there will be a lot of interest in this. But for me... at the anticipated Waza price-point... <yawn>

[sclitheroe]

That font...

[Pepe]

It's the original font of the Tone Bender mkII:

[sclitheroe]

It's the original font of the Tone Bender mkII:

Yes I know that..but it looks really weird on a Boss enclosure

[Gasgano]

Yes I know that..but it looks really weird on a Boss enclosure

Agreed. Also agree with laurie. Boring.

[Old_Iron]

It's the original font of the Tone Bender mkII:

Yes I know that..but it looks really weird on a Boss enclosure

To me, everything looks weird in this pedal, from the knobs, fonts, even the idea of Boss doing it.

But I want desperately to believe that Boss is capable of doing a fantastic fuzz pedal, specially after they said it took a year of development. (Ge transistors included)

But only when it land in my hands I will be sure of it, till then, we will hear only compliments from the youtubers that will be the first ones to have it, and they will not play against Boss.

[laurie]

From experience... anything with Germanium is extremely hard to get right - keeping tone consistency across a large manufacturing run is very challenging. I hope Boss has the chops to do it in quantity. If they have consistency challenges it may be hard on their reputation.

For what it's worth (and I'll be wrong, but anyway...)... I suspect that the pedal:
1) Will not stay in production for very long.
2) Will be *expensive*, particularly if it has hand-made / hand-selected Ge transistors.
3) Will be a massive collector's item in a few years and command ridiculous prices once manufacturing ends.

They say it uses "a refined circuit design for ultra-consistent performance from pedal to pedal". This tells me they have may have used some of the standard engineering techniques to remove the dependence on the individual devices - for example, additional circuitry to minimize the temperature response, compensate for gain variances, etc. If so, I'm not sure how much will be left of the soul of the beast.