Boss WAZA Tube Amp Expander
Control Centre for Tube Amplifiers
Latest User Reviews
Good quality and rsponse
The WAZA TAE offers good options for playing live and recording silently in your home studio. It has an internal editor for manage lots of impulses and it let you import your external impulses too. It supports also come internal features like compression, reverb and EQ.
Cons: Unfortunately it let you use only ONE impulse at time, when other competitor (OX Box, Torpedo) let you use more than one, so you have to use other tricks if you want to use more than one impulse.
Pro: It's a very good attenuator and it manage well the sound from the head.
Awesome product
You can crank your amp up to the right spot and attenuate it with the Waza. It comes with fully editable effects. Awesome product.
This made my amp sound
I own a Mesa Mark V:35 and at home I could never use it at a volume higher than the lowest at which it would produce a sound. I needed some nice way to reduce the volume so I went looking for a solution.
Clearly the WAZA tube amp expander has two other competitors, the OX Box and the Captor X. After checking all the options around, the WAZA really surpases, to me, the competition given the nice sounds of their reverb (which replaced my pedal) and delay (which I don't really use) and the easier to operate sound than the OX.
It only loses a start in features for two reasons:
1. It requires a wired USB connection from my laptop
2. It would be really nice to have double microphone option in the cab simulator.
Technical Data
- Manufactured by Boss
- Released in 2019
- Average price : $1490
- Modern, variable reactive attenuator circuit for tube amplifiers up to 150 W
- Impedance settings for properly adjusting the load resistance of the amplifier
- Preserves the natural sound, the dynamic feel and the individual character of the distortion
- 10 Memory slots
- Versatile parameters controlled via GA-FC / FS foot pedals and MIDI
- Integrated 100 W Class AB power amplifier with discrete analogue design and seamless volume control
- Powerful DSP section
- Customisable stereo effects: Compressor, Delay, Reverb and four EQs
- 22 Speaker-box emulations with five selectable close mic and three surround microphone types plus four slots for uploading your own speaker impulse responses
- External effect loop with selectable serial / parallel operation and control input for switching the amplifier channels
- Parallel speaker output for connecting two speakers for live use
- Balanced XLR line outputs (mono and L / R stereo) for connecting a FOH mixing console, stage monitors and recorders
- Headphone output for quiet practice with fully turned up amplifier sounds
- Editor software (Mac / Windows)
- USB for direct audio recording and communication with the editor software
- Controls: Speaker Out, Line Out, Phones, Resonance Z, Presence Z, Rig, Reverb
- Buttons: Fx Loop, Effects, Solo / EQ, Amp Ctl
- Switches: Speaker Impedance, Input Level, L / R Gnd Lift, Mono (Foh) Gnd Lift, Loop, Level, Send Gnd Lift, Return Gnd Lift, Amp Ctl
- LED: Power, Write, FX Loop, Effects, Solo / EQ, Amp Ctl, Input Sig / Peak, Footswitch:
- Dimensions : 381mm x 297mm x 111mm
- Weight : 6.8kg
- From tube amplifier: 6.3 mm jack
- Speaker Out A&B: 6.3 mm jack
- Line out L/R: XLR
- Line out mono: XLR
- Headphones: 6.3 mm stereo jack
- Send: 6.3 mm jack
- Return: 6.3 mm jack
- FX loop: 6.3 mm jack
- GA-FC: 6.3 mm stereo jack
- Amp Ctl: 6.3 mm jack
- USB B port
- MIDI: In, Thru / Out
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