BOSS WAZA: a Secret Tone Enhancement?

[@CB-ul2np]

I just bought a new one of these based on your vid and a few others. I had it boiled down to TC Poly or the BOSS WAZA. The BOSS won my heart.

[@marcxdestroyer]

Awesome video. Thank you for this. Had the TU-W for some time and I'm now just getting around to dialing it in

[@petruccirocks02]

Wow, the difference is immediately noticeable with the clean tones. Buffer all the way!

[@KipCount]

Just ordered one to upgrade my TU-2. I only sometimes like the buffer on my TU-2. It can be great with humbuckers and mid to high gain rock stuff, but when I'm playing cleaner, more vintage sounding stuff on my Tele or Strat, like surf for example into a outboard spring tank, I used to remove the TU-2 from the chain because I preferred it without the buffer. The buffer made the overall tone to icepicky and bright. Hopefully this will make my life easier by just flicking the switch depending on what I need.

[@FritzMania]

Love the look of the pedal 😍🥰🤑

[@Millennial_Mike]

That buffer is very effective 👍

[@gutierrezp49]

I’m sold

[@Gibson1976uk]

I use to make pedals and I can say this, having better quality parts is a very good thing

[@JK_35]

But the tu3 original has a buffer, so how does the waza buffer compare to the original tu3? The difference is you can actually turn the buffer off on the waza,

[@JaredGunstonTV]

My first experience with a buffer.

[@bojangles4704]

Not all buffers are created equal

[@savanaviolenta]

Waza's buffer is better. Hence the double price.

[@mcd5778]

Youre a good dude Thank you!

[@JaredGunstonTV]

Just doing my part 😊

[@robertyoung7027]

Sold me on this

[@JaredGunstonTV]

No one believes me. But my experience was good with 1.

[@LeCigareVolant]

What length are the cables from guitar to pedal and pedal to amp? Just curious

[@savanaviolenta]

Got me one. It is great.

[@metalcavy33]

All boss pedals have a buffer. It just gives you the true bypass option. Great pedal.

[@JaredGunstonTV]

Regardless to whether or not they have it, I have never had the option to turn it on and off the noticeable difference was too big to not film it

[@metalcavy33]

I agree 100 percent.

[@birdisthezv]

They do really? I've never even noticed the difference between going straight into an amp and having a boss pedal in the chain. Weird...

[@alexmurphy5289]

@@birdisthezv because most of it is in your head to be honest BUT this buffer seems to be a step above non waza buffers

[@kingfisher7960]

only modulation and delay pedals are. Boss drive pedals do not have buffers.

[@GuitarNTabs]

I'm just wondering... How much cable are you running?? The buffer setting makes quite a difference! Is it running through a pedalboard with a lot of cables, or?? Seems a little odd to me that your signal/guitar tone is so dull and muddy without the buffer setting, if not running long cable runs... Cheers :-)

[@JaredGunstonTV]

GuitarNTabs hi mate! personally im not a fan of the stock pickups in my ibanez sas. Im only running 1 guitar cable and a jack to xlr out. it is a dull guitar, which is why i had to make the video.

[@GuitarNTabs]

Hi there! Oh okay - so of course this particular tuner would react very differently with another persons rig/gear :-) Thanks!

[@JaredGunstonTV]

GuitarNTabs and the same for guys with emgs, seymors, etc. of course man. i really like it and i hope guys might dig it. :)

[@joachimlindback]

Thanks

[@shellsjoint]

when you turn it on is on buf or Thru

[@JaredGunstonTV]

Buffer on / True Bypass

[@EXATTIC]

This or the Polytune 3?

[@JaredGunstonTV]

I like this. But I think what ever u prefer. This unit feels solid to me.

[@spicecrop]

The Boss is much better. The polytune is only cool because you can strum all the strings and it will show you which ones are out of tune, but the display sucks and it tends to go sharp on the E string.

[@savanaviolenta]

@@spicecrop only the Polytune clip is good I have one, but for tuner pedal I went with the TU3 Waza.

[@AlanElias350]

You got the cheap version. You got the “inspected in japan”. Not the “made in japan”. The made in japan comes with the silver screw at the cover.

[@JaredGunstonTV]

Made in Taiwan, inspected in Japan is the NORM for waza, until 2 years ago they moved it all to made in Japan... they are not made any cheaper. But its for the consumer i guess to decide if they want that "MIJ" - so i understand your comment.

[@sgguitarzz]

Easily noticeable difference buffered

[@JaredGunstonTV]

RIGHT?? I just stumbled upon it while trying it out... truth be told i was hoping to hang on to it for an old board hahaha. I was using pretty subpar cables around this time, and was really surprised how it enhanced my sound for this demo.. :)

[@trevorwesterdahl6245]

Seems very odd to me, why would you want the pedal affecting the actual signal path?

[@JaredGunstonTV]

Trevor Westerdahl just tried it. and i quite liked the effect.

[@rogeriosartori555]

Sometimes colouring tone is bad, sometimes is desirable... A lot of vintage pedals do that and people love it!

[@paroblynn]

A buffered signal helps on long lengths of cable. So if you're running something over 20', you want a buffer in your signal (more than likely). This is easy to accomplish by running a cable to your pedal board and then a cable back to your amp. On a live rig it's easy to end up with 30+ foot of cable, not including a handle of patch cables between pedals. With that said, a buffer helps take the signal and keep it from degrading. Now as to the "boost" effect of the TU3W buffer, I had no idea. I actually thought I had my TU3W in bypass, since the CE2W, DM2W, and BF3 all have buffers. Most of these pedals (actually all of them) have buffers on both sides, so running through 8 buffers wasn't in my cards. I will directly compare the TU3W bypass/buffer mode, since clearly I wasn't in the mode I thought I was. Also, if you're using active pickups, you likely won't notice the effect of the signal chain degradation on a longer cable run.

[@669rd]

Well, on the positive side, even if the buffered signal is coloring the tone, at least it's selectable truebypass or buffered bypass.

[@spicecrop]

You want a quality buffer in the beginning of your signal flow, to not lose signal loss. The waza has that, or you can switch it off for true bypass. You want the signal boost of a quality buffer, that's why you hear a difference in sound, as the non buffered signal is weaker and loss of high end. It doesn't color the tone, it preserves it from signal loss, which is important with long cable runs.

[@nickyycicchetti9749]

Buffer is a bit noisy, eh?

[@Gearslayer92]

I don't think there is such thing as a silent buffer. Even active guitars make the same noise as a buffer.

[@007Elvisofnazareth]

Wow.. that's a DRASTIC difference in tone between buffered and true bypass. How long are your cables? Unless very very long something isn't right there. You may want to try some different cables.

[@JaredGunstonTV]

Can't remember it was so long ago. It was nice though for the guitar I was using cause I was quite low output pickups and muddy and it made it sound better hahaha. Anyways that was my honest experience with it

[@007Elvisofnazareth]

@@JaredGunstonTV In a healthy rig with a reasonable amount of cable the percievable audible difference with a quality buffer should be somewhere between "none" and a "tiny bit". I'm glad it helped your individual situation so drastically. To anyone else reading this, your mileage may, and most likely will, vary substantially.

[@JaredGunstonTV]

@@007Elvisofnazareth that's it hey. I try to review things in an honest way for example at that time I may have had a small patch cable running out the pedal but looking at the video now I used to use that planet wave cable. So usually nothing less then a 3 or 5m.

[@AlextheBant]

This video has nothing to do with the wazacraft pedal. It has everything to do with you having tone loss in your signal chain and a buffer solving this. Any boss pesal wouod have had the same effect. As they are all buffered.

[@JaredGunstonTV]

At the time of shooting it I hade never used a buffer before so found it quite intetesting.

[@personalfreedom2700]

Not all buffers are the same, and the included buffers in standard boss pedals are lower specs then the wazacraft version. Just depends if you like the sound difference or not.

[@beanbot12]

Hi!!!

[@INNERCONNECTEDUNIVERSE]

I DON'T LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU CAN'T TUNE TO 432HZ ONLY 436HZ SO IT IS USELESS FOR ME!

[@FritzMania]

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[@FritzMania]

=,u

[@MetalMayhem1978]

Jesus Christ that’s a weak distortion

[@JaredGunstonTV]

It's terrible hey hahaha I think I was using a vst just for the demo. A very old one hahaha