Boss Waza Craft: BP-1w PREAMP / BOOSTER

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Roland's RE-201 Space Echo and CE-1 Chorus Ensemble are still coveted today for their beautiful modulation effects and sometimes quirky hidden charms. One of the charms that they both have are their respective preamps and the subtly unique sound that each of them imparts. Boss realise that people are attracted to these preamps - some even purchase the respective units just for the preamps - so they've bottled them up and now we can all access them in the Boss Waza Craft BP-1w Preamp / Booster. If the flavours of those two old-school preamps aren't exactly right for you, there's a third 'natural' option that doesn't colour the tone as dramatically. Volume-wise, there's plenty of extra dB's on tap, enough to frighten the front-end of any amp, but you can up the ante by dialling in a little or a lot of Gain, which will give each preamp a little grit verging on low-gain overdrive. Every amp and guitar combo will react slightly differently and that's where the qualities of the BP-1w really shine. If you're looking for a super high-quality three-pronged boost, you should give the BP-1w a shot. I'm impressed ... and louder!
Today's tools:
Guitar: 2023 Charvel PA28 Prashant Aswani Signature Pro-Mod So-Cal + 2023 Fender Vintera II 60's Stratocaster. Both stock.
Amp: Axe-FX III Mark II Turbo running Cygnus X-2 FW 23.00 beta 2. Marshall 1987x and Fender Deluxe Reverb models
Cables: BOSS/Providence
Strings: Ernie Ball 10-46
Mic: Audix USA PDX720 (See: audixusa.com/p...
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum & Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX III MKII (guitar, mixing and bouncing).
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors (www.presonus.com)
Headphones: Audio Technica ATH-M50x (see: www.audio-tech...)
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
Backing track "Doobie Vibe" courtesy www.jtc_guitar.com

[@gcvrsa]

This might actually be the best overdrive pedal BOSS has ever made.

[@Eggsisreallychicken]

Certainly has the best demos at least

[@SimAlex20000]

Nothing will supplant the blues driver but this pedal… I may have to own one. What a fantastic concept and execution

[@craigharrison5406]

Well it will be the most expensive overdrive pedal boss has ever made. You can get get a boss SD-1 super overdrive pedal for a third of the price of this one. And the SD-1 is already a fantastic OD pedal.

[@fabianaryo5675]

That title would go to OD3 imo

[@solomonsanchez1897]

You guys didn't get what the OP was saying.

[@charlesfabri9771]

The CE mode has that lovely glassy compressed sound.

[@AnthonyBencomo]

I’m Grabbing one. Highly underrated product most likely. This is what makes virtual amps come alive.

[@MoogerTuber]

Virtual? Can you please elaborate how does this affect virtual amps? Serious question. Thanks!

[@AnthonyBencomo]

@@MoogerTuber yeah! It’s makes them sound more glassy for the cleans and the heavy tones “jump out”. Otherwise they generally sound dead to me. Unless you turn them up very loud. I can enjoy the amps at lower volumes.

[@MoogerTuber]

@@AnthonyBencomo Very interesting, thank you!

[@ChrstnSmrvllMsc]

I think "very hard to turn off" is honestly one of the best compliments to a pedal I've ever heard. Thanks for posting!

[@J_Fowler]

Mr Kingman, you are the OG, and your channel has remained one of the best. That Charvel sounds amazing in your hands

[@BrettKingman]

Mr Fowler, I appreciate it. Thank you.

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

I’ve been a big pedal board man for a long long time but in recent months I’m trying to do the minimal. With a good tube amp and a good Tele or Strat this unit sounds great. I bought an MXR Fat Sugar last year and that’s an incredible overdrive. I’ve ordered the Boss after hearing your demo.

[@Maxine_dj]

Marvelous review Brett will be buying one myself 😀

[@gph2193]

Finally a Boss pedal I might buy.

[@walterschock1270]

I have said before and say it again Brett is KING!!!

[@almessinger1834]

Very beautiful pedal, I like the CE sound on it. Glad Boss decided to make another another boost after the FB-1

[@danjack-son4871]

The pedal is amazing, and the playing as well! On my list!

[@bleeknoir]

Best Boss drive section pedal yet.

[@mikecorey8370]

Awesome playing. Thought I was at a Steely Dan concert.

[@jeffromek7073]

Sweet, melodic playing Brett. Pedal sounds great.

[@darwinsaye]

Wow, that is a really smart move by Boss.

[@URTH-yb5xh]

It sounds incredible unique Boss really came through🎸

[@faisletoismeme]

Your guitar playing is just amazing (in the intro song)... You really sing in your solos. Thanks for the demo and the musical inspiration.

[@BrettKingman]

Thanks! I have almost zero theoretical knowledge so I just play whatever tune comes into my head. A primitive way of working, I guess, but I get by. Cheers.

[@Earthstein]

Brett, You are looking good. "Very hard to turn off." I love that!

[@alexhuevera939]

Does jammin Boss BP-1W make anyone else really happy? Boss BP-1W is quickly becoming my favorite pedal. It's just so beautiful and sexy. Practically free and the second you drop her on the board that chill ass mofo gives you a Rich Dark Gushing Robust tone.. And you also get this cute little 1/1 feedback response usually too harmless to be forgotten. But more than that, the Boss BP-1 is just so positively alluring. It comes on the board like "do you want to cast a spell?" and I'm like "yeah BP-1W i do want to cast a spell let's do this shit" and when she attacks she's like "SPELLS ARE FUN" and I'm like "yeah they are SO FUN." She doesn't say some bullshit macho shit like "I will destroy you" she's just like "nah spells are fun and voodoo spooky.” And she looks so happy. I mean this is an inanimate object that literally brought my guitar to life by magic. It understands it's life is a temporary magical gift and the dude is just fucking loving it. I mean just look at her face she’s just so happy and cute as a button. I am literally never sad when Boss BP-1W is on board. IDK if she's gonna ever make it into the pedal HOF or not, but for now she a super chill pedal.

[@Gibson1976uk]

I seem to be using mine as a main overdrive at the moment :) it just happened naturally! the video is so right! hard to turn off

[@unknowndan4423]

I just made a decree to myself I needed no more OD pedals. Why must you tempt me so. That thing sounds awesome. Foul foul temptations!

[@SimAlex20000]

Man, this has “Gilmour”-type sounds all over it… so interesting

[@jeanfrancoisdubois9073]

Its a overdrive and boost i love it

[@MrPrincebass99]

Glad you're back in my feed again. Ya disappeared for a while. Ha. Great-sounding pedal and your playing is, as always, toney and tasty.

[@ernest5328]

The Boss CE-1 gave Andy Summers of the Police a little overdrive. I think of stacking this pedal before overdrives and distortions for lead solos .

[@GordonPavilion]

Brett, you a great player.

[@funkyfurballs1078]

Love your intro! Sounds like a great pedal too!

[@geoffspakes]

Sweet licks and a great demo dude.

[@tasteapiana]

At the start and end of this video I was reminded of Christopher Cross' sound back in the day, not the work of Eric Johnson but Christopher's specifically, punchy but with that added growl only to the mid range. Towards the end, through the plexi, it reminded me of what Angus Young got on Back in black from that wireless unit some consider the secret sauce. If you have a SG around, maybe do some research in that direction. Very interesting pedal. Think I will get a couple of them to play around with in every config possible. You definitely sold me on this one. Like those new digs, looks like a super comfy place to do what you do.

[@Beermaker2000]

Such good playing!!!

[@jamesrockford7858]

Cool lead guitar playing!

[@noelmcmahon4566]

Best reviewer going around

[@Marko9801ZG]

I WILL "need" this... Even though I have all boss OD, distortion, fuzz pedals aaand 3 EQ pedals for boost...

[@user-qd9mm5mt4i]

Fuck ya. Boss proving who is Boss.

[@user-jo8gj7fh9i]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

[@coldacre]

the RE mode sounds really good. pretty happy with my modded BD-2 for pushing an AC30... but this might be worth trying

[@OperationEndGame]

Might consider this boost for my Plexi1👍

[@sumithramachandranwatchyou5045]

Excellent ❤

[@johndebenedictis4310]

My JTM45 needs this👌

[@ShlomirBareket]

Getting a bit of the Mark Seymour 'do you see what i see' tone!

[@fadlyhans82]

It’s been 3 weeks I’ve been on my local guitar website for this pedal to be release. At least 4-5 times a day. 😅

[@MrPiperian]

Outstanding

[@ElcanaldeReyesManuel]

Buen pedal suena de maravilla

[@roscius6204]

4:51 got a very Blackmore Made In Japan 'clean' there..

[@lpgoog]

I can see Satriani liking this lol ❤

[@OrkhanJulfa]

It sounds like some sort of DOD250 but with more warmer, less fizzy tone.

[@joetoe9207]

It looks great. Best boss pedal? C’mon.

[@onethousandtwonortheast8848]

I am not a paid comment maker for this. This pedal sounds as good as the player. Very good. Sir, what is your recording chain for this video? You sound killer.

[@SMAWA9]

❤❤

[@Gern5838]

This pedal sounds great, but theres not enough clean headroom in Nat mode. You have to have the gain up pretty high to get a push.

[@ModNicGuitars]

Noice!!!

[@adamkrauss303]

Some great tones/overtones and very natural. However, wasn’t nearly as infatuated when played thru the Plexi and there are no tone shaping controls. Also, not sure if you mentioned, but I believe it has two switchable buffer modes?

[@paulkreeft2091]

Krikey mate !

[@chrisraatz6672]

righteous

[@divebomb99]

Still got this pedal, Brett? I am getting an "unmusical" clipping sound on mine with the Gain control above 1:00, more pronounced in RE mode, that occurs with a heavier pick attack. A lighter picking technique doesn't seem to induce it. Hearing it on a clean channel but it's masked playing with some dirt. Wondering if it's inherent to the pedal or if something is up with mine. Did you notice this at all during your testing?

[@adognamedshinji]

Does it go away as you turn down your level on the pedal?

[@kevinjokipii4260]

4:50 sounds rather Blackmorian

[@sethlover6498]

guess im the only one here that uses this as a natural clean boost... at the end of my overdrives...

[@LewWelchThePoet]

🤘👍🏿

[@tonyevans9999]

Is this in response to the pastfx preamp crunch pedal? Either way, it's a sound I love

[@softlightsymphonyband]

This is a continuation of their revisiting their own legacy products in modern pedal formats. They recently released two versions of a modern space echo pedal as well as a modern version of the ce-1. Makes sense that they would release a related product focused on the preamps of those classic units as well since many players over the years have used the vintage units JUST for their preamps even when they didn’t want the delay or chorus effects they provide.

[@atomic7731]

hi brett, great pedal demo. i´m considering to buy this one but i´m also thinking about the page from kingsley. i would love to see a comparison of both pedals.

[@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec]

Brett please! Stop showing me that Charvel, I'm going to be making an impulse buy! Just joking mate, great video as always. Can I just provide a little bit of advice? No offence intended. It's not 'Wozza', it's 'Waza'. Japanese word that means something like 'technique'. Pronounced definitely as 'Wah-zah', not the Australian 'Wozza'. Please don't take offense at what I have said, it just drives me insane when I hear words mistakenly pronounced. Not that I should comment because I'm not a native English speaker and I know I often have a noticeable accent. No disrespect intended.

[@kevinjohnbetts]

It's a bit like how Wampler should be pronounced more like 'Wahmpler' rather than 'Wompler'. I still use the latter. 😇

[@FastRedPonyCar]

How well would this do in the FX loop of an amp to serve as a pure volume dB boost for solos? If you think there's a better alternative, I'm all ears. I've got a Jackson Audio Prism I'm using for now and it's fine but getting the level just right is a challenge with it. It either doesn't really offer any extra dB or WAAY too much.

[@thesaj1110]

Yes and yes, take my money!!

[@BITESIZEJONES]

This is one of those you can do without pedals. I would have probably been more interested in this pedal without the middle switch idea.

[@iereh]

How did you cut the pedal in the video!? Thanks?

[@kevinjohnbetts]

I'm guessing the 'RE' pre-amp model is lifted straight from the RE-202. There is an option to turn it off with that, which I believe reduces the latency a little, but I like the colour it adds to the sound. Nice demo as usual Brett. As so often on your vids I'll say 'If I was in the market for something like this I'd definitely check this out'. 🤘🙂

[@sixstringsamurai77]

It's not. The RE-202 is a complete DSP recreation, this guy is fully analog

[@faisletoismeme]

Are you suggesting the pedal is digital signal processing ? I tought it was analog...

[@kevinjohnbetts]

@@faisletoismeme It's not easy to tell. If it is fully analogue then I was wrong and I'm happy to retract my comment. 🙂

[@kevinjohnbetts]

@@sixstringsamurai77 Then I was incorrect in my assumption. 🙂

[@sasaki-sasaki619]

いいね！

[@markhammer643]

What I find perplexing is that the CE-1 provides a +/-13V supply to the preamp circuit. How does this pedal accomplish that? Or is this simply a digital model of the CE-1's preamp sound?

[@peeming]

Look like boss OD-1

[@scottnoricsson2023]

With boosters in general, there is a rule of thumb - MORE IS MORE, you should have cranked both the level and the gain knob to show us just how much signal those tubes can't handle

[@Ic3Ang3l]

Hi Brett, I see you got the Fender FRFR in the Backround. How do you like it?

[@BrettKingman]

I have two of them. They're very good. Plenty of 'openess' and more cab-like than the very linear CLR's. So far, so good.

[@Omgwtfbbqftw333]

I know this is Axe-FX but how do I dial in a Deluxe Reverb to sound like 3:16 ? that's like the perfect clean sound to my ears

[@digitalninjatools5670]

Dammit boss - sigh, just take my money ( again....)

[@Ollonskog]

Hey Brett, do you still have your Yerasov GTA-15? Would love to hear this Boss pedal into the Yerasov. 😊

[@Unusednickname_1970]

Not sure how this is better than a Timmy, Spark, etc. Not dissing Boss, I’m a big fan, but this is an odd release IMO. No tone control? Hmmm.

[@RyanMcQuen]

I have a Spark and I still want it. 🤣

[@JimijaymesProductions]

It's based on classic boss preamps that didn't have tone controls. A normal passive tone would change the tone. A low pass would be nice but I like that they just kept the circuits and added a level control.

[@almessinger1834]

@@RyanMcQuenme too, and I love my spark!

[@drjflack9325]

How does the PB-1W clean mode compare with the FREE THE TONE FB-2 FINAL BOOSTER?

[@sheephills510]

Any reason you boosted the highs in post during edit? It sounds good but a little sterile and harsh. Is this pedal a treble hog?

[@BrettKingman]

1. I didn't. 2. Each to their own. 3. No.

[@sheephills510]

@@BrettKingman thanks man!!! Maybe it's my headphones 🙃

[@kimL93]

This is goes into return channel?

[@JHPRS]

Is it going into a real Deluxe or the Axe FX?

[@BrettKingman]

1965 Blackface Fender Deluxe Reverb, AB763 model in the Axe.

[@jdjones15]

This guy toans.

[@pp90djask2idjk]

Thank you. where to find the backing track?

[@BrettKingman]

jtc_guitar.com. It's called 'Doobie Vibe' if I remember correctly.

[@m2productionsonline]

🍆

[@whiskersb5296]

So transparent I can’t even hear it do anything.

[@mbeliv3763]

Can't hear the difference when on or off

[@Gern5838]

This pedal sounds great, but theres not enough clean headroom in Nat mode. You have to have the gain up pretty high to get a push.