Anybody have any experience with the Boss Waza Air system? Seems like a great alternative for practice at home. Most reviews are positive online. Wondering if anybody hear has one or has tried one.
I only played it for a while, at a buddy's house. He was pretty excited to show it to me. It was cool. It felt like playing guitar in VR, like there's an invisible amp in the room that only I can hear through the headphones. There's a whole whack of features I didn't even touch when I played with it. Tones were decent enough. The price is a little too steep for me though.
Thanks for the replies guys, I’ll check out that video. I do agree it’s pricey but I’ve got two small kids and a wife that works at home right now so the convenience might outweigh the cost for me personally.
If I had a problem that this would solve, I'd go with a good set of headphones and maybe a Boss Pocket GT or a Yamaha THR or Positive Grid Spark for around the same cash. At least when the headphones break I'd be able to replace them.
I have a similar situation and the Waza Air has been a game changer. Before I would use the headphone jack on my amp but the Waza sounds so much better. It's easy to forget you are wearing headphones.
Any modeler, and not even the most current ones, will give good sounds through headphones. My Eleven Rack sounds great through headphones, and you can get them used cheap.
I used it for about a month and returned it-the clean sounds were VERY good, the gain sounds were a bit noisy and artificial. It was surprisingly good with pedals/pedalboards when set clean. I didn't really find much in the effects that I would use. The Waza headphone App isn't very good at all, non intuitive. The stereo/gyro system was kind of cool at first but after about 10 minutes I turned it off and it never went back on. Headphone comfort is OK. The plug would occasionally cut out for a few seconds, and needed to be re-plugged, never figured out why. What killed it for me was battery life and the fact you couldn't easily record with it. The headphone manual said 5 hours of battery life but I didn't really get anything close to that, maybe 3-I do wonder if mine was a defective set, as it was already open when I got it at L/M.
In the end I went back to using my Iridium or Simplifier with headphones, they're a bit noisier (no gate), and the clean sounds aren't quite so nice, but dirt is better, it always works, easy to record with and no batteries to run out. The cables are a minor annoyance but I'm kind of used to them after all these years.
If you get them, I would get them at Long and Mcquade, where you can return them in the first 30 days if they aren't your thing.
Great sound and easy to set up.
Transmitter safe to use with Strats and similar, that have front jack.
I made a short extension cord 1/4” mono plug to 1/4” mono jack that I attach to the strap with velcro.
That way transmitter does not stick out,
I found a set on L&M Gearhunter for $299. Great deal but I wouldn’t pay full pop. Sounds are pretty good, far from amazing. Headphones get uncomfortable after 20 minutes and I wish they were open back so I could hear what’s going on around me (I use them a lot sitting on the couch with family around).
All this said, nothing I’ve bought in recent years has inspired me to play more. They are so easy to use and enable playing anytime and anywhere.
I think the Fender Mustang Micro could be a contender with a decent pair of comfortable open back cans.
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