I really like the fact it adds a loop to any old amp. Imagine all the people that modded amps to get loops and master volumes. Now you can get that without molesting a vintage amp.
For real, I have this nice little 20W combo with just enough gain but no loop. This wasn't even my main consideration for getting the Waza-TAE, but as soon as I used it with that combo and simply added reverb and delay from the TAE on top of running the amp wide open... oh dear lord I was in tonal heaven. After years of trying multiple schemes to get great tone at living room volumes, I finally have it... and it's so simple (well... except for the fact that you need a computer to tweak the settings, that's a bit of an annoyance).
@@yessitsme6884 It seems like a really handy device even if you don't need all the features it offers. I have a 100w amp with a loop and a great master volume. Even I could use this for silent recording or something. Even just the effects are worth it in my opinion.
@@brpadington Indeed, my "main" amp has all the power I need and an FX loop. I don't need the TAE for that one, but it makes for much easier practicing at home since it's much easier to control at low volume and it makes headphones practicing (or through small stereo speakers) possible. One thing I do wish it had was a passthrough for the speaker so I could use it for cab sim into the PA while still powering my cab from the tube amp. Would make it easier to do Wet-Dry too.
I played through one today with my Two-Rock Studio Signature through a 2x12 cab. It's amazing what this piece of gear can do. The feel as you mentioned is something you have to experience yourself, and it feels amazing. I've tried different reactive loads on the front, and it's amazing how it feels different every time. Selecting the 4x12 reactive load, feels like a 4x12 but you still hear the 2x12 but with a bigger low end without screwing up the sound of the amp. I have no idea how they did it, but it works. The beauty of the effects (reverb and delay), is that they come after the amp, so the amp isn't affected by impedance or capacitance like with a pedal. It isn't Strymon quality, but hey, just put a strymon in the effects loop and the amp itself won't be affected by it. The amp can be itself at all times. I ordered one on the spot. I'm selling my Two-Note Torpedo Reload.
The key really is how it feels. Which is so hard to explain. I used it and helped set one up at Boss Booth at this past Winter Namm. We had a Friedman dimed, and we it felt right and at the same time wasn’t ripping anyone’s heads off. I love it. Great video.
I just bought one because of this video and because I want to save my hearing while jamming in my studio! Even with ear plugs, my ears will ring for days jamming with a 100w into a 4x12! I needed this product to allow me to jam at safe levels! Thank you so much BOSS!!!
Sounds thick and alive. There’s already a few out there, but it would be cool to hear another sound quality/feel shootout between the Ox, Fryette, Suhr, Two Notes, and Toneking. It’d be great to be reassured they’re all good choices.
It sounds great, for some reason Boss didn’t make it look “expensive”. It appears that most research and development resources went into the inner workings of this device.
Your explanation of all the features on this was excellent. This was definitely the most interesting product released at NAMM. Unless the box weighs a few tens of kilos, it must be using many inductor-gyrator opamp circuits for all the reactive load options. The size of the old fashioned magnetic-cored inductors was the limiting factor on the number of emulated loads in load boxes. An inductor-gyrator emulates the induction of a voice-coil using negative resistance. It's an interesting subject area.
Wow, great demo and playing! I’ve been considering getting a Rivera Rockcrusher Recording unit (excellent, BTW) but the added effects loop and on-board effects on the Boss (especially for vintage none-master volume amps) for me is huge win and gives this unit an edge over anything else I’ve seen so far. Definitely saving up for this unit.
Thanks Rabea! Your obvious musical and auditory tastefulness and ability and intellect allows me to have confidence in your opinion about whether the Waza preserves the 'feel' and enjoyability of playing an excellent tube amp. Thanks again
I'm always late in the "gear chase" but I just ordered one of these units and cannot wait to get it. I've been searching for a video where somebody uses a 57 Custom Champ through the unit to see if it really does what it's billed to do (not to be found, I think) ... I'll be running a 57 Custom Champ and an Custom Edge Deluxe through it primarily but will eventually get some high power amp tests through it as well. Nothing but fun in the future! This video has been liked, bookmarked and I've subscribed ... great demo!
Hey Rabea, Is it possible to get some of your IRs anywhere? For purchase or otherwise. Thanks for another GREAT review, and all that great playing as always!!
Thanks Rabea. I've been waiting for more info on this since the previews at Winter NAMM. This will allow me to use my long neglected tube amps in home studio setting. Since I own neither a load box, attenuator, or IR loader The Expander appears to be the perfect single purchase choice. Plus it's a recording interface with built in effects and a physical effects loop. I'm in. Kudos to BOSS for getting it all under one hood.
Interesting to see so many people opinion regarding the price. Considering it’s rivals (Ox and Torpedo Studio) are around the same price, and the TAE offers more than both in terms of features? I wonder why so many are concerned at the price?
More than anything, it's probably because people were hoping that since Boss was entering this product niche, they would do so at a significantly more affordable price point when compared to the competition.
Hey Rabea, badass all of your shows are man, no bull shit, get to hear what the fuck everything sounds like precisely. Kickass man thank you for being real.
Loads are measured in amount of resistance in Ohms. You'll see the "Z" a lot. Lo-Z....Hi-Z = Low resistance or High resistance. Why is it important to know? Look on the back of your amp. You'll see a rating in Ohms for the speaker load you connect to it. For example: If it calls for an 8-16 Ohm load, That's the speaker combination you can safely connect to it. Speakers come generally in 8 or 16 ohm ratings. Using a combination of these in parallel or series, or both wiring types, you can achieve a correct ohm rating, even while using more than one speaker in a cabinet. One should also note, that you should NEVER power up an amplifier, and play through it with NO load connected. What happens in an amp's power section, is that it is going to output some Wattage. Which is a measurement of heat energy. No load, and that wattage will stay in the amp, and cook it. Your speaker also has a wattage rating, say: 8ohms, and 50 watts. That means it is capable of dissipating 50 watts of heat regularly. That energy gets converted mostly into speaker movement, but some does need to vent out of the speaker coil. Look up electromagnetism, watts, ohms, series, parallel, and you'll understand more. So, speakers in different cabinets, in different wiring schematics, All sound different from each other! Yeah, it matters. Speakers move air, and that hits your ears all in a different way, depending on so many things. When Rabbea was talking about your load box being made for a certain speaker cabinet type, this is why it matters. Resistance of that speaker will also change based on it's temperature, the movement of the speaker cone, and how much power you send it. Slight changes are all it takes to change the overall tone and playability of that speaker. This is why, to me, the whole IR thing is so interesting, and won't get old. Everything is so different, and, it just needs to be played with. Rock on! thanks for the video
between the UA oxbox, twonotes torpedo, and boss tube expander, which is tour favorite, for live performance, and studio use, if there is a difference, and why? thanks for your in depth demos. love your playing.
But the Boss! I have them ALL and this is by far the Best! The others require some mild change in my playing but the Boss requires no adjustments. You will thank me if ya buy one...
Rabea - how do you feel about the sound of the Boss as an attenuator compared to that of the Ox? I'm talking about how amps sound through a cab with mics on the cabs not the internal models. Thanks!
That’s the best explanation I have watched of what this unit is and does 😊 thanks Rabea! I understand what it does now and it’s pretty amazing. Love the playing and licks as always. Have an amazing day dude 😊🤟🙏
There's a certain spongy-ness a good tube amp has that makes the feel of playing it organic. You just feel more connected. There's more body to the sound. It's hard to describe, but you know it when you feel it.
Great review Rab. Feel is horribly subjective, but having had THD, Palmer and Sequis load boxes and currently using the Torpedo Reload the thing I miss most is that feel of using an amp (and possibly the wind blowing past my knees!). You explained this well and those who know will totally understand.
If you buy 2 of them you can go amp->expander->speaker out->expander->cab. Or you can stack even more of them, like 20 in a row! AND YOU CAN THEN HAVE 20 SEPARATE FX LOOPS!
Great explanation Rabea, appreciate the tutorial - especially intrigued with boosting the power of my existing valve amp and the loop. Foot controller too? Awesome Thanks
That is a phenomenal piece of kit. Boss has been knocking it out of the park in the last couple years. To echo Chuck, I think they may have priced it a bit out of the market, though.
What did Boss here with this piece of gears is just so advanced N demonstrate one more time their historical sense of innovation (im a old user of the Gt100 which is still my main unit N im not giving out 4 Now) i have a ENGL stereo tube stack (both Pow-Amp + Preamp in a 3U rack case) but that's right that it is hard to crank up the volume even if the ENGL 840/50 Pow-Amp has a really cool Gain Input knob that allows you to switch the power output to 25W mode ...so im considering 4 a while to buy 2 Pow-Soak/Loadbox --- there is folks saying to only buy Reactive type in order to keep the real dynamic N feel of your tube amp N i read a bunch of reviews recently 4 Resistive type (below 100 bucks) where dudes say that the price tag is not worth the sonic difference ...m@n this is really tough !!!! BTW the chords you're playing @ 30:20 R really beautiful you R becoming more N more jazzy over time ^^
Boggesh Zahim I believe what he’s saying is that, with the combination of his talent and experience in getting the best out of the gear he demos, he can make things sound the best they can sound, whereas out in the real world people have differing levels of musical talent and gear utilization knowledge.
Rabea, you’re doing great work with your videos and your playing is always a joy to hear. I would like to suggest no music underscore during your speaking. That’s very bad practice in any documentary presentation. Speak, or play music. Never both.
Hi Rabea, apart from the interesting technical aspects there's some very decent playing here! I actually liked very much what you did in the "clean" part.
Superb demo. I have just bought a Fender Chris Stapleton 12 watt Princeton. A fabulous amp but very loud, so this could help get the tones I want at a volume I want. I would love to see these devices demo'd with a small amp as well as a 100 watt monster. Maybe one for a future video? In any case I'm buying one of these.
@@illyadass No, I know it's there. It's just that that is the best feature it has. I can buy this as an FX loop for my OR50. Completely changes the way I look at amplifiers.
@@RyanPMcGowan if it's for recording, its no big deal, could add fx in the mixer or software. If you use as attenuator, then it's nice to have it adding the fx loop
@Christopher Buckley yea, when you get poweramp distortion it affects your reverbs, by doing this the reverb is after the poweramp distortion and beofre the speaker, that's so cool
Owning a Kemper it’s basically nothing that I need but I’d love to use it when I get across one someday! 👍 It’s a sick concept and it really sounded awesome on my Bose Soundlink Mini II! Your playing also gets sicker and sicker over the years! Nice to watch you rise into the world of guitar heroes😊
drabbster try sticking a Revival Drive in front of that kemper. You’ll be amazed at how it enhances the sound and feel. Especially, the high gain channels. FYI I know they’re expensive but I grabbed a used, mint for not too much. Sold a few pedals. Now I use the kemper way more.
but Rabea..it's "More Than A Feeling"...just ask Tom Scholz. The Boss TAE sounds like my kind of a DI box and more. I can think pf so many different tube amp sitiations that could be "expanded" by this nifty box. Effects AFTER the tube power amp, just like a studio..mic and cab IRs. My only downside on this is the cost. 3x what I payed for my tube amp (JCA20H), and 1/2 of a Marshall head. I guess I'd have to buy/referb/hotrod a few more tube heads to bring the cost percentage down...(yeah, my G.A.S. is strong). Edit: nope, I'd have to buy a BTAE for each one to a/b/y them all at once...lol
Awesome video once again. Given that you're the Delay-man I think it'd be cool if you checked out the Old Blood Noise Rever (Modulated Reverse Reverb/Delay) I think you'd be able to make some awesome sounds out of that thing.
Im still misunderstanding how Boss made this rather impressive piece of gear and didn't account for the fact that just about anyone who works in a studio puts 2 mics on a cab at some point... I am so used to mixing my eq by simply mixing various mics. Why only one mic sim??? !!! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY (they almost had my money)
The fletcher munson curve refers to the differences in amplitude at which the human ear detect various frequencies from low to high. IE , it takes more more amplitude for the ear to hear low end frequency than high end frequency in relative amounts. Not a techni call explanation, just a basic bit of info. Worth looking into though. Especially for geeks that like to use RTA.
The product is great. The review was great. Your playing was GREAT. Now let's cut to the chase: WE WANT "GRINDING GEARS 2"! We're throwing money at You, B!
Thanks for your video Rabea, very informative and wonderful playing and sounds :) I would love to see a "light" version of this with just the reactive load part to it (the left section). This would bring down the price and apply to those that just need a great reactive load to tame their amps and might have an existing fx loop and pedals. Cheers!
This device looks great but: to go all this very considerable way, with stereo outs & then not have stereo effects loop, for me, is falling at the last hurdle. If it had stereo effects loop I'd buy it, as it is, it's just shy of the mark for my purposes & its price. Enjoyed the video.
Haha the Universal Audio Light on. Ironic. Great demo of the waza tube amp expanded. I played one at Namm but wasn’t really looking for one then. But now I may be.
Curious as to which one you would prefer if you could have one unit and why? UA Ox or Boss TAE? I am on the fence on which one to go with. I want to connect either my 5150 iii el34s 100 or Bogner Uber Ultra to the unit and then run a Mesa 412 in the center of my PA speakers for wet dry wet. Kind of what you did on the UA Ox video. Everyone seems to point to the TAE over the Ox in regards to flexibility. I more interested in the sound. Don't care about flexibility if I can plug in and dial up a great tone with ease. Curious on what your thoughts are. Great video!
I'd buy one if it had stereo speaker outputs for my Marshall 2x8ohm cab but it's mono power out only! It does process "customizable stereo effects" internally through it's XLR L/R Line Outs though (possibly USB too).
that resonance-punch thing was titled in Rockton's taboo artist model as 'reactance' in the cab sim menu as a sole parameter...adding up the natural bounce of the speaker paper as the following, which in return bring up with the lower-field echo-like bump...so that is the keyword in also EDM business I guess...whaaaat
A big question is: "Can it be used as a pedal-platform?". Can you use a preamp-pedal with its built-in power-amp/cab-emu to achieve desired effects in regards to live, recording, practice, etc.? For the guitarist-on-the-go looking to achieve optimal quality while on the go while using as little equipment as possible, these are things that can be a huge selling point. Please elaborate further (if time allows)!
Rabea - I have the OX Box and use it mostly to play/practice silently at home. With some minor tweaking of the mics/cabs/effects I can get a sound that basically feels like I'm in the studio with the band tracking the album I'm playing along to... Do you feel like the Boss unit does a better job of reproducing the sound/feel of playing the amp live when running it through the XLR outs? If so, what's better?
Hey Rabea - You are here and when playing Victory Amps (another video) playing VERY good and interesting stuff - use that and dont destroy it with with some boring metal standard stuff (regular metal bas drums etc). Compose unique like Debusy Stones Bach Steppenwolf etc. You do thing other dont - unique!
@rabeamassaad honest question... I like, but do not play high gain music, and I don't need and FX loop in my chain... I also don't anticipate going down the wormhole of IRs. I DO need a great reactive load box, cab sim, and recording interface for guitar, along with some studio quality reverb, and the ability play and record silently through HPs. I am leaning towards the OX for this but the features of the WAZA are pulling me even though I don't think I would use them all...please help! I trust your opinion because I know you have used both o these products a bunch... thanks!
I really like the fact it adds a loop to any old amp. Imagine all the people that modded amps to get loops and master volumes. Now you can get that without molesting a vintage amp.
For real, I have this nice little 20W combo with just enough gain but no loop. This wasn't even my main consideration for getting the Waza-TAE, but as soon as I used it with that combo and simply added reverb and delay from the TAE on top of running the amp wide open... oh dear lord I was in tonal heaven. After years of trying multiple schemes to get great tone at living room volumes, I finally have it... and it's so simple (well... except for the fact that you need a computer to tweak the settings, that's a bit of an annoyance).
@@yessitsme6884 It seems like a really handy device even if you don't need all the features it offers. I have a 100w amp with a loop and a great master volume. Even I could use this for silent recording or something. Even just the effects are worth it in my opinion.
@@brpadington Indeed, my "main" amp has all the power I need and an FX loop. I don't need the TAE for that one, but it makes for much easier practicing at home since it's much easier to control at low volume and it makes headphones practicing (or through small stereo speakers) possible. One thing I do wish it had was a passthrough for the speaker so I could use it for cab sim into the PA while still powering my cab from the tube amp. Would make it easier to do Wet-Dry too.
God that riff at the start hits harder than an exam you forget to study for
I know the pain 😂
So the one I’m taking today? Lmao
@@ryanlusby569 mine start in a week 😂
Yeah mate, that riff is awesome! If you want to hear the complete song then hit that:
ua-cam.com/video/Hm9povCfUH0/v-deo.html
You're welcome ;)
that bass just kicks you in the groin unexpectedly. I liked it.
My only problem is I'd have sell my tube amps to afford it, thus negating the need for it.
same here :(
I can afford it,just dont see a need for it. I have a Rivera rock crusher recording,thats plenty for my needs.
cast390 Although the Boss looks great, I also have my Rivera Rockcrusher Recording and I love it. I doubt I’d need anything else.
Jacob Garrison I’ll wait for the Joyo or Mooer knockoff of it lol.
It's about size and weight
I played through one today with my Two-Rock Studio Signature through a 2x12 cab. It's amazing what this piece of gear can do. The feel as you mentioned is something you have to experience yourself, and it feels amazing. I've tried different reactive loads on the front, and it's amazing how it feels different every time. Selecting the 4x12 reactive load, feels like a 4x12 but you still hear the 2x12 but with a bigger low end without screwing up the sound of the amp. I have no idea how they did it, but it works.
The beauty of the effects (reverb and delay), is that they come after the amp, so the amp isn't affected by impedance or capacitance like with a pedal. It isn't Strymon quality, but hey, just put a strymon in the effects loop and the amp itself won't be affected by it. The amp can be itself at all times.
I ordered one on the spot.
I'm selling my Two-Note Torpedo Reload.
i'm so excited for about 10 years from now when this sort of technology is just built into your head!
literally Your head
I think the Pete Thorn Surh head has this... the 15 watter...
10? Shit, probably only 1 or 2 years away!
The key really is how it feels. Which is so hard to explain. I used it and helped set one up at Boss Booth at this past Winter Namm. We had a Friedman dimed, and we it felt right and at the same time wasn’t ripping anyone’s heads off. I love it. Great video.
That is possibly THE best playing and tone I’ve heard from you ever. That alone says it all...😱🙌🏼 I WANT ONE
Boss is on fire with releasing new gear recently :D
Wojtasguitar1 their user interfaces still suck
It’d be interesting if they made an improved boss waza amp head + cab, I wonder how much better (if) it would be
If I ever plug into an amplifier and make even a squeak that sounds as good as Rabea’s tone in literally EVERY video, I’ll have achieved my goals.
I just bought one because of this video and because I want to save my hearing while jamming in my studio! Even with ear plugs, my ears will ring for days jamming with a 100w into a 4x12! I needed this product to allow me to jam at safe levels! Thank you so much BOSS!!!
Sounds thick and alive. There’s already a few out there, but it would be cool to hear another sound quality/feel shootout between the Ox, Fryette, Suhr, Two Notes, and Toneking. It’d be great to be reassured they’re all good choices.
It sounds great, for some reason Boss didn’t make it look “expensive”. It appears that most research and development resources went into the inner workings of this device.
I think this is the gear of 2019, this is jsut fucking amazing. Good job BOSS, you completely nailed it, impressed.
Dude, seriously just release an LP of you noodling around! I'll buy it! Oh, and this Boss unit is ACE!
Look for Rabea Masaad Grinding Gears. It's a bunch of his songs from his demos.
Your explanation of all the features on this was excellent. This was definitely the most interesting product released at NAMM.
Unless the box weighs a few tens of kilos, it must be using many inductor-gyrator opamp circuits for all the reactive load options. The size of the old fashioned magnetic-cored inductors was the limiting factor on the number of emulated loads in load boxes. An inductor-gyrator emulates the induction of a voice-coil using negative resistance. It's an interesting subject area.
Wow, sounds nice. And the clean stuff you played was exceptionally nice, around 27:42 I got goosebumps.
Wow, great demo and playing! I’ve been considering getting a Rivera Rockcrusher Recording unit (excellent, BTW) but the added effects loop and on-board effects on the Boss (especially for vintage none-master volume amps) for me is huge win and gives this unit an edge over anything else I’ve seen so far. Definitely saving up for this unit.
Thanks Rabea! Your obvious musical and auditory tastefulness and ability and intellect allows me to have confidence in your opinion about whether the Waza preserves the 'feel' and enjoyability of playing an excellent tube amp. Thanks again
That thing is badass. All the neighbor hassles and police visits i could have avoided if i had one 30 years ago.
I mean, the Victory amp already sounds great, and the Boss just adds perfection.
I'm always late in the "gear chase" but I just ordered one of these units and cannot wait to get it. I've been searching for a video where somebody uses a 57 Custom Champ through the unit to see if it really does what it's billed to do (not to be found, I think) ... I'll be running a 57 Custom Champ and an Custom Edge Deluxe through it primarily but will eventually get some high power amp tests through it as well. Nothing but fun in the future! This video has been liked, bookmarked and I've subscribed ... great demo!
Hey Rabea, Is it possible to get some of your IRs anywhere? For purchase or otherwise.
Thanks for another GREAT review, and all that great playing as always!!
Thanks Rabea. I've been waiting for more info on this since the previews at Winter NAMM. This will allow me to use my long neglected tube amps in home studio setting. Since I own neither a load box, attenuator, or IR loader The Expander appears to be the perfect single purchase choice. Plus it's a recording interface with built in effects and a physical effects loop. I'm in. Kudos to BOSS for getting it all under one hood.
Comfortably the best video on the TAE expander I've seen.
Deadly playing and tones.
Interesting to see so many people opinion regarding the price.
Considering it’s rivals (Ox and Torpedo Studio) are around the same price, and the TAE offers more than both in terms of features?
I wonder why so many are concerned at the price?
Maybe they all need to wait for the Behringer knock-off. It looks a bargain to me. 🎸
When has Boss ever steered us wrong?
More than anything, it's probably because people were hoping that since Boss was entering this product niche, they would do so at a significantly more affordable price point when compared to the competition.
Im poor covid19
I love the "Universal Audio" Neon Sign....
Been waiting for months to hear what this thing is loaded with... You load your own IR’s to do the demo... WTF? You’re killing me dude...
Rabea always does a superior job with the videos!!
Hey Rabea, badass all of your shows are man, no bull shit, get to hear what the fuck everything sounds like precisely. Kickass man thank you for being real.
Never thought I would hear a Lenny Kravitz song in this channel, but here we are
Loads are measured in amount of resistance in Ohms. You'll see the "Z" a lot. Lo-Z....Hi-Z = Low resistance or High resistance. Why is it important to know? Look on the back of your amp. You'll see a rating in Ohms for the speaker load you connect to it. For example: If it calls for an 8-16 Ohm load, That's the speaker combination you can safely connect to it. Speakers come generally in 8 or 16 ohm ratings. Using a combination of these in parallel or series, or both wiring types, you can achieve a correct ohm rating, even while using more than one speaker in a cabinet.
One should also note, that you should NEVER power up an amplifier, and play through it with NO load connected. What happens in an amp's power section, is that it is going to output some Wattage. Which is a measurement of heat energy. No load, and that wattage will stay in the amp, and cook it. Your speaker also has a wattage rating, say: 8ohms, and 50 watts. That means it is capable of dissipating 50 watts of heat regularly. That energy gets converted mostly into speaker movement, but some does need to vent out of the speaker coil. Look up electromagnetism, watts, ohms, series, parallel, and you'll understand more.
So, speakers in different cabinets, in different wiring schematics, All sound different from each other! Yeah, it matters. Speakers move air, and that hits your ears all in a different way, depending on so many things. When Rabbea was talking about your load box being made for a certain speaker cabinet type, this is why it matters. Resistance of that speaker will also change based on it's temperature, the movement of the speaker cone, and how much power you send it. Slight changes are all it takes to change the overall tone and playability of that speaker. This is why, to me, the whole IR thing is so interesting, and won't get old. Everything is so different, and, it just needs to be played with.
Rock on!
thanks for the video
I'm upset that this only has two likes
between the UA oxbox, twonotes torpedo, and boss tube expander, which is tour favorite, for live performance, and studio use, if there is a difference, and why? thanks for your in depth demos. love your playing.
Been checking for vids of this every single day since NAMM. Such a fantastic and comprehensive video, keep up the awesome work !
Beautiful playing bro. Really enjoyed the video 👍
But the Boss! I have them ALL and this is by far the Best! The others require some mild change in my playing but the Boss requires no adjustments. You will thank me if ya buy one...
Rabea - how do you feel about the sound of the Boss as an attenuator compared to that of the Ox? I'm talking about how amps sound through a cab with mics on the cabs not the internal models. Thanks!
That’s the best explanation I have watched of what this unit is and does 😊 thanks Rabea! I understand what it does now and it’s pretty amazing. Love the playing and licks as always. Have an amazing day dude 😊🤟🙏
the playing starting at 27:19 is just otherworldly beautiful Bea. I was genuinely amazed an had to get my guitar and play it for myself
Check it Fryette Power Station. Similar feature set, but power section is 50w tube (2x6L6). Wowza!
nothing sounds as good as fryette anything really.
Mycroft Holmes - 5150?
I’m just here for the show. I already have one of these. And this is a damn good show.
Wow, not only does it seem to perform great, but it even looks pretty awesome! Boss out here making load boxes sexy.
I have been waiting to see a decent review on this.
fantastic video Rabea! very well articulated explanation of this unit. thanks!
There's a certain spongy-ness a good tube amp has that makes the feel of playing it organic. You just feel more connected. There's more body to the sound. It's hard to describe, but you know it when you feel it.
Great review Rab. Feel is horribly subjective, but having had THD, Palmer and Sequis load boxes and currently using the Torpedo Reload the thing I miss most is that feel of using an amp (and possibly the wind blowing past my knees!). You explained this well and those who know will totally understand.
Finnaly some in depth details on this! Thanks Rabea.
This thing is seriously serious. Great demo. Thanks!
If you buy 2 of them you can go amp->expander->speaker out->expander->cab. Or you can stack even more of them, like 20 in a row! AND YOU CAN THEN HAVE 20 SEPARATE FX LOOPS!
Great explanation Rabea, appreciate the tutorial - especially intrigued with boosting the power of my existing valve amp and the loop. Foot controller too? Awesome
Thanks
Funny how all of these devices fall in the same exact price point.Great job Rabea. You rock!
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. I may need something like this soon, so it was useful to see a player's POV. Great playing - as usual - too.
That is a phenomenal piece of kit. Boss has been knocking it out of the park in the last couple years. To echo Chuck, I think they may have priced it a bit out of the market, though.
What did Boss here with this piece of gears is just so advanced N demonstrate one more time their historical sense of innovation (im a old user of the Gt100 which is still my main unit N im not giving out 4 Now) i have a ENGL stereo tube stack (both Pow-Amp + Preamp in a 3U rack case) but that's right that it is hard to crank up the volume even if the ENGL 840/50 Pow-Amp has a really cool Gain Input knob that allows you to switch the power output to 25W mode ...so im considering 4 a while to buy 2 Pow-Soak/Loadbox --- there is folks saying to only buy Reactive type in order to keep the real dynamic N feel of your tube amp N i read a bunch of reviews recently 4 Resistive type (below 100 bucks) where dudes say that the price tag is not worth the sonic difference ...m@n this is really tough !!!! BTW the chords you're playing @ 30:20 R really beautiful you R becoming more N more jazzy over time ^^
Great sound from this unit, plus lots of Nuno breakouts! Very cool.
Great review of the Boss TAE! Much thanks!
Every demo you do sounds absolutely incredible! Unfortunately, the real world is a different story. Lol
Wait wtf, you're saying rabea sucks or the products he demos suck?
Boggesh Zahim I believe what he’s saying is that, with the combination of his talent and experience in getting the best out of the gear he demos, he can make things sound the best they can sound, whereas out in the real world people have differing levels of musical talent and gear utilization knowledge.
@@thestuffmikedoes2309 makes sense, I thought it would have been weird if he were roasting Bea like that
No way. I love the fro! Lol
Rabea, you’re doing great work with your videos and your playing is always a joy to hear. I would like to suggest no music underscore during your speaking. That’s very bad practice in any documentary presentation. Speak, or play music. Never both.
Hi Rabea, apart from the interesting technical aspects there's some very decent playing here! I actually liked very much what you did in the "clean" part.
Cleans: OX > Expander
High Gain: OX < Expander
Dont get it witch best for cleans ?
Those jazz licks 👍🏻👍🏻
Superb demo. I have just bought a Fender Chris Stapleton 12 watt Princeton. A fabulous amp but very loud, so this could help get the tones I want at a volume I want. I would love to see these devices demo'd with a small amp as well as a 100 watt monster. Maybe one for a future video? In any case I'm buying one of these.
You slept on the FX loop which is, IMHO, the most important part of this piece of gear.
9:35
@@illyadass No, I know it's there. It's just that that is the best feature it has. I can buy this as an FX loop for my OR50. Completely changes the way I look at amplifiers.
@@RyanPMcGowan if it's for recording, its no big deal, could add fx in the mixer or software. If you use as attenuator, then it's nice to have it adding the fx loop
@@danieltv123 100%. Reverb in front of the gain on an OR50 is awful. After is great. Very very excited for that feature.
@Christopher Buckley yea, when you get poweramp distortion it affects your reverbs, by doing this the reverb is after the poweramp distortion and beofre the speaker, that's so cool
That thing sounds amazing. Full stop.
BUT.
It's cheaper to just go deaf with your 4x12 cab.
Alex Crouse ain’t that the truth I mean dammmmmn
Great comment haha thanks
Owning a Kemper it’s basically nothing that I need but I’d love to use it when I get across one someday! 👍
It’s a sick concept and it really sounded awesome on my Bose Soundlink Mini II! Your playing also gets sicker and sicker over the years! Nice to watch you rise into the world of guitar heroes😊
drabbster try sticking a Revival Drive in front of that kemper. You’ll be amazed at how it enhances the sound and feel. Especially, the high gain channels. FYI I know they’re expensive but I grabbed a used, mint for not too much. Sold a few pedals. Now I use the kemper way more.
"oh that sounds like a neat little thi- holy shit that's expensive!"
Lol - my reaction exactly.
The Best always is more...
but Rabea..it's "More Than A Feeling"...just ask Tom Scholz. The Boss TAE sounds like my kind of a DI box and more. I can think pf so many different tube amp sitiations that could be "expanded" by this nifty box. Effects AFTER the tube power amp, just like a studio..mic and cab IRs. My only downside on this is the cost. 3x what I payed for my tube amp (JCA20H), and 1/2 of a Marshall head. I guess I'd have to buy/referb/hotrod a few more tube heads to bring the cost percentage down...(yeah, my G.A.S. is strong).
Edit: nope, I'd have to buy a BTAE for each one to a/b/y them all at once...lol
Awesome video once again. Given that you're the Delay-man I think it'd be cool if you checked out the Old Blood Noise Rever (Modulated Reverse Reverb/Delay) I think you'd be able to make some awesome sounds out of that thing.
I wouldn't want to play without my Boss WAZA Tube Amp Expander. It changed my game, flipped my world upside down. Buy it. Don't second guess it.
Hi, do you ever use headphones sometimes? if yes, does it sound good?
@@dennisorourke6545 Thank you.
Sweeeet, awesome video, sounds great too dude, can't wait for mine to land! :D
I’m glad you can finally use 32 user impulse responses because the ones built-in suck but I really wish that the effects return was stereo.
Cheers would you still recommend this a year later for a jcm 800 or would you suggest something else.?
Im still misunderstanding how Boss made this rather impressive piece of gear and didn't account for the fact that just about anyone who works in a studio puts 2 mics on a cab at some point... I am so used to mixing my eq by simply mixing various mics. Why only one mic sim??? !!! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY (they almost had my money)
I want it. I have a Two-Note Reload, but the 16 reactive responses sells it for me.
The mix on that intro. Fucking hell.
Hahah - it’s a track called brute force of a little EP I made names Grinding Gears
@@RabeaMassaad On Spotify now, noice!
The fletcher munson curve refers to the differences in amplitude at which the human ear detect various frequencies from low to high. IE , it takes more more amplitude for the ear to hear low end frequency than high end frequency in relative amounts. Not a techni call explanation, just a basic bit of info. Worth looking into though. Especially for geeks that like to use RTA.
The product is great. The review was great. Your playing was GREAT. Now let's cut to the chase: WE WANT "GRINDING GEARS 2"! We're throwing money at You, B!
Thanks for your video Rabea, very informative and wonderful playing and sounds :) I would love to see a "light" version of this with just the reactive load part to it (the left section). This would bring down the price and apply to those that just need a great reactive load to tame their amps and might have an existing fx loop and pedals. Cheers!
The sound of your guitar is amazing!
Any chance of getting IR’s you made?
I enjoy just watching the way Rab's jaw twitches when he hits those notes.....
Screw it. I just ordered one. I’d love to run my plexi full out and have cool FX, and line out.
This device looks great but: to go all this very considerable way, with stereo outs & then not have stereo effects loop, for me, is falling at the last hurdle. If it had stereo effects loop I'd buy it, as it is, it's just shy of the mark for my purposes & its price. Enjoyed the video.
I really like what I'm hearing here. Looks like Boss did well.
Haha the Universal Audio Light on. Ironic. Great demo of the waza tube amp expanded. I played one at Namm but wasn’t really looking for one then. But now I may be.
17:00 18:40 quite evident from the sound that the amp is running hotter than usual. That Boss unit is really tempting. 👌
Really? I didn't get that impression, to me it just sounds exactly like I'm actually in the room and I love that
Curious as to which one you would prefer if you could have one unit and why? UA Ox or Boss TAE? I am on the fence on which one to go with. I want to connect either my 5150 iii el34s 100 or Bogner Uber Ultra to the unit and then run a Mesa 412 in the center of my PA speakers for wet dry wet. Kind of what you did on the UA Ox video. Everyone seems to point to the TAE over the Ox in regards to flexibility. I more interested in the sound. Don't care about flexibility if I can plug in and dial up a great tone with ease. Curious on what your thoughts are. Great video!
Boss should make a 1RU rackmount poweramp with line out cab sims.
Heat dissipation. Synergy tried and it is not good
I'd buy one if it had stereo speaker outputs for my Marshall 2x8ohm cab but it's mono power out only! It does process "customizable stereo effects" internally through it's XLR L/R Line Outs though (possibly USB too).
The big question everyone will have is does it sound better than the OX BOX?
It's a load box and a katana power section in a box. Got it. Great demo
that resonance-punch thing was titled in Rockton's taboo artist model as 'reactance' in the cab sim menu as a sole parameter...adding up the natural bounce of the speaker paper as the following, which in return bring up with the lower-field echo-like bump...so that is the keyword in also EDM business I guess...whaaaat
A big question is: "Can it be used as a pedal-platform?". Can you use a preamp-pedal with its built-in power-amp/cab-emu to achieve desired effects in regards to live, recording, practice, etc.? For the guitarist-on-the-go looking to achieve optimal quality while on the go while using as little equipment as possible, these are things that can be a huge selling point. Please elaborate further (if time allows)!
That high gain tone is Killer!
I understood jack schmidt :)
Rabea - I have the OX Box and use it mostly to play/practice silently at home. With some minor tweaking of the mics/cabs/effects I can get a sound that basically feels like I'm in the studio with the band tracking the album I'm playing along to... Do you feel like the Boss unit does a better job of reproducing the sound/feel of playing the amp live when running it through the XLR outs? If so, what's better?
Great review! Killing it buddy.
Hey Rabea - You are here and when playing Victory Amps (another video) playing VERY good and interesting stuff - use that and dont destroy it with with some boring metal standard stuff (regular metal bas drums etc). Compose unique like Debusy Stones Bach Steppenwolf etc. You do thing other dont - unique!
@rabeamassaad honest question... I like, but do not play high gain music, and I don't need and FX loop in my chain... I also don't anticipate going down the wormhole of IRs. I DO need a great reactive load box, cab sim, and recording interface for guitar, along with some studio quality reverb, and the ability play and record silently through HPs. I am leaning towards the OX for this but the features of the WAZA are pulling me even though I don't think I would use them all...please help! I trust your opinion because I know you have used both o these products a bunch... thanks!
My God this thing sounds amazing 😲