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When you think 3K amps, Diezel, Friedman, Boogie - Boss is not what comes to mind!
I honestly can't see what they were thinking. It seems something along the lines of:
1 - Let's make a modelling amp.
2 - Let's take away all the functionality that makes modelling more useful than valve amps, because guitarists are idiots and get confused easily.
3 - Let's take away all the effects, because then we can sell them more pedals.
4 - Let's make it really difficult to change amp models.
5 - In fact, let's charge them for changing amp models.
6 - Profit?
But...that'd be crazy...right?
I think Vai's sound has largely been based around hot rodded British voiced amplifiers (could be wrong) such as Soldanos and Carvins and Marshalls and stuff. So the Waza Brown should be pretty much in that ball park anyway.
An an odd product for Steve to put his name to really... That said, I think he has used Boss pedals quite a lot. But I don't see him playing out with this amp any time soon.
Also, speaking of Vai, there's a video going round of the G3 thing. Him and Satriani and Guthrie. Guthrie creams the pair of them IMO.
duration 6:20
The amp still doesn't sound great. In all the videos to my ears anyway it sounds like a DS-1 being played through a unspectacular solid state amp.
The problem for me is that this amp doesn't sound as good as a TS and a DS-1 into an old Peavey. Grand total about £200.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I've heard rumours that he only had a DS-1 on his board for the buffer.....
could be bollocks tho, as far as I'm aware he has always been a hot rodded Marshall guy in the Zappa years, through to Flexible
then started to experiment with Carvins and Bogners etc
Notice he uses the 'DS-1' side into the amp's clean channel.
The tones in this demo absolutely piss on the Waza thing too. I couldn't say if that's because the pedal sounds great, that the valve Carvin sounds better, or just that it's Vai playing.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
In fairness Vai would sound better than Chappers with just about anything.
There's a lot of mental gymnastics involved in that much optimism, mind.
i really hope not.
The other thing I'm hoping for is a Micro Blues Cube with bass, middle and treble controls.!