PSA: Boss WAZA Air - £239.10 at Amazon

Rich31k · October 2022

I have these and they are a great practice tool.

Seems a good price if you’re happy to deal with Amazon.

Deal: BOSS Waza-Air Wireless Personal Guitar Amplification System https://amzn.eu/d/24n4ty4

Neilybob · October 2022

Wow that is a good price

Seymour1 · October 2022

@Rich31k ; Thanks for posting this. Looked at them before but decided that I couldn't justify the cost but the deal price was the decider. Duly ordered and will get them tomorrow

MikeC · October 2022

love mine! that's a great price

danishbacon · October 2022

I've looked everywhere but am no wiser. Do these have a microphone so that they can be used for bluetooth calls?

lustycourtier · October 2022

wow thats a deal!

Sporky · October 2022

danishbacon said:

I've looked everywhere but am no wiser. Do these have a microphone so that they can be used for bluetooth calls?

The first review at Amazon says "Bluetooth operation on Android is dreadful and unreliable. Fine on iPhone."

mrkb · October 2022

Sporky said:

danishbacon said:

I've looked everywhere but am no wiser. Do these have a microphone so that they can be used for bluetooth calls?

The first review at Amazon says "Bluetooth operation on Android is dreadful and unreliable. Fine on iPhone."

Thats what Ive seen - works well on my iphone, Sons android wont connect.

danishbacon · October 2022

mrkb said:

Sporky said:

danishbacon said:

I've looked everywhere but am no wiser. Do these have a microphone so that they can be used for bluetooth calls?

The first review at Amazon says "Bluetooth operation on Android is dreadful and unreliable. Fine on iPhone."

Thats what Ive seen - works well on my iphone, Sons android wont connect.

@mrkb can you use it to make a telephone call?

mrkb · October 2022

danishbacon said:

mrkb said:

Sporky said:

danishbacon said:

I've looked everywhere but am no wiser. Do these have a microphone so that they can be used for bluetooth calls?

The first review at Amazon says "Bluetooth operation on Android is dreadful and unreliable. Fine on iPhone."

Thats what Ive seen - works well on my iphone, Sons android wont connect.

@mrkb can you use it to make a telephone call?

The iphone - yes you can

If you mean can you use the Boss Wazas with the phone to make a call - no as the headphones dont have a mic built in. You might be able to use phone mic with headphones for audio, but i havent tried and youd look weird.

roberty · October 2022

I think I'm more likely to get this to use with my iPad

IK Multimedia iRig HD 2 - Interface for Guitar, 96 kHz with 24-bit A/D Conversion, Outstanding Audio Quality, Compact, Professional Sound, FX and Thru Adjustment https://amzn.eu/d/hDmTmHD

Since I already have headphones

Is there any benefit to the proprietary Waza cans?

Doesn't look like either work with Android. My phone is a bit manic anyway with work notifications

Wazmeister · October 2022

The Waza Air is brilliant.

March · October 2022

I had a pair and sent them back. I had no issue with the headphones, or the tones available, but the app connectivity with Android was abysmal, I found myself constantly having to re-pair the headphones to the app or reinstall and it quickly drove me to distraction as simple refinements could not be made easily.

However, at that price and now that I have an iPad, I may revisit.

ennspek · October 2022

I had a pair and they were great. Then I spilt a drink on them. They became the polar opposite of great. Not their fault but a costly slip.

roberty · October 2022

ennspek said:

I had a pair and they were great. Then I spilt a drink on them. They became the polar opposite of great. Not their fault but a costly slip.

Oh my god

spev11 · October 2022

March said:

I had a pair and sent them back. I had no issue with the headphones, or the tones available, but the app connectivity with Android was abysmal, I found myself constantly having to re-pair the headphones to the app or reinstall and it quickly drove me to distraction as simple refinements could not be made easily.

However, at that price and now that I have an iPad, I may revisit.

I found the same but I got hold of an iphone 7 just to use the app, worked great (the phone cost 20 quid as the screen was cracked, not enough to stop me using it). Boss werent really interested in why it doesnt work well with Android mostly blaming the Android Bluetooth variances across brands, I was using a Sony phone (and a samsung prior to that) so i'm not sure its entirely Android to blame (i'd understand if I had a no name chinese knock off)

danishbacon · October 2022

Thanks @mrkb, a bit of a novelty for me then. Shame no mic built in otherwise would have been a versatile piece of kit.

chrisj1602 · October 2022

Big fan of mine, they’re a great practice tool.

elstoof · October 2022

I picked a pair up, thanks for the tip off OP. I like them, sounds better than the Mustang I haven’t used for about 6 months. I think I’ll be getting a lot of use from them.

Only real annoyance is having to reconnect the Bluetooth between streaming backing tracks and fiddling the amp settings, makes it clunky when you just want to make a small tweak on the fly. Unless I’ve missed something obvious?

mrkb · October 2022

elstoof said:

I picked a pair up, thanks for the tip off OP. I like them, sounds better than the Mustang I haven’t used for about 6 months. I think I’ll be getting a lot of use from them.

Only real annoyance is having to reconnect the Bluetooth between streaming backing tracks and fiddling the amp settings, makes it clunky when you just want to make a small tweak on the fly. Unless I’ve missed something obvious?

I don’t have to do that! You need to connect Bluetooth control and Bluetooth audio separately using different methods - it’s documented in the manual

elstoof · October 2022

I did connect the audio separately but it seemed to boot off the midi control connection on my iPhone. Will have another look into it now you’ve confirmed it shouldn’t

tomajoha · October 2022

elstoof said:

I did connect the audio separately but it seemed to boot off the midi control connection on my iPhone. Will have another look into it now you’ve confirmed it shouldn’t

Yeah I had the same issue but managed to fix it eventually and works perfectly now. Great piece of kit, thanks for the PSA.

mrkb · October 2022

As far as I can recall you connect the Bluetooth control via the BTS app as documented here (not through phone Bluetooth menu)

https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/WAZA-AIR_BTS_iOS_eng01_W.pdf

and the Bluetooth audio from the phones Bluetooth menu as documented in the WAZA air manual

https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/WAZA-AIR_eng04_W.pdf

elstoof · October 2022

Yep, tomajoha said:

elstoof said:

I did connect the audio separately but it seemed to boot off the midi control connection on my iPhone. Will have another look into it now you’ve confirmed it shouldn’t

Yeah I had the same issue but managed to fix it eventually and works perfectly now. Great piece of kit, thanks for the PSA.

Yep, turns out I was just being a twat. Think it booted the amp connection first time because I had to synch a new connection for the audio. Works perfectly and I’m a happy punter, thanks for the help folks. Playing it right now in fact!

has anyone updated the firmware to 1.2, is it worth the faff?

Rich31k · October 2022

elstoof said:

Yep, tomajoha said:

elstoof said:

I did connect the audio separately but it seemed to boot off the midi control connection on my iPhone. Will have another look into it now you’ve confirmed it shouldn’t

Yeah I had the same issue but managed to fix it eventually and works perfectly now. Great piece of kit, thanks for the PSA.

Yep, turns out I was just being a twat. Think it booted the amp connection first time because I had to synch a new connection for the audio. Works perfectly and I’m a happy punter, thanks for the help folks. Playing it right now in fact!

has anyone updated the firmware to 1.2, is it worth the faff?

I haven’t, but it is supposed to fix a bug with the gyro drifting if you move your head while using it

mrkb · October 2022

Rich31k said:

elstoof said:

Yep, tomajoha said:

elstoof said:

I did connect the audio separately but it seemed to boot off the midi control connection on my iPhone. Will have another look into it now you’ve confirmed it shouldn’t

Yeah I had the same issue but managed to fix it eventually and works perfectly now. Great piece of kit, thanks for the PSA.

Yep, turns out I was just being a twat. Think it booted the amp connection first time because I had to synch a new connection for the audio. Works perfectly and I’m a happy punter, thanks for the help folks. Playing it right now in fact!

has anyone updated the firmware to 1.2, is it worth the faff?

I haven’t, but it is supposed to fix a bug with the gyro drifting if you move your head while using it

It doesn’t fix the gyro drift, it just adds an option to turn it off in some of the configurations. The hardware setup means there will always be drift unfortunately.

Rich31k · October 2022

mrkb said:

Rich31k said:

elstoof said:

Yep, tomajoha said:

elstoof said:

I did connect the audio separately but it seemed to boot off the midi control connection on my iPhone. Will have another look into it now you’ve confirmed it shouldn’t

Yeah I had the same issue but managed to fix it eventually and works perfectly now. Great piece of kit, thanks for the PSA.

Yep, turns out I was just being a twat. Think it booted the amp connection first time because I had to synch a new connection for the audio. Works perfectly and I’m a happy punter, thanks for the help folks. Playing it right now in fact!

has anyone updated the firmware to 1.2, is it worth the faff?

I haven’t, but it is supposed to fix a bug with the gyro drifting if you move your head while using it

It doesn’t fix the gyro drift, it just adds an option to turn it off in some of the configurations. The hardware setup means there will always be drift unfortunately.

Good to know I’m not missing much. I’ve not been able to get them to show up when plugged into my PC yet

March · November 2022

spev11 said:

March said:

I had a pair and sent them back. I had no issue with the headphones, or the tones available, but the app connectivity with Android was abysmal, I found myself constantly having to re-pair the headphones to the app or reinstall and it quickly drove me to distraction as simple refinements could not be made easily.

However, at that price and now that I have an iPad, I may revisit.

I found the same but I got hold of an iphone 7 just to use the app, worked great (the phone cost 20 quid as the screen was cracked, not enough to stop me using it). Boss werent really interested in why it doesnt work well with Android mostly blaming the Android Bluetooth variances across brands, I was using a Sony phone (and a samsung prior to that) so i'm not sure its entirely Android to blame (i'd understand if I had a no name chinese knock off)

Well, I took the plunge and can confirm that the Bluetooth connection is definitely more stable on the Apple device.

I've heard on Android that having location switched on affects the connectivity, but previously I tried everything to get the connection to be more stable before giving up, and this was with a Samsung S20 phone.

Anyway, I now have a decent enough late-night practice tool which is what I wanted.

roberty · November 2022

Another Boss practice tool here, £100 down from £240 ish or so they say. Pocket GT

https://www.peachguitars.com/boss-pocket-gt-desktop-multi-fx.htm

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