Waza Craft compact pedals are the high-end, premium offerings of the BOSS compact line. This treatment is a great honour reserved only for iconic pedals in the BOSS echelon, giving them new life with upgraded components and “hotrodded” modes with custom functionality – from the rare, long discontinued VB-2 Vibrato to the highly prized analog CE-2 chorus, and now…
Contributed by Ed Lim for the Roland Australia Blog
The MT-2W Waza Craft Metal Zone.
That’s right, we really did it.
We really did. And we think it’s totally justified – the original MT-2 has certainly earned its icon status since its release in 1991, as one of THE top selling BOSS compacts of all time (and if you disagree, you might want to have a read of this article first).
WHAT’S WAZA GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Let’s start with the original MT-2 sound. In the Standard Mode of the MT-2W, we’ve taken that OG supercharged high gain sound and made a few refinements – using carefully selected analog components to lower the noise floor and optimise the midrange Q, to help bring the Waza touch to the Metal Zone.
But the MT-2W certainly doesn’t stop there.
All Waza pedals have a custom switch that incorporates some new functionality or sound that the original pedal didn’t have. The MT-2W is no different.
LET’S HEAR IT
THE NEW HIGH GAIN ICON
Metal Zone memes are so 2017.
It’s 2019 – and the Metal Zone is back with a vengeance!
