BOSS FZ-1w Waza Craft Fuzz Pedal Demo 

Wrap your tone in the dual-voiced wooly, fuzzy goodness that is the BOSS FZ-1w Fuzz pedal! Which voicing will you rock? If you enjoyed this video be sure to like, comment, and subscribe!

Correct use* -tune guitar to C standard -break out the devils lettuce -ride that effer into the sky

me, playing this with my phone speaker: *ah yes, such saturated and creamy tones*

If you're a gearhead on a 10-yr waiting list for a boutique pedal (which I may or may not be), it's easy to forget how great and practical Boss pedals are. They're cheap, cheaper used, and I'm fairly certain they're made from adamantium and indestructible. I have 30 year old vintage Boss pedals that work perfectly and sound great, and I have several Waza pedals that do the same. This pedals sounds pretty great. I don't need it, but I'll probably get it while I wait for Analogman to deliver my drive pedal in 2029.

I love that they end off by reviewing their ability to review 😀 Great demo, thank you! I feel like Don and Mitch are in their element when they are reviewing vintage sounding gear, and it reminds me to enjoy that... since I'm mostly addicted to synth pedals.

Been watching your demos over the years off and on… looks like you have upgraded the production. Nice work!

I really like the modern sound over the vintage. Nice to have that 2 pedals in one option. Thank you for the demo, Sweetwater.

I have the FZ-1w and love it!!! the tone control really helps get different sounds! I love how you can tame it and get some nice crunchy/blues tones

My favorite two guys!!! Boss is stepping their game up!

loved having these two guys on screen together

Wow Don and Mitch this pedal has just been added to my gear addiction list . You guys did a great job demonstrating this pedals ! Thanks !

You guys really do some of the best demos. Thank you

I love the 80s casino carpet shirt!

Great video guys! Well, this was an unexpected release from Boss. It's definitely really cool that Boss created their own Fuzz, and it's a Waza. Sounds great to me, and I have a really strong pull to wanting to add it to my already crowded board lol.

FuzzyWazzy was a pedal, FuzzyWazzy played some metal, FuzzyWazzy made the sound, That made the room spin round & round... God bless and take care...

Nice going, guys! That worked! 😀

Sounds good! Great surprise 🔥🔥

Impressive. While I wasn't buying into the whole Tone Bender shuffle, this I def like.To my mind, with so many solid TB clones available from hundreds of builders( past and present), there was no point for actual players to get excited about that limited run.This ,however, is unique and singular enough to join the limited number of Boss effects on my boards.

Love the banter guys!! LOL

The modern channel is downright exciting. It addresses all my issues with most fuzzes like being too scooped. I had to run an eq with my big muff and still didn't get the zipper Velcro thang this does.I'm not ever getting an AnalogMan or Tone Bender shy of a miracle. I want one of these though.

Great review!!

I am waiting for. Best Wishes from Germany. 🤜🖤🤛

Boss found a good answer to the boutique world with the Waza line.

It’s good. I just got mine touch response is fantastic.

On my shopping list.

My two favorite guys in the same video?!

Some pedals run for a long time on a 9V battery and some don't. For example, Big Muffs and TS-9s run for practically forever on a 9V and change characteristic with a dying battery. With this being an analog circuit, can you reliably run this new Boss Fuzz on a battery and have it last long?

Don is looking more and more like my Aunt Linda that used to buy me beer to take to parties when I was a teenager.

Nice!

What was the harsh clipping when the gain as low and they were demoing it as a boost? It did not sound good. Was that the audio feed of the video or the pedal?

*Possibly the most versatile fuzz pedal. Great demo! I’m looking forward to trying this on payday! 🏆💵🎶⭐️ Great demo! I’m looking forward to jamming out and pissing off my neighbors!*

They must be back in stock! My HM2 shipped

Playing fuzz into a clean amp only whaaaaat

The commentary reminds me of a football game :D

It’s either on or off, with steps in-between. The way to have is full on with the OC-2 going into it. 😆

Boss says it will be distributed "regionally early December". Their site said early November. Perhaps coming to you by January 2022?

Yes Yes Yes Yes!!!!!!!🤘🏻😁🤘🏻💕✨

I love how Sweetwater provides totally objective positive reviews of products...

When you rolled off the volume was it boosted in post production?

WE WANT FZ-2W. GIVE US FZ-2W.

Cool dudes cool playing cool pedal. Gain stage it with anOD at low gain settings

Should I get this or the shields blender?

Thanks, guys. Nicely done. A savvy guitar geek investor should buy a dozen of these and seal them up for 30+ years. A future collectors pedal fer sure!… and maybe a retirement strategy for some young chugger with some bucks? (Like a first edition Superman Comic).

BIlly Corgan gota get his hands on this

Should I get this for MBV, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur jr tones? I’m considering this or the Blues driver

how many months do I have to wait for SWEETWATER to get them in stock?

Will it do electric wizard

Nice demo! Thanks! But FZ3 is better! :)

Would this pedal be suitable for bass? Thank you

What amp is he playing through?

I dunno guys, the dialogue in this demo seems so contrived. Surely nobody talks like this in real life? certainly not in the UK! With that said, as a guitar player who generally dwells at the low end of the gain spectrum this was my first fuzz pedal pedal purchase and it's right up my street. I love how I can dial it to play good and clean(ish) and then dig in hard to let the filth flow and entropy reign! - it's the perfect fuzz for me; well worth the investment.

It’s a reboot! How about FZ-2w Hyper Fuzz?

We beg Boss for a Hyper Fuzz reissue and whaddaweget?? Another friggin MuffBender

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Is this a 2 or 3 transistor fuzz folks??

The modern sounds like a harsh Big Muff

Fuzz fuz fuz, fuz is tha word....

A wazza FZ-2 woulda been better. Or the second setting as the FZ-2 Superfuzz. Everone wants that pedal to be re-released. This sorta sounds like another Fuzz Face and another Muffy Fuzz. Both have been done to death

Big little nano small triangle opamp russian green pi muff owns this market.

Kinda still fan of the FZ-5 more options and sounds great!

What does "emulate" mean? Is it digital?

So boss makes a waza fuzz that’s not a reissue of the fz2. 😒

For as much as they say it's a completely original circuit, it really seems like a VASTLY improved FZ-3. The lower gain settings sound completely unusable.

OK, we've seen the demos on all the channels. Maybe you can tell us when they will be in stock. I get irked at the over hype and then find out that delivery is 3, 4 or 6 months later. I don't want to preorder, I'm moving soon. I'm tired of the hype and vapor hardware. Seems you RU-vid channels got yours.

listening from $5 bluetooth headset.. yeah nice lo-fi hiphop pedal …

These guys may be talented. Seems to be a sound made for very basic riffs - punk, shoegaze, grunge - rather than blues.

M mode sounds bender-ish

did they really make a new fz-1, instead of making an fz-2w? wtf boss

The redhead looks like my mother.

I've collected far too many fuzz boxes already. From cheap as chips Chinese clones; high cost big amp brand names manufactured in China; even more expensive American made; and better value hand wired by British indie craftspeople. I just don't see this new Boss as essential, or different enough to merit 175 quid.

Dime the gain and it sounds good, the rest of the range not so much useful.

I have the Behringer version of this, which is an exact clone of the original Boss fuzz pedal, but it only cost me like £20. I've paid ludicrous amounts for fuzz pedals over the years. I have several grands worth of fuzz pedals, with some costing like £200-300 each. And you know the best fuzz pedal I've ever owned or played? The behringer one for £20. Which is just funny to me. I should have bought that one first. Could have saved me a lot of money that way. I've had a few behringer pedals for over a decade now, and they are still basically in brand new condition. People worry about the case being plastic instead of metal. But they actually look to be in brand new condition still, while all my boss pedals of the same age are falling to bits, all the paint is chipping off. Those boss pedals still work perfectly of course, but they definitely look beaten up. But yeah the behringer pedals apart from being a bit dusty, have stood up to over a decade of constant use for gigs and home recording. So don't worry about the plastic shell of them. Or if you really want a metal case, buy the TC Electronics version. TC now own Behringer. And so they have a range of very cheap TC pedals that are quite literally just the behringer pedals put into a metal shell instead of plastic. And they cost £30 instead of the £20 behringer versions. Again I don't think you'll ever need a metal shell for the pedal. But if it's really such a big deal to you, then just buy the TC electronics versions. I wanna try this new reissue of the boss fuzz. Cos of how much Iove the behringer clone of it. But I doubt I'll ever buy one. Seems a bit pointless, to me, when I already essentially own it. I don't even use half of it. People love this boss fuzz and the behringer clone of it for the very 90s grunge fuzz setting. But I absolutely hate that sound. I was never a smashing pumpkins fan. No I use the other mode, that sounds like absolute pure 60s ripped speaker style fuzz. It's pure 60s in a pedal. I absolutely love it. It also has a booster mode which I rarely use because I only have solid state amps at the moment. When I finally buy a new tube amp that works (my old one broke and I'm afraid of fixing it because trying to fix tube amps is incredibly dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, you can be killed by electrocution) I'll try the boost pedal mode. Although I mean, you can get a boost pedal mode out of practically any pedal. Get a standard overdrive and just turn the gain down to zero and the volume to the max. That's a booster right there. Or when my old tube amp worked I always used an EQ pedal as a booster. My EQ pedal is a behringer one too. I would use it as an attenuator. I've never heard of anyone else doing this except for me. I'd put the EQ pedal in the FX loop with every dial (including volume) set to the max setting. So that because it was in the FX loop, it'd be boosting the power amp tubes. Because power amp overdrive is the absolute best sound. Most amps these days have a drive mode and a clean mode, and the drive mode is simply pre-amp overdrive. What you really want is power amp overdrive. For that you need to crank your amp to max volume which is annoying. Or use an attenuator. When I used my EQ pedal like this in the FX loop, I could keep the master volume down, but the power amp would be completely cranked, and it sounded beautiful. Although maybe that's why my old tube amp broke in the first place, I dunno But yeah just saying, it's very useful, the behringer super fuzz. It's got 2 fuzz settings and a booster mode. And most people seem to love the 90s grunge fuzz setting on it, and is apparently why this boss fuzz is so coveted too. But I much prefer the type of fuzz it has that sounds straight out of the 60s Behringer pedals are so ludicrously cheap that why not just buy one? Worst case scenario, you don't like it, and then you're only out the price of dinner at a restaurant. It's worth the risk. If you end up loving it, then maybe you can buy this boss original version of it. But I don't think you'll need to. They stand up so well to abuse, the behringer plastic pedals.

Shut up, and take my money!

Boss Fans for years: PLEEEEEASE give us a Waza FZ2. It’s the only Boss pedal with ‘that’ sound. Muh doom band needs it! Boss: Here’s another Tone Bender. Boss fail.

Whaffle whaffle whaffle…

Low settings useable, high gain useless except for private yuks.

Bite my ear, baby.

Sounds like a blown speaker.

Oh God.. :/ My wife is gonna kill me

Sell it ladies…

I am fully submissive towards Boss marketing Japanese nationalism to us.

Yea that's nowhere near as good as a white dot nkt275

Hello Welcome to Sweetwater News Network. Sorry but this thing sounds absolutely TERRIBLE.

ANOTHER fuzz video with a clean set amp. Don’t do that. The amp needs to be clipping first! I don’t know anyone who’d run an amp clean then hit it with a fuzz.

These dudes over sell products

Sounds like trash.

Pedal is ok need more treble on tone