Same backing drum patterns until the end of time??!! I thought I could download more content or there would be some kind of update. Makes the price taste bitter and seeds doubts of future Boss gear like Katana series.

I’ve owned a pair of the Boss WAZA-air headphones for over a year now, yet I’m a bass player…still, they worked well enough that i kept them and just chose not to use any of the less-than-stellar options for bass that came with the phones.I made suggestions to Boss/Roland, regarding updating the software so that you could record yourself via the app or at least be able to use a third party app to do so…messages from the customer service people said that i would have to contact Roland Japan directly (which seems impossible), as Roland US is a separate company and cannot forward suggestions to Japan…(and here i was thinking we were in the 21st century…).Now Boss has decided, rather than update the software for the WAZA-Air headphones so they can be used by bass players and/or guitarists, that users instead need to go out and buy another set of headphones, designed specifically for the bass.It’s amazing that Boss, being such an innovative company in the past, and still one with some great ideas, can’t get it together on the customer service end of things…i see this ship sinking and it’s sad that they don’t want to take hold of the lifeboat.

App interface take a little getting used to as some things are buried one or two menus deeper than you’d expect, but overall the fact that this adds exponentially more versatility to the Waza-Air headphones makes it an invaluable tool, especially the tuner feature and amp/effects/EQ section to add some color to your tone and experiment without having to have a pedalboard with you.Only feature addition I’d like to see would be a barebones Apple Voice-Memos style audio recorder that records the bass input channel so you can save anything you come up with while practicing and recall it later. That would make the app essentially a one-stop shop for every practice tool I’d need.Thanks!

But the app is so bad. Nobody likes bad UX but in this case it can actually PHYSICALLY HARM you and it is negligent for Roland to have not fixed this by now. The problem is with their “double duty” rotary controls. Overdrive is shared with another mod control and which you can choose to use one or the other. But you can’t get to the mod control without sweeping the dial through the max setting of the overdrive. This causes the headphones to screech at max volume. This could easily be fixed by setting the min value in the middle and having far left or far right as the max values. Or better yet, make 6 separate dials that have actual labels for the active effect.