Product Overview
A world of professional tone tools thrives in one unit to elevate and modernize your tube amp playing—the Waza Tube Amp Expander from Boss adds a whole new level of diversity to stage and home recording. Designed to do it all, this device functions as a variable reactive load box, active analog power stage, mic’d cab emulator, IR loader, and recording interface. With Boss's advanced Tube Logic approach at its core, your desired tone and feel will soar no matter the volume. Customize up to 10 rig setups, explore built-in Boss effects, deep real-time control, and extensive connectivity options means injecting creativity into any scenario is simple. Ideal companion for tube amp players of all generations.
Includes
- Owner's manual
- Power cord
- Rack mount angle x 2 (for EIA-2U)
- GA-FC sticker
Features
- User-adjustable impedance tuning correctly matches the reactive load to your amp, retaining its natural tone, dynamic feel, and distortion characteristics
- Built-in 100-watt Class AB power amplifier with discrete analog design and seamless volume control
- Powerful DSP section with 32-bit AD/DA, 32-bit floating-point processing, and 96 kHz sampling rate
- Customizable stereo effects with premium tone quality: compressor, delay, reverb, and four EQs
- Twenty-two mic’d cabinet emulations with five selectable close-mic types and three room-mic options, plus four slots for loading user speaker IRs
- External effects loop with selectable series/parallel operation and control jack for switching amp channels
Specifications
- FROM TUBE AMP:
- Input Maximum Input Power: 150 W
- Input Impedance: 4/8/16 ohms (selectable)
- Safety Load (power off): 16 ohms
- TO SPEAKER:
- OutputRated Power Output: 100 W (8 ohms)
- Load Impedance: 4-16 ohms
- Nominal Output Level:
- LINE OUT L/R: +4 dBu
- LINE OUT MONO (FOH): +4 dBu
- FX LOOP Nominal Output Level:-10/+4 dBu (selectable)
- Maximum Output Level:
- LINE OUT L/R: +20 dBu
- LINE OUT MONO (FOH): +20 dBu
- FX LOOP SEND: +6 dBu (-10) /+20 dBu (+4)
- Input Impedance (FX LOOP RETURN): 1 M ohm
- Output Impedance:
- LINE OUT L/R: 600 ohms
- LINE OUT MONO (FOH): 600 ohms
- FX LOOP SEND: 1 k ohm
- Controls: POWER switch, SPEAKER OUT knob, LINE OUT knob, PHONES knob, RESONANCE-Z knob, PRESENCE-Z knob, RIG knob, REVERB knob, FX LOOP button, EFFECTS button, SOLO/EQ button, AMP CTL button, SPEAKER IMPEDANCE switch, INPUT LEVEL switch, L/R GND LIFT switch, MONO (FOH) GND LIFT switch, LOOP switch, LEVEL switch, SEND GND LIFT switch, RETURN GND LIFT switch, AMP CTL switch
- Indicators: POWER, WRITE, FX LOOP, EFFECTS, SOLO/EQ, AMP CTL,INPUT,SIG/PEAK
- Connectors:
- FROM TUBE AMP jack: 1/4-inch phone type
- SPEAKER OUT jacks (OUT A, OUT B): 1/4-inch phone type
- LINE OUT L/R connectors: XLR type
- LINE OUT MONO (FOH) connector: XLR type
- PHONES jack: Stereo 1/4-inch phone type
- SEND jack: 1/4-inch phone type
- RETURN jack: 1/4-inch phone type
- FX LOOP jack: 1/4-inch phone type
- GA-FC jack: 1/4-inch TRS phone type
- AMP CTL jack: 1/4-inch phone type
- USB COMPUTER port: USB B type
- MIDI (IN, THRU/OUT) connectors
- AC IN jack
- Power Consumption: 100 W
- Dimensions: 15" x 11" x 4"
- Weight: 15 lbs.
