Whoever came up with Katana must be driving around in a solid gold car by now. They’ve got so much life and so many great products out of the platform, it would be great to know how many people have started their guitar journey in part because of this technology. Well done Boss. (And nice job Paul!)

@JamesFlorio-ti8gc

2 ай бұрын

Exactly 💯 Katana totally changed our view on amps and continue to only blow us away again

@tedjohnson5210

2 ай бұрын

The 50 was the first amp I ever bought. Upgraded to an Artist last year. I’d love a set of waza air headphones but the price is a bit much, might pick up one of these though.

@KekmanForTheRestOfTheWorld

2 ай бұрын

We should remember, that the Katana is basicly 'just' the GT-100 with a Solid State output stage and speaker. They probably did some more modding but the DSP remains the same. So also some kudos to the inventors of the GT-100 :) I am still waiting for them to release a Katana Multi-FX Pedal for real comparison

@jackblack2321

2 ай бұрын

A solid gold car is not feasible. Maybe solid gold outer exterior and interior parts but an engine made out of solid gold would be impossible.

@Adventuresingearland

2 ай бұрын

@@jackblack2321 I love you Jack!

There's clearly a reason that Boss are called Boss. Also, I love the fact that there is an intro jam, so we hear the full band context.

Late to the party but this is the first time I've seen auto patch change. Pretty damn cool.

Monster playing, Mr. Drew and the GO sounds awesome! Thank you for the demo!

Unbelievable how this automated programming allows you to focus entirely on your guitar playing without tap dancing! What an age of breakthrough technology that we're living! Wish this thing happened when i was 15 years old cause this would have saved me a lot of money. Paul i don't know if you already done this, but can you do a video about choosing the right frequencies to cut through the mix on rhythm and lead guitar playing, as well as bass guitar? I am a new Boss GX-100 user. Cheers mate,

Fantastic intro jam Paul. The tones you squeezed out of the Katana are awesome 🤘

Nailed it, as always - thanks Paul.

Session with your patches!! Killer idea Thanks so much

Thank's again Paul! .. ;- ) Absolutely Brilliant! .. 🤩

Shades of extreme and Nuno in that opening jam, love it 👍🏼

Great demo. Thanks studio rats

Awesome product and playing Paul.

I love living in this time! So many QUALITY affordable guitar gadgets! Awesome.

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

Amazing playing, thanks for the preview! For sure the most featured headphone amp out!

Great Demo.To the point and well played !

SMOKIN' HOT jam Paul! Just one of the many reasons that I am a subscriber. Thank you.

Ok this was absolutely genius Boss....awsome playing as always Paul thank you for the demo

Great demo & playing!

i love the opening tune. funky groove, and unit sounds great

Well I just got mine. I love it. Ordered a pair of cabled Apple Ear Pods with the 3.5mm plug to use with it. Those work great because I’m already used to listening to tons of music on ear pods and they are comfortable and lightweight for extended playing. The spatial effect works with the ear pods. Katana Go works with my Beyer Dynamics and Sony cans. As for the sound, it’s like a Swiss Army knife of sounds and effects. You can quickly conjure up whatever sound you imagine with the boatload of effects. This is something that every player should have on hand. Especially if you record. What a bargain.

Nice work Paul, great demo and playing was on fire. Awesome video mate. 👍

The words that came through my mind when I clicked.. "at least here I'm sure I'll have a tasty demo of the Go" .. Thanks for that !!!

Loved that jam track on the intro, Paul!

Wow, thats great what this little thing is providing. Very Impressive.

excellent review of this new super-favorite product. I did not know you can setup Auto Patch changes based on time codes in a backing track!! Thats so goo; your playing is amazing too BTW Paul! Thnx Ill go buy one now!

Unbelievable playing. Unbelievable tones from this thing 👏 hats off to you

A bit of Crowded House😃Well done!

Opening jam is amazing! And it sounds great. 🤘

Mine arrives tomorrow….can’t wait 🎸

Absolutely fantastic opening jam!

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Really good work!!!

Interesting to see that Paul has changed his mind again about the tort guard! The body is aging nicely. Great video by the way...

that riff is great.

Paul, I’ve heard you play some riffs that got me, but the riff at 7:34 was epic. Great video, this should have been what Boss posted as well.

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Cheers Dave, I’ll tab it for when Tone exchange is up and running

Really hot riffs !!!

No bull Paul, great playing, great demo!

Such a great demo video, Paul!! Really great device. I WILL have one!! Thanks for this!

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Beautiful opening sound.

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Thanks for this. I have 2 katanas 50 mkII and 50 mkII EX and AB both

O.M.G. that was great.

Sweet jam

WOW !!!! quite an amazing a concise review of a product, Playing is also extraordinary, insta sub

Already ordered one!

Paul should be the demo guy for most brands to be fair as he’s awesome at getting the best out of the product and the guitar that’s plugged into it. Top man.

Nice opening tune!

I’ve seen a lot of chat on various forums about the Mk3 amps. A few things I think we could expect whenever it might show up is a tuner and the stage feel settings. I’m absolutely digging my Go and I’m finding it hard to put my Strat down. Fantastic bit of gear. Thanks for the tutorial 👍😎🎸🎸🎸

I was only wondering the other day when this would come out. All i can say is WOW. Sorry line 6 but it makes your latest pod in a plastic red box look like a childs toy. I was hooked onto the katana artist combo and then the gx100 and now this! I cant wait to see what they do with the gt1000 next. BOSS are smashing it out the park. It can even talk via bletooth to their wireless foot controller and expression pedal. Incredible !!!

Time to squeeze down the size of my on-the-move-fellow Boss Katana Mini 🙂

Your playing is extremely expressive! Not just pentatonics but u mixed it with arpeggios etc would love to know your influences!

Bought, amazing how much they crammed into this little fella…

Got two katana amps in stereo Got WAZA headphones and katana air for portable gigs Boss rocks no doubt about it

Very cool. Nice demo too. I just got a spark go a little while ago, may have waited if I knew this was coming (though I do love the spark go, and I love that I can run a line out from it into the power amp in of my katana artist, or to a PA, and play it loud). It'd be great if Boss would release a mobile app for the regular katana while they're at it...

Best review of this device and great playing!, Do you know if this can take other Bluetooth controllers? like the IK Multimedia BlueBoard

Awesome demo!

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Ok Paul… Seriously, please release an album full of exactly that… it’ll go on my all time greats list and play nonstop for years. AND… after hearing that (and everything else you play) I’d love to hear what you would do with a tune I’m writing… it’s just so damn well played!

I’m getting an Al Dimeola vibe from your backing track. Good sounds, I may have to pull the trigger

Super review Paul. Presumably you can plug this into your Katana amp, get them to play each other?

Sounds very good paul and i liked the song and tones you got out of the Katana Go!Paul how does the auto preset change work,do you need any external foot pedals to do the auto changes?

First of all: amazing playing and track! You make everything sound great. Question: how does it feel under the fingers?

Great playing mate.

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Cheers

Wow Paul great demo, playing is Fantastic as well. I do believe Boss has blown the Fender micro out of the water. I wonder if the recording will pass audio back through the go? Micro is one way in but not back out. Would be nice to use this I. iOS GarageBand.

NICE!!!!

So much of what I had hoped the Fender Mustang Mini should have been (presets, ability to change while playing, etc). Nice job boss

@squicker

2 ай бұрын

I bought a Mustang Mini about a month back as seemed the best thing around at the time, but the Boss Go is absolutely what I want now!

@clintwhite3021

2 ай бұрын

Found the mustang micro to sound like absolute rubbish unfortunately 😢 sold it asap

Great jam! There were a few companies that made guitars with built in effects but they did not have a professional sound. With something like this and a BluGuitar nanotube built INTO a guitar.... is there even a need for an amp anymore? There is so much available real estate on an electric guitar that could accommodate a device like this but with a 1/8 size tube as well? 4 buttons for your 4 most used sounds? Plus wireless? If the guitar was a solid, playable guitar, the effects sounded like the Katana and it was all going through a tube (probably need to have a SPEAKER out jack on the guitar instead of an instrument out) I think that would be a serious option....

sounds good, kinda like the nux mighty plug pro...lost my biz, might have to check this out

Awesome review and great playing. What's your set up to record from the Katana Go, playing along to the backing track to the video? Thanks

Great review ; thanks. Comparison to Waza Air would be interesting.

I love my Katana 212/100w 1.0!

Amazing. My first Boss was ME5. One thing Katana can't do is Nembrini Overdrive Special.

Boss coming up with some great tech are'nt they! Great vid Paul as per!

I've been gigging a Kat twin 100 for 4 years, got Marshall and Vox valve amps, never use em now, this wee gadget looks nuts, for the money.

Whoa! Somehow most all the presets sound better than what comes in a GX-100. I can see lots of church musicians using this with their phone on a music stand next to their iPad that has their charts!

Rest in peace, Rockman. Your time on earth has passed.

Not true about putting the Go patches on your amp. You Can put amp patches into the Go but not vice versa. Weird oversight if you ask me but maybe that’ll be fixed in the future with updates. Great video as always though young man. Would love to make a video with you one day for my channel. Top man!

Hi Paul. Have you applied any global eq to the patches you have created? I’m thinking hi and low cut. I’m still getting a lot of fizz on the higher gain stuff on the Katana. Thanks and best regards, Dave.

Handy gadget if I was going down that line would go for the wazz air .

Would you recommend these with decent headphones over the Waza airs? Thanks and great demo

Lucious and lovely, both playing and sound! So have you compared the sound of the KG to that of the NUX things that do kinda the same thing? I bought (and still have) both a NUX and a Fender Mustang Micro, and couldn‘t warm up to the sound of the NUX, nor to the limited options of the Fender (with no app control). So maybe the Go is the way to, er, go?

Sounds nice. I have a Mustang micro. Be nice to hear how they compare. The micro is pretty amazing

Great demo Paul.....awesome tones, so much so that on the back of this vid I bought one. One issue.....the Go does not feel like a solid latch into my Strat (style) guitar jack....it pushes back out a couple of mm after pushing into the jack. So to turn on, or adjust the volume, I have to hold it in place with one hand and adjust with the other. I have taken the jack output out of my guitar and squeezed/bent the contact closer but it does not help. Never had this issue with NUX mighty or Fender Micro.....so, Go owners, do I have a bad one, anyone else have this issue where its just not secure in place, and moves with the slightest touch. Any comments gratefully received. Thanks again for the fabulous demo Paul.

I would say this is like the Pocket GT, but in a better form factor.

Great demo! Are the Katana Go factory presets available to use on other Katana amps without purchasing the Go?

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Not that I know of

Best demo of this by far, and some of Paul's best playing too, IMHO!

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Cheers

If these keep evolving I can see in the near future we will be turning up to gigs not with amps, not with modellers (i run a GX100) but a guitar and one of these type of devices 🤯🤯

@bjuretic

2 ай бұрын

Actually, no reason there should not be a version of this without the plastics which can be placed inside of the guitar itself. Then you would only need a wireless footswitch.

@stevedarby1099

2 ай бұрын

​@bjuretic now there is an idea.... I have a strat with a mid boost circuit so that is only a few levels up.

Great job 👏I wonder if you can play with backing tracks in someway together with this gear

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

It’s explained in the video.

Can't have the neighbors hating me less.... I'll get a boom box to plug into

Got one of these a month ago on Reverb from a music store in NYC when no one else had any available (they're still listed as "coming soon" at Sweetwater). Unfortunately it was a dead unit! I got an RM# from Roland since the music store I got it from did not have any others to replace it with (they did offer me a full refund and free return shipping). Roland replaced it with a brand new unit and it arrived a few days ago (happy again)! Well the replacement Katana:Go doesn't work either!! I'm sure it's the greatest thing since sliced bread - if you can get a working model :-/

Any suggestions which headphones will be the best buy for sound quality?

Sound really great - the Specs and, as alway, your playing. I assume you cannot connect Bluetooth headphone like Airpods to it? Probably would result in severe latency.

@TheStudioRats

2 ай бұрын

Cheers Woffi, yeah the latency for Bluetooth wouldn’t work.

How is this in comparison to Pocket GT? They seem too be at odds with one another in use case.

Fantastic demo, thank you! Seriously considering that for travel purposes, but (after watching several reviews) still have one big questionmark... How does this thing sound through headphones? Especially proper ones with something like 250 Ohms versus iPhone earplugs with almost no resistance? (Asking because on this Fender Mustang thing the sound coming out of my DT 1990 Pro cans is quieter than the actual guitar.)

@trevaudio

2 ай бұрын

Lower impedance headphones 75/100 ohms or below should be fine !! Those tiny headphone amps can’t drive high impedance headphones

Dude, I hate saying this as a slide player.... Because room reverb effects my sound a lot. There is rapidly becoming zero reason for amps :( Especially since it makes live sound so much easier when you have a random FOH dude. Personally I'd wanna see if it can stack compressors inside or not. But this sounds beautiful! Wonderful playing man! Edit: Imagine you could carry 10 of these in a bag that would be replacements if one went down and just have it and a aby pedal "incase". The possibilites for this are endless honestly. I'll definitely get a few of these depending on price point.

Well, the Fender Mustang Micro is TOAST!

Can "picth shifter" effect in this katana capable of dropping guitar tuning such as from E standard to C standard for playing Metal sir? Please answer🙏

Why does the drive sound here sound better than the IR-2? The IR-2 has that weird high treble issue that I've also heard with Line 6 high gain sounds.

Great opening Jam. Sounds like a great unit... but I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm disappointed with Boss leaving out a Drum Machine Feature

@iwonder.

2 ай бұрын

and the fact that the effects are all mono

@richieknight5423

2 ай бұрын

Backing tracks......

@JTB--

2 ай бұрын

@@richieknight5423 I get that there are work arounds for drums, but the real beauty of these type guitar HP units is when you get the late night urge, or your warming up before a gig... you can just plug in and jam with a drum machine. The Nux and Flamma have Drum Grooves on their similar products and it's just puzzling why Boss omitted this feature. Boss could have cornered the market on these headphone amps if it had a Drum Machine feature. It would have been a total Home Run

@trevaudio

2 ай бұрын

Just play them in off your phone etc

Mine is coming tomorrow. I have an axefx so why am I so excited?

Can the amp and cab be disabled so that the Boss modulations and reverbs and delays could used with the Tonex pedal?

So can I take the headphone out, straight into my hifi aux in and use my hifi speakers?

Man, you need to make a band and start touring.