Boss DC-2W Waza Craft Dimension C Pedal

This pedal will add headspace to your overall tone. Think “Purple Rain” or “Flesh for Fantasy”. Built like a tank in Japan. This is the real deal.

Since the 70’s I have acquired many pedals.However, the longer you play, the less you use...Many long time players I know now just go straight into the amp after years of playing through various FX.I currently use a boost, an Eq, a stereo Strymon reverb and occasionally rotate in another pedal or two for fun.I was looking for something to add stereo separation between two 100-watt Marshall heads and half-stacks. I don’t play loudly anymore, I’ve had these amps for years and tried a rotary (Leslie simulator) for separation but the effect was two obvious.What interested me in this pedal was the simulation of a well known studio “3D” rack effect that is now a classic and hard to find.It added a tiny bit of sparkle with a fantastic sense of separation.This has similar attributes. I leave it on with positions 3 & 4 engaged in the rack mode (SDD-320) all the time. It gives the amps great separation, a touch of phase-inverted chorus with the two bucket brigade circuits engaged at the same time. The fantastic thing about this pedal is it doesn’t sound like a typical chorus, though I’ve seen it lumped into this category. You forget it’s on, it’s that transparent.Other modulation pedals may not blend well ”with” this as it is in itself a form of modulation. I can’t imagine running a flanger or phaser in the same FX loop unless you were going for some sort of ambient guitar or keyboard sound.A boost or slight tube-screamer distortion into it sounds very nice if not pushed too far. I use a stereo Strymon reverb “before” this in the effects chain if I’m using a bit of “shimmer mode.” -Otherwise I reverse the order of those pedals.There’s not much “noise” generated when not playing, but still plugged in. You don’t get the swirling sounds of a flanger running through the amp and may not need a noise gate. Then again I’m playing at fairly low volume for the type of amps I’m using and I’m not running many pedals at a time. If you buy it, it’s sort of a set it and forget it pedal. You can plug it in and leave it on if you’re using a stereo set up. Enjoy!

I have a ton of pedals. This one is staying on my board. I use it as a chorus-flanger-phaser in the effects loop and I love it. People tell me to put it before the amp, but this colors fuzz, distortion, and drives beautifully in stereo so I like it there. If you like to be able to get that 80's sound in one pedal this is an excellent option.

Read a lot about this one before paying out the cash. It's got limited settings, not extremely versatile, not configurable, etc. But good grief, if you are looking for a somewhat subtle, mellow yet kind of wild chorus (only in stereo tbh) this effect is golden. I don't leave it on but I love the way it fattens out in stereo -which I think it was intended for anyway? Don't not buy this if you want/ need more variations in a chorus, pass on this (expensive) one and look at the other Boss ones.

Unbelievable. Put this in the effects loop, and select SDD-320 (the older rack unit) and mode 2. Then--jam! Unbelievable tone additive!

The DC‑2W shares some of the basic concepts of a conventional chorus pedal, in that it utilizes modulated delay lines — but it does so in a far more subtle way. The effect is achieved by using dual modulation sections running out‑of‑phase with each other, each having its own internally set depth and rate parameters, along with cross‑feedback networks that connect the sections. Adding feedback in this way adds further complexity to the effect, giving the impression that there are more than two modulation processes at work — so you don’t hear the familiar churning sound inherent in typical chorus effects. To enable all the modulation options to be delivered with precision in a pedal‑sized enclosure, the LFOs and control circuits in the DC‑2W are digital, however, the audio signal path itself is entirely analogue, meaning, there is no analog signal converted to digital, processed, and converted back into analogue out. This means there's no digital loss of the dynamics of the signal quality passing through the DC-2w, and that, as well as higher quality components, is why Waza is more expensive.I researched this effect pedal to really understand it because most reviewers were dumbfounded, saying they couldn't explain it, but I find it is explainable. What DC-2w is, is a chorus modulation effect pedal that uses a combination of dual splitting of signals and micro-delay feedback effects that does not mess with the total frequency of the sound. So imagine a music staff, like in a music book with notes on it, two lines going across the page, only these lines are signal paths with a sine wave going up and down, signifying the modulation effect. The top line is the main modulation, the second line is another modulation, both being played simultaneously. At one point, the signal modulation may be at a peak, the other can be at its valley, effectively canceling out the modulation effect. So what the effect circuitry does is create intelligently (digitally controlled for perfect timing) offset the two paths so they do not entirely cancel each other out. This is what creates the subtle vs. in-your-face apparent modulation. Now combine all of this with the delay feedback where it's timed perfectly, and you get even more (layered) offset inverted phase modulations in different frequency (timing, not tone) relationships between signals. This makes the combined effect even more subtle (i.e., smooth) where there is such a myriad of intentionally yet variously timed modulations playing off of each other in each signal path and this is what creates it's 'dimensionally mysterious' (i.e., modulation harmony) effect that no one can seem to explain. All it really is a marriage between a chorus and delay pedal done in stereo.I saw this unit as being described as, “the ultimate chorus effect for people who don’t like chorus!” I'm like, “Yup, nailed it”. I really am not a fan of modulation effects. It's just 'too much' change in the sound that makes it a bit weird to me. It's like a playful girlfriend that gets a little too playful and it goes from enjoyable to “Ewwww, get away from me”, weird, but if you get playful in intelligent ways that play off of each nuance, that's awesome. That's what this pedal does. It makes the chorus not SIMPLE, STRAIGHT FORWARD, BRUTAL, IN-YOUR-FACE (masculine) but rather complex (feminine) and beautiful (mathematical geometry) with so much going on you don't know know or understand what's what's really happening, like women (it's actually a good thing), and all you notice is the overall total effect. I think that's what this is, and it's why I like it vs. simple modulation pedals. Just like guys are like, “I don't know why I like women, I just do”, the exact same principle applies here. This a very feminine pedal.In my opinion, as a guitarist, it works great with clean/acoustic. It's a little modulationy (perhaps awkward is a good way to describe it) with distortion and that's OK (personal preference) and lead guitar just doesn't sound right, at least to me. It's interesting, but I prefer without or at setting one (most subtle of the variations) in a distortion lead guitar part.Those of you who are like “I don't have two amps”, don't worry about that. There's very little in terms of effect between mono and stereo. There is only a bit more stereo separation, meaning, in mono, the 180 degree inversion points cancel each other out and you don't hear that part of the modulation in mono, but in stereo, the cancellation points are far less canceled (not at all in headphones) because each ear hears everything in each signal path (L/R). So the effect, in stereo, is more noticeable than when it is in mono.If you still don't know if you want one or not, go to youtube and search for “Boss DC-2w Dimension Demo”, and hear it for yourself, if you haven't already.One star off of five stars because I feel there is one important thing missing from this pedal, and that's a wet/dry signal level control. I would like to be able to control the mix. I can't. It's either 100% or 0%. Update: I was about to return this unit as I was thinking about how I would be able to control the mix, thinking about having to get some contraption to do it with (not making this pedal easy to use) when I thought about how to hook it up through the FX send/return on my mixer and wala, problem solved. I'm now able to fine-tune just how much of the wet signal I want in my mix so that I can create that subtle and sweet tinge of stereo separation in a lead guitar part without it dominating the sound so people are like "what's going on here" and can just not think about it but just enjoy it. So that's the major Con. Boss forgot what this is, a pedal, not a rack unit. They may have 'reproduced a rack unit' but forgot what it is, a unit specifically used in live situations, not in the studio. So Boss, put a wet/dry (true bypass) knob on it, please. Then you won't have people returning the unit because it's "too overpowering" and not able to adjust appropriately to suit your style.

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I have a LOT of Boss pedals. I always wanted this one and couldn’t resist when I saw it on sale.Worth every penny.This is not just a chorus pedal with presets. It’s go some other voodoo (I imagine flange) tech going on in the chain.It sounds great on both my electric and accosting guitars.I even tried it in my bass Fx chain and was surprised that is allows for some low end magic.Love this pedal.

Es simplemente hermoso tanto físicamente como en su sonido en limpio y con distorsión suena hermoso. Al inicio puede parecer más sutil de lo esperado, sin embargo ya sonando con una banda embona muy muy bien tiene el toque justo!

Recently discovered a review of this pedal to get that 80s sound which was used by many recording artists, even SRV used it on the classic "Let's Dance" David Bowie song.

I always remember the first time I used a Roland Dimension effect on my guitar and instantly fell in love with it. I like the Chorus effect but, like so many others, I'm not a big fan of the "sea-sickly" (as someone else aptly described it) warble you get once you start cranking up the rate and depth.With the DC-2W, you don't get any of that and it gives your guitar sound a glorious 3-D spatial effect that's ideal for the clean acoustic-like tones that I prefer. The controls are mega simple being just 4 buttons providing varying degrees of rate and depth, the same as the iconic rack-mount unit from the 80's and there's also a switch that puts the pedal into a faithful emulation mode of that.If I could only have one pedal, this would be a major contender if not the outright choice.

Boss Waza Pedał in der erwartet hohen, bosstypischen Qualität. "Chorus" Pedal mit vier Tastern, die einzeln und auch in Kombinationen geschaltet werden können. Erstaunliche Sounds, am besten man hört sich Klangbeispiele an.Ich besitze ein altes originales DC-2, und ich muß sagen die neue Waza-Version kommt der Sache verdammt nahe. Kaufempfehlung für Chorus Freaks und Sammler. Ich bin froh dass ich es gekauft hab.

At first it seems genius but I was kinda underwhelmed.I'm sure people love it.