Boss Katana Effects Explained - Wah Wah
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- The Boss Katana has a few choices for wah pedal emulations, and they are all rather good. In this series, Paul from The Studio Rats explains the controls. The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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You're the best to explain these Boss Katana specs, thanks a lot! 💪🏼🌱🐐
Can’t say enough about the quality of your great videos, Paul. Such a terrific resource for Katana heads! Just great.
Cheers Douglas, I’m glad you are getting something out of them.
Really loving my Katana MK2 100 watt and these videos! The Katana amps are fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to put these videos together. I have really been enjoying them. Great work!
Cheers Don.
Awesome video, just bought a mk2 head and your videos are just what I need!
The wah on this amp is amazing and you're getting some great sounds out of it. thank you for showing us all of the great ways that the katana can sound fabulous!
Cheers Dave.
I say it again, this absolutely the best Katana MKII series of videos on youtube.. BY FAR. Boss should pay you to do these. Thank you very much for sharing these. These really help me understand this amp.
Cheers Crow!
Hi Paul. I just bought a Katana 50 Mk2 to pair with my Tokai Les Paul type guitar and I'm now glued to your channel. Thanks for taking the time to explore the capability of this amp. Very useful indeed! Cheers from Japan! Subscribed!
Hey Melvin, awesome! Enjoy the amp.
That’s great, Paul. Love your channel. Have been really enjoying and learning from your Boss Katana videos. Excellent!! (Delivery notices tell me that my Katana Artist MkII will arrive *TODAY*!! So excited to try out what I’ve learned from your channel. Again... many thanks!
Welcome aboard!
Loving these videos - had felt a bit overwhelmed with all the options on BTS but these are great for getting to to speed
Cheers Tommkuk!
Great Videos... thanks so much!
Roland should be paying to you make these videos. They're LONG overdue. They make an amp that is largely going to be purchased by players with no experience on the multitude of effects and they released basically no helpful material in digging into them. You're knocking it out of the park.
Cheers Zarya, That would be nice. I agree, Boss should have done these vids, but it’s given me an opportunity to do them.
Yup. Used prices are lookin pretty good.
This may be the best video, that I have seen in a very long time. Many miss information, important information, I correct it, not trolling, but it is so refreshing to find a video that absolutely is fantastic, valuable, informed and very well done. I was starting to lose hope, as many successful youtube/video producers, starting making honest reviews, but then when subscribers hit a number that appealed to companies, suddenly they were BSing people to make endorsers happy and trust, became screwing loyal persons. You deserve to be sponsored, your video is fantastic, but others, I just wish, choice who they let pay them and it is cash vs integrity. EX: I have made so many honest great videos, that I just got a great offer, so now I will just sell their crap, people devoted will buy it, being loyal to the video producer, who just sold out (integrity). * You deserve all that support imaginable and I am saying in a friendly way, when endorsements come and they should, please maintain the great integrity you have, not be like others, as offers will continue to come in. This is a disappointment in others, sadly, not you, but this is just so well done and valuable! Keep up the amazing work!
Rob Courtnall cheers Rob thanks for your time making such a nice comment. P
Thank you!
Loving these videos Paul, am learning so much out of them. I have always struggled with the Compressor effect, any chance you can do a quick video on setup and how you use it
Thanks Dennis, yes the compressor vid is scheduled. Best Paul.
@@TheStudioRats Manyn Thanks
best wah video for katana on youtube!
Cheers.
I had no idea it had wah! I need to buy this!
How about the part where I hook up my proline brand expression pedal (works with all my line 6 stuff) and does not work, at all? Either via the back amp jack or the GA/FC Exp pedal input 2 as you outlined in your other video? All assignments are made, and proper FX have been chosen and turned on....nothing. It's been a few hours now of fiddling and I really, really don't want to spend $150 on a new wah when it sounds like the ones in the amp are great! Using the latest version of the Boss Tone Studio for Katana MK II.
Great vid...but here's y problem....If you turn ON the way, you can't turn it off and play without it. The pedal doesn't have a switch built in to itself to change back to NON wah. The only thing I can see to do is clone the channel and make another right beside it on the GFAC that is without wah but has all the other setting the same. All they needed to do was put an on off switch on the pedal. I actually use a cry baby mini going in the front instead of using the katana wah. Works fine but defeats the purpose of the GFAC. STILL love my Artist combo and gig with it on a regular basis. I never go off .5 watts even in a big venue. We mic up so all I need to hear is stage volume. Our sound gal is going to control all volumes anyway. Thanks for the great vids on the katana. You really have saved my bacon many times.
Love your videos. Can you do a video on how to use the harmonizer
Hi Johnny, sure I’ll get it scheduled.
Just recently got a katana 50 mkii EX along with the ga-fc ex foot controller. I've set my wah up under the modulation Tab but when I switch off the wah with the foot controller the wah carries on to take effect. Is there a way to turn it off fully
Hey I have a question. If you get a expression pedal with a button under the pedal, are you able to change for example from wah to volume control by pushing on the pedal? Or do you need a separate pedal for that?
What grinds my gears is, i wanted to make the wah pedal to turned OFF or ON without going through the BOSS Tone Studio so that transitioning is seemless. Is that possible on the Katana (50 mk2 specifically)?
That's a very good question activating the wah in the tone studio affects your tone so it would be nice to switch it off when not in use without having to go into the tone studio
Is it possible that I can create pa patch with a WAH EFFECTS then USE the Exp pedal anytime. Just like a WAH WAH PEDAL ?
These Katana videos are very informative, thank you! Seeing as you are responding to comments on this video as recently as a day ago, I was wondering if you could address the fact that the Pedal Position reading in Tone Studio never read 100? Even when you said you pressed the pedal all the way down, at 1:29, the reading stops at 92. I ask because I have the opposite effect, where my reading won't return to 0 consistently, even with the pedal all the way up. About 30% of the time the reading stops on 1 or 2. Reaches 100 just fine, travels smoothly throughout the range, and 70% of the time will return to 0, but not everytime. Not the biggest deal with a lot of effects and parameters, but very noticeable and annoying when it happens while using pitch shifting or pedal bend effects :(
Edit: I should mention that I am using a Proline expression pedal, it has a knob on it for controlling minimum pedal position and rotating the knob fully back and forth has the same effect, works fine 70% of the time, 30% of the time stops on 1 or 2 Pedal Position reading. Also I tried 2 of the same pedals, just to be sure the first wasn't defective, same result with both. I know they are cheap pedals so maybe they just don't play nice with Katana, just weird that they pretty much work, just not 100% of the time. Anyway, would be glad to hear any thoughts you have on the matter.
Thanks again for the very useful videos :)
Your pedal needs to be calibrated which I’m not sure you can do on a Katana. The boss pedals work fine.
can i put a seperate volume and seprate efx/wah in boss katana 50?
so do i need to have my computer hooked up to the amp the whole time while using built in effects?
Thanks
Hi Studio Rat, is it possible to connect a volume pedal FV-50L to a Katana MKII? To control the master output?
Can the way be set up without a computer? i.e. using the Katana front panel?
That sounds awesome. I can't make it sound like that :(
Which amp type (and settings?) were you using?
Thanks for great explanatory videos!!!
Hi Jakob, I think it was just the clean amp. There are other video explaining the tones on my TH-cam channel. Best Paul
Can i just use a regular cry baby wah pedal with a trs or do I need a different one?
Another awesome video! Thanks for bringing such great content.
Question - How do you get stereo sound on Katana when you recording using USB ? Dont think there is any other way to record stereo sounds out of Katana 100 ?
Preetam Ramamurthy hi Preetam, no there is no other way unless you use 2 Katanas.
@@TheStudioRats even the 212 isn't stereo?
Hi Paul, great videos!
Could you explain how to use the SOLO SW and SOLO LEVEL in the Booster section of the Katana. Is there a way to turn it on with the GAFC controller?
Hi Laszlo. I’ll have a look a schedule it in. Thanks for the comment.
Hi Paul, I’m also very interested in how to turn on and of the pedal section with the foot switch. It wil be nice if you can dig on it and see if it’s a solution for it.
I’m trying to find this for almost half year and I can’t find anything... maybe is because is nothing to find....
If I’m right, I hope they add this option on the next update...
otherwise I don’t understand why a new pedal section and you can not able to controle on and of with a foots switch....
Can you help me with that?
Thanks 🙏🏼!
Does wah pedal activate when you step into it or you need to turn it manually?
if I have a vox pedal and I put it on the fx pedal, does the pedal bend effect work?
The Katana manual says it can take either a low impedance (FV-500L) or high impedance (FV-500H) expression pedal. How does it figure out the range to go from 0 to 100?
Hi, Im afraid youll need to speak to Boss about that.
Hi. Great video. Can you please tell me, which Mission expression pedal are you using? Thanks.
It’s the one for the Kemper amp, sorry I don’t know the model.
How about a video explaining how to assign the fx pedal to various effects within a patch...so you can switch the wah on and off within a selected patch...many thanks for these videos.
I’ll have a look at that for you George. Thanks for the comment.
@@TheStudioRats after looking around on the internet it seems there exists 0 ways to switch the pedal fx on and off with the GA-FC. Boss should update firmware so that holding the FX button would toggle the Pedal FX. This would be intuitive.
These are the 3 solutions to toggle wah and each has a drawback.
1) don't use pedal fx; assign your FX to wah and the expression pedal's function from "Pedal FX/FV" to simply "FX"
drawback here is now you're using up your FX for wah, so wah can't be combined with other fx.
2) purchase yet another switch and hook it into the other port on the GA-FC (FS1). In Tone Studio assign FS1 to "PEDAL FX ON/OFF".
drawback here is you're spending more money on a pedal, that pedal is taking up space, and you've lost ability to use FS1 for other purposes like tap tempo.
3) use computer
drawback here is obvious... might be okay for tracking in studio but not for live performances.
Real solution I think is for Boss to implement toggling via holding the FX button on the GA-FC.
@@FunkyELF there is a fourth solution - create a channel which is 100% dedicated to the wah pedal for example - One lead tone without Wah and one with Wah which basically works as u would switch the wah on. Only way I have found to do it with GA-FC and EXP pedal. It is a bummer but this is what it is.
@@FunkyELF Hi Eric, awesome, thank you! So option #1 ....Yeah...the wah sound is not as good simply as an assigned FX. It is much, much better (like the video shows) when assigned as "PEDAL FX" except...you can never turn it off!!! Maybe it's worth the investment in yet ANOTHER external footswitch to turn on/off the "PEDAL FX" option. No matter what I do I can't get the Wah as simply "FX" to sound anywhere near as sweet as the "PEDAL FX" on. What a huge oversight by Boss :(
@@FunkyELF buy a wah pedal
Which mission pedal are you using here? For Helix???
If i have a crybaby wah can i use it this way also?
I have a boss 500h pedal and want to use that to control the wah, do i need to use the assign menu?
Yes
Nice tones! By the way, nice socks! kkkkkkkk
Anyone who knows an expression pedal that works like a wah? That is, with the built-in power switch under the pedal?
Is there a way to turn the wah off using the expression pedal or do you need to change channels???
Yeah nobody wants to answer that, been asking for months now
@@JAF2991 did you find a solution? Only one I found was to add a foot switch to the second input on the GA-FC and assign it to turn the wah on and off.
I have a Boss Katana Mk2 100, i Also have a Boss pedal board (Phaser, Octave, Chorus, Super Overdrive, Delay & a power supply pedal..i havent used the pedals since i bought the Katana Mk2 100 since all of those (except the Super Overdrive) come stock on the Amp’s effects; but recently I finally got a Original Cry Baby Wah pedal, im not sure if i’ve been hooking it up correct with the MK2 100, i’ve been plugging the input into the top (beside all the knobs) & running that cable into the side of the Cry Baby Wah that says “amplifier” & then pluging a cable into my guitar & running that into the other side of the Cry Baby pedal that says “instrument” (this pedal i currently run on battery, dont currently know how to attach it with my boss pedal board with power supply).
My question is, am I running the Cry baby wah pedal correctly for the Katana MK2 100, or should i be plugging my guitar into the top Input of the Katana Mk2 100 & plugging the cry baby wah pedal into one of the inputs in the back of the MK2 100? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks & keep up the great content!
(Also can i run external effects & internal effects at the same time? For ex, if i wanted a lot of overdrive & ran the booster with Blues Overdrive on the Amp, & also run my Boss Super OverDrive pedal at the same time...or run my Boss Delay pedal, with delay on the amp for major delay lol..is this possible/ok for the Katana Mk2 100?)
You are plugging in correctly and yes you can use external pedals at the same time, if you are using delay/reverb I’d recommend running those through the effects loop.
@@TheStudioRats thanks big time, was a little confused for a bit lol thx for clearing that up
@@TheStudioRats i have a Boss delay delay pedal thats hooked into my pedal board with a power supply..i dont understand the Effect Looping thing (besides the concept of a looper pedal..playing a few chords, then being able to jump in & out/solo over you’re Rhythm or couple chords you put together in a loop. I currently do not own a looper pedal..i dont think the GA-FC is a looper, & im still at an intermidiate level..(i use the AUX, find a backtracking online & jam along to classic rock style trackings from 80bpms-110bpms)..the GA-FC pedal is not a looper if im correct (since i dont play live gigs or not feeling ready for a band, generally it doesnt serve me any real purpose)?
But i have only a Delay pedal that would be redudent..unless i turn on Brown Channel & with a fuzz booster & i add my Boss SuperOverdrive pedal...should i be plugging my guitar into amp main input (top near knobs), or my boss pedals that are all internal effects that came Stock with the Katana mk2 100..(i feel no need to plug in my boss pedal board that includes Phaser, oct, chrous, super overdrive, delay..power supply...& my cry baby wah is not connected & ran battery powered currently). My question is, i have a few regular input cables, if you think redudent effects such as delay on amp + delay pedal..or if i turn booster on & mix Blues Overdrive with Super Overdrive..am i supposed to put the redudent effects to really exaggerate or double up on an effect...you said i should run those types through the effects loop; do i need the TRS cable? Or what is the downside to plugging my pedals (most that have the effects built in), but whats the downside to plugging in my boss pedal board Or cry baby wah staight into the top (main input) & plugging guitar into pedal? Should i take the delay/phaser/chorus..effects that come stock with MK2 100 & take them off pedal board & plug them into effect loops inputs...does that take a standard input cable or a TRS (i dont have one of those currently, but if it will make a noticable difference i’d do it, on the flip side, if i plug in my pedals & doubled up on an external & interal effect that is the same/very similar...for example my Boss SuperOverdrive pedal, & turn the booster on to Blues Overdrive..internal effect..or using Tape Echo delay on the amp & whatever green boss delay pedal i have, using them at the same time??
Sorry, i bought my Katana mk2 100 few months ago, from using a simple smaller Fender Frontman that def has some years on it lol, along with the Boss Pedal Case...& i love playing around with my Cry Baby Wah pedal (not attached to boss pedals), but curious why i would run redudent effects thru the back effects loop input & if it needs different (TRS) cables...ps i’ve been impressed with the Katana mk2 100 & have yet to set up tone studio lol thanks for all your help & much apprciated!
Is there a way to make the effect switchless? Wah effect starts when the pedal moves?
Best to check with boss.
I can not get my Ev-30 to turn the wah on and off
Do you need to connect an expression pedal to get the wah build in effect?
Yes, unless you use the auto wah.
Im using a Ronad EV5 expression pedal and it doesnt seem to work. Help!
Look the video on how to assign pedals, that's the trick.
I hooked up my wah to the panel jack is there a any difference to hook up to the expression plugin. I don't have trs cable
Hi Krazyroach, yes a wah is different to an expression pedal, you'll need a dedicated one.
The Studio Rats ok thank you
So, if the pedal min is set (slightly) greater than zero, does that mean that when the pedal position is at zero, the wha is effectively off? I mean, in a gigging situation, I wouldn't want to switch channels when i _don't_ want the wha effect. I just want it to go away when the pedal is not engaged. I'd hate to think that if you had a "wha wha" channel programmed, that your sound will ALWAYS be in "some" sweep position.
No... At least I don't think so. If you toggle it on and off in tone studio (even at 0 or 1) you can hear a distinct difference in tone. And.. it sounds better off ... unless you are desiring the wah effect of course.
Does a real pedal work as an expression pedal with katana? As example JP pedal, or should only stick with an expression pedal only?
It has to be an expression pedal
Do you have to purchase PedalFX in the studio? For example if I wanted the Boss metal core pedal, then could I have the digital version of that? Keeps me from buying the actual pedal. About to buy a Boss MK2 and having trouble finding someone who goes through this conversation in tone studio. Thanks man.
I’m not really sure what you mean but, all of the effects come with the amp there is no add on effects you can buy
@@TheStudioRats sorry as a noob I'm not asking the right way I'm sure. I guess I was just curious if the boss metal core pedal could be replicated with a tone/patch in tone stuido or if Boss had a place where you could download tones from popular pedals they sell versus buying the physical pedal from the store shelf.
How do you activate/deactivate the wah outside of Boss Tone Studio? Also, what version amp (mk1/mk2) are you using?
You need Tone Studio to create a preset that uses the Wah setting. Once you have that loaded onto the amp, you can change to a preset that doesn't use the wah pedal to disengage it.
@@ZaryaMain That's pretty bad to give acess to effects and then have no assignable way to turn them on/off in a live situation. Especially a wah. It's terrible to have to waste a whole preset for this. Come on Boss!
Do you know how we can suggest this change to BOSS?
@@brenovsky_ I just registered my katana with Boss so that I could do an email support. Doubt it will go anywhere unless the community comes together and we all do the same.
Here is what I put.
===== Feel free to copy/paste to www.boss.info/backstage/support =====
I own the Katana-100 MkII, GA-FC foot controller and an expression pedal. I have my expression pedal plugged into the GA-FC. In Tone Studio I am able to toggle Pedal FX which turns my expression pedal from a volume control into a wah.
How can I toggle Pedal FX from my GA-FC?
Pressing the "FX" button toggles the "FX", it doesn't toggle "PEDAL FX".
An intuitive way would be to hold the "FX" button on the GA-FC similar to how you hold the panel button to switch banks.
I have looked around the internet and have seen several others asking this same question on Reddit, Facebook, etc.
We want a way to toggle Pedal FX from the GA-FC. Without that, the Pedal FX is pretty useless in a live situation since you'd have to hook up a computer to toggle it.
You don't. Therefore, if using "PEDAL FX" as in Paul's video here, Wah is ALWAYS on and cannot turn off.
So i don't need GA FC to use expression pedal?
if you have an exp pedal in on the amp you dont need a gafc.
The wah effect on mine isn't so pronounced as yours sometimes it seems to disappear
Hmm I don’t know why that is. It might be worth sending a message to Boss tech support
Greetings buddy i have the mark2 amp when i plug the trs cable with wah pedal i can’t get any volume control and i get the dunlop wah pedal to work is there any solution to this issue ps when i plug the wah pedal infront the amp it works
salem alshemerri hi Salem, a wag pedal is not an expression pedal. You’ll need to use a proper expression pedal.
The Studio Rats oh thanks buddy , so my wah pedal goes infront of the amp is that correct ?
Yes
Are you using the Kemper version expression pedal?
Shredra Gaming, I am.
@@TheStudioRats One more question. The toe switch can switch between volume and wah function?
did he say a resivour ?
May i ask you a question sir. Do u believe katana 100 and katana 100 mkii have big differences?
Hey, I’m afraid I’ve never tried the mk1 but I’m told they are similar.
I think the MKII has more voicings but they are very subtle either amp has way more options than you’ll ever be able to utilize the sounds will be sonically the same if you want the amp that sounds better upgrade to the katana artist MkI or MKII they have a larger cabinet and the waza speaker !!There is a comparison video on TH-cam comparing the regular katana to the artist and I noticed quite a difference get the artist MKI OR MKII You won’t regret either one
Could some one be so kind to explain to me how to disengage the WAH effect in a set,? My the pedal just activates the effect ( doesnt click off ) like a normal wah so , the only way I can think how to disengage it is to click on to another clean channel , and the seem absurd and not practical , If Im missing any help would be great thanks!🙏🙏
Hmm have you tried setting the controller to toggle on/off?
@@TheStudioRats Thank you for the reply! do you mean the toggle switch on the actual expression pedal? all I have is ( polarity) switch on the bottom and some round button on the side that controll the sweep or the effects, no actual toggle switch I have a Proline cost about 30 buck @ GC is this why? Thank you 🙏
Where is assign ?? Is not working...
dude is there anything this amp cant do?...im glad i bought one...
Well it can’t use tubes, but it doesn’t need to imo
Presumably you only use the FATWAH if somebody insults the Prophet Mohammed?
Best comment yet!
L0L!
Salman Rushdie’s least favourite wah on the Boss Katana: the Fat Wah. *I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it*
NOOOO tell me you dont need a laptop to use pedals with katana amps , that would wipe boss off my shortlist
"So who uses a wah?"
*plays Hendrix, Vai and some funk*
Kirk Hammett: "Am I a joke to you?"
Too bad the Wah FX isn't switchable apart from using BTS. Which makes it kind of useless while gigging.
Hi Henrik, unless I’m wrong, you just save it into the preset.
@@TheStudioRats Indeed you can, but there's no way to activate/deactivate it from the GAFC footswitch. So it's either on, or off. You could of course use two separate presets, on off, the other on, but that wouldn't make sense. Another trick would be to have it completely bypass when the pedal itself is in max heel position, but that's something for a future update I suppose.
Ahh I see, the mission expression pedal has a pedal switch so you can turn it off.
@@TheStudioRats Ah! That explains it. I'm using the Boss FV-500 and a cheapo M-Audio EX-P both of which are switchless!
You CAN activate it using the GAFC. Set the FX to wah and turn on off there.
No Kirk thing!?!?
Not happy....
Guitarsician Kirk thing??
@@TheStudioRats Kirk Hammett
\m/
Ahh. I see. Fraid not
Can i use the expression pedal without preset??
Like directly playing it??or i need to set it in boss studio as wah??
Thanks