Boss Shares HM-2W Heavy Metal Waza Craft Preorder Date with Icelandic Independence Day - today June 17th!

So as of 08:00 GMT today on June 17th - Icelandic Independence Day - Boss’s eagerly anticipated HM-2W Heavy Metal Waza Craft Edition will be finally up for Preorder from all the usual suspects. As Yoshi Ikegami has stated a few times this year - Boss’s scale of operations within the current parts supply issues, has meant that there have been several delays in production as parts were taking months to arrive - at a rate of nearly 3 times of what was normal before the pandemic.

This is very distinctly a Preorder phase where those pedals are unlikely to be available in any quantities until mid to late August. So while Boss have most of the parts that they need now - it will still take a while to assemble all those pedals needed for a popular launch / re-launch of a legendary pedal.

I imagine that several Blues Lawyers will pick up some of these before realising that it’s not exactly their genre. So I expect orders of the HM-2W to be somewhat spirited from the start.

This is in every way a superior pedal to the original - obviously with standard 9V [-] power supply, lowered noise floor (-6dB), less likelihood of unwanted squealing or howling, and quite a bit more Level / Volume on tap. While everything else is pretty much maintained from the original - so this is the same ’Standard’ voicing that everyone is used to - just more so in some ways.

For the Custom Mode / tuning, Boss have expanded the range of the Tone Stack - giving you more extreme accents, there is significantly more gain on tap, and more texture or aggression - for a nicely more modern sort of brutal voicing. I’m certainly looking forward to put the new pedal through its paces sometime in August.

Pricing is exactly as promised - or around $179/€179 - with UK pricing slightly less at around £165.

There should be plenty to go around here as this will be a regular Waza Craft pedal - with many years of manufacture ahead. While early on there is likely to be high demand for those first batches.