Empress Drive Analog Overdrive Effect Pedal

Breathing overdriven life into your signal in full 3D and technicolor, the Empress Effects Drive Analog Overdrive is a masterful work in analog drives. This all-analog effect from Empress follows in a lineage of airtight drives designed with tone, precision, and performance as paramount priorities. As an Empress pedal to swing with the best and most versatile of modern overdrive effects, the Empress Drive is a marvelously powerful and flexible drive to fire up your whole rig.

The Empress Drive is an all-analog creation centered around authentic, tube-like analog overdrive architecture designed for natural compression, response, and dynamics. Starting off simply with a honest, charming drive tone emulating the expression and playing response of your favorite tube amplifiers, the pedal's harmonic structure allows for a vast, versatile, and inspiring tonal spectrum that covers bases of edge-of-breakup drive, thick, tube-like crunch, to all the way up and past blown-out distorted saturation. These zones are monitored and communicated in real time by a front-facing, real-time clipping meter, giving you the accurate and tangible response to recreate your favorite tones time and time again.

All this talk of the Empress Drive's natural, analog overdrive structure and we haven't even gotten to all the classic Empress bells and whistles that put it over the top. For one, the Empress Drive features an incredibly deep EQ shaping experience that stands head and shoulders above your average analog drive. Three-band EQ shaping build up in addition to a Mid Freq shift control allows for deep pre-overdrive EQ shaping. This control scheme allows for both EQ sculpting and effect coloring as you find your exact EQ balance to shine brightest.

From here, the Empress Drive builds up with a number of ultra-modern features to elevate the whole experience. Structurally, the Empress Drive includes an onboard clean boost that breathes up to thirty decibels before or after the overdrive stage for added saturation or a volume lift. While you're routing your clean boost one way or the other, the Empress Drive offers a clean mix control that precisely mixes in the clarity and articulation of your unaffected signal. Things are kept all the more clean with an onboard adaptive noise gate that melds on close quarters to preserve sustain and touch sensitivity. Buffered bypass footswitching keeps the whole experience clean and airtight while standard nine-volt DC center negative power at 250mA minimum brings the Drive to life effortlessly.

For an enormously powerful and versatile drive, the Empress Drive reigns supreme as a musical device of breakneck modernity.