Empress Effects

The Empress Bass Compressor is a transparent, all-analog compressor pedal built for bass. It carries studio-grade controls (three ratios, independent attack and release, a mix knob for parallel compression, input and gain-reduction metering, external sidechain insert) plus a fully variable sidechain high-pass filter, a two-position tone-and-colour circuit, and improved low-end response flat down to 20Hz.

The Empress Compressor MKII is a transparent, all-analog compressor pedal with studio-grade controls: three ratios, independent attack and release, a mix knob for parallel compression, input and gain-reduction metering, plus a new tilt-EQ tone control, a selectable sidechain high-pass filter, and an external sidechain insert. It comes in a half-size enclosure in blue or silver.

Discontinued

The Empress Compressor is a truly transparent, all-analog compressor pedal with the full set of studio-style controls: three ratios, independent attack and release, a mix knob for parallel compression, and a gain-reduction meter. It has been discontinued and replaced by the Compressor MKII and the Bass Compressor.

Discontinued

The Empress ECM-519 (nicknamed the Empressor) is an all-analog feedback-FET compressor in an API 500-series 1U module. It pairs studio-grade dynamics control with a selectable output transformer, super-fast attack down to 50 microseconds, a mix knob for parallel compression, two auto modes with dual-detector sidechains, a sidechain high-pass filter, and stereo linking.

The Empress Echosystem is a dual-engine stereo delay pedal with 42+ studio-quality algorithms across 12 delay types plus reverb and specialty modes. Its dual-engine design lets any two delays run together in parallel, series, or left/right, with an analog dry path, up to 35 presets, and a universal control port for expression, tap, CV, and MIDI.

Discontinued

The Empress Superdelay is a feature-rich digital delay pedal offering up to 2.8 seconds of delay time across eight modes (normal, tap, autoset, reverse, rhythm/multitap, tape, misc and an 11-second looper), with presets, tap tempo, filtering and an expression pedal input. It has been discontinued and superseded by the Empress Echosystem.

Discontinued

The Empress Tape Delay is a compact digital delay that emulates rich, lush tape echo, with three tape-age flavors, filter and modulation controls, an analog dry path, tap tempo with ratio multiplier and presets recalled at the touch of a button.

Discontinued

The Empress Vintage Modified Superdelay builds on the Superdelay with a revamped tape mode that adds the compression, grit and saturation of vintage tape echo, while keeping the Superdelay's presets, tap tempo, reverse delay, expression pedal input and other features.

The Empress Bass ParaEq is a parametric EQ pedal built from the ground up for bass, offering studio-grade tone shaping in a compact pedal. It has three parametric bands with 15dB of boost or cut, a dynamic low shelf, high-pass and low-pass filters, a footswitchable boost up to 30dB, a selectable Hi-Z input for piezo pickups, and an auto-detecting balanced output.

The ParaEq returns, better than ever: a transparent, high-headroom parametric EQ pedal with a footswitchable clean boost. Three parametric bands with 15dB of boost/cut, selectable bandwidth per band, and up to 30dB of boost, running internally at 27V for high clean headroom.

The flagship ParaEq: everything in the MKII plus Baxandall shelving filters and 12dB/octave high-pass and low-pass filtering. A transparent, high-headroom parametric EQ with footswitchable clean boost, running internally at 27V.

Discontinued

The original ParaEq w/Boost: a powerful, musical, high-quality parametric EQ with a clean boost in a small package. Three bands of parametric EQ each with three selectable Q widths give extremely flexible tone shaping, with 30dB of clean boost on top. Discontinued and replaced by the ParaEq MKII and MKII Deluxe.

The Empress Buffer is a compact, all-analog buffer designed to be the complete I/O interface for your pedalboard while preserving the highest fidelity of your guitar's signal. Its primary job is to eliminate the signal loss caused by long, un-buffered cable runs so your tone stays unchanged.

The Empress Buffer+ is a compact, all-analog buffer and pedalboard I/O interface that preserves your guitar's signal over long cable runs. On top of the base Buffer, it adds a footswitchable clean boost, noise filters, an input pad, and variable input loading.

The Empress Buffer++ is the ultimate utility pedal, combining pristine buffering, plentiful I/O, and advanced signal control. It offers stereo loop switching, instrument switching, tuner mute, and an onboard boost with 12 internal routing modes so you can route almost anything and adapt on the fly.

Discontinued

The Empress Buffer+ Stereo is a full stereo pedalboard I/O interface that preserves your guitar's signal over long cable runs. It brings the foot-switchable boost, input padding, noise filters, and variable input loading of the Buffer+, plus input metering, AB/ABY switching, external switch control, transformer-isolated outputs, and 12 user-configurable routing modes.

An Empress-branded 1/4" TRS to male XLR adapter for connecting an XLR cable to the balanced output of the Bass ParaEq or any product with a balanced 1/4" output. It does not convert the signal to mic level.

A cable for hooking MIDI up to an Empress pedal's control port, terminating in a 1/4" connector. The pinout follows the MIDI standard, so it also works with Meris and Alexander pedals and anything else using the same format.

A cable for hooking MIDI up to an Empress pedal's control port, terminating in a 3.5mm connector. The pinout follows the MIDI standard, so it also works with Meris and Alexander pedals and anything else using the same format.

An aptly named high-gain distortion pedal spanning a huge range of tones, from crisp, mid-driven 80s metal to scooped, modern down-tuned brutality. Two independent channels and a built-in noise gate make it a serious tool for a heavy rig.

The most versatile distortion pedal Empress Effects has made: an evolution of the original Heavy with new features and a compact enclosure. Three modes cover any high-gain sound from classic hard rock to searing modern metal, backed by an enhanced 3-band EQ and a footswitchable adaptive noise gate.

Discontinued

The Empress Distortion is an all-analog, true-bypass distortion pedal that goes from mild break-up to crunch to high-gain lead while keeping a tight low end and compressing naturally like a high-gain amp. Three selectable voicings plus gain, two bands of EQ, and output control let you dial in the sound.

The Empress Drive is a tube-like overdrive with advanced tone control that lets you shape how gain behaves, not just how much of it there is. With pre-overdrive mid shaping, a sweepable midrange, clean blend, active bass and treble shelving, a footswitchable boost, and an adaptive noise gate, it spans edge-of-breakup push to saturated, harmonically rich drive.

Discontinued

A warm, harmonically rich overdrive voiced after the tweed tube amps of the 1950s. It cleans up with a twist of your volume knob and enhances your sound without masking the original tone of your instrument.

Discontinued

A three-in-one drive pedal that blends overdrive, distortion and fuzz in parallel, recreating the studio trick of layering multiple amps. Let the sustain of fuzz, the bite of distortion and the clarity of overdrive work together in a single box.

Discontinued

A MIDI-to-control-port converter box that lets you control Empress pedals equipped with a control port over MIDI. It converts a standard 5-pin MIDI cable into simple guitar patch cables, with four control-port outputs to drive up to four pedals at once.

Discontinued

The successor to the Midibox: a MIDI-to-control-port converter that controls Empress pedals equipped with a control port over MIDI. Adds MIDI-out relaying and LED feedback on top of the original's four control-port outputs.

The Empress ZOIA is a modular effects and synthesis platform in stompbox form. Using 90+ modules including 20+ ready-made effects, it lets you build custom effects, synthesizers, MIDI controllers and virtual pedalboards, with 64 patch slots and a large community patch library.

The Empress ZOIA Euroburo is a 34hp Eurorack-format digital modular effects and synthesis system based on the ZOIA platform. It can live in a Eurorack case or on a desktop via an optional slim enclosure, and adds extensive CV I/O, stereo 3.5mm audio and a headphone output to the ZOIA's 80+ modules.

Discontinued

The original Empress Tremolo is an analog-signal-path tremolo pedal with digitally controlled opto modulation, offering three waveforms, tap tempo with ratios, an exclusive two-speed mode, rhythm patterns and up to 6 dB of output gain. It has been discontinued and superseded by the Tremolo2.

Discontinued

The Empress Tremolo2 is an analog-signal-path tremolo pedal with digitally controlled opto modulation, offering tap tempo, selectable waveforms, eight rhythms, up to eight presets and a control port for external tap, expression, control voltage and MIDI.

Discontinued

A classic-sounding analog fuzz pedal offering smooth, rich sustain with strong note definition. A tighter low end makes it well suited to full chords as well as sustained single notes.

Discontinued

A compact modulation pedal offering high-quality chorus, flanger and vibrato effects, each with three variations for nine tweakable modes. Up to eight presets, per-mode voicing options and true bypass pack a lot of range into a small box.

Discontinued

The Empress Phaser is an analog phaser pedal built around a unique VCA-based design for an unusually high signal-to-noise ratio. It offers 2, 3 or 4 stage phasing, tap tempo, eight waveforms and a set of auto/envelope modes, all in a compact true-bypass enclosure.

A universal 9V DC, 2.5A negative-tip wall power supply with more than enough current to power any Empress pedal. It ships with interchangeable plug adapters for outlets in North America, Europe, the UK, China and Australia/New Zealand.

The Empress Reverb is a stereo reverb pedal with a large library of reverb algorithms spanning hall, plate, spring, room, modulated, ambient swell, delay, reverse, ghost and lo-fi voices. It keeps an analog dry path, offers presets, and adds deep control through a Universal Control Port.

A replacement 16GB, V30 microSD card for the Empress ZOIA, also compatible with the Empress Echosystem and Reverb Looper. It stores patches, samples and firmware.