True to the tweed tube amps of the 50’s, the germ drive delivers warm, harmonically rich overdrive that cleans up with a twist of your volume knob. Its tube-like break-up sounds extremely natural and will enhance your sound without masking the original tone of your instrument.

This true bypass overdrive offers gain control, two bands of EQ and output control to fully tweak your sound.

Features
All Analog Signal Path - no digitals in here!
Natural Break-up - Stays true to your original tone.
Cleans up well - Seamlessly clean up your sound by rolling back your volume knob.
Dynamic - Responds well to your dynamics like a tube preamp
Sustain - Good sustain with warm, tube-like overdrive
EQ - Hi shelf and low shelf EQs let you tweak your sound.
Bass - Works great on bass!
True Bypass - The Empress Germ Drive employs true bypass, so you can be sure that it's not affecting the signal when disengaged.
Small Size - The enclosure measures approximately 4.5" by 2.5" by 1.5", which is delightfully small when considering all the features packed into this unit.

Demo by Empress Effects

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Germ Drive

When we released our original Compressor back in 2011, it quickly became a favourite among guitar and bass players alike who were searching for something more than the typical oversimplified controls found on most compressor pedals. Now, based on our users’ valuable feedback, we’ve taken everything great about our original Compressor and made it even better. 

On top of the full range of features and controls normally only seen in high end studio equipment, such as input and gain reduction metering, independent attack and release controls, a mix knob for parallel compression, and an external sidechain insert, we’ve now added a ‘tilt’ tone eq control, and a selectable sidechain high pass filter built into the Compressor’s detection circuit. Oh, and the whole package is now half the size and available in two snazzy colours!

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Demo by Mike Hermans

Demo by Kris Barocsi

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Compressor MkII

This classic sounding fuzz offers smooth, rich sustain with great note definition. A tighter low end makes it ideal for full chords as well as sustaining single notes.

Review by guitar pedal X

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Demo by The Tone Lounge

Review by The Gear Page

Fuzz

Von Mild über Crunch bis hin zu Lead - der Empress Distortion macht alles mit. Dieses True-Bypass-Pedal bietet drei Distortion-Varianten, wobei die Bässe schön straff bleiben und die Kompression wie bei einem High-Gain-Verstärker wirkt.

Die milde Einstellung bietet ein sanftes Break-up, das mit dem Volume-Regler aufgeräumt werden kann. Die Crunch-Einstellung ist straff, mit gutem Biss. Die Lead-Einstellung bietet hohe Verstärkung mit viel Sustain.

Mit dem Gain-Regler, zwei EQ-Bändern und dem Output-Regler kannst du den Sound nach deinem Geschmack anpassen.

From mild to crunch to lead, the empress distortion does it all. This true bypass pedal offers three flavors of distortion while retaining a super tight low end andnaturally compressing like a high gain amp.

The mild setting offers gentle break-up that cleans up with your volume knob. The crunch setting is tight,with good bite. The lead setting offers high gain with lots of sustain.

Gain control, two bands of EQ and output control allow you to tweak the sound to taste.

Review by Guitar Pedal X

Demo by Johan Olsson

Demo by thejay (Big Battle Bear)

Demo by Lance Keltner Music

Demo by Dennis Kayzer

Distortion

Mit der Midibox kannst du Empress Pedale, die mit einem Steueranschluss ausgestattet sind, an MIDI anschließen. Sie wandelt das standardmäßige 5-polige MIDI-Kabel in ein einfaches Gitarren-Patch-Kabel um.

The Midibox allows you to connect Empress Pedals equipped with a control port to MIDI. It converts the standard 5 pin MIDI cable to a simple guitar patch cable.

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