Empress

Want a tremolo pedal that is capable of honest and true, tube based, on-board like tremolo. Well, here ya go.

The perfect tremolo with e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y slow to blisteringly fast tremolo with a warm, organic quality that is hypnotic.

And the tap temp feature makes it absolutely perfect.

Features of the Empress Tremolo

Pristine Sound - The Empress Tremolo has to be heard to be believed. It's whisper quiet and free from the "LFO throb" usually associated with tremolos. We dare anyone to find a better sounding tremolo.

Waveform Selection - You can modulate your sound with three different waveforms. An asymmetrical tremolo was modelled after a '65 Fender Vibrolux (brown face) to give you the fullest tremolo sound possible. A square wave can be utilized if you're after a harder sound. And if you're looking for a more normal tremolo, you can use the triangle wave setting.

Tap Tempo - The Empress Trem averages your last four taps so it plays in sync with your music. You can also choose different tap to tremolo rate ratios. 1:1, 1:2, and 1:4 are available.

Two Speed Mode - An exclusive feature to the Empress Trem. You're able to set two different rates, and switch between them using the tap tempo stompswitch. This is similar to playing through a Leslie cabinet and changing the speed.

Rhythms - Another exclusive feature. The Empress Trem will definiately do your run-of-the-mill tremolo sound to a tee. But you can also set it to play different rhythms. Check out the soundclips for examples.

Gain - A problem with most tremolos on the market is that when they're engaged, you hear a noticeable drop in volume. The Empress Trem solves this by having a gain stage on the output. It's able to deliver up to 6dB of gain without adding any distortion to the signal.

True Bypass - The Empress Trem employs true bypass, so you can be sure that it's not affecting the signal when disengaged.

Perfect Size - The enclosure measures approximately 4.5" by 3.5" by 1.5", which is delightfully small when considering all the features packed into this unit. 

The Empress Paraeq with Boost offers an amazing range of tonal control as well as a very natural boost that adds gain to your amp without changing the tone or real-amp sound at all.

You can use it post distortion/fuzz pedal to tailor the tone of the distortion/fuzz to the precise frequencies you're looking for, change up sonic space for layering during recording or simply use the EQ to tweak the final tone of your amplifier.

Highly Recommended!

From Empress's website:
•Ultra Transparent Sweet Sounding EQ – enhance your sound without masking the tone of your instrument.

•Lots of Control – with switchable q, fully over-lapping sweepable frequency selection, and 15dB of cut and boost you’ll get all the control you need.

•Ultra-Quiet – You’ve come to expect our pedals to be noise free and we’ve delivered once again. If you put this at the front of your chain and boost a bit you’ll also cut down on the noise your other pedals are introducing.

•Loads of Headroom – Internally switchable to run off 9/12/18V power supplies.

•30dB of Boost – making it an ideal candidate before long effects chains and overdriving tube amps.

•Pristine Clean Sound – We measured the distortion to be less than 0.03%. Pretty remarkable for a guitar pedal.

•True Bypass – The Empress ParaEq w/Boost employs true bypass, so you can be sure that it’s not affecting the signal when disengaged.

•Perfect Size – The enclosure measures approximately 4.5” by 3.5” by 1.5”, which is delightfully small when considering all the features packed into this unit.

I've never played any other delay unit like this one. It does all of the usual delay effects that you would expect, but also does so much more and allows a range of creativity that I've never seen in a delay pedal before.

One of my favorite features of this pedal, and it's tough to choose just one, is the Auto setting that literally senses the speed at which you are playing and automatically sets the delay time to be in sync. if you change speeds it quickly adapts in a seamless manner.

Not only is this an ingenious and very usable feature, but it gives you a "set it and forget it" setting within a pedal that is also capable of giving the user extreme control over nearly every aspect of delay.

There are so many features in the pedal, all of which work brilliantly, that I'll offer up a copy and paste from Empress's website to outline most if not all of the functions:

•Killer Sound Quality - The Signal to Noise ratio is around 105dB.

•2.8 Seconds of Delay Time - For your extra long delays.

•8 modes - normal, tap, autoset (delay time is set by tempo played), reverse, rhythm mode (multitap), tape mode, misc (dynamic, gate), and 12 second looper.

•Expression Pedal Input - allows you to control either mix or feedback with your foot.

•High Pass/Low Pass Filter - high pass is good for electronic music, low pass is sweet for darker analog delay type sounds.

•Fast/Slow Modulation - slow adds extra texture, fast is a little crazy.

•8 Presets - Settings can be saved to 8 presets. With three stompswitches, accessing the presets is easy.

•Tap Tempo with Ratios - many of the modes use tap tempo, and the ratio selection makes fast in-time delay times easy.

•True Bypass - The Empress Superdelay employs true bypass, so you can be sure that it's not affecting the signal when disengaged.

•Small Size - The enclosure measures approximately 5.7" by 3.75" by 1.75", which is delightfully small when considering all the features packed into this unit.