The Empress Drive gives you the tools to shape your own overdrive rather than settle for one fixed voicing. Where most drives are built around a single character, the Drive lets you sculpt the harmonic structure that decides how the overdrive sounds and responds.Bass, midrange and treble controls sit alongside a sweepable mid frequency, mix and gain, so you can dial anything from a light, transparent push to thick, saturated breakup. Up to 30dB of assignable boost can be placed before or after the overdrive stage, letting you drive the circuit harder for more compression or lift your level without changing the gain character.A fully analogue signal path delivers organic breakup and natural compression, an adaptive noise gate responds to how you play, and a built-in VU meter shows exactly how hard you are pushing the drive in real time. Handmade in Canada.
