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Enter for your chance to win a Fully-Loaded Pedalboard from Empress Effects! Click here to read official rules. Giveaway ends April 15, 2013. Open everywhere except where prohibited by law.

A pedalboard loaded with Empress Effects pedals, all wired up, powered and ready to go. Valued at $2789.00 and featuring 9 Empress Effects pedals: The Buffer+, Compressor, ParaEq, Germ Drive, Distortion, Fuzz, Tremolo, Phaser and Vintage Modified Superdelay.

Buffer+: A buffer on steroids! All the advantages of a standard buffer with lots of extra features. Noise filter works to reduce noise generated by your pedalboard. Boost and tuner out with tuner mute. Input pad and input loading for maximum responsiveness and control from your guitar.

Compressor: Ranging from truly transparent compression for dynamic control to over-the- top squashing, with all the controls available in top end studio compressors, the Empress Compressor has opened new sonic doors for guitarists.

ParaEq: Designed to give musicians a powerful, musical, high quality EQ in a conveniently small package. Three fully adjustable bands of parametric EQ have many uses, from general sweetening, to surgical feedback removal.

Germ Drive: 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.

Distortion: Offers three flavors of distortion while retaining a super tight low end and naturally 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.

Fuzz: 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.

Tremolo: An original design built from the ground up to include innovative features without sacrificing tone. The audio signal path is analog, but the tremolo effect is controlled digitally via opto technology.

Phaser: A phaser pedal unlike anything else on the market. A unique VCA-based design offers an unparalleled signal-to-noise ratio. Choose between 2, 3 and 4 stage phasing, all controllable via tap tempo sweeping through an impressive set of 8 waveforms.

Vintage Modified Superdelay: Highly prized for its tape delay settings, this delay offers all of the goodies of the standard superdelay, with modifications to the tape mode. The repeats are warm and lush with a taste of wow and flutter.
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