Empress Effects - Multidrive & Vintage Superdelay

Post by **Mike** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:03 am

So the kind folks at Empress Effects got in touch with me through my youtube channel about making a few demos for them, and yesterday I received a Multidrive and Vintage Modified Superdelay through the post.

I had a brief muck about with them as it was pretty late but they both sound great. I'm going to make some demos of these when I get back from Edinburgh/Hurb's wedding, and figured it might be cool to throw out to you guys for some riff/song ideas for the two demos.

So if you've got some ideas for great Fuzz, Overdrive, or Distortion related songs you reckon would be great, or indeed anything involving Delay, hit me up and I'll do the ones I can physically play. Immediate standouts for me were the Overdrive and really powerful EQ on the Multidrive and the Tape Delay with modulation on the Superdelay - lovely stuff.

The Multidrive has toggleable HP and LP filters on each gain source so you can throw one high, one low and one down the middle to create unique sonic textures - very cool.

Empires · Post by **Empires** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:09 am

I really fancy a Superdelay at some point, they're just a bit on the expensive side.

I'd like to hear some big, wet, soundscapey delays and some oscillations, please.

AaronGuitarDude · Post by **AaronGuitarDude** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:10 am

look forward to teh demo

Post by **Doog** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:18 pm

Kudos indeed! They're just 'rentals', presumably?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:37 pm

Ooh, well done Michael.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:13 pm

black sabbath riffs!

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:14 pm

Whatever you play I'm interested to hear a good demo of the Multidrive. It seems like it has a lot of variety in it.

Post by **Hurb** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:30 pm

that's a lot of knobs yo!

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:48 pm

Congrats!

Liscense to Confuse - Sebodoh is a pretty gnarly riff.

grandnoise · Post by **grandnoise** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:44 am

I love my superdelau, even though it has a very sensitive presets switch (that probably just needs some contact cleaner spraying into it) I would be interested to see how noisey the multidrive can get, like heavy sonic youth mess.

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:42 am

PLAY TONS AND TONS OF MUSE. DO IT BRAH

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:54 am

Enter Sandman on every possible setting of both pedals independently and combined.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:24 am

Cheers for the ideas peeps, will try to do them justice!

They're great pedals and they're a fantastic company - quality manuals and really professionally made stuff.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:30 am

note re: my sabbath suggestion: NO IRON MAN

Clean Channel · Post by **Clean Channel** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:25 pm

I recently picked up a Multidrive, and am completely in love with it!

I got it as a replacement for my OD. I've been through many popular ones in the last few years, and although I found some that sounded excellent, I really wanted something more tweakable. The Multidrive is exactly what I've been looking for. There are essentially three separate OD settings, a fuzz circuit, and a distortion setting. Combine that with the ability to blend the different circuits and a full three band EQ, and there's a world of tones to explore!

There are only a few reviews of the pedal out there, so I'm really looking forward to reading your thoughts!