The Empress Multidrive is a versatile distortion pedal that blends fuzz, overdrive, and distortion circuits to create a wide range of amp-like tones. It offers individual high-pass and low-pass filtering for each drive circuit, and a comprehensive EQ with shelving and mid-band bell controls. This innovative pedal allows guitarists to combine the strengths of each drive, providing a rich and balanced sound, all in a compact enclosure. The Multidrive provides the ability to blend fuzz, overdrive, and distortion effects together, and it uses a variety of gain elements to achieve unique tones.
Users praise the Empress Multidrive for its flexibility, allowing stacking of the overdrive, distortion, and fuzz effects in parallel and the very powerful EQ section. Some reviewers found that the pedal colored the sound a bit too much, and suggested that the overdrive section could benefit from a tone control of its own.