Empress ParaEq Deluxe – it's like the Swiss army knife of your pedalboard, with an extra dose of special edition colourway pizzazz. This pedal is your key to sculpting your guitar's tone with surgical precision, and it does so with the kind of style that'll make your other pedals green with envy. The ParaEq Deluxe boasts an array of EQ options that can tweak your sound to perfection. With intuitive controls, you'll be dialing in your ideal tone in no time – no PhD in audio engineering required! But wait, there's more! The flexible parametric EQ bands let you fine-tune your sound like a sonic sculptor, and the boost/cut options will make your guitar sing in ways you never thought possible. Plus, it's built like a tank, so it can handle all the stomping and jamming you throw its way. So, whether you're craving that extra edge for your solos or want to find that sweet spot for your rhythm playing, the Empress ParaEq Deluxe is the unsung hero that's here to deliver – and it's got a certain subtle charm that'll leave you wondering how you ever played without it.

3 bands of parametric EQ, each with fully adjustable Q width knobs for perfectly detailed EQ curves, give you an extremely flexible EQ. Setting the Q wide is great for general tone shaping and is extremely transparent. A medium Q setting is perfect for everyday problem solving like pulling out boxiness from the low mids to reduce harshness and adding a bit in the upper mids. Setting the Q to narrow excels at notching out problem frequencies and is a savior for acoustic guitarists when combating feedback issues. The ParaEq Deluxe also includes gorgeous sounding Baxandall high and low shelving filters for even more added control and 12/dB/oct high and low pass filters for maximum signal cleanup, leading to the most fully featured guitar pedal EQ available.

The Boost section offers +30 dB of clean boost and can be set to engage with the EQ section to act as a make-up gain when doing subtractive EQ, or can be used completely separately as a pure clean boost. Great for bumping up your volume for solos, or hitting the front end of a tube amp for a bit more break-up.

The signal path of the ParaEq MKII consists of the highest quality components chosen to deliver a perfectly organic tone. The transparent and sweet sounding EQ enhances your sound without masking the pure tone of your instrument, whether it be guitar, bass, synthesizer, or the human voice. Empress have increased the headroom significantly up to 27V internally, meaning it’ll be a real challenge to make this thing clip. Empress measured the distortion to be less than 0.05%, resulting in a pristine sound. True bypass means you’ll never worry if your tone has been sucked dry. Advanced configurations allow for buffered bypass, independence between EQ and boost controls, and startup state configurability. Top-mounted jacks mean the pedal can be patched up into your pedalboard as cleanly as it sounds and occupy a fraction of the space compared to Empress's old enclosures.

FEATURES:

• All-analog signal path to deliver the most organic tone possible
• Ultra transparent sweet sounding EQ to enhance your sound without masking the tone of your instrument
• Lots of control with adjustable/switchable q, fully overlapping sweepable frequency selection, and 15 dB of cut and boost you’ll get all the control you need
• Ultra-quiet - 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 – operates internally from a 27V power supply – similar to rack-mount equipment
• +30 dB of boost make it an ideal candidate before long effects chains and overdriving tube amps
• Pristine clean sound - distortion less than 0.05%
• True bypass so you can be sure that it's not affecting the signal when disengaged
• Top mounted jacks make it extra convenient to integrate
• Baxandall shelving filters allow you to effortlessly sweeten your tone with beautiful sounding, super smooth filters for a broad high and low frequency adjustment
• 12 dB/oct high and low pass filters to cut all the noise out of the spaces where your instruments frequency spectrum does not exist