The world of guitar effects is weird. It's a place where old-school analog gear and crazy high-tech digital pedals are both fetishized with the same amount of zeal. Some companies, like Empress ...

A paradigm-shift for effects pedals, the Zoia takes modular synth tones and functionality and joins them in blissful technological union with guitar multi-effects for a unit of exceptional musical ...

Yeah, and it's a modular synth, too, pal. But not as we know it. Indeed, this is nothing as we have ever known it so it is a real leap of faith in Empress Effects' R&D team has taken, not just in ...