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 ...

Empress Effects ZOIA is perhaps one of the most exciting guitar pedals to come out in recent years. It's effectively a self-contained modular synth in a stompbox format. So, it only makes sense then ...

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 ...