Anyone used both? How do they compare soundwise? Don t care about what Heat has more…
(By the way, I own Heat and would like to know if the Multidrive is worth the money and the mono input output.)
So again… does it sound for the money? Thanks!
I love the Empress Multidrive. It’s especially useful on drums or things with a wide frequency range, as it can add a lot of colour but also preserve what made the original sound great. The mono in/out is a bummer but it’s still got a lot to offer on mono devices. Not sure I’d run it on a master like I might the Heat, but then, even the Heat I felt to be too much for the master most of the time. Best of luck!
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I was thinking about putting it on the Model Cycles… great or bad idea?
Wouldn‘t there be the stereo source, mono input thing needing to be dealt with?
I can put it in send return on the mixer, so like that I can have it kind of stereo on both channels.
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The multidrive has convenient filter (voicing) on each of fuzz, overdrive and distortion, as well as low, mid, high eq section. Being able to dial in 3 types of dirt each with their own gain and volume feeding the eq and the master volume makes it feel more flexible that the heat. But like others have said, its not stereo, has no presets, has no LFO, no resonant filter. So it is diffucult to imagine you wanting to do the same kind of things with the multidrive as you would the heat. One might compliment the other I suppose, but I dont think of them as being used together. I use the multidrive as an insert to fatten up some synth sounds, especially acid bass lines. Whether it is worth the money to you is difficult for anybody else to say. I think it is a bit expensive. In hindsight I would probably have been just as happy with a cheaper dirt pedal. But there are so many to choose from, so I would never be happy with just one. The multidrive now sits beside tube-screamers and rats and various fuzzes and overdrives all competing for my attention. And often it gets it, so it was not a waste of money.
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