USED Empress Effects Heavy Menace Distortion Pedal
Brutality meets surgical precision. The Empress Effects Heavy Menace is one of the most powerful, flexible, and unapologetically aggressive distortion pedals out there. Designed for modern metal, doom, hardcore, and hard rock applications, the Menace brings tight, saturated distortion with tweakable EQ control and built-in noise gating — all packed into a stage-ready, road-tough enclosure.
This pedal is in excellent used condition and functions flawlessly. The enclosure is clean, with just a few light signs of use. Everything works exactly as it should. This is an essential piece for anyone seeking massive gain, tone-shaping options, and gate-tight silence between notes.
Key Features:
- Dual footswitch design – Activate the effect or the built-in noise gate independently
- Weight knob – Sculpt your low-end saturation and density
- 3-band EQ with sweepable mids – Total control over your core tone
- Gate Threshold control – From subtle to brutally tight gating
- 3 switchable channels: Normal / Heavy / Heavier – each with escalating levels of gain and saturation
Specifications:
- Controls: Gain, Weight, Output, Low, Mid (w/ sweepable frequency), High, Gate Threshold
- Switches: Gate footswitch, Bypass footswitch, Heavy Channel toggle
- Bypass: True Bypass
- Power: 9V DC (center-negative, not included)
- Made in: Canada
Condition & Shipping:
- Condition: Excellent – very clean with light signs of use
- Tested: 100% functional
- Includes: Pedal only
- Shipping: Ships fast and insured from BCR Music & Sound
Whether you're crafting tight chugs, walls of fuzzed-out doom, or molten modern tones, the Heavy Menace delivers with no apologies. Don’t sleep on this beast — grab it while it's in stock.