Empress announces Heavy Menace Limited Edition for Halloween 2025
October 1, 2025 · 1 sources
Empress Effects has announced a limited edition of its Heavy Menace distortion pedal for Halloween 2025, capped at 350 units1. The pedal is priced at $249.001.
The limited edition uses an opalescent blue-purple sparkle colorway, and its artwork comes from the original sketches that Ottawa tattoo artist Kaylie Seaver created for the Heavy Menace1. The circuit is the standard Heavy Menace: three distortion modes named Lite(ish), Heavy and Heavier, a footswitchable noise gate, and a three-band EQ with a mid frequency sweepable from 200 Hz to 2.5 kHz1. A Weight control adjusts a high-pass filter in the distortion circuit to shape low-end character1. The gate can be switched linked to the distortion or independently, and a ⅛-inch TS or TRS gate key input allows an external signal to trigger it1. The pedal offers true bypass or buffered bypass1.
"For Halloween 2025, we're dressing it up in a limited-edition opalescent blue-purple sparkle colourway"
Specifications as listed by Empress:
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Input impedance | 1MΩ |
| Output impedance | 100Ω |
| Frequency response (-3dB) | 35Hz - 17kHz |
| Input voltage | 9VDC center-negative |
| Required current | 250mA |
| Power input connector | 2.1mm barrel |
| Height (enclosure only) | 1.5" |
| Height (including controls) | 2.5" |
| Length | 4.8" |
| Width | 2.6" |
| Weight | 1lb |
Sources (1)
- Heavy Menace Limited Edition – Empress Effects Inc., empresseffects.com