I just select a new IR when I get tired of it - and come back to it a few weeks later. It allows for week-to-week preference variances without having to redo several presets each week. To keep myself from tweaking endlessly, I have most variables of my tones saved as recallable presets. By putting a pedal in a digital loop, you'll be adding another two stages of conversion. They add latency, noise and can change your tone (eq and dynamics), especially if you stack them. You really want to avoid more AD/DA conversions than necessary. It certainly won't be better, it probably would be worse, depending on how you're wiring it up. So I'd say that no, it will not likely add anything that you prefer over the built in EQ. As good as the Empress is, and it is quite good, it's not a Manley Massive Passive, and it doesn't cost $4k-7k. But in general, when people want the distortion from an analog EQ to do things like "warm up the signal" or "impart an analog feel", they're usually talking about using high end, rack mount, parametric EQ's, not cheaper pedal versions that run off a DC power source. You'd have to test that yourself to make that decision. The question is, does the Empress add any distortion to the signal that you like. And some people prefer the distortion of a good analog parametric EQ over the clinical precision of a digital one. For lack of a better word, it's called distortion. However, a lot of people enjoy the effects that an analog parametric EQ can have on the recording. So in theory, a digital parametric EQ is the ideal EQ that all analog EQ's fall short of. No analog EQ circuit can come close to their precision or cleanliness. They don't add or subtract anything from the tone other than the intended EQ effect. A straight digital parametric EQ, not a modeled one, is pure math.
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