James Lomenzo

This photo is of James Lomenzo formerly of Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne, and HAIL! performing live during Megadeth's ENDGAME tour. The bass he is seen playing is the Fender Marcus Miller Jazz Bass V. He has removed the pickup cover of the neck pickup.

In this photo, James Lomenzo can be seen playing a Warwick Stryker bass.

In this photo, James Lomenzo can be seen playing a Warwick Buzzard bass.

"When I approached Yamaha, I had a very definitive idea of what I wanted," he says. "It has a bolt-on neck, because on neck-through basses, the envelope of the notes is far too long for this genre of music. It has an alder body and a full maple neck. There"s a P-style middle pickup, and then the same pickup mirrored in reverse at the bridge, which creates interesting, complex harmonics. Meanwhile, there"s a big EB-0-style pickup in the neck position, an idea I got from Billy Sheehan"s Yamaha bass. I can use that neck pickup for that old, grunting Felix Pappalardi/Jack Bruce sound, though that"s not something I do much with Megadeth. Between the three pickups, it"s an "every rock" bass--you can get pretty much any sound from the past 50 years out of it. It's an amazing instrument, and I can't put it down." - James Lomenzo.

As seen on his Ashdown artist page, James Lomenzo uses an Ashdown BTA 400.

As seen on his Ashdown artist page, James Lomenzo uses an Ashdown ABM 810 Cabinet.

James uses the Bass drive at 2:57 into this video.

As seen on his Ashdown artist page, James Lomenzo uses his signature Ashdown Hyperdrive.

"We were doing some things where we were tuned down very low. We had some keyboards on the record and I thought wouldn't it be great if I just played the notes up higher so it'd sound like another guitar and still have the octaves," says James Lomenzo, at 1:47 in this video.

At 7:32 in this video, James Lomenzo demonstrates his EBS UniChorus Analog Signal Processing Pedal.

"I keep it pretty subtle but just so that if I turn that amp up it'll still sound nice," says James Lomenzo, at 7:53 in this video about his signal chain.

Watch the Aphex training video from 1:00 to 4:47 for the Punch factory.

Watch the Aphex training video from 4:48 to 8:38 for the Exciter.

The two faze is in the video from 0:43 to 4:52

The compressor/limiter is used at 2:00 into the video.

The echotone is used at 4:12 into this video by James LoMenzo.

James has started using Origin Effects Cali76 Compressors in the studio and on the road. Also, he’s been telling the world about Origin Effects pedals on Twitter!

“Tracking today at Moster House Productions through this amazing Cali76 bass compressor by Origin Effects” James LoMenzo, via Twitter

In multiples videos we see him using the Octaswitch MK II