James Lomenzo

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

As stated on his own equipment page.

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.

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

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

In this jam session at 0:06 you can see an MXR M80 Bass D.I.+ next to his Dunlop 105q CryBaby Bass Wah.

James Lomenzo is seen using the Carl Martin Octa-Switch MK2 in several videos, as confirmed by the Carl Martin artist page.

According to James Lomenzo's official equipment page, he uses the Carl Martin Bass Chorus pedal in his setup.

As stated on his own equipment page.

James Lomenzo lists the Origin Effects Cali76 Standard Limiting Amplifier Pedal on his official equipment page, highlighting its role in his gear setup.

In this photo you can see he has a MXR M107 Phase 100.

In the jam session in this video, you can see at part 1:01 he has a MXR M134 Stereo Chorus on his pedal board.

During the interview at the NAMM event, hosted by Cosmo Music and featured on their YouTube channel, it was confirmed that James LoMenzo utilizes the Laney Digbeth DB-PRE as his live preamp setup. This information was presented in a segment covering the Laney Digbeth Bass Amplifiers and Black Country Customs Pedals, underscoring LoMenzo's choice in gear for his performances.

In this video from Origin Effects, James Lomenzo discusses the DCX effect pedal, saying:

Bass players, ever find a piece of gear that you didn't think you needed and then you tried it and then you realized you couldn't live without it? This is it. The DCX Bass by Origin Effects. It's a tone-shaper and an overdrive and I use it all the time.

I've used Origin Effects stuff for years. I love the compressors. The Cali76. The Bass Rig is out of this world.

It's not only just a tone shaper. It's not just an overdrive. It's a tone improver. It does a couple of things for me that other pedals don't. It kind of gives some buoyancy to the low end, which is really nice. Almost kind of that same feeling you get when you play into a room. Kind of like a just a bigger, broader, more breathing bass.

The high frequency on this, if you adjust it just right and get just enough drive on it, really has a wonderful harmonic content and it really the amp really tends to read that content and and push it through the speakers. And so what you've got is you've got this kind of active moving low and high circuitry going on, which really sounds inspiring and really makes you feel like what you're playing is what you intended.

I use it generally as a tone shaper. I don't use it much as an overdrive. It has a very cool overdrive setting if you just turn the uh drive way up and put it into its overdrive mode but I use it mostly as an EQ and what I do generally is I'll I'll set the levels so that it'll match my guitar when it's in the bypass position. And then I'll see if I need any high frequency or low frequency. I jump between the the dark sound and the medium sound as it's as it's labeled, which I think the medium sound tends to narrow the tone just a little bit and give it more mid-range, which is great because I can always add a lot more low end just by using the low frequency knob.

The sound I've been using is in the medium setting with a low frequency up to about maybe 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock and the high frequency setting the same thing about 1 or 2 o'clock. The level is set after I set the drive. The drive input I just turn it up till it just feels like it's really buoyant, like it's really pushing into the amplifier as if it's spreading out just a little bit. I don't go for any distortion whatsoever. That really tends to enhance the harmonics. When I'm looking for like an old school kind of vibe, like a a classic p-bass sound that you would get on an old record from the' 70s, putting it on the dark mode is just magic. It just it gives you that kind of low bed and and low focus that they got on those records and to be able to recreate that right out of your rig or or right through the speakers is is really really inspirational.

My setting for the Megadeath sound that I'm using right now is right ahead of all my amplification and all I do is I just push up the low frequency and the high frequency just until it it reads without bogging down the amplifier. And I'll keep it in the medium setting and I'll move the drive up and down until it just kind of feels like it spreads just nicely without calling too much attention to itself. And then I'll move the output level so that it matches the on and off position and that is the secret to my success on this upcoming tour, the Crush the World tour that we're on. So do yourself a favor pick up the DCX Bass don't cheat yourself out of a great tone. Go get one of these today.