James Lomenzo

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 video we can see LoMenzo using a blue Gibson Non-Reverse Thunderbird in backstage rehearsals. It can also be seen in music video for "We'll be Back".

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.

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. He has removed the pickup cover of the neck pickup.

In this 1995 Rotosound advertisement for their Swing Bass 66LD Bass strings, Shows LoMenzo and states: "ROTO'S STILL THE BEST! -James LoMenzo"

In addition, LoMenzo's gear page reads:

"No Roto's, no show!!! I haven't played or recorded with any other string since 1974, that's a fact! I started out on their "Flat Wounds" then moved on to the standard "Swing Bass" stainless steels. Since the late 1980's, I've been using the "Billy Sheehan" signature set (see a pattern here?). They feel more balanced in my hands and that heavier E string really takes the hall!"

LoMenzo's gear page reads:

"No Roto's, no show!!! I haven't played or recorded with any other string since 1974, that's a fact! I started out on their "Flat Wounds" then moved on to the standard "Swing Bass" stainless steels. Since the late 1980's, I've been using the "Billy Sheehan" signature set (see a pattern here?). They feel more balanced in my hands and that heavier E string really takes the hall!"

LoMenzo's gear page reads:

“My DiMarzio pickups provide a critical component to what I love in a great bass sound."

"The Will Power™ series, which I use, are big and focused, provide rich harmonics, and can be undeniably brash ...a lot like me!”

LoMenzo's gear page reads:

“My DiMarzio pickups provide a critical component to what I love in a great bass sound."

"The Will Power™ series, which I use, are big and focused, provide rich harmonics, and can be undeniably brash ...a lot like me!”

LoMenzo's gear page reads:

"Hipshot products are the best! I use them to upgrade all my instruments. The tuners are smooth and precise and I don't know what I'd do without the Bass Xtender. Tuned to low D and dropped down discriminately, it's a great way to go somewhere else at the flick of a switch!"

LoMenzo's gear page reads:

"Hipshot products are the best! I use them to upgrade all my instruments. The tuners are smooth and precise and I don't know what I'd do without the Bass Xtender. Tuned to low D and dropped down discriminately, it's a great way to go somewhere else at the flick of a switch!"

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.

The picture shows BBE DI-1000 previously owned by mr Lomenzo .

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.

James Lomenzo is currently using the Yamaha BBP34 bass on tour with Megadeth, as seen in the video "Megadeth - Live in Denver (4K) | Full Set (With Chapters) | Ball Arena, Colorado, August 6th 2024" by Metal & Rock Concerts in 4K on YouTube.