Ashdown Overdrive / Dist Pedal - Advice Please

[the hand of john curley]

Hi,

Could any of you lovely people let me know if you have one of these and how you rate it? I need something that doesn't suck all the tone out and that allows full control over the amount of overdrive, some of our stuff warrants full on dirge.....others just a background fuzz!
Cheers
Matt

[Mr. Foxen]

The Lomenzo one is great. It should be the go to distortion pedal for bass, like the ODB3 used to be before everyone realised it totally sucked.

[dannybuoy]

Not tried the Drive Plus, but I could not for the life of me get a decent sound out of the Lomenzo. Sounded a bit weak to me, neither a warm tubey overdrive or a high gain distortion, just somewhere inbetween in the land of 'meh'. Also the lows were lacking since the distortion signal is just a narrow midrange band added on top of the dry signal resulting in a big mid hump. Still, lots of people seem to like it and it's dirt cheap so give it a try!

[johnnylager]

Loved my Lomenzo & if they made it a proper size, I'd buy another tomorrow. FWIW, the Bass Big Muff I replaced it with is smaller, gives a similar sound, has less knobs and is 2 pints cheaper.

[Mr. Foxen]

I think the tweaks in it aren't where you'd expect them to be, because it is a slightly odd way of working. Some session chap bought my one, and got a really nice bit of bitey edge on otherwise clean bass, buy just fiddling with knobs without knowing what they do. I was using it for straight distortion, and it wasn't have off what I do with a guitar pedal and an LS2.