Ashdown Pro-FX Pro Drive vs Ashdown James LoMenzo Mega Drive
The Ashdown Pro-FX Pro Drive and the Ashdown James LoMenzo Mega Drive are both pedals sharing full, bright, low gain. The Ashdown Pro-FX Pro Drive leans dynamic and fuzzy. The Ashdown James LoMenzo Mega Drive leans aggressive and transparent.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.36% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- full
- bright
- low gain
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$34.99via Reverb
The Ashdown Pro-FX Pro Drive is a compact bass overdrive pedal from the Pro-FX 9V range, designed and engineered in the UK by Ashdown. Three controls, Gain, Tone, and Output, provide straightforward shaping from subtle growl to driven overdrive. The Tone control adjusts frequency range from thick and harmonically rich at low settings to delicate and open at high settings, giving the pedal a dual character across its sweep. True bypass switching maintains signal integrity when disengaged. Suited for bass players seeking a simple no-compromise overdrive without complex blending or band-specific routing.
The Ashdown James LoMenzo Mega Drive is a bass drive pedal designed with Megadeth bassist James LoMenzo, debuted at NAMM 2023 as an evolution of the Ashdown HyperDrive. It features sweepable highpass and lowpass filters for targeting specific frequency bands, a drive blend knob to mix clean and driven signals, adjustable input gain, and a VU meter for visual input monitoring. The circuit delivers a wide gain range from warm deep harmonic overdrive to bright cutting distortion, with full-spectrum frequency shaping rather than the HyperDrive mid-only approach. Suited for heavy rock and metal bass playing, it preserves low-end fundamental clarity while adding harmonic aggression on top. Used by James LoMenzo live with Megadeth as his primary bass drive.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues
- Metal
- Hard Rock
- dynamic
- fuzzy
- aggressive
- transparent
- saturated