Ashdown Stuart Zender Funk Face vs Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive
The Ashdown Stuart Zender Funk Face and the Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive are both pedals sharing dynamic. The Ashdown Stuart Zender Funk Face leans warm. The Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive leans transparent. Current prices: $175.52 vs $188.58.
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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.50% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Soul
- Funk
- Alternative Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- dynamic
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$175.52via Reverb
$188.58via Reverb
The Ashdown Stuart Zender Funk Face is a dual-function bass effects pedal designed in collaboration with Jamiroquai bassist Stuart Zender. It combines a tube-driven overdrive section powered by a 12AX7 valve with an autowah dynamic filter, covering warmth and dirt through to synth-like filtered funk textures. The drive section delivers warm, harmonically rich tube overdrive while the wah section responds dynamically to playing intensity via a single sensitivity knob. Built for professional stage use in a durable chassis at 0.9kg. Particularly associated with the funky bass tones of Virtual Insanity-era Jamiroquai. Suited for funk, soul, R&B, and jazz fusion bass players.
The Mad Professor Snow White AutoWah GB is an envelope filter and auto-wah pedal based on a 1991 BJF rack-mount remote wah circuit, redesigned into pedal form with dedicated envelope controls. Sensitivity, Bias, Resonance, and Decay controls give precise control over the filter's trigger level, resonance frequency, sharpness, and how quickly the filter falls back to its resting point after each note. The GB version combines the original Snow White AutoWah with the Snow White Bass AutoWah into one unit that works on both guitar and bass. Its fast tracking and accuracy are notable strengths compared to typical auto-wah and envelope filter pedals.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Jazz
- Rock
- Blues
- Country
- warm
- transparent