Muse Amp Settings & Guitar Tone
Featured Tone
Plug In Baby (2001)
Manson MB Series → Diezel VH4
Fuzzy, high-gain distortion with bright treble and tight bass for alternative rock leads
Typical Gear & Settings
Average Amp Settings
Amplifiers
- Diezel VH4
- Diezel VH4 (100W 4-channel tube head, EL34 power section) — adopted during Absolution pre-production and used 'across the entire record' per Bellamy. A custom Marshall (his JCM2000 DSL100 lineage) was also present at the session.
Guitars
- Manson MB Series
- Manson Delorean (aka 'Silver Manson'
- 'Industrial Disease'
- DL-1 prototype), built by Hugh Manson in 2001 — Matt Bellamy's #1 guitar throughout Origin of Symmetry and Absolution cycles (used Feb 2001 – May 2005). Poplar body with 1.7mm aluminum cladding, bolt-on birdseye maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, Schaller fixed bridge.
Pickups
- humbucker
Effects & Pedals
fuzz
ZVEX Fuzz Factory (1 song)
pitch_shifter
DigiTech Whammy (1 song)
fuzz (onboard, unused on main Hysteria tracks)
Z.Vex Fuzz Factory — built into the Delorean from 2001 and therefore present in the signal path (1 song)
phaser (onboard, unused)
MXR Phase 90 — built into the Delorean (1 song)
pitch shifter
DigiTech Whammy (WH-1/WH-4 era) (1 song)
delay
Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler (primary) + Line 6 Echo Pro (rack) (1 song)
Playing Style
Muse Song Tones
Plug In Baby (2001)
Diezel VH4
Hysteria (2003)
Diezel VH4 (100W 4-channel tube head, EL34 power section) — adopted during Absolution pre-production and used 'across the entire record' per Bellamy. A custom Marshall (his JCM2000 DSL100 lineage) was also present at the session.
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