Chris Wolstenholme

Chris has been using this pedal since Muse's beginnigs, and he currently owns at least 3 of them. It is one of Chris's most used pedals, so many of his album and live bass sounds include the Big Muff.

Chris has been using a Wooly Mammoth since 2009. It is a strong gated fuzz that can sometimes resemble Matt Bellamy's Fuzz Factory. Chris uses this effect often, but the clearest example can be heard throughout "Guiding Light".

Chris has owned this rare and coveted bass synth pedal since the Origin of Symmetry era. It is responsible for many of his basslines, including "Time Is Running Out", "Plug In Baby", "Hysteria", "I Belong To You", etc.

"That is Chris's sound, like, if you hear pretty much anything off the last four records, this is what you're basically hearing...it is a distortion box; it's just something Chris stumbled on in a Japanese shop, and we basically got as many as we could." – Shane Goodwin (Chris' tech) on the Human Gear Animato

Chris Wolstenholme was seen playing this bass with a plectrum for live performances of Knights of Cydonia and Map of the Problematique. In this video, he can be seen playing live for Knights of Cydonia.

Chris has been using the Markbass bass head since 2015 with which he replaced his Marshall head which he has been using before.

Can be seen on Chris's board

This rare and strange bass pedal is famously used by Chris Wolstenholme, and can be heard in combination with other effects on many songs such as "Uprising", "Plug In Baby" " and "City of Delusion".

At 3:55 on this video, Chris can be seen using a Marshall DBS 7400.

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : "We use quite a few ZVex pedals, like the Mastotron and the Woolly Mammoth, because they have really crazy sounds, and while some of them are not controllable enough for a live scenario, they are really useful in the studio if you want very extreme sounds."

Chris Wolstenholme has been using this guitar live since 2013 to perform "Blackout", "Guiding Light" and "Unintended".

Chris Wolstenholme launched this Signature model in 2012. It is similar to the Status S-2 Classic, but differs in a few points defined by Chris's preference. As of 2014, he owns 3 of these basses with blue, white and red LEDs mounted on the fretboard.

Muse in concert, Chris Wolstenholme Play "Madness" with Kitara Doubleneck Bass

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : "Our bass setup was song–specific, but our usual arrangement would have been one clean amp, usually an Ampeg SVT–VR, that is going all the time, and that provides the bottom end and the warmth."

Chris has been seen using this guitar live for performing "Hoodoo", "Unintended", "Blackout" and "Guiding Light".

Seen in his Showbiz-era pedalboard. Used before he replaced it with a Black Russian Big Muff.

On the pandaMidi artist page, Chris Wolstenholme mentions that he prefers using the Panda Audio Future Impact I over the Deep Impact.

Chris Wolstenholme used the Pedulla Rapture Bass during live performances from 1999 to 2007, and it was prominently featured in the recording of Muse's "Origin of Symmetry." This can be seen in the official music video for "Feeling Good" on the Muse YouTube channel.

At 3:27 in this video reviewing Chris Wolstenholme's bass setup, we can see a Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeler Guitar Effects Pedal.

Chris Wolstenholme is seen using the DigiTech X-Series Bass Synth Wah on his pedalboard, as evidenced by the image on Musewiki.

Used in Showbiz and Oos as a routing system before he had his Skrydtrup loop system

Chris has been seen using the Way Huge Pork Loin overdrive pedal during the recording of The 2nd Law

In this photo, you can see a few of Chris's many pedals. Though he's mainly used a Black Russian Big Muff Pi since the early 2000s, a regular Big Muff Pi can be seen here on his Drones-era board.

This bass was given to Chris as a present for his bithday+wedding by Matthew

Chris Wolstenholme is seen using a Fender Precision in the "Uprising" music video, and has also played various models in live performances, for songs including "Cave", "Resistance", "Undisclosed Desires" and "United States of Eurasia".

On the Hullabaloo DVD, Wolstenholme uses a Danelectro guitar to play the main guitar part in Unintended.

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Chris can frequently be seen with a row of yellow Dunlop picks on his microphone stand. These are the 0.73mm Dunlop picks.

Can be seen on his pedalboard, used on songs like starlight, helsinki jam

Chris has been using this bass since the recording of Absolution (2003), and has been seen live for performing "MK Ultra" and "Sing For Absolution".

The pedal was used by Chris Wolstenholme during the Resistance tour.