Chris Wolstenholme

Adopted this microphone around the 'Absolution' period of Muse. This is the same microphone that his fellow band member and lead singer, Matt Bellamy, has used up until 'The 2nd Law'.

He's currently using Shure BETA57 as his vocal microphone alongside KMS105 wireless version.

Chris uses this to mic up his distorted rig

Used as Matt's and Chris's wireless receivers, can be seen at 2:33

This was used on his markbass cab

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : “The mics on the bass cabs were a Neumann FET 47 with a [Shure] SM57, Beyerdynamic M88 or Electro–Voice RE20 on the clean amp, and the same on the distorted amps, but we also tried the Shure SM57 or Sennheiser 421 on the latter.”

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : “The mics on the bass cabs were a Neumann FET 47 with a [Shure] SM57, Beyerdynamic M88 or Electro–Voice RE20 on the clean amp, and the same on the distorted amps, but we also tried the Shure SM57 or Sennheiser 421 on the latter.”

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : “We had the bass cabs in the basement, which meant quite a long cable run, and for this reason we also had the mic pres in the basement, which usually were Neve 1081s, going into an [Teletronix] LA2A or [Empirical Labs] Distressor for compression, and then into insert returns on the desk, where we could apply some final level and EQ while bypassing the line amp on the desk.”

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : “The mics on the bass cabs were a Neumann FET 47 with a [Shure] SM57, Beyerdynamic M88 or Electro–Voice RE20 on the clean amp."

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : “The mics on the bass cabs were a Neumann FET 47 with a [Shure] SM57, Beyerdynamic M88 or Electro–Voice RE20 on the clean amp."

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

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

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

In this article by Home Brew Audio, the authour explains the origins of the instrument that Chris used to perform the song Madness on Saturday Night Live. While he has used the original on the "Madness" music video, the one he uses live is a double-neck version with a Status Graphite S2-Classic bass on the bottom. The article explains in detail the purpose of the instrument in the song.

Wolstenholme used this to play Hoodoo and other songs live

Used to play Dig Down (acoustic) during the Simulation Theory World Tour (2019- )

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

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

Used by Chris on several Muse tours, first on Showbiz

Used for distorted vocal by him as well as Bellamy

Chris uses atleast 2 of these cabs live

Used by Chris for his distorted rig, can be seen in his rack.

This amp can be seen in Chris rack here for his animato and distortion channel

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."

Seen in this picture of him in the studio

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 can be seen using this loop system at 2:40 in this video.