Chris Wolstenholme's Microphones

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'.

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Chris uses this to mic up his distorted rig

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Chris Wolstenholme is using the Shure Beta 57A as his vocal microphone during the Muse Drones Tour, as seen in a photo on Instagram by user agathebliss.

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

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.”

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According to Emusician, Chris Wolstenholme uses the Electro-Voice RE20 dynamic microphone with his Markbass cabinet.

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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."

This microphone is also the go-to bass amp mic for Muse's live sound engineer, Marc Carolan.

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Used during the making of Absolution.

Rich Costey on recording Absolution: "I've actually got a fair bit into recording the bass with this mic made by Blue, called the Mouse. Wally Gagel and I used it last year on the Antenna album by Cave In and it was excellent, so I used that on Chris's bass rig"

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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.”

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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."

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This is a community-built gear list for Chris Wolstenholme.