Matthew Bellamy's Other Gear

This pickup is fitted onto a few of Matt's Manson guitars, including the Copper Bomber and the Red Glitters. It is in fact a Bare Knuckle Nailbomb fitted with a Manson-engraved cover.

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The Roland GK-2a Guitar Synthesizer Driver is a feature that Muse's Matthew Bellamy had fitted onto some of his old electric guitars, but also some of the Mansons such as the Delorean.

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This pickup is used in bridge position of Matt's Delorean guitar, as quoted from Hugh Manson in page 4 of this article.

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Matt uses the Fernandes sustainer at 5:03 on this video and you can see this pickup at 5:30.

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The Mississipi Queen is fitted onto many of Matt's earlier custom Manson guitars such as the Mirror, 007, Laser and more.

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This hot humbucker is fitted onto some of Matt's Manson guitars, such as the DL-1 sourced here. It is in fact a Bare Knuckle Aftermath with a custom Manson cover (though Matt often uses the uncovered version).

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This pickup can be seen in the neck of his new guitars, to replace the Fernandes Sustainer

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Some of Matt's manson guitars such as the Doubleneck use a sets of 2 of these pickups, wired in series to act like a large humbucker (as stated in page 16 of this article).

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This Floyd Rose vibrato has been fitted onto some of Matt's more recent Manson guitars, such as the Copper Bombers : see page 18 of this article.

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This MIDI pickup is fitted onto Matt's Delorean guitar, as shown in page 4 of this picture article.

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In this video Matthew Bellamy plays the guitar with L.R. Baggs M1A.

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Matthew Bellamy uses the Manson PF-1 Matthew Bellamy Signature Pickup, which was designed at his request and is listed as the "Matthew Bellamy Signature Pickup." This pickup supersedes the Manson MBK line and is now the standard in all Manson M-type production guitars aside from the Junior models and Cort-made MBM models.

Various Instagram posts on the Manson Guitar Works page confirm the PF-1 as the pickup used in Bellamy's guitars, including a custom slanted version for a multi-scale Manson Oryx that he used live during "Won't Stand Down" and "Kill Or Be Killed."

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