Matthew Bellamy

Matt uses the Axe FX for his effects and the Kemper amps to take care of the amp modeling.

Bellamy's guitar tech: "We use this Liquid Foot controller, which is a MIDI controller. We've got one here and I've got one in my world so that I can do anything. I do probably, 85-90% of his changes so he's free to roam about on this big stage. And then he does a couple little things here and there."

This screenshot from a Muse Instagram story shows Matt Bellamy uses a RJM Mastermind GT/16 MIDI Foot Controller:

Pressure Building

The G Major 2 can be seen in his rack here and in various other photos, reportedly for the flanger parts, such as in Stockholm Syndrome

Before it was replaced by the Liquid-Foot Controller, Bellamy's pedalboard included the Rocktron. His guitar tech's take on it: "All settings are changed by MIDI using the Rocktron All Access and we use an immense amount of MIDI channels for Matt's setup alone. I think there are around five Rocktrons on stage, Matt has one, so do Shane and I, All three of us control different parts during the gig and the numbers on the set list represent MIDI channels and patches within. There are many patches within the channels, so if you're on Channel 30, which is Hysteria, within it there are 15 different patches".

Matt Bellamy uses a megaphone in the song "Feeling Good" both in this music video (at 1:24) and on live settings.

"Here we have a Sound Sculpture Switchblade, which is like a routing matrix. And anything you have plugged into it you can route inputs to different outputs... and we actually have that in a loop, and everything here in this tray is plugged into the Switchblade, so sometimes his guitar sound might be run through like, say the Fuzz Factory straight into a DI. And sometimes it might hit the Fuzz Factory and split out, to the DI and then it might also go to the rig. So he has this really gnarly direct signal, and then a fuzz in front of the amp as well. So the Switchblade lets you do creative routing.

Sometimes when he plays piano, depending on the song, his piano comes into the rig, and I'll do switching over here and switch his piano in and out of the amp as well for like distorted piano sounds."

From Matt Bellamy's guitar tech: "...TC G-Major, which we use for delays and some pitch shifting"

A DBX 160A Compressor can be seen in the right rack unit of this image from Muse's official site.

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : "Pedal–wise there was a lot going on, but there are a few pedals that get used a lot, like the ZVex Fuzz Factory, the ZVex Super Hard On, which gives a nice clean boost so it distorts the amplifier, the Super Duper, and the Machsonic Thrust Drive pedal, which is made by someone in Turkey, and which we used with the Ampeg head for a very scooped–out fuzz sound, the JHS Colour Box, which mimics the sound of the Neve 1073, and a Roland SDD 3000 pedal."

Seen in Bellamy's Instagram video from his home studio.

The Muse Research Receptor 2 can be seen in Matt Bellamy's rig for the Black Holes and Revelations tour.

Jason Baskin, the guitar tech for Matthew Bellamy, mentions that the rig includes a Korg Kaoss Pad.

Muse guitar tech Jason Baskin on the Korg SDD-3000: "...we have an SDD-3000, it does a couple delays on a couple songs, it's got an [old-school] sound man!"

This photo was used as a background for Muse's official site. In the middle rack you can see a Universal Audio 1176LN.

Jason Baskin, Muse's guitar tech says "...the old Echo Pro which we use for 3 or 4 different delay settings"

Matt Bellamy's effects rig for the Absolution tour included the TC Electronic 2290 Dynamic Digital Delay.

Matthew used a DBX FS900 while recording the album "Drones". The DBX can be seen in the right rack mount in this image.

Two Empirical Labs EL8 Distressors can be seen on top of one another in this image of Muse's rack units.

This midi controller can be seen several times during the video of their performance in the Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1.

Can be seen in Matt's absolution rack

Seen in Bellamy's home studio on an Instagram video

Seen in Bellamy's Instagram video from his home studio.

The Aviom A-16II Personal Mixer appears frequently throughout the recording process for "The 2nd Law".

Matthew looks to have used a Avalon AD2044 per this image of Muse's rack units.

In the "AbsolutionRack.jpg" image on Musewiki, Matthew Bellamy's setup includes the MIDI Solutions T8 8-output MIDI Thru Box, used for wireless MIDI connections.

Can be seen in Matt's absolution rack

Can be seen in Bellamy's left Black Holes and Revelations rack

Can be seen in Bellamy's BH&R rack

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : "All the amps were separated by big, foam baffles, and connected to our Radial JD7 Injector guitar signal splitter, which was in the middle of the room, and allowed us to quickly try things out."