Matthew Bellamy

"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"

Matt Bellamy has two Boss FV-500-L Stereo pedals on his pedalboard, used for volume control.

From Muse guitar tech Jason Baskin: "...a hold pedal for the reverb pedal in there"

The ZVex Wah Probe Guitar Effects Pedal can be seen in Matt Bellamy's pedalboard.

This Manson Bomber Electric Guitar is used by Matthew Bellamy of Muse. Like the majority of Bellamy's guitars, it features a MIDI pad (similar to the one on the Manson 007) an Zvex Fuzz Factory, and also a tremolo/whammy bar, but no MXR Phase 90, like the Delorean and the 007. Hugh Manson said that Matthew Bellamy wanted a mirror finish, but the mirroring didn't worked well, so Manson added rivets from a WW2 air plane (that explains the nickname "Bomber") and airbrushed it with blue painting. The Manson Bomber was Bellamy's main guitar for the Absolution tour in 2003/2004 and was also used during a few gigs during 2005 and 2006, for the Black Holes and Revelations Tour. The guitar was retired in 2006, but Matt ordered a bunch of replicas, such as the Chrome Bomber, Copper Bomber, Grey Bomber, Stealth Bomber, ect...

A limited edition Fender Custom Shop item and one of Bellamy's first guitars. It was used extensively for both touring and recording throughout Showbiz and Origin of Symmetry, and remained in use during sessions through The Resistance.

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

On Kawai's official website, Muse's artist page states that Matt Bellamy uses a Kawai MP8II Professional Stage Piano.

The DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal is part of Matthew Bellamy's pedalboard setup. He especially used it during Muse's Resistance Tour in 2009, as can be seen in this photo from that period.

Matthew Bellamy can be seen with a Hammer Jammer on his guitar in this Instagram photo.

Since it's debut in 2015, this guitar has been used for Hysteria, Knights Of Cydonia and Uno live. It was introduced at the same time as the Grey Bomber and the Copper Bomber, used for the same songs. They're all replicas of the original Bomber (used around 2004). We can notice that when Matt needs a tremolo or a whammy bar, he only uses his Bombers.

Matt used this guitar in 2006 but it shortly went missing after throwing it into the crowd at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester. A security guard took the guitar and it was never seen again.

This is Matthew Bellamy's new signature guitar, the Cort MBC-1 Red Sparkle from 2016. It has the same features as his standard matt black MBC-1.

In this photo, we can see Matt with an Aluminium/Silver Stratocaster

This guitar was used to make Uprising solo as you can see in this video at 3:21. This is not a standard Gibson Les Paul, but is the mini humbucker model

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

Matt can be seen using these headphones while recording Animals at 12:21

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : “We did extensive amp research for the guitar sound for ‘The Globalist Part 1’. Matt had a very precise sound in mind, which was retro, warm and intimate. I took the DI from live tracking of the song to try out a collection of amps I rented, particularly many late-’50s Fender amps — Tremolux, Deluxe, tweeds, etc — and did a massive shootout to get the right sound. We ended up using a Deluxe and a Tremolux in combination, one with and one without tremolo."

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : "The synths on the album are mostly hardware, though we did keep some of the soft synths from pre–production, during which Matt likes to use Native Instrument’s Massive, Rob Papen’s Predator and Air Music’s Vacuum Pro."

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."

In this YouTube video clip, Matthew Bellamy playing and recording the song "Resistance" on his Ondes Martenot.

PLEASE PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE ITEM IN THIS SUBMISSION. Someone keeps changing them to incorrect items. When I originally posted this, it was a Manson Delorean.

In the Hyper Music video, Matt showcases his Manson Delorean guitar. There is a clear-ish shot of it at 0:48.

Referred to by Matt as "Silver Manson" and "Industrial Disease," the Delorean was the first custom-built Manson Matt got from Hugh Manson. Matt said he wanted the sound of a P-90 Gibson, and a look that crossed between a Telecaster and an SG.

Since Matt wanted his guitar to be unique, he decided to move away from the usual wood materials used with guitars, and decided on a rough metal finish, inspired by the Delorean from Back to the Future, hence the name.

This guitar was used to record the song "Citizen Erased." For the recording a bass string was fitted onto the 6th string position, for the low A of a 7 string guitar.

This guitar later became a signature model, the Manson DL-1.

PLEASE PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE ITEM IN THIS SUBMISSION. Someone keeps changing them to incorrect items. When I originally posted this, it was a Manson Matt Black.

In this photo, Matthew can clearly be seen playing a Manson Matt Black.

This guitar does not feature an X-Y MIDI pad, unlike the majority of Matt's Mansons. It is also the lightest guitar Hugh built for Matt. It's custom knobs and nickel machine heads match those of the Manson Delorean.

It is identical to several other Matt Blacks that Hugh made in a batch. Bellamy uses these guitars for smashing and throwing. Only differce is that this particular guitar has a velvet satin finish, while all the ones from the batch have just a regular satin finish.

At one particular show in Toronto, this guitar featured a rosewood fingerboard rather than the usual ebony. It was, later during the gig, tossed out of the giant pyramid on stage. However, the guitar was undamaged.

Matt used this guitar for mainly Drop-D song throughout the Drones Tour, and it was used for the recording of "Defector." It was even tossed around a lot. However, Matt is still using the undamaged guitar today.

Here you can see Matt Bellamy versioning The Beatles, playing the Hofner Bass

Rich Costey, producer of the next Muse album upload this image from the studio, where you can see the VCR.

Rich Costey, producer of the next Muse album upload this image from the studio, where you can see the Pedal Power .

The Stone Deaf Distortion pedal for the next Muse album.

Excerpt from the article:

For the band's sold-out Simulation Theory tour, the guitarist had a specific request when performing The Dark Side; to play the Arturia Prophet V plugin synth without relying on a computer. The result is a guitar loaded with a bespoke Fishman TriplePlay and ELK MusicOS system that can run the Arturia Prophet V with extremely low latency.

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Matt used an old Marshall JTM45 head from the early-sixties on Drones and Simulation Theory.