Michael Shuman

In this live performance of "No One Knows", Michael can be seen playing a Jack Casady Signature (Goldtop) at 2:22. It looks as though Michael has removed the white pick guard that comes standard on the guitar.

Michael Shuman used the Fender American Vintage Series P-Bass with thin custom white finish, pickups wound to '60s specs and tortoise pickguards in 2013.

During this live version of "Any Emotion" by Mini Mansions, whom Michael is also part of, he is seen using the J Mascis Signature Jazzmaster.

We always sync DI, but most of the sound is a two-amp setup that we’ve summed into one. One amp is a Guild Maverick combo

We always sync DI, but most of the sound is a two-amp setup that we’ve summed into one. One amp is a Guild Maverick combo, and then there’s a late-’60s 300-watt Orange head. It’s a massive beast, that one

Michael Shuman used the head and some matches cabinets on the "Like Clockwork" Tour in 2013.

"You should always have [an EQ pedal]", says Michael around 2:30 in the video. Used with Queens mainly for "getting all the creases out" when switching basses in different tunings.

In a Premier Guitar Rig Rundown feature, Michael Shuman is noted for using a Fender American Vintage Jazz Bass, customized with a unique finish and pickups.

This image of Michael Shuman's pedalboard taken by Premier Guitar contains a Swollen Pickle on the far right.

The Fender American Vintage Series J-Bass with thin custom seafom green finish, pickups wound to '60s specs and tortoise pickguard was used in 2013 by Shuman.

In the video it can be seen that Shuman is playing a Fender Baritone guitar with the Mini Mansions.

In this short video, Michael Shuman is playing with different effects and at around 0:32 there is a good view of his pedal board, which includes the TC Electronic Dark Matter Distortion.

Michael Shuman used two Gibson Rippers throughout the 'Era Vulgaris' tour, using a black model for songs in C Tuning and a natural model for songs in E Standard.

Shuman can be seen playing a Yamaha SA-70 in this photo.

he uses this mic on this video and at 6:09 is the perfect angle to see it!

At :10s-:14s of this video you can see Shuman with his EB-2.

In this acoustic performance, Shuman can be seen playing an Ibanez AW 535 throughout.

Shuman can be seen singing into a Shure SM7B at 0:33 of this video.

At 0:48, you can see that the amp behind Michael that he is using is a Fender Excelsior.

Used as of touring for QotSA in 2017

Used on "Feet Don't Fail Me". "I had this old Morley wah pedal and I was on my hands and knees, so we could get exactly the right frequencies with the wah, and we just found the right filter pedal to mimic that without me having to be on my hands and knees on stage in front of all the people. It would be embarassing." (1:00 in the video)

Used on "The Evil Has Landed", "Domesticated Animals", and the lasest Mini Mansions album. "In my band called Mini Mansions we started using this on the last record, to mimic going through an old Ampex 351. And [this is] almost identical, and I think it has a lot to do with the Bias switch. And so on Villains, I use this as my main sound for The Evil Has Landed, and for Domesticated Animals. It's pretty obvious, it's a pretty distinct sound. That bias knob is everything. I don't really know what it's doing, but it's basically acting as some sort of natural gate, that kinda squeezes everything out of it. (1:30 in the video)

In this video of Queens of the Stone Age performing "The Vampyre of Time and Memory" on Conan, Michael Shuman uses a Fender Coronado Bass Guitar, which can clearly be seen at 1:49-2:00

Michael Shuman can be seen using a Gretsch White Falcon Bass during the controversial, cut Grammy performance of "My God Is The Sun" which followed Nine Inch Nails' performance of "A Copy of A," with Dave Grohl playing drums. It can be seen clearly at 3:20.

One can see Michael's Copperphone at around 2:17-2:20 in this video of Queens of the Stone Age performing Millionaire.

Shuman's pedalboard features a Palmer Triage amp selector, a Radial Engineering JDI direct box, a Korg tuner, three Way Huge stomps—an Angry Troll, a Swollen Pickle, and a Supa-Puss—a Jim Dunlop volume pedal, and a footswitch to activate an offstage Moog unit.

At 8:49 of this acoustic Queens of the Stone Age performance, Shuman can be seen playing a Gibson J-200.

"I think maybe all of us [QotSA] have one on stage now. There's one part of our set where we try to recreate a string section, so we're all just hitting that pedal on... So even bass players can do that." (2:49 in the video)

in this video Michael can be seen using a MXR SMART GATE

In an article by Bassplayer, Michael Shuman is noted for using a 1967 Fender Mustang Bass among his collection, which also includes a Gretsch White Falcon, a fretless Fender Jazz Bass, a 1968 Gibson EB-2, a 1967 Fender Coronado, and a Gretsch Billy-Bo.