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The Kit and Tab FAQ (please read first if you are new)
:::-- Please note no discussion of homemade Zvex pedals of any kind, such as the Fuzz Factory, on the board please --:::
the kit and tab faq Before making a post We have a real problem with duplicate threads! Please first check here to see if your question is answered (it probably is) if not please use search to check if it's been made before (title only gets good results). also check musewiki. This thread should have the answers to many queries. it is divided into 5 sectionsif you are wanting to post about a particular song always search to see if a thread on the song is already there. if you're in any doubt about anything please pm me here are some links to the most common threads
Also, if you would like to post your covers of muse or non-muse songs, please see the cover thread here Additions, suggestions or corrections are welcomed and appreciated. PM me, Tom!, or Matthijs if you have any ideas
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6 August 2007 - Madison Square Garden
5 March 2010 - Madison Square Garden 23 October 2010 - Nassau Coliseum 15 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 16 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 25 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 26 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 8 May 2015 - Webster Hall 27 January 2016 - Barclays Center 29 January 2016 - Prudential Center 22 July 2017 - Jones Beach 24 July 2017 - Central Park Last edited by james90; 13-02-2015 at 11:13 AM. |
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Muse Songs
How did matt play (insert song) at (insert gig)? please with this type of question where ever possible provide a link so other users can hear it, failing this please provide information on where you heard it, otherwise its unlikely to get results. Where can I get muse tabs? You can get them via buying the Muse tab books (links provided) or by looking at some tabs created by users from various sites.Good sites for tablature:
Something isn't quite right with the microcuts tab in the tab book yeah? there's a mistake, to play microcuts you should tune your guitar to drop d. Piano thing - what is it and is there a tab? piano thing is an improvised solo piano piece by matt bellamy it appears on the b-side to the new born. A transcription of this can be found at: http://www.microcuts.net/uk/tabs There seems to be something fishy about the in your world tuning? the hullabaloo tab book is not a mistake or a misprint. for playing in your world correctly you tune your d string up a tone to e. Which muse songs are played with a capo?
the vast majority of people on this forum would recommend either hyper condriac music or unintended. the majority is wrong. host is the perfect beginner piece nice easy chords and some nice easy power chords. hyper condriac music and unintended are both nice easy pieces (by muse standards) so both would also be good for beginners. plug-in baby is also quite often recommended but it isn't advisable if you are very new to guitar as you need a strong fourth finger to play well so the tendancy is for beginners to try play it with three fingers this can lead to pretty poor technique so if you're trying plug in baby try to use all four fingers on the main riff.
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6 August 2007 - Madison Square Garden
5 March 2010 - Madison Square Garden 23 October 2010 - Nassau Coliseum 15 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 16 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 25 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 26 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 8 May 2015 - Webster Hall 27 January 2016 - Barclays Center 29 January 2016 - Prudential Center 22 July 2017 - Jones Beach 24 July 2017 - Central Park Last edited by james90; 10-07-2012 at 10:19 PM. |
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Muse gear
How can i find out about muse gear? http://www.musewiki.org/gear is a great resource for information and probably has more than has been posted here What guitars does Matt play? Matt famously uses a number of custom guitars made by Hugh Manson and Tim Stark. This is the 2013 list of them. (2016 update: most of the guitars below are no longer in use) Silver/Delorean - Retired ![]()
7 String E guitar (live backup) ![]()
Blackie/Black Ed/007 - retired (still used in studio) ![]()
Laser - Retired ![]()
Bomber - Retired ![]()
Mirror/Earls Court - retired ![]()
Chrome Bomber ![]()
Kaoss/Invincible/M1D1 black - retired ![]()
M1D1 - Retired/Deceased ![]()
Ali Top - retired ![]()
Glitterati/Santa/Red Glitter - Retired/deceased ![]()
Seattle/Auto/Black MIDI - retired ![]()
Mirror X-Y - retired ![]()
Double Neck/Casinocaster - retired ![]()
MB-1 Red Glitter ![]()
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6 August 2007 - Madison Square Garden
5 March 2010 - Madison Square Garden 23 October 2010 - Nassau Coliseum 15 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 16 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 25 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 26 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 8 May 2015 - Webster Hall 27 January 2016 - Barclays Center 29 January 2016 - Prudential Center 22 July 2017 - Jones Beach 24 July 2017 - Central Park Last edited by james90; 18-01-2016 at 10:38 AM. |
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Santa 2.0/New Red Glitter - retired
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Carbon - retired ![]()
Matt Black ![]()
M1D1 gloss black ![]()
Glitter 7-string ![]()
Red Carbon ![]()
Muse gear (continued) Was the Black Manson/007 stolen? No, no, no, no, no, no. While on the b&h single dvd it is seen that Matt throws the guitar in a bin during the American tour and someone takes it, the Manson did find its way back to Matt and was seen in use on stage 2 days after that event and is indeed still used. Whats the seventh Manson/Rust Relic? The Rust Relic is a guitar Mansons built for Matt alongside the Mirror Manson in December 2004 for the Earls Court shows. He did not use the Rust Relic live, and returned it to Mansons around a month later when it then went up for sale. There are 2 non-mansons used in hullabaloo what guitars are they?
What guitars has Matt regularly used in the past?
What guitar was matt using in the video for....
note: neither the black telecaster or the resonator have been known to have been used live, it is likely these were just borrowed as props for the video. Whats the guitar chris uses for unintended on hullabaloo? Chris uses a Danelectro 59-DC (its unclear whether this is an original or a re-issue) and a Roland PK-5 Dynamic Midi Pedal. What amps does matt use? As of 2012:
In the past Matt has also used the following:
He supposedly used an Egnater M4 at one point, but it is unknown whether this was used live. He also used two Marshall mode 4 cabinets with metal grilles on the absolution tour. These were also used on the black holes and revelations tour, but had the grilles removed and painted white What is the shiny amp on stage behind Matt? On the resistance tour, it was a Dickinson MK II 2x12 combo amp (loaded with monitor speakers and used for feedback - basically used as a speaker cabinet) During the 2nd law tour, he had two custom monitors built by Dickinson which only have speakers and no amp. Whats the white light pad on some of Matts guitar, is it a Kaoss pad? The white pad is an X-Y pad thats used to control the Kaoss Pad KP2. The pad itself is not an effects device it requires the KP2 to generate the sounds. What plectrum does matt use? He uses a dunlop tortex .73mm with the Muse logo printed on them What strings does matt use?
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5 March 2010 - Madison Square Garden 23 October 2010 - Nassau Coliseum 15 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 16 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 25 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 26 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 8 May 2015 - Webster Hall 27 January 2016 - Barclays Center 29 January 2016 - Prudential Center 22 July 2017 - Jones Beach 24 July 2017 - Central Park Last edited by james90; 18-01-2016 at 10:36 AM. |
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Muse effects
What is Matt's pedalboard/rack setup? Showbiz era was:
but more pedals were added in 2000 it seems: ![]()
Origin of Symmetry era pedalboard was very similar
Information on later setups (including rack gear) coming soon. How do i get a sound like the one used in <insert song> a guide to user posted settings which should get the sounds similar to what muse used can be found in this thread a very interesting article on how muse recorded absolution can be found here What effect did matt use for the solo of ...
Matt played this through Chris' big muff and bass amp. he also used his dl4 probably set to 1 repeat. Whats those strange noises at the start of in your world on hullabaloo? this effect is matt using his midi strip on his black manson to control a digitech whammy pedal. he's basically just pissing about pitchshifting. Whats the sounds of the solo for musclemuseum this solo is done by matt singing into his marshall amp that has the gain set high. live this sound is achieved by matt singing into a line 6 pod most likely set to emulate the sounds of the marshall used in the studio. What effect did chris use for plug-in baby? this was done with a boss octave pedal an envelope filter and a fuzz pedal. What effect did chris use for hysteria? Chris's sound is achieved by playing through 2 big muffs. How effect did chris use for TIRO? From bass guitar magazine issue 18 interview with chris (kindly provided by amj) How did you get the bass sound on that track(TIRO)? It's a bit of a cheat really! Your secret is safe with me.. We tried for ages to get the right bass sound. Some of the things we tried were quite ridiculous. We tried flangers, acoustic basses, dubbing with phasers, you name it, but it still wasn't happening. One day Matt was fooling around with a JP 8000 synth and started getting this portamento vibe going (mimes track intro). So we recorded that and I put down a horrendously subby bassline using the pedulla and when we put them together it made a weird, buzzy,disgusting kinda noise and that's what we used. What do you do about that live? I play the line over the top of a synth backing track. What settings does matt have for his fuzz factory?? For songs like New Born and Bliss its best to set the Stab all the way, Drive no higher than 12:00, hardly any Comp and if you really can't stand a bit of hiss use the Gate. For CE its best to have lots of Fuzz, this is a setting I like to use for CE and Muscle Museum Stab - 5:00 Drive - 5:00 Comp - 7:00 Gate - Far enough to get rid of the hissing. thanks to haze015 for these settings. What settings does matt have for his line6 dl4?? a common setting of matts is known to be: (o' clock scale) model: multihead model delay time 1 o'clock repeats 2 o'clock tweak 2 o'clock tweez about 3 o'clock mix 1 o'clock thanks to daniel for these.
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5 March 2010 - Madison Square Garden 23 October 2010 - Nassau Coliseum 15 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 16 April 2013 - Madison Square Garden 25 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 26 May 2013 - Emirates Stadium 8 May 2015 - Webster Hall 27 January 2016 - Barclays Center 29 January 2016 - Prudential Center 22 July 2017 - Jones Beach 24 July 2017 - Central Park Last edited by james90; 18-01-2016 at 10:30 AM. |
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Non muse related
Does anyone have tabs for (insert song) by (insert band)? please try not to post this type of question if you dont have a link where users can hear the piece of music. please also keep conversations about tab if you wish to discuss the band you can do this in the other music section of the forum When i post tabs they come out looking crap, help? if you're tab looks fine in notepad you will want to change the font here to be the same as notepad (the default for notepad is Lucida Console) also adding code tags is known to work (for help on this see the message board faq) What guitars are good for a beginner who wants to play muse? Ideally you want a guitar with a humbucker, these guitars are worth a look at Yamaha Pacifica, the cheaper ibanez models, or some of the humbucker equipped squiers. What are good websites for buying gear?
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