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Revision as of 21:23, 16 August 2009
| Black Manson | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Manson Guitars |
| Used | 2001–2007 |
| Body type | Solid |
| Neck joint | Bolt-on |
| Body covering | Matte black |
| Wood | Body: Mahogany Neck: Birds-eye maple Fingerboard: Rosewood |
| Bridge | Fixed |
| Electronics | |
| Pickup(s) | Neck: Seymour Duncan Hot P90 / Fernandes Sustainer FSK-101 Bridge: Bare Knuckle Mississippi Queen P90, previously a Kent Armstrong Motherbucker |
| Special circuits |
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Background
Hugh Manson on the Black Manson
"Matt came to me and said, ‘Can you build a guitar with a whammy pedal in it?’ I thought for moment and said, ‘Of course we can‘. Then I looked at the back of a whammy pedal and realised it draws a lot of power. Unless he wanted a guitar full of batteries that he could only use for 40 seconds, it wasn't gonna work. Then I realised the modern whammy has a MIDI controller system with it, so I went to a great friend of mine, Ron Joyce, who does all my weird electronic stuff, and said, ‘I want to control that pedal from this guitar’. He said, All you need is a pot. I looked in to pots but realised that rotary pots gave the wrong feel. Eventually we came up with the linear pot from the side of a keyboard, which acts as a MIDI controller pad and goes in to a microprocessor to control the whammy. It just number crunches MIDI numbers -you tell it what you want it to do and it'll do it. It'll control a whammy pedal, it'll control a kaoss pad, it'll turn the lights up and down, it'll turn your heated blanket on, whatever you want in terms of MIDI. I don't think anyone's done that in a guitar before."
Additional information
This guitar is featured on the "Time Is Running Out" music video.
Touring
On the Absolution Tour DVD, there is a short clip of Muse playing in a small bar in America using this guitar for Stockholm Syndrome. After it, Bellamy walks outside while still playing and throws this guitar in the trash dumpster. A guy then takes it but Bellamy got it back later.
Songs used for
- Assassin
- Butterflies & Hurricanes
- Exo-Politics
- Hyper Music
- Hysteria
- In Your World
- New Born
- Sing for Absolution
- Starlight
- Stockholm Syndrome
- The Groove
- Thoughts of a Dying Atheist