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Black Manson Guitar
Black Manson Guitar
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

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

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