Manson 007

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Manufacturer Manson Guitars
Used 2001-Present
Body type Solid
Neck joint Bolt-on
Body covering Matte black
Wood Body: Mahogany
Neck: Birds-eye maple
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Bridge Tune-O-Matic
Electronics
Pickup(s) Neck: Seymour Duncan Hot P90 / Fernandes Sustainer FSK-401
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. It is known to fans as the "Black Manson".

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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