What Overdrive pedal does the muse bassists use?

[MichaelGou]

Hi guys i was wondering what overdrive or distortion pedal the bassist from muse uses and what settings he probably uses from such songs as time is running out and hysteria?

[eriatarka]

Some kind of muff? Possibly a Russian Muff.

[Akira]

Hysteria is actually a synthesizer, not bass. Live he backtracks the synth and plays clean under it.

[museic]

Hysteria is actually a synthesizer, not bass. Live he backtracks the synth and plays clean under it.


no


time is running out was recorded like that... hysteria is 2 big muffs..

[H flat]

no


time is running out was recorded like that... hysteria is 2 big muffs..

This man is right. He uses two Russian Big Muffs chained together.

[Akira]

no


time is running out was recorded like that... hysteria is 2 big muffs..

Oh sorry, I get them confused.

[hartke20g]

http://musegear.fobbedoff.net/
at the bottom. and as far as i can tell, Wolstemholme doesn't use 2 Big Muffs, simply because if all the pictures i've ever seen of his gear, i've only seen 1 Big Muff on his board at all times. Muse are kind of my 'obsession band'.

i could, as always, be wrong though. which i probably am, considering almost everyone says he uses 2 muffs...

[Radiobass81]

Last I heard, he uses a Double Muff, which is something different from two Muffs. The Double Muff is actually a pedal.

But I don't follow.

EDIT: Seems Hartke is with me. ONE Muff, called the Double Muff.

EDIT2: But alas, not on the list :upset:.

[pervy_the_clown]

Part of Muse's distinctive sound is produced by Wolstenholme's use of distortion, he has been one of few modern bassists to pioneer distortion and fuzz in songs, especially live. Favouring the Electro Harmonix Big Muff distortion / sustainer, this was used alongside a BOSS Bass overdrive and other effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wolstenholme

[hartke20g]

Last I heard, he uses a Double Muff, which is something different from two Muffs. The Double Muff is actually a pedal.

But I don't follow.

EDIT: Seems Hartke is with me. ONE Muff, called the Double Muff.

EDIT2: But alas, not on the list :upset:.

it's a proven fact that people with the same first name agree with each other
/false fact

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/hartke20g/chrisrack02.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/hartke20g/chrispedalboard01.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/hartke20g/chrispedalboard03.jpg
i don't see a double muff though. but i remember reading somewhere on the Museforums that he gets his magical tone from his Animato distortion (no longer made). good luck to anyone without a digital modeler and 2 amps who wants to get Chris' tone.

[hartke20g]

1 more picture. it wouldn't take with the forum, so i had to do a new post. since when do quotes count as pictures?

close-up of the last picture
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/hartke20g/chrispedalboard02.jpg

as for why an inhaler's there, we can only guess.
<_<
>_>

[Radiobass81]

Smileys count as pictures, and there's a smiley on the quote.

[hartke20g]

of course. the face of the internets is a picture, as is the internets itself.:p

[Thunder Fingers]

as bassplayer stated:
Electro Harmonix big Muff.
Electro Harmonix Bass balls.
Akai Deep impact synth
Digitech SynthWah

and some more, ill find the rest when i get home...

[Untitled]

Russian Big Muff will do you fine.

Its what i use, i get a pretty musey tone, if you want to sound like him.

[d-basser]

russian Big Muff and a Digitech BSW should satisfy all your muse-ish needs, you'll have to accept you'll never sound just like Chris but they'll do just fine

[museic]

Oh sorry, I get them confused.

hehe sorry man my post seemed quite rude looking back at it!

he doesnt use a double muff... he actually used 2 big muffs to record some stuff .. live it might be different...but all the pictures posted are quite old.. he now uses a pedal bored which is linked to a pedal board back stage or something like that.. its more like a switch bored..

he also uses an octave pedal in a lot of songs like citizen erazed and plug in baby (he also uses a phaser in plug in baby)

[Thunder Fingers]

From Bassplayer October 2006, i would guess thats right, since they have spoken with the guy.
Gear:
BASSES:
Fender American Deluxe Jazz bass
Fender Standard Jazz bass
Pedulla Rapture
Rickenbacker 4001
DR Strings

RIG:
Two Marshall DBS 7400 Heads
Two Marshall 7215 DBS 2x15 Cabinets

EFFECTS:
Electro-Harmonix big muff pi
Electro-Harmonix Bassballs
Human Gear Animato Distortion
Akai Deep Impact Bass Synth
Digitech SynthWah
Sound Sculpture Switchblade DL


That should about round it up.

[mikethecoug]

On hysteria i heard that he uses a muff in one channel and goes clean on the other to get that tone.

I have the digitech synthwah and i get a pretty decent muse tone through it.

[Thunder Fingers]

ofcoursed, Chris use it...

i noticed, two of the pedals he use aint possible to get unless you have a load of money.

[Thonk]

it's a proven fact that people with the same first name agree with each other
/false fact

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/hartke20g/chrisrack02.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/hartke20g/chrispedalboard01.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a196/hartke20g/chrispedalboard03.jpg
i don't see a double muff though. but i remember reading somewhere on the Museforums that he gets his magical tone from his Animato distortion (no longer made). good luck to anyone without a digital modeler and 2 amps who wants to get Chris' tone.
The green pedal on the far left of the second pic is an old Big Muff.

[MichaelGou]

shucks all i have is a boss odb-3 overdrive pedal