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The "Silver guitar" is made from Poplar and clad in sheet aluminium. It has a 25.5-inch scale length and a bird's eye maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. This is a bolt on neck design.
The neck pick up is a Seymour Duncan "P90" style. The bridge pick up is an Armstrong "Motherbucker". There is a bridge transducer system and also a Roland Hex Midi pickup
Inside the instrument are a phasor (a MXR phase90) and a distortion circuit (a zvex fuzz factory) whose parameters are manipulated by 2 rotary controls.
A replica of this guitar would cost you £3,500.
Matt's Black Manson
The "Black guitar" has a mahogany body and a bolt on maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. The neck has blue LED lights in the top edge.
In the neck pick up position is a Sustainer, & next to that a Seymour Duncan "P90". The bridge pick up is an Armstrong "Motherbucker". Like the silver guitar, this instrument has a bridge transducer system.
Inside the instrument is a distortion unit (zvex fuzz factory) whose parameters are manipulated by a pair of rotary controllers. The copper plate on the front controls a Theramin like wah effect (zvex wah probe). There is a rotary midi controller to change pitches on any midi pedal (digitech whammy pedal). The pad above the fingerboard controls the midi parameters & is touch sensitive. The back of the guitar has many pre-set adjusters to control the settings & sensitivity of the on-board electronics.
The electronics were designed and constructed by Ron Joyce. All other work hand made by Hugh Manson.
A replica of this guitar would cost you £5,000.
Matt's 7-String Manson
This is a 7 string Manson guitar which is an arch top instrument with 2 humbucker pick ups & a bridge transducer system. This is a straight through neck design with hollow cavities in the body. It has a flame maple top & is a translucent cherry red sunburst. Matt often uses this guitar to play songs such as Citizen Erased.
Matt's Laser Manson
Similar to Matt's other silver-bodied Manson guitar, except that this one has a 'cracked mirror' finish, and its own built-in laser show. The controls of the built-in Zvex Fuzz Factory are in different positions as well, with the stability and compression on the back of the guitar and the noise gate and volume on the front. The pickups are different as well. The neck pickup is a Rio Grande 'Fat Bastard' P-90, and the bridge pickup is a Rio Grande 'Punchbox' humbucker'. Like Matt's other silver Manson, this guitar has a built in MXR Phase 90 phaser.
A replica of this guitar would cost you £8000.
Ibanez DTX120 Destroyer
Matt uses these guitars occasionally (especially when he wants a guitar that he can smash up).
'X' neck
Maple Neck Material
Basswood Body
22/Large frets
Rosewood Finger Board
Full Tune II bridge
IBZ AH3 (H) Neck Pickup
IBZ AH4 (H) Bridge Pickup
Pearl Dot Inlay
Chrome Hardware Colour
Worth about £220.
Fender Aloha Stratocaster
Extremely rare aluminium bodied fender strat that Matt got off a friend. The aluminium body is engraved with hawaiian dancers, and it says "Aloha!" on the neck. Only 153 of these were made in the fender custom shop, and Matt has number 74.
These are very rare and worth about £10,000.
Les Paul DC Lite
One of Matt's older guitars, his main guitar during the Showbiz tours of 2000. For some reason, Matt has covered the edges of this guitar with black gaffer tape. No one knows why. Matt damaged the headstock during a gig, so now it is very fragile and is never used.
Body
Carved Figured AAA maple top, chambered mahogany back
Neck/Profile
Mahogany/'60s style slim taper
Fingerboard/Inlay
Rosewood 24 frets/Pearloid trapezoid
Scale/Nut Width
243/4"/111/16
Binding
Single bound fingerboard
Bridge/Tailpiece
Tune-o-matic/Stopbar
Hardware
Gold
Pickups
490R Alnico magnet humbucker
498T Alnico magnet humbucker
Controls
One volume, one tone, three-way switch
Can be bought for around £800, but as this is an old line, the 'lite' model is difficult to find.
Banez ICX120 Iceman
Matt uses these guitars occasionally (especially when he wants a guitar that he can smash up).
'X' neck
Maple Neck Material
Basswood Body
22/Large frets
Rosewood Finger Board
Full Tune II bridge
IBZ AH3 (H) Neck Pickup
IBZ AH4 (H) Bridge Pickup
Pearl Dot Inlay
Chrome Hardware Colour
Worth about £220.
Peavey EVH Wolfgang
Matt used this guitar in the early days of Muse and during the Showbiz tours. Again, for reasons unknown, the top edge of this guitar has been covered in grey gaffer tape.
The EVH® Wolfgang® is the result of a collaboration between Peavey and legendary guitarist Edward Van Halen. Combining Edward's insight with Peavey's expertise in guitar manufacturing resulted in a versatile, fully professional instrument with its own personality.
25 1/2 inch scale
All basswood body
Bolt-on oil finished figured birdseye maple neck, graphite reinforced sculpted joint
Birdseye maple fingerboard
22 frets
Two humbucking pickups designed to Edward Van Halen's specifications
Volume, Tone, 3 way Pickup Selector controls
Floyd Rose® licensed double-locking tremolo system with patented D-Tuner™
