Early Muse Marshall Drama — Main Guitar Without the Faux Solo
The main guitar is recreated from Bellamy’s Showbiz-era Gibson and British-amplifier palette, with settings approximated because no session control sheet survives. The famous outro that resembles a guitar solo was actually Bellamy singing through a Marshall amplifier, so it is deliberately not represented as a fabricated guitar chain. Source: MuseWiki’s “Muscle Museum” page and Mixdown’s Matt Bellamy gear rundown.
Signal Chain
Notes
Use a sharp, almost brittle bridge-pickup attack and moderate gain. To reproduce the outro accurately, sing the melody through an overdriven amplifier or amp simulator rather than playing it on guitar.
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