Muse Hysteria effects

Shlogo · #1 12-16-2011, 03:20 PM

I've been searching around for the effects used by Chris Wolstenholme for Hysteria. It seems to me, after much reading, he is using some
sort of distortion or fuzz and a synth wah. But I cant afford the Akai Deep Impact many people are saying is the ONE synth wah. Any ideas
about some more affordable synth wahs that will get the job done? And perhaps the settings? I'm hoping to spend between $100-$150 for a pedal (if not less)

bigchiefbc · #2 12-16-2011, 03:22 PM

You got a lot of reading to do. Here ya go:

Chris Wolstenholme: The Sticky Ver. 1

Matt R. · #3 12-16-2011, 03:22 PM

Just so you know, the 'search' nazis are gonna rail you for posting this.

I think the guy uses Big Muff pedals and possibly Guyatone for fuzz.

MSUsousaphone · #4 12-16-2011, 03:23 PM

I don't know what exactly he's using....it's been discussed to death....but I use a Prunes & Custard and an IE Oxide and pretty much nail it.

Kwesi · #5 12-16-2011, 03:59 PM

Must... resist... railing...

kaputsport · #6 12-18-2011, 03:49 AM

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**jmattbassplaya** · #7 12-18-2011, 03:57 AM

The Deep Impact is only used on a handful of songs. I wouldn't worry about getting it.

meRTKendrew · #8 12-18-2011, 04:13 AM

The prunes and custard is really a great starting point. It's a synthy sounding fuzz, I love it.

-RTK

**Mound of Sound** · #9 12-18-2011, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Kwesi

Must... resist... railing...

Do it! Do it!

jackwell1029384 · #10 12-23-2011, 01:44 AM

i know he uses an animato fuzz, a big muff, and a wooly mammoth, not sure which one's on hysteria :S

as for a good synth wah, the digitech synth wah looks pretty good and it quite versatile, i'm getting it for christmas

G3Mitch · #11 12-23-2011, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by jackwell1029384

i know he uses an animato fuzz, a big muff, and a wooly mammoth, not sure which one's on hysteria :S

as for a good synth wah, the digitech synth wah looks pretty good and it quite versatile, i'm getting it for christmas

i had a little spare cash after xmas spending... got myself the digitech bass synth wah yesterday. ive never played with envelope filters or anything... and im really having alot of fun with it. i dont want to speak to soon, but atm im thinking this is a great pedal for the low price tag. im sure there are greater pedals that do what this does and MORE. Probably a bad thing.. because now im gona want better.. ****ing GAS.

mynameisjack2 · #12 12-23-2011, 05:54 PM

I've found with some fuzz it's pretty close. Really, it's just a synthy fuzz, seems like any sort of gated fuzz will do.

MSUsousaphone · #13 01-30-2012, 08:08 AM

I'm thinking about seeing if someone will build me a Prunes & Custard clone with a clean blend. I think that's the answer. When you just run a fuzz into the P&C or the other way around, it all gets confused and jumbled up. Sounds a bit like it but not all the way. With the synthy P&C sound above some OD/fuzz....I think that's the answer.

Jared Lash · #14 01-30-2012, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by MSUsousaphone

I'm thinking about seeing if someone will build me a Prunes & Custard clone with a clean blend. I think that's the answer. When you just run a fuzz into the P&C or the other way around, it all gets confused and jumbled up. Sounds a bit like it but not all the way. With the synthy P&C sound above some OD/fuzz....I think that's the answer.

The P&C has a built in clean blend

MSUsousaphone · #15 01-30-2012, 08:23 AM

Ha. Well it sucks ***, then. Because it doesn't keep two seperate sounds. Everything I put into it or vice versa gets all jumbles up together.

JehuJava · #16 01-30-2012, 08:25 AM

I don't think the p&cs clean blend is all that great either.

MSUsousaphone · #17 01-30-2012, 08:31 AM

Hmmmm....so would it even be possible to build a clone with a better clean blend that actually works....or would I just need to shell out the money on some blender? I just don't think I could justify the price of the P&C AND a blender....

Jared Lash · #18 01-30-2012, 09:00 AM

I think it's just the nature of the effect.

When I had both my Barge VB-jr and Xotic Xblender I used the Prunes & Custard and was never happy with the blended tone. Reason being, that wacky, synthy fuzz tone just never sounded right against clean bass.

FWIW, I had exactly the same experience with the Noisebox. Both of them are such weird and distinctly voiced effects that the clean just sounded bad, for lack of a better word.

I had better luck just running the P&C in series with a gated fuzz to tighten up the sound.

What DID work well for me was using the Boss LS-2 and running either of those two pedals in parallel with another fuzz.

YMMV.

MSUsousaphone · #19 01-30-2012, 09:55 AM

That's kinda what I was thinking....two parallel sounds. That's what I hear in Hysteria, especially live....there's a distinct and seperate OD/fuzz sound with the synthy P&C sound above it....pretty much it's own distinct sound.

I guess you're right, that's too much for any clean blend to be able to do. If only I were rich and had unlimited resources....I could just run two amps.

ga_edwards · #20 01-30-2012, 10:21 AM

If you use the Digitech Bass Synth Wah, it has two outputs, wet and dry. You could run the dry into a fuzz, into a small mixer like the LS-2, and the wet straight into the other mixer channel.

Thinking about doing this myself, except I already use my LS-2 to mix two channels from my Attitude, so may end up sourcing a small micro mixer to replace it.