I remember in the 90's, when people were using 7-string guitars and everything was super-bass. I told my guitar player friend that Brian May uses a treble booster... He said "Treble!?! Why would anyone want to boost the treble!?!"
I've always felt Brian had the cleanest and sharpest guitar sound out of all the axe wizards of old. That real bright but warm, crisp, really clear, and never muddy crunch tone that was his signature sound.
Brian spent decades literally crafting his tone. Others might have done the spadework, but he knows everything, and you can't B.S. him. He knows what he wants. Great video!
You know that Brian and his Dad built the Red Special guitar from scratch, right? Wood from a table and fireplace mantle, hand wired pick-ups, though Brian replaced them not too long after as he didn't love their sound.
There’s an interview of Brian May saying that he got his sound from Rory Gallagher. After he saw him at a show, he stayed after the show and asked him about how he got his sound and Rory Gallagher told him.
Rory Gallagher. Caring man he shared his sound with Brian May unselfishly . Rory was not only a fantastic talent but he had a profoundly beautiful heart and soul.. what a beautiful human being and he is the only man that I love or will ever love for all of eternity. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Rory Gallagher for all the music and for the beautiful wonderful caring man that he was Angel RORY I will love you for all of eternity XO 💖🎼🎸☘️🎼😘
It's crazy how Rory got so much sustain from a strat for sure tubes and Alex Lifeson another guy who played a strat sometimes but I think he had humbucker s in the back a full sound like Brian May
Yes, I also read an interview with him talking about the Rangemaster and the Vox AC 30 amp, which he started using after hearing and seeing Rory Gallagher using it. I also believe that Rory is responsible for the popularity of the Fender Bassman amplifier...another of his favorites in the early 70's. There's a picture of him playing live in 1972 or 73, where everything appears. Vox and beside him Bassman with the Rangemaster on top of him, his old Stratocaster on the shelf and him playing on his white Tele...a beautiful picture
Apparently according to Brian May the inspiration for using a treble booster into a Vox AC 30 was from a meeting with Rory Gallagher in a club when May asked him how he got his raw tone.
Well, that was for me! Well done. The whole thought process in what he did from the crazy guitar pickup stuff to the rest was so imaginative and smart but it always served to make the listener feel deep feelings and never think how.. except for folks like us who LOVE IT. I became a professional guitarist because of Brian May's tone. They were like scientists, but ones trying to make us cry or dance or stomp or sing. I thoroughly enjoyed this all by myself! Great hard work.
Interesting as I love guitar pedals. It will be great if you could carry on by doing this kind of videos: Gilmour, Hendrix, Zappa and so many others. Thank You
Clogs and pedals are a challenge, no doubt. Always loved Brian’s tones on the ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ and ‘News of the World’ albums best of all, thanks for the info.
🤣. I went out 3 months ago looking for a PRS Santana and came home with a 2018 Special Edition Black’n’Gold Brian May guitar. Came with the Hiscox Flight Case too! Best axe I’ve ever bought. So many variables with the pick-ups and through a Zoom G9.2tt pedal into a Carlsbro Stingray or a Behringer GMX212 the sounds and effects are endless! 🤣👍
It makes perfect sense, how much Brian put into his guitar sound, he was an astrophysics student, who eventually finished his PhD! Earning a doctorate takes unbelievably singular focus and for many years that divide was turned to his sound! Someone should give him an honorary doctorate just for that!
Dang! This is some of the best nerdy stuff I've heard possibly to date! I used to play around with circuits and built a few foot pedals due to not being able to get the tone I was after. That was a while ago and I wish I still had the time. Awesome! Thanks so much!!
Very informative video! I always thought that Brian May preferred germanium transistors in his boosters, but actually he loved silicon ones( which changes quite a bit the mythology about the Dallas Rangemaster)! Thank you!
There is quite a bit of discussion around over the transistor in the clean boost part of the treble booster circuits when to me the key to the tone is how it's shaped by the capacitor (and how the first gain stage in the AC30 clips when it's overloaded). These days the treble boost is before the wireless anyway. Thanks for clarifying those capacitor values where possible.
When Pete Cornish builds you a custom board, and it sounds bad, you know you aren't some hipster who buys pedals because they are trendy. You listen with your ears, not your eyes.
Great video as allways. I´m amazed by the detail in wich you describe any device, with specs such as transistor part numbers, cap values and even circuit analisys, nobody in this platform make videos like this. I have an Electronics degree so this video and the ones you describe amps like the history of Beatles amps I watched several time. In that videos you describe every amp naming every valve those amps had. For a valve/ tube nut like me your work is pure gold. Keep up the goood work. Oh and your guitar playing is amazing, I watched a video in witch you demo pickups to obtain Peter Green´s out of phase sound. I click the video for the main subject but keep watching just to see/ hear you play, I bet you are/ were a guirar teacher, your vibrato and technique is great. Cheers (Sorry Engish is not my main language so there may be mistakes I wish weren´t there). I´ll seatch if Is there a video that describes the Vox amp Brina May used, I bet you made one, If not It would be a great Idea.
Thank you much, Ramon. I clicked on this to learn about all Brian’s effects but being particularly curious about which Zoom multi effects unit he used (knowing it was during *Innuendo).* I had forgotten that they even built one that you cold attach to a guitar strap.
@@TheGuitarShow For people in the UK, there is an exhibition currently at Reading Museum - featuring exhibits from the first ever Reading Festival. Star exhibit is Rory Gallagher’s AC30, plus his Dallas Rangemaster, his Telecaster, bottleneck, strap, guitar cable etc etc. By all accounts Rory stole the show at that first festival, and to be able to look at his gear at very close quarters (albeit behind glass) is a wonderful opportunity. You can ever look into the back of his amp and almost smell the tubes! Guitar nerd here!
Saw Queen in 1974. They opened for Mott the Hoople. (Ralphers & Verdon were gone. Replaced by Luke Grosvenor/Ariel Bender & Morgan Fisher. Both very nice guys.) Great concert. Also met Stan Tippins that day. Had no idea who he was, until their Live on Broadway album came out. We were the 2nd stop on that tour, heard Freddy got sick shortly after. I did meet a great friend at that concert, too. Queen were very good, though I didn't know much about them. I still like Keep Yourself Alive. Many many moons ago. Brian is a great guitarist, among those who really never got their due until recently. 1974 was a great year for concerts, in my home town. Believe it or not some cat from Spain or Portugal contacted me on Facebook some years ago, asking if I still had the ticket stub to that concert. It was over 40 yrs ago at that time. When I joined the Navy mom got rid of all my stuff, including a baseball card collection that's worth $thousands now, plus an old Danelectro/Silvertone guitar. Oh well, as John Prine sang, "can't forgive the way they robbed me, of all my childhood souvenirs"(I forgave my mom. Who knew any of that stuff might be worth money?)
I think it was Brian who got sick. The tour in 74 was canceled after May 11th because Brian got Hepatitis and had to go home and into hospital for a good length of time. Just got over that and discovered he had a nasty ulcer that had to be fixed too. 1974 was a rough year for our Brian.
Big, detailed and very interesting work! Thanks so much. Brian is one of my favorite guitarists, but this video contains a many details that I didn't know about before. In the song "Keep Youreself Alive" Brian used a flanger. Has he ever used it at concerts? Or is it Foxx?
That was tape flanging! The edge of the tape is called the flange. You run two identical tapes, side by side, and touch the flange on each tape, very gently, to get that sound. It's especially obvious on the drum tone from Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir'. There are other Queen songs with tape flanging, such as 'Some Day, One Day', etc. They used on vocals too... The pedal was invented to mimic the actual tape flanging sounds.
Great job, like always. I love these videos - well researched and well presented. Thank you for all of the time you put into these! Brian May is one of my favorite guitar players. Killer player, more melodic than anyone else I can think of.
Feel like such an idiot: Saw this video and was gonna ask you if you could do a Brian May history of his guitars but then realised it would only be about 5 mins due to just the red special and a couple others😂😂. Great video very informative love the content as always 👌👌👍
Don’t be fooled my friend, Brian’s used a lot more guitars than one tends to think. Let’s see if i can list them tho i may miss a few but here it goes: His main Red Special. Gibson Les Paul- used as a backup. Fender Stratocaster- used as a backup and in a Swedish mimed performance of killer queen. Hairfred acoustic guitar- used in songs such as white queen and jealousy. A Spanish classical guitar with which he is pictured circa 1966-1967. John birch Red Special copy- used as a backup and in we will rock you/spread your wings videos. Greco Red Special copy- used in the good old fashioned lover boy TOTP performance. Gibson Flying V- used as a backup Washburn RR-V- used in the princes of the universe video. Chet Atkins nylon string guitar- used live in is this the world we created. Red special double neck guitar- used live for under pressure. Fender telecaster- used for crazy little thing called love. Satellite Stratocaster- used as a prop for the play the game video Red special with F hole- used for crazy little thing called love. Guild 12 string- used for modern love of my life Ovation 12 string- used for the classic love of my life. Burns electric 12 string.- used for long away. Skull guitar- used for the it’s a hard life video, not sure if it was functional tho. Martin D18- used for ‘39 in Hyde park. -bonus-- There’s a guitar called Spade which Brian may designed as a possible follow up to his red special built many years later in 2004 by a guy named Andrew Guyton, no idea if Brian ever used it tho. Also there’s his ukelele/banjo given to him by his father and used in live performances of bring back that Leroy brown. It would definitely be a cool idea to see a video of all his guitars along with others i may have missed.
@@powertothebauer296 true he did use a Guild as a backup but not for those songs as the Guild didn’t go into production until 1984 and then again in 1993 but yeah you’re correct, the Guild was his backup from the mid 80s and onwards.
@@powertothebauer296 bro the Guild copy didn’t exist in the 70s. Brian did not partner with Guild until 1983 to release them beginning in 1984. He says so himself and its archived information you can look up. That Guitar in Houston wasn’t a Guild, he only had i believe the Yellow Birch model used in the We Will Rock You and Spread Your Wings videos and he also had a Japanese Greco copy used in the Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy top of the pops performance. No guilds in the 70s.
@@powertothebauer296 just looked at the video and what you see is his original red special, not a copy. A couple of things to note, first there is no logo on the headstock. Second, the fretboard is lacquered, which the Guild copy wasn’t. Third- the tremolo system is the authentic Brian May designed system not the Kahler tremolo system that Guild employed for their copies. It is not the Guild model.
awesome!!! thanks a million!!! just in case you mind, there is an error in the editing at around 2:00 where you repeated a sentence. not that it makes the video any less amazing :)
I don't think that's an error in editing. I think he just stumbled reading and decided we're all smart enough to understand what he means and that he is human so he just left it that way. That's what I imagine happened there.
I will say however that I’ve now discovered that all the research came from work done by Simon Bradley and Mark Reynolds including private sourced photos, it might have been nice to ask them first and credit them, neither are happy about this video
Interesting example of how fragile a balance it can be to try to achieve a specific sound in a live set up.The combination of buffers and simple circuits is a common problem, almost always encountered with Treble Boosters and vintage Fuzz circuits.Wireless systems in particular use buffers that can suck the life out of a signal; also why some guitarists have circuits built into the guitar, to assure not having issues with noise and impedance. I learned most of it through trial and error, the hard way.
@The SNES Man there is so much wrong with what you've said. However let's take Brian out of the equation. What you've said is the equivalent of "no one on earth should dislike pears." It's just silly. Brian May is boring. The most interesting thing about him his he built his guitar, but even then, so what?
Duracells are alkaline , but the older and cheaper RAYOVAC / panasonic / eveready Zinc Carbon type batteries are claimed to sound better in some pedal ciruits . either way they (carbons) are prefectly acceptable for low current drain applications ie analog circuits but when you get into pedal circuits that use a/d and d/a or digital stuff its a whole different ballgame with higher current drains and one should consider using a power suply or larger battery bank such as a li ion pack on a vreg or buck . alkalkine vs carbon also have diffferent operating temp ranges . the carbons are not as flexible as the alkalines run at more extreme temp ranges . so i guess using a duracell is more expensive , and it is not optimal for the sound quality . so consider this if loading up your pedals , and if you find your self not being sure , look for the pedals current consumption rate , so that is not volts but typically measured in milliamps or mah . the lower drain stuff like wah, fuzz and booster = carbon zincs , digital delay or fancy digital stuff power supply or alkaline , the thing is a lot of the newer digital stuff has very high consumption -such as over 100 mah or 1/10th of an amp up to 250 mah or 1/4th an amp - so in these types of higher current draw circuits even using a "beefyer" alkaline would only last a short time = so choose a power supply or perhaps if you are a wierdo -a battery pack or bank. Battery bank is not as common but some do use it . including myself . you can play in remote areas and its nice n quiet or you never have to worry about RFI ( you dont have hum and noise interferance as much) i have been using battery rig since pre 2010 . and yeah i know that was a lot . there is no emoji to really explain this and if this is too complicated there is always legos for your hobby.
I breadboard and build pedals all the time. I spend a lot if time trying new crazy sounds. But after a few hours I disconnect everything except my Rangemaster 2SA102 (hfe=70) Matsushita clon.
Hey man just discovered your channel and I love it, I was wondering if you could do a video on mick mars. If your interested I can give you my email is I can contact you about what gear I know he used
Question for the community, what is the best clone or alternative to the Rangemaster treble booster.? I am looking at the KAT used by Brian, the Keely Java Boost, K.O.T. Beano,, and a Rangemaster Licensed reissue..all are between $250-$375 US. Appreciate the expertise of the hive here? One of these? Something else?
Can you please pin me to prove you read all the comments?
What's your next move son? This is chess not checkers.
I remember in the 90's, when people were using 7-string guitars and everything was super-bass. I told my guitar player friend that Brian May uses a treble booster... He said "Treble!?! Why would anyone want to boost the treble!?!"
a lot of metalheads are not very bright...
I've always felt Brian had the cleanest and sharpest guitar sound out of all the axe wizards of old. That real bright but warm, crisp, really clear, and never muddy crunch tone that was his signature sound.
it was also thanks to the serrated edge of the sixpence coin
Brian spent decades literally crafting his tone. Others might have done the spadework, but he knows everything, and you can't B.S. him. He knows what he wants. Great video!
Brian has a good ear for what sounds good. His parts are great and his tone is stellar.
Aww, his dad helped him get his favorite sound back, what a great dad, A+ number one coolest dad ever kinda stuff right there.
You know that Brian and his Dad built the Red Special guitar from scratch, right? Wood from a table and fireplace mantle, hand wired pick-ups, though Brian replaced them not too long after as he didn't love their sound.
There’s an interview of Brian May saying that he got his sound from Rory Gallagher. After he saw him at a show, he stayed after the show and asked him about how he got his sound and Rory Gallagher told him.
Rory Gallagher. Caring man he shared his sound with Brian May unselfishly . Rory was not only a fantastic talent but he had a profoundly beautiful heart and soul.. what a beautiful human being and he is the only man that I love or will ever love for all of eternity. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Rory Gallagher for all the music and for the beautiful wonderful caring man that he was Angel RORY I will love you for all of eternity XO 💖🎼🎸☘️🎼😘
Very true, I'll include this on the Brian May amps history video coming very soon.
It's crazy how Rory got so much sustain from a strat for sure tubes and Alex Lifeson another guy who played a strat sometimes but I think he had humbucker s in the back a full sound like Brian May
He did an interview with Rick Wakeman in which he talked about this and lots of early Queen stuff. It's on TH-cam I think.
Yes, I also read an interview with him talking about the Rangemaster and the Vox AC 30 amp, which he started using after hearing and seeing Rory Gallagher using it. I also believe that Rory is responsible for the popularity of the Fender Bassman amplifier...another of his favorites in the early 70's. There's a picture of him playing live in 1972 or 73, where everything appears. Vox and beside him Bassman with the Rangemaster on top of him, his old Stratocaster on the shelf and him playing on his white Tele...a beautiful picture
Apparently according to Brian May the inspiration for using a treble booster into a Vox AC 30 was from a meeting with Rory Gallagher in a club when May asked him how he got his raw tone.
Well, that was for me! Well done. The whole thought process in what he did from the crazy guitar pickup stuff to the rest was so imaginative and smart but it always served to make the listener feel deep feelings and never think how.. except for folks like us who LOVE IT. I became a professional guitarist because of Brian May's tone. They were like scientists, but ones trying to make us cry or dance or stomp or sing. I thoroughly enjoyed this all by myself! Great hard work.
Many thanks, great comment too!
Ahh I love the super deep dive nerdy gear stuff like this. I learned a lot
Many thanks indeed
Thank you very much! You showed me a lot of pictures of Brian's gear that I've never seen before.
That was really well done. Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Interesting as I love guitar pedals. It will be great if you could carry on by doing this kind of videos: Gilmour, Hendrix, Zappa and so many others. Thank You
Clogs and pedals are a challenge, no doubt. Always loved Brian’s tones on the ‘Sheer Heart Attack’ and ‘News of the World’ albums best of all, thanks for the info.
Pleasure Dan!
Tony iommi's treble booster had the same fate, under same conditions, with his own guitar tech mid 70's
🤣. I went out 3 months ago looking for a PRS Santana and came home with a 2018 Special Edition Black’n’Gold Brian May guitar. Came with the Hiscox Flight Case too! Best axe I’ve ever bought. So many variables with the pick-ups and through a Zoom G9.2tt pedal into a Carlsbro Stingray or a Behringer GMX212 the sounds and effects are endless! 🤣👍
It makes perfect sense, how much Brian put into his guitar sound, he was an astrophysics student, who eventually finished his PhD! Earning a doctorate takes unbelievably singular focus and for many years that divide was turned to his sound! Someone should give him an honorary doctorate just for that!
There’s a new, really enjoyable Brian May interview on Rick Beato’s TH-cam channel
Dang! This is some of the best nerdy stuff I've heard possibly to date! I used to play around with circuits and built a few foot pedals due to not being able to get the tone I was after. That was a while ago and I wish I still had the time. Awesome! Thanks so much!!
Very informative video! I always thought that Brian May preferred germanium transistors in his boosters, but actually he loved silicon ones( which changes quite a bit the mythology about the Dallas Rangemaster)! Thank you!
Pleasure
There is quite a bit of discussion around over the transistor in the clean boost part of the treble booster circuits when to me the key to the tone is how it's shaped by the capacitor (and how the first gain stage in the AC30 clips when it's overloaded). These days the treble boost is before the wireless anyway. Thanks for clarifying those capacitor values where possible.
Was looking for something to watch tonight and this really hit the spot! Thanks a lot :)
The body of the digitech pedal that Nigel Knight converted into a rack mount is currently sitting in my studio!
Awesome... thank you :)
Great video love Brian's tone!
When Pete Cornish builds you a custom board, and it sounds bad, you know you aren't some hipster who buys pedals because they are trendy. You listen with your ears, not your eyes.
great info,luckily saw queen 5 times,and Brians solo during brighton rock in parts nearly deafened me.
That was in depth, and awesome, good video
Thanks Craig
@@TheGuitarShow yea of course, I have seen quite a bit of your videos, you always do a good job and have some quality content
At 15.42 the sticker that says DO NOT USE DURACELL are words of wisdom !
use 777 instead
So concise, thank you for doing this!
Ramon-best searching and investigatation guitar talent on youtube!) thanks again for such rare pictures I ve never seen!
Thank you!
Very comprehensive break down mate cheers.
Thanks very much
Great research and video editing.
Great work, amazing video. Greetings from Mexico!
Muchas Grasias
Thanks Goosy God Bless you x
Thank you
Great in depth geek deep dive! Love it! Thank you!!
Great video as allways. I´m amazed by the detail in wich you describe any device, with specs such as transistor part numbers, cap values and even circuit analisys, nobody in this platform make videos like this. I have an Electronics degree so this video and the ones you describe amps like the history of Beatles amps I watched several time. In that videos you describe every amp naming every valve those amps had. For a valve/ tube nut like me your work is pure gold. Keep up the goood work. Oh and your guitar playing is amazing, I watched a video in witch you demo pickups to obtain Peter Green´s out of phase sound. I click the video for the main subject but keep watching just to see/ hear you play, I bet you are/ were a guirar teacher, your vibrato and technique is great. Cheers (Sorry Engish is not my main language so there may be mistakes I wish weren´t there). I´ll seatch if Is there a video that describes the Vox amp Brina May used, I bet you made one, If not It would be a great Idea.
Thank you much, Ramon.
I clicked on this to learn about all Brian’s effects but being particularly curious about which Zoom multi effects unit he used (knowing it was during *Innuendo).* I had forgotten that they even built one that you cold attach to a guitar strap.
Pleasure my friend. Yes I remember those well - I may get hold of one and do a review of it.
Nicely done. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Adam
You should do a history of Rory Gallagher's amp's and effects
Great idea Rory!
@@TheGuitarShow 😄 to Rory's
@@TheGuitarShow For people in the UK, there is an exhibition currently at Reading Museum - featuring exhibits from the first ever Reading Festival. Star exhibit is Rory Gallagher’s AC30, plus his Dallas Rangemaster, his Telecaster, bottleneck, strap, guitar cable etc etc. By all accounts Rory stole the show at that first festival, and to be able to look at his gear at very close quarters (albeit behind glass) is a wonderful opportunity. You can ever look into the back of his amp and almost smell the tubes! Guitar nerd here!
@@AndyCooper761 Thanks for this Andy
Thank you!
some great photos!
Excellent as always. Thanks so much for your time and research!
Great work. I love this stuff. I’m subscribing so I hope you keep these coming. Thanks.
Many thanks
Thank you so much for sharing this historical data!
Excellent history! I’ve always wondered how he connected to his AC30s. 🔊✨👍
Thanks Brian May is my favourite Guitarist.
Pleasure Will
Good stuff Thanks
Fantastic!!!....great work my brother!!!!
Thank you Larry
Full nerd-out, I feel better now. Thank you.
16:18 don't use Duracell 😄 But why?
I for one have always appreciated Peter.
Saw Queen in 1974. They opened for Mott the Hoople. (Ralphers & Verdon were gone. Replaced by Luke Grosvenor/Ariel Bender & Morgan Fisher. Both very nice guys.) Great concert. Also met Stan Tippins that day. Had no idea who he was, until their Live on Broadway album came out. We were the 2nd stop on that tour, heard Freddy got sick shortly after. I did meet a great friend at that concert, too. Queen were very good, though I didn't know much about them. I still like Keep Yourself Alive. Many many moons ago. Brian is a great guitarist, among those who really never got their due until recently. 1974 was a great year for concerts, in my home town. Believe it or not some cat from Spain or Portugal contacted me on Facebook some years ago, asking if I still had the ticket stub to that concert. It was over 40 yrs ago at that time. When I joined the Navy mom got rid of all my stuff, including a baseball card collection that's worth $thousands now, plus an old Danelectro/Silvertone guitar. Oh well, as John Prine sang, "can't forgive the way they robbed me, of all my childhood souvenirs"(I forgave my mom. Who knew any of that stuff might be worth money?)
I think it was Brian who got sick. The tour in 74 was canceled after May 11th because Brian got Hepatitis and had to go home and into hospital for a good length of time. Just got over that and discovered he had a nasty ulcer that had to be fixed too. 1974 was a rough year for our Brian.
Great report Ramon, thanks.
Thanks for watching
Big, detailed and very interesting work!
Thanks so much.
Brian is one of my favorite guitarists, but this video contains a many details that I didn't know about before.
In the song "Keep Youreself Alive" Brian used a flanger. Has he ever used it at concerts? Or is it Foxx?
That was tape flanging! The edge of the tape is called the flange. You run two identical tapes, side by side, and touch the flange on each tape, very gently, to get that sound. It's especially obvious on the drum tone from Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir'. There are other Queen songs with tape flanging, such as 'Some Day, One Day', etc. They used on vocals too... The pedal was invented to mimic the actual tape flanging sounds.
Great video and history!You post the best researched videos' of 'rock-god' equipment!🥂
Love the Sheer Heart Attack tone 🎸
So if i got this rigth, he only used a rangemaster on the bohemian rhapsody solo recording?
Awesome video mate!
Any idea why the interior of several of Brians boosters had the label "Do Not Use Duracell" ?
Great job on this video 👍
I didn’t understand half of what you said from a tech standpoint, but it was still fascinating!
Awesome info!!
Brian is actually the only member of ZZ Top who DOESN’T have a beard.
Great job, like always. I love these videos - well researched and well presented. Thank you for all of the time you put into these! Brian May is one of my favorite guitar players. Killer player, more melodic than anyone else I can think of.
Pleasure!
wow!! great info!
Awesome
Hell yea! Great overview! V interesting 🤘🏽⭐️🎸
Glad you enjoyed it!
Are the double transistor treble booster a lot more Distorted?
this is the video i was looking for
Pleasure
This is really great work. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Thomas
Do a video on Brian's G major 2 settings.
Thank you, Pete Cornish, for the great tip! I promise I'll never ever use Duracell!
All perfect but the big question is which hfe have bc149 and bc182l ???🤔
Good point Ill check that
Feel like such an idiot: Saw this video and was gonna ask you if you could do a Brian May history of his guitars but then realised it would only be about 5 mins due to just the red special and a couple others😂😂. Great video very informative love the content as always 👌👌👍
That's the next video...Ive bought a book all about it so hopefully it should be interesting.
Don’t be fooled my friend, Brian’s used a lot more guitars than one tends to think. Let’s see if i can list them tho i may miss a few but here it goes:
His main Red Special.
Gibson Les Paul- used as a backup.
Fender Stratocaster- used as a backup and in a Swedish mimed performance of killer queen.
Hairfred acoustic guitar- used in songs such as white queen and jealousy.
A Spanish classical guitar with which he is pictured circa 1966-1967.
John birch Red Special copy- used as a backup and in we will rock you/spread your wings videos.
Greco Red Special copy- used in the good old fashioned lover boy TOTP performance.
Gibson Flying V- used as a backup
Washburn RR-V- used in the princes of the universe video.
Chet Atkins nylon string guitar- used live in is this the world we created.
Red special double neck guitar- used live for under pressure.
Fender telecaster- used for crazy little thing called love.
Satellite Stratocaster- used as a prop for the play the game video
Red special with F hole- used for crazy little thing called love.
Guild 12 string- used for modern love of my life
Ovation 12 string- used for the classic love of my life.
Burns electric 12 string.- used for long away.
Skull guitar- used for the it’s a hard life video, not sure if it was functional tho.
Martin D18- used for ‘39 in Hyde park.
-bonus--
There’s a guitar called Spade which Brian may designed as a possible follow up to his red special built many years later in 2004 by a guy named Andrew Guyton, no idea if Brian ever used it tho.
Also there’s his ukelele/banjo given to him by his father and used in live performances of bring back that Leroy brown.
It would definitely be a cool idea to see a video of all his guitars along with others i may have missed.
@@powertothebauer296 true he did use a Guild as a backup but not for those songs as the Guild didn’t go into production until 1984 and then again in 1993 but yeah you’re correct, the Guild was his backup from the mid 80s and onwards.
@@powertothebauer296 bro the Guild copy didn’t exist in the 70s. Brian did not partner with Guild until 1983 to release them beginning in 1984. He says so himself and its archived information you can look up. That Guitar in Houston wasn’t a Guild, he only had i believe the Yellow Birch model used in the We Will Rock You and Spread Your Wings videos and he also had a Japanese Greco copy used in the Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy top of the pops performance. No guilds in the 70s.
@@powertothebauer296 just looked at the video and what you see is his original red special, not a copy. A couple of things to note, first there is no logo on the headstock. Second, the fretboard is lacquered, which the Guild copy wasn’t. Third- the tremolo system is the authentic Brian May designed system not the Kahler tremolo system that Guild employed for their copies. It is not the Guild model.
At 8:57. The picture of the wah looks more like a Schāller than a jen.
No sorry that’s the Vox phaser?
I own an original Gen wha-wha. I knew it was old but it’s still in use.
awesome!!! thanks a million!!!
just in case you mind, there is an error in the editing at around 2:00 where you repeated a sentence. not that it makes the video any less amazing :)
Thanks - next time I'll make sure it dosnt happen!
I don't think that's an error in editing. I think he just stumbled reading and decided we're all smart enough to understand what he means and that he is human so he just left it that way. That's what I imagine happened there.
No Editing error. He was using Chorus and Delay, and had the signal through the same Speaker. I believe he used the Roadie that lost the Range Master.
@@teriakamoto uh there is, 0.43 and 2.00 are exactly the same lines read, he doesn't mean the chorus part
@@JungiOlympia your thinking of the wrong part
Great video
Thanks
Didn't rory Gallagher use that same treble booster
Yes Brian went to him at a gig and asled what gear he was using - the rest is history!
Brian mays tone is like listening to ringing glass or brass. Beautiful tone.
Yessss, best guitar tone of all!
Nice work, great research too!
Thanks Jonathan
I will say however that I’ve now discovered that all the research came from work done by Simon Bradley and Mark Reynolds including private sourced photos, it might have been nice to ask them first and credit them, neither are happy about this video
@@jonathanplanner3270 I've already put the resources in the description
And no, not all the photos and research came from them. I always use multiple sources.
@@TheGuitarShow The two authors were not asked before hand and you have not listed them, both Simon and Mark are pretty upset about this
Great video! Good work mate! One note however.....the Rangemaster wasn't battery powered, it plugged into a wall socket. A.k.a "hardwired"
I’ll bet the reason the wah was on a wooden block is down to the high heels on the platform boots he was wearing.
I agree Martin! thanks
This Video is Really Interesting.
Thank you
Interesting example of how fragile a balance it can be to try to achieve a specific sound in a live set up.The combination of buffers and simple circuits is a common problem, almost always encountered with Treble Boosters and vintage Fuzz circuits.Wireless systems in particular use buffers that can suck the life out of a signal; also why some guitarists have circuits built into the guitar, to assure not having issues with noise and impedance. I learned most of it through trial and error, the hard way.
Who doesn't love Brian May ? 🎸🎸🎸
Me.
I dont but hes a good guitarist in distortion
@The SNES Man there is so much wrong with what you've said. However let's take Brian out of the equation.
What you've said is the equivalent of "no one on earth should dislike pears."
It's just silly.
Brian May is boring. The most interesting thing about him his he built his guitar, but even then, so what?
Can You Do A Gear History On Prince Please?!
great idea - coming!!!
Excellent video!
Why „ DO NOT USE DURACELL“ ???
Honestly? They're not the product they once were. Can be prone to leaking.
Duracells are alkaline , but the older and cheaper RAYOVAC / panasonic / eveready Zinc Carbon type batteries are claimed to sound better in some pedal ciruits . either way they (carbons) are prefectly acceptable for low current drain applications ie analog circuits but when you get into pedal circuits that use a/d and d/a or digital stuff its a whole different ballgame with higher current drains and one should consider using a power suply or larger battery bank such as a li ion pack on a vreg or buck . alkalkine vs carbon also have diffferent operating temp ranges . the carbons are not as flexible as the alkalines run at more extreme temp ranges . so i guess using a duracell is more expensive , and it is not optimal for the sound quality . so consider this if loading up your pedals , and if you find your self not being sure , look for the pedals current consumption rate , so that is not volts but typically measured in milliamps or mah . the lower drain stuff like wah, fuzz and booster = carbon zincs , digital delay or fancy digital stuff power supply or alkaline , the thing is a lot of the newer digital stuff has very high consumption -such as over 100 mah or 1/10th of an amp up to 250 mah or 1/4th an amp - so in these types of higher current draw circuits even using a "beefyer" alkaline would only last a short time = so choose a power supply or perhaps if you are a wierdo -a battery pack or bank. Battery bank is not as common but some do use it . including myself . you can play in remote areas and its nice n quiet or you never have to worry about RFI ( you dont have hum and noise interferance as much) i have been using battery rig since pre 2010 . and yeah i know that was a lot . there is no emoji to really explain this and if this is too complicated there is always legos for your hobby.
Brian May wrote all the guitar solos in Freddie's Queen songs
I breadboard and build pedals all the time. I spend a lot if time trying new crazy sounds.
But after a few hours I disconnect everything except my Rangemaster 2SA102 (hfe=70) Matsushita clon.
God bless you
Hey man just discovered your channel and I love it, I was wondering if you could do a video on mick mars. If your interested I can give you my email is I can contact you about what gear I know he used
what about the choruses???
So, the “secret” is to not to use duracell?
Question for the community, what is the best clone or alternative to the Rangemaster treble booster.? I am looking at the KAT used by Brian, the Keely Java Boost, K.O.T. Beano,, and a Rangemaster Licensed reissue..all are between $250-$375 US. Appreciate the expertise of the hive here? One of these? Something else?
if you know how to solder, you can save about 230 - 355 USD.. buy a kit somewhere. there's no magic components in there.
Espetacular!
TWO THUMBS UP ! !
Спасибо, очень интересно!
😎🎸
I wonder why they didn't like Duracell batteries
Rory Gallagher got Brian May started on the Rangemaster.