For lead sounds, he often uses an out-of-phase setting, which cuts the lower frequencies and gives a much harsher 'screaming' sound. He mainly uses this setting for rhythm work. Brian's main guitar tone uses the bridge and middle pickups together in phase, which gives a very warm rich sound, similar to that of a humbucker. The pickups on Brian's Red Special are wired in series, with phase change switches, which allow a very wide range of tones.
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If you want to try this setup at home, you should be aware that the AC30 is a vintage-style amp with no master volume control, so you will only get those classic sounds with everything up full (i.e. He has the amps turned up full and uses the volume control on his guitar to control the sound. There's tons of documentation out there as to what brian may used on different recordings, especially rhapsody.īrian has his guitar plugged into the 'Normal' channel on the AC30s and has the treble booster turned up to just below the point where it goes into feedback. In fact, probably the only thing that would be considered an effect, is the way he uses the side of a sixpence as a pick. These things are super important, the OP said his guitar tone was lacking something and I deduced it was the harmonic distortion or the 2nd and 3rd harmonics that would be gleened from a particular signal path. Also I looked up when AC Vox went to a solid state amp and it would seem the early 70's so it's quite possible that May was using a solid state. It's called the british sound and was used by The Beatles first (tubes), then Queen and then a number of Brit Pop bands in the 90's oh and I think Paul Weller. There really are no effects on his guitar.Īctually the microphone May used and the pre-amp and the desk is very important to the sound of Mays solo.
The key is the guitar, the Deacy, the Vox AC30, and a treble booster. The mic, is really irrelevent to may's sound. That vox he's using is DEFINTELY NOT A SOLID STATE AMP. And you can hear that hard scraping attack quite a lot that you would only get with something like that. He had phase switches for each pickup on that guitar I think, so he could get various in and out of phase settings and often use out of phase on the middle and kneck pickup for leads, for that fat, screaming sort of tone, with the treble boost often to drive the AC-30 even harder and to get more top end.Ī dime might do well enough for a pick that would provide similar effect. You can buy a repro of the guitar and treble booster, if you really want to go there. You can hear the huge hum in the example videos above.Ĥ. He used a six pence I guess it was, for a pick, which has a serrated edge and is quite small and of course very stiff, so he would have been picking very close to the strings with a serated metal pick, which is going to sound nothing like a plastic pick.ģ. Custom made guitar, with pickups that were popular in the 50s with British Invasion and Surf type bands often, nothing like modern ones.Ģ. In one of the 'Under Review' documentaries, they go into his setup a fair bit.
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