A Night at the Opera Guitar Theatre — Clean Undercurrent, Main Solo & Heavy Riff
Brian May used the Red Special’s unusually broad pickup palette across the track, including a neck-and-middle in-phase clean texture under the piano, an out-of-phase neck-and-middle main solo, and changing pickup combinations in the hard-rock section. The fundamental chain was treble booster into a cranked Vox AC30, but exact knob positions were not published, so the settings below are representative. Source: Guitar World’s Brian May Bohemian Rhapsody interview (2021) and Red Special tone guide (2020).
Real AmpE Standard
