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There’s an English lad that does a particularly strong tone on it alright

That's a journey that I've been on for a few years now. I think the best thing is to subscribe and keep watching and I'll be going through as many as I can. It's a mix of things always so at it's core it's the guitar, a good BC149 treble booster, Vox AC30 or Deacy amp, room ambience, recording techniques and sometimes some effects. They're all a little different. Are their particular songs you get stuck on?

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This is my band here: youtube.com/@qweenitsakindaqueen?si=m6cEKwvt5icg4ij0

Depends on your needs. I’d be a lot more confident using it at a Queen tribute gig because the capture I worked on for two days came come with me. For those scenarios it’s well worth the money. I have to check how well it works in mono though as that would make it more appealing by not taking up too many FX loop.

Not just BHM for me: I have a couple Dr Z amps that I'd be using if the venues would let me ;) Tonex might help...

@@DonnyRocker2012 that’s a good call. Those are great. This pedal put with the TMP is perfect for including those amps that might not make an update but have a soul of their own.

That N Channel is a very interesting device and I'm surprised I haven't seen or heard much of it in the wild as it solves a lot of problems. Do you use a stereo amplifier to drive the cab?

@@ThomasBrunkard The n-channel sounds amazing. I do not know why it doesn’t get more attention. I do not have an AC30 to compare but it sounds very similar to your captures (except fuller and more complex harmonics as you might expect from real tubes). I use two Harley Benton GPA100s to drive the stereo cab. Cheap as chips but good quality and very portable.

This is a very good question. Nowadays (and I will update this video soon) I use AmpliTube 5 and it is much better than the version of AmpliTube that has been languishing on the iPad for years now. AmpliTube 5 can run ToneX natively in the chain and ToneX is the core of my live sound and recordings now. When/if @IKmultimedia bring AmpliTube 5 to iPad and it can in something like AUM Mixer (to manage the separate outputs) I'll ditch the computer. iPads are extremely powerful now and more powerful than the Mac in this film was. The software isn't there to match that power just yet.

@@ThomasBrunkard oh right so there isn't amplitube 5 for ipad at the moment? My bad, that would make sense as haven't found demos on UA-cam. I think just amplitube 4. Also what model is the mac mini? I know you said processing speed is more important than ram. Many thanks!

@@JJR3991 This one is a 2018 Intel i7 one. The newer Apple silicone ones are much more efficient and a little lighter. I have the latest one at the moment and I'm running it at 192Khz which seems daft but it helps with all the pitch shifting and has more believable high end up loud to my ears. You could also use a laptop and I'm making a film on how this can be done safely (spoiler - clamshell mode, still using the ipad as the screen). On stage I'm never looking at the screen anymore anyway. My wireless receiver is my tuner now so it's only for when I turn it on or off or if I'm in a difficult venue soundwise (or a festival where I had no soundcheck) and I need to tweak the EQ which is still rare.

Yep the starting is suppose to be slow But still well played

The wig is like wearing a lagging jacket 🤣. The ToneX model and preset are both freely available on Tone.net too. Just needs a real treble booster, a good guitar, hands and ears to work

Brian est Brian, je suis Thomas. Je pense que nous sommes tous les deux d'accord avec ca 🤣

Thanks for checking it out! I was trying to get a Queen II type of vibe out it but it got more recent towards the end for sure!

Thanks for checking it out Mark!

@@ThomasBrunkard finding your tonex captures fantastic for nailing the May tone. You genuinely need to be charging for these to cover the work you've put in. There aren't many captures out there that can articulate the same as yours when you roll back the volume for those clean chimy tones.

@@markjones5150 To be fair, I ran a fundraiser to be pay for that work and it went very well. I might be doing another one to cover a similar project with the Deacy amp but I'd actually like to try out another Vox too.

Yep. And we would never claim to be the real Queen.

It'd be like being driven blindfolded into the Curragh and dropped there in the dead of night alright! I only had it done and I'm already reasonably comfortable with it as there is a logic to it. I have to run six switches for the Queen tribute gig so maybe I get an advantage 🤣 I'd say in most bands there's only a few one would use. Just depends on the material. I haven't gigged it yet but I think I'd probably have just a couple of combinations committed to memory. It really comes into its own for clean tones and if you're a volume knob user. Especially cool for recording.

Yeah. I get you find the sounds that are applicable to that band and stick with them. Impressive range of tones. Fair play. Nobody would ever return from the curragh if they were dropped there. 😮

By the way I think I caught your queen tribute last year at a gig in the museum of modern art. In a kind of marquee setting. Was that you guys?

@@kampalaband that was us. First time using my ToneX set up too

That’s pretty rad. I’ll go investigate!

16:49 Raymon shout out

I never considered the effect of the bolt on versus the set neck. The biggest thing for me was the pickups. I did another film comparing the various options from the production to the hand built. ua-cam.com/video/6pou0wcuItg/v-deo.html The pickups are a bit of a rabbit hole. I'd argue Burns haven't made pickups like his for decades. The brand is mothballed presently but the pickups to the same spec as Brian's can be got from independent manufacturers. See yonderbosk.com for those!

Thanks Mark!

They look like amazing instruments. What’s great about a big investment at the early part of your journey is that it fors put everything back on you to make it work. There’s no blaming gear. It’s all down to practice and study from hear on in and that is a huge strength.

I can’t play strats for this reason and this guitar is actually ok with bends. The scale lenght is much shorter than a strat which really helps. In my latest video about the guitars you can buy and upgrade I used the factory model out of the box and I really struggled with it because of the skinny neck mainly but that’s a me problem I think! 🤣

@@ThomasBrunkard thanks for the reply...does the whole thing go out of tune like a strat if you break a string?

@@tozguitaryep. But here’s the thing. I’ve never broken a string on stage with the KZ. This is a thing with all trem equipped guitars. It’s wjy a good setup and good quality strings are a must. I use Elixirs. I did have one bad mishap where the glue on the nut had dried out and it collapsed on the literal first chord of the gig but I recovered!

@@ThomasBrunkard disaster 😀

@@tozguitar I put up the full story in a Shorts film here. Once I figured out what had gone wrong I was able to fix it very quickly but it was rather terrifying…!

I haven’t got to play one plugged in yet. They are fabulous instruments. Because of the Red Special book and exhaustive analysis from many great minds I think there are lots of guitars that have got really close so it’s becoming easier for people to focus on looking at techniques and music. The big question to me is what one is meant to do when one is fully satisfied they have emulated Brian May. What’s next? The exciting part here is that somebody takes the music and sound somewhere else and new and gives continuity to the whole project

@@ThomasBrunkard good points indeed, Ive pored over the red special book many times, it's a great read. Ive been a Queen fan for 40 years now and I love what you're doing, cheers Thomas, all the best :)

It was totally worth doing. The pickups are fantastic as well. Everything seems possible with it like this. Kills GAS!

It''s quite a big lower bout alright. Wider than a Les Paul. I wanted to get one of those luxurious Gruv Gear cases but alas, she's a Fat Bottomed Girl.

We were just talking about this in that Facebook group I referenced actually. People put the circuitry into all sorts of guitars. The seven string thing would need custom pickups. More often people have put the pickups and switch system into a strat. I reckon you could do something similar with an Ibanez with anwiring schema to turn the blade switch into a greatest hits of Brian May sounds. Once you have the treble booster doing a Vox thing sorted you’ll get there I’m sure. Worth chatting to Matt in Yonderbosk avout all this if you’re minded to do something like that.

Thank you very much! The next one will hopefully help a lot of people unable to run a Vox

Thanks Colin. The summer heat is cooking my brain these days! 🤣

@@ThomasBrunkard Yep no probs Thomas easy done !

Yes! That's exactly correct. An error on my part. Once you get combinations like this into your life your memory gets corrupted!

That sounds like a dream guitar!

Such amazing instruments. Japanese guitars are incredible. This one worked out really well Arlo. I'm still getting lost but it was worth it!

Pretty niche but fascinating stuff

I touched on that actually! He doesn't have one now since the Superpot was put in for the volume. I think he did use it times past (read the dark end of the 1970s!). He was messing around a lot with eBows then and they really need you to be able to dim the guitar. Ordinarily I'd leave the tone control fully bright but on stage I turn it all down for a cello part I play with feedback over the outro of Don't Stop Me Now. I couldn't live without the tone control myself.

Lots of folks. shop.brianmayguitars.co.uk/bmg-artists.html