Brian May Guitars

Red Special

Elektrik· Brian May handmade icon — three Tri-Sonics in series

Brian May Guitars BMG Red Special — the modern production of the homemade guitar Brian May built with his father in 1963 from old fireplace wood. Three Burns Tri-Sonic single-coils wired in series with individual on/off + phase switches per pickup, 24-fret neck with zero fret, ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl dots, and a unique knife-edge tremolo. The series-wired pickups stack output for the trademark Queen orchestral guitar tone — May famously plays through Vox AC30s with a sixpence coin instead of a pick.

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GHS

Boomers

10–46 · $5.49

GHS Boomers 10-46 on Red Special — same brand David Gilmour uses on his Strat, applied to the Red Special. Slightly compressed midrange and rounder bottom-end than Slinkys make Boomers a strong alternative when running the Red Special into Big Muff fuzz à la Queen's heavier orchestral guitar passages.

Ernie Ball Paradigm 10-46 on Red Special — coated long-life option for stage gigging Red Special owners who can't restring before every show like Brian May's tech does.

The Paradigm coating preserves the Tri-Sonic harmonic complexity for 8-12 weeks of nightly play.

The default Red Special spec — Brian May has used 9-42 for his entire career, and Super Slinky is the universal 9-42 anchor every Red Special player starts with before deciding whether the Optima Gold premium is worth 4x the price.

D'Addario XL 10-46 on Red Special — for players who want slightly more tension than May's signature 9-42, especially when running the trademark 24-fret series-wired Tri-Sonic configuration through Vox AC30 cleans where 10s give the Brit-rock crunch a meatier midrange than the lighter signature gauge.

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Optima

24K Gold Brian May Signature 2028 BM

9–42 · $32.99

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Optima 24K Gold BM Signature di Brian May Guitars BMG Red Special adalah satu-satunya set senar yang Brian May sendiri kolaborasikan untuk desain dengan Optima dari Markneukirchen, Jerman. Toko resmi Brian May Guitars menjelaskan kemitraannya: BM Signature "specially developed with and for Brian May" — senar plain baja berlapis nikel dilapisi emas 24K, tahan terhadap perubahan warna, bertahan 3x lebih lama dari senar biasa. Brian May saat ini memakai Optima Gold 9-42 di Red Special-nya.

Kebijaksanaan konvensional: setiap replika Red Special memakai Ernie Ball atau D'Addario 9-42 standar — pendekatan 'apa pun yang murah' untuk pemain tribute. Logika mismatch: lapisan emas memberikan persis top-end memotong dan kekebalan korosi yang Brian May butuhkan dalam tur 50+ tahun di gig stadion lembap — dan midrange yang sedikit terkompresi dari nikel berlapis emas berpasangan unik dengan tiga pickup Burns Tri-Sonic Red Special yang dirangkai seri, tone gitar orkestra trademark Queen.

Paling cocok untuk pemilik BMG Red Special serius yang mengejar tone otentik era Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody' / 'We Will Rock You'; lewati kalau kamu tidak punya Red Special atau tidak akan menoleransi harga ritel 4x set 9-42 standar.

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