Red Special
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 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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