GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! This preset (and others) is finally available for download via the New Vintage Audio website! If you're a Helix user you can get your hands on it now! 👍 www.newvintageaudio.com/store/.b/toby-pearson
@Silkaz7
4 ай бұрын
This might be a bit of an odd question, but how tall are you? Plan on getting one of these as a gift but have no reference in terms of the size of the guitar, Don't know if it's too big or too small. thanks.
@tobypearson7622
4 ай бұрын
@@Silkaz7 no worries! I'm 5'11" 🙂
@priestfan81
3 жыл бұрын
I hate to bring the tone down (pun intended) but how the fuck does this guy only have 800 and odd subscribers. I know a lot about Brian May and his rig, but this video nailed everything and this guys playing is absolutely spot on. Wish I could like the video twice.
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
So very kind, thank you! More videos to come soon... 😁
@AtlasFighter
2 жыл бұрын
Man that intro solo sounds EXACTLY like the one on the original song this is amazing
@aniquinstark4347
3 жыл бұрын
A Red Special replica from Brian's company is on my holy grail list. It's such a unique and beautiful guitar. Nothing else sound like it.
@forrestp33
2 жыл бұрын
This is the best Brian May guitar explainer video on KZitem. It was fun and I understand his effects strategy much better now. It must be so much easier to do them electronically than with the old analog setups.
@DJBuglip
2 жыл бұрын
Nice! Your Bohemian Rhapsody solo was perfect.
@frandavilacardenes
2 жыл бұрын
The best non Brian May approach in every sense to a Brian May tone. Congrats.
@greggalletta8679
3 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing what Brian May has been able to accomplish with a home made guitar! I have a signed BMG Red Special and it is awesome.
@Glicksman1
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes, as here, home made is better than factory made. Custom shop and Masterbuilt guitars are like home made guitars. All of the electronics, tuners, etc. were factory parts. I have an old Burns Red Special with Brian's signature on it. It's great and very versatile guitar. You can play more than Queen on it, you know.
@Xander1Sheridan
Жыл бұрын
His father was an electrical engineer who absolutely loved building all sorts of things. That type of education and knowledge really made it amazing.
@donald-parker
3 жыл бұрын
Great playing. Isn't that just the most fun music to do ever? I was in a Queen cover show last year (more or less the movie soundtrack plus 6 or so other tunes). It was challenging material to learn for sure. No coasting there! Even on "regular" songs. Lots of timing changes, key changes, arrangement changes ... not like your normal boring pop song where you pretty much know it all after you have heard the first verse and chorus. But SO MUCH FUN to play! I can see it in your face - the same feeling I had. You apologize for the "guitar face" but I feel it would be almost physically impossible not to do that (or that triumphant right hand in the air after a big chord). The music just moves you. I fear we may have seen the end of the big live shows. Dr. Bri has put on a brave face after his medical problems, but that triple stent surgery is serious business. A good friend of mine suffered the same problem and surgery, and while it saved his life, his life was changed for good. But the music is timeless and will be with us forever.
@shaunion1279
Жыл бұрын
Bloody brilliant!❤
@ChristopherJanisch-cc5nc
Жыл бұрын
Excellent rundown Toby! Not only do you clearly cover just how Brian uses the Red Special in the context of the songs, but you can also PLAY! And you play very well. There are demo video's of guys (I won't mention names) where they are demoing gear but they don't have the chops (or any chops for that matter) to do justice to the gear they are attempting to review. So hats off to you sir for a spot on clip.! I'm a subscriber!
@heggy_fpv
Жыл бұрын
Very detailed, thank you
@mr.jogger8346
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant, Toby. Congrats for the splendid viedo from Spain!
@russellkane9439
2 жыл бұрын
You are great... hugs from Italy
@GeneralGuitFiddle
3 жыл бұрын
This guy fuckin NAILS the tone.
@GeneralGuitFiddle
3 жыл бұрын
The live tone at least, the chorus-y 3 AC30 tone.. the only time I ever heard the 70s tone proper was Brian May or this old site (forget the site) where a guy made his own Red Special. But yeah, much MUCH respect to Toby here he gets the "hands" part here absolutely right which is 9/10ths of it.
@GeneralGuitFiddle
3 жыл бұрын
The I Want It All was really good m8, faces and all
@yurkshirelad
3 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@rowanlyle
Жыл бұрын
Impressive Toby! 🙌
@curtis_chip
2 жыл бұрын
i’m impressed
@Shred_The_Weapon
Жыл бұрын
This is definitely a good walk-through of how Brian shaped his tone, as well as how it could be approximated using something like Line 6 Helix. I would imagine it could be done also with a slender edition of the Helix family, Firehawk, if ]a given musician] had one in [their] possession. Ever since the middle part of 2018, just before the film adaptation of Bohemian Rhapsody hit the cinema, I have been going around in circles about getting a Red Special of my own. I even went so far as to have a Stratocaster assembled for me out of discarded parts and equipped with a scratch plate that included similar pick ups to the ones that are in the original red special and Brian‘s version of switching. It wasn’t about what almost everybody else has been after, trying to duplicate what Brian does. It was about the pallet of total options one would have with the switching. I’m now winning as of this comment closer to getting an actual red special, even if it is not in that same red finish. It would not be with the purpose of emulating the sound of Queen tracks; it would be for a purpose that almost no one seems to think of, just playing music in general with it.
@chrisjamesr77
3 жыл бұрын
OMG your playing is ON POINT!
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much! 🙂
@mr.jamalot3016
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for those deep insights into the tone 👍
@ricardorodrigues4277
2 жыл бұрын
Great tones guy!
@horstspreu6946
3 жыл бұрын
Yes... I found another crazy talented guitar underdog doing great stuff. Love it to call me one of their first subscribers when they go big in the future
Жыл бұрын
Amazing job there! Well done!
@marrrtin
3 жыл бұрын
Talent!
@tangledtacklefishing
2 жыл бұрын
B.M. isn't easy to replicate and you showed him some great respect with some great playing.
@slates1969
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, playing and as far as I'm concerned you nailed Brian's tone exactly 👍👍
@stewartluscott-evans2216
Жыл бұрын
Epic video. Brilliant.
@ivandiaz5551
Жыл бұрын
GREAT JOB!!!
@PaulXT
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! I don’t comment on videos all that often but this was superb. Keep up the fantastic work 👌
@DoobTube71
2 жыл бұрын
great tone vid and playing! thx.
@jsolidd713
2 жыл бұрын
I only even came for the Borhap solo tone but this video is incredibly in-depth and well made! Thank you for taking the time to make this and I am definitely saving it for future reference!
@aapddd
3 жыл бұрын
This is spot on ! The best on KZitem. And that with just the Helix. Subscribed man !
@manuelfernandez2547
3 жыл бұрын
Great video and phenomenal playing!
@ffs_auggie
3 жыл бұрын
You got his mid-80-now setup, for the 70s replace the chorus with the fox phaser. That's how he got that metal-sounding(not the genre) sound. It's a six-stage phaser with a wah sort of sound, if you listen to white queen or don't stop me now you can hear it.
@jerzygawor958
2 жыл бұрын
Superb video - thanks for sharing.
@espenl6622
3 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@jackloganbill605
2 жыл бұрын
OMG, you rock!!!! Fantastic video, thanks!!!!!!
@thetenmours6542
4 жыл бұрын
Brian would be proud! Love this video and the guitar playing is magic, now I want the guitar! ;-)
@imatyangel
2 жыл бұрын
Great video, brilliant playing!!!!
@TomasJaworsky
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Great video and your sound is very close to Brian. Amazing playing, well done work! 🎸🔥
@AntoineDuez
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing job dude! Nice playing 🔥🔥
@widmer64
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome material Toby! Care to do Blackmore? Maybe "Lazy"?
@ben1ben
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing Video. This definitely needs more Views
@aniquinstark4347
3 жыл бұрын
I think the 24 inch scale and light string gauge is a large part of why the original Red Special has never needed a refret. It was setup to play like butter from the very beginning so he's never really had to dig in.
@castleanthrax1833
3 жыл бұрын
Very impressed with your skills. Well done.
@marcogentile4022
3 жыл бұрын
Man fantastic job, super professional!!
@matteotambussi
3 жыл бұрын
at last someone with the right picking! good job Toby!
@Iceman-xx1kh
3 жыл бұрын
Nice vid buddy. Brian is class!! Not bad yourself 👍
@Randyvanbag
3 жыл бұрын
You've done it again! You've totally nailed the guitar sound. The guitar faces... Maybe not so much?! 😂😂👍
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
I can only apologise... Absolutely outrageous! 😂
@StayHomeEatGreat
2 жыл бұрын
Love this video! Excellent tips and superb playing!!! Thanks!
@GuitaristInProgress
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the interesting demo, you definitely get very close. Some impressive playing, too. One suggestion, as with the chorus demo section, click the effect on and off a few times WITHOUT backing tracks, before the backing tracks come on. It's much harder to pick out the effect of a chorus underneath the rest of Queen.
@evilblumonkee959
3 жыл бұрын
All you need for Dr Bri’s god-like tone are:- HIS Red spesh, a treble booster (guitar into booster then amp!!), a Vox AC30 amp and HIS fingers!!! He’ll sound like him on any guitar!!
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Fingers do trump all other tone components - no doubt! 👍
@royparratt9843
3 жыл бұрын
You forgot his hair. that is the secret to his power
@silviopimentel7247
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing 👏 how u show how it works with the full band! But not necessarily on its own! Tone smart by all means. 💯
@neilrobinson7615
3 жыл бұрын
Great video, subbed! I'm surprised I haven't come across your channel before.
@robertodepetro1996
Жыл бұрын
Great video editing skills! Very competent guitarist.
@bobyk87
2 жыл бұрын
Good musical taste, great work!
@LegendsofBass
3 жыл бұрын
Hey man great work and great playing. You deserve way more subs. They will come! Just subbed myself.
@GusBounas
3 жыл бұрын
This is incredibly helpful. Thank you.
@theonlyredspecial
3 жыл бұрын
Well done mate ! Glad KZitem popped your channel up for me today !! He liked to play sometimes with the serrated edges of the coins for more attack on some tracks but he seems to use it less now and appears to use his fingers a lot. Shame he didn’t create more solo albums with other singers over the years. You got the Tones right a lot of the time with a different setup. Good anaylsis. Hard to do !
@Xander1Sheridan
Жыл бұрын
He didn't need other singers. He sings great himself.
@ArabBloodstockCom
3 жыл бұрын
You are a Amazing guitar player, it's kind of a drag for me knowing I probably will never play as well as you, but congratulations to you on you skill , also I enjoyed your video very much!!!
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Well first of all, thanks very much for the kind words! It's because of things like that I continue to play and hone the skills I have acquired over years of playing. Secondly, I may not know the circumstances of your life, how old you are, where you live, what you do for a living, but I can tell you that with enough practice and determination, anyone could play guitar just as well as me - if not better! Be patient, give yourself time, and you will see great changes happen in the end, believe me! BTW, it's taken me around 11 years of practice to play the way I do now. Ask any of the great guitar players out there (I don't really count myself among them!), they'd all have similar stories... If you want it enough, it will happen in the end. 🙂 Thanks for watching/subscribing! 👍
@vikrant909
3 жыл бұрын
Love this. A tiny thing tho ; it seems to the ear that Brian May always was a tiny bit ahead of the beat on the fast shreddy parts of the solo. That might make it sound more closer to the original , that tiny bit of syncopation that hits hard
@tonyvoxu2
3 жыл бұрын
Great performance video.
@Mike-gi7tc
5 ай бұрын
Did great with these tones man
@JammyGit
3 жыл бұрын
Great job mate 👍 I think we should take a minute to realise just how much of a fantastic job Line 6 have, and continue to, do with their HX gear. I've got the HX Stomp myself and the quality of their amp & effects modelling is getting to the point where you can hardly tell the difference between real amps & pedals and what Line 6 give guitarists. If I was brave enough I'd sell all my amps & pedals but I don't think I can right at the moment.....one day I probably will 😆
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
I know the feeling! I still have most of my old gear... 😂 Thanks for watching! 🙂👍
@ByronWarfield
Ай бұрын
Your chops are filthy, shew! 🤘
@marcogman8905
3 жыл бұрын
Great video and explanation of Mr. May's sound. Excellent playing as well. Lastly, your accent (to someone in the USA) is reminiscent of George Harrison. Keep up the great work.
@romu7999
3 жыл бұрын
Congrats you nailed it man.
@supportingsmallyoutubers4300
3 жыл бұрын
Good video man
@elimarsilvanikock7818
3 жыл бұрын
amazing playing
@susannafinch5910
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing! 🔥🔥🔥Thanks for making. Great guitar playing, video was educational and fun. Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮
@JackolynSparrow
3 жыл бұрын
God -- this was fucking incredible! I'm a huge Brian May enthusiast, but I know next to nothing about the nuances of the technical side of things (despite my best efforts ... I'm an artist, not a musician!!) It always floors me just how much innovation he brought to the scene -- his sound really is something else and you captured it extremely well -- and explained it wonderfully! I have a BMG myself, but I'm such a beginner I won't even pretend to know what I'm doing -- I'll leave that to the professionals! Thank you for this!! Your covers absolutely kicked ass, and I loved seeing how much fun you were having with them!
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for your wonderful comments, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
BTW, I've now seen your artwork on Instagram, it's fantastic!
@retorgere3718
3 жыл бұрын
Such a great video. Keep going brother . Great technique, great ear that catching the exact tone . Thanks a lot
@grahamlyell6774
3 жыл бұрын
great - you obviously know your stuff and put a lot of time to learn and analyse this. I like that it's a "band " mix too. I'm looking to get the best tone in my Helix for One Vision - any thoughts? Thanks and well done with this video
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind words! As far as doing a 'one vision' type tone... My guess would be to have a bit of a darker version of the tone I have (less treble/presence perhaps?) and then (just a guess) a phaser or flanger of some sort? Set the modulation rate quite slow to get that 'jet engine' sound as I like to call it! 😂
@momogris6159
3 жыл бұрын
Great great explanation and very informative. Very good playing as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@pedrodelpozonieto7426
Жыл бұрын
Es realmente un muy buen análisis del sonido Brian May! Muchas gracias!
@oneil2273
3 жыл бұрын
Excelent! Grettings from Argentina
@rabokel
2 жыл бұрын
i love the octave up sound in the upper range. Amazing that it is achieved by the pickups being out of phase. Any old fart like me probably remembers that adding out of phase switches was all the rage in guitar magazines of the late seventies but ever since then it kind of disappeared completely.
@nickola3702
3 жыл бұрын
You channel is amazing 🔥🔥🤯
@67er_matze97
3 жыл бұрын
wow my friend ! guitar tone + playing in this video were absolutely stellar imo !! 👍
@manifestgtr
Жыл бұрын
One aspect of Brian’s sound that I think people overlook is his guitar’s remarkably short scale length. I fully realized the power of scale length when messing with a student’s mini Strat back in the day. Compared to my full sized Strat, it had this extra weight…noticed it on ANOTHER student’s mini Strat and that’s when it hit me. Shorter scale lengths tend to coincide with added heft in the low mids, etc…which is a place where Brian’s tone is at its most sublime. Short scale length with single coils will get you in the ballpark almost immediately.
@andrewmcarthur3843
Жыл бұрын
Good point. A lot easier to bend too
@dannywhittle4245
2 жыл бұрын
Jeez mate your really good 👍 interesting video and you got my sub 👌 keep up the good work 👍
@antonbabinski8634
3 жыл бұрын
You should have far more subscribers! Excellent content, Cheers from Belgium!
@1984bluesboy1984
3 жыл бұрын
What a great video. Thank you man!
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed! :)
@johnkearney6835
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a brilliant video. And for some great playing. From your facial expressions I feel that you might have enjoyed playing those great tunes, almost as much as I enjoyed listening to you. Well done.
@zapp442
3 жыл бұрын
Very good video. Thanks a lot! Can’t wait till I finish building my own RS.
@spivvo
2 жыл бұрын
Detune effect even better than chorus…. Same principle. Awsome playing!
@tobypearson7622
2 жыл бұрын
I have another video which mentions this! Great point! 👍 kzitem.info/news/bejne/smqrypWPapWog4I
@spivvo
2 жыл бұрын
@@tobypearson7622 that’s possubly where I learned it :)
@chris-ig2hw
3 жыл бұрын
What a great video, thanks
@ReneAlexisPenalozaMunoz
2 жыл бұрын
Great video and yes, you are honest.
@FretFriendGWaL
3 жыл бұрын
Nailed! :D
@Bsquared1972
3 жыл бұрын
Very, VERY well done. I still kick myself for never getting one of these guitars. :)
@DukeEnlil
3 жыл бұрын
during the early Queen days, around their first record, Brian played 12-?(dont remember the low ones) gauge strings
@corneliuiftode1317
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thx!
@LateMisterEd
3 жыл бұрын
Great detail and playing, you deserve more subscribers for the effort you are clearly putting in.
@EvilDragon666
Жыл бұрын
I don't think that dive bomb was unnecessary. It was fucking cool and appropriate!
@TylrVncnt
2 жыл бұрын
Where do you get these badass stems to jam with?? Or are you even using stems...?!? I have to know! 😂👍 Btw bang up video mate, super well researched and out together. Nice fuckn playing too dude! So sickkk Cheers
@tobypearson7622
2 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks a lot mate! The backing tracks were found on KZitem actually, and I've linked them in the description, so feel free to look them up and jam to them yourself! They basically have all the original audio minus the main guitar parts. 👍
@DannySapko
3 жыл бұрын
Great video, very helpful! Do you have a slight bit of Yorkshire in your accent?
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks for watching! Indeed I do - I'm from the Yorkshire dales!
@DannySapko
3 жыл бұрын
@@tobypearson7622 Cool! Whereabouts? I'm in Saltaire, West Yorkshire. I'm working on a John Deacon bass line compilation and this was very helpful for the guitar parts!
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
I'm in the dales right now, but I was based in Leeds prior to the pandemic, hope to be again soon! I played Saltaire a few times actually! What used to be one of the 'Hop' bars and then it turned into a 'SALT' brewery or something? 🤔 Anyway, fun gigs!
@sachamoule
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Very understable English for a French like me... thumbed up and subscribed!
@juancarlosprevostzarate7077
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Sir... excellent analysis.. excellent playing!! Have you tried Amplitube also?
@tobypearson7622
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much! And no, I haven't tried amplitube but I've heard good things about it! 👍
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