What is that typical Queen solo sound? LIke during "we will rock you" Its got this up-octave type thing going. I hate to ask this question as im sure everyone else has.sorry and thanks.- btw- i know it cant just be distortion and brian may treble boost.
1. Guitar with REALLY complicated wiring
2. Some kind of treble boost
3. Crappy little homemade amp with a 6z9 car stereo speaker
4. God knows what else . . . apparently for live performances he had something like 30 Vox AC-30s stacked up behind him with custom wiring to enhance the sound
www.brianmaycentral.com has a ton of info
see here, too: http://www.treblebooster.com/brian_may_treble_booster.htm
There's a cottage industry built around reproducing his sound . . .
For the millionth time, I'm fed up of answering this one...sorry only joking!
I think the octave up thing with Brian May is more likely to be one of his typical multi-tracked solos rather than a given effect as such although I'm sure you could come respectably close with an Octave up effect (good enough for live use for example)
Ya may wanna take a look at this if you haven't already:
http://www.runoffgroove.com/mayqueen.html
As for the end of WE WILL ROCK YOU...
I think he was playin his A cord up on the 14th fret...a *real* octave!
its a lot of compression. I hate to say it, but that was one sound that the cyber twin actually does really well. Obviously, trebble boost too.
I'm pretty sure there's no octave up on we will rock you. It's pretty much: guitar, middle+bridge in series (similar to bridge HB) --> treble booster --> AC30 normal channel.
The octave up thing you're problably referring to is just the A/D progression played an octave higher (14th fret).