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Riff Tone

Love Of My Life

Queen

Guitarrock1970s

Original Gear

GuitarHomemade Brian May Red Special
AmpVox AC30 (Normal Channel, cranked, studio version)

Amp Settings

gain0
bass6

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Effects & Signal Chain

Notes

Studio recording, 1975, A Night At The Opera album. The riff/clean section is played on the Red Special through a Vox AC30 with a treble booster. No evidence of acoustic guitar on the studio riff section; acoustic is used live. Effects chain includes a treble booster and possibly light chorus or phaser, but no heavy modulation or delay. All sources confirm Red Special and AC30 for the studio version.

Tone Character(10)
clean and bell-likewarm and smoothstring-like sustainarticulate and cleargentle attackorchestral, layered feelslightly bright top endsubtle chimeno audible distortiontouch-sensitive dynamics

Difficulty

The riff requires intermediate-level fingerstyle playing, dynamic control, and clean chord transitions to achieve the orchestral, sustaining tone of the original recording.

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