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Brian May’s guitar tech Pete Malandrone reveals that the Queen guitarist has added a mastering EQ to his 2023 live rig to cut out “spurious, horrible RF noise”
In a new rig tour video, Malandrone reveals that he has opened up a new front in war against RF noise with the deployment of the Bettermaker mastering EQ unit
10 famous rock guitar solos and what you can learn from them
From Queen to Cream and Hetfield to Harrison
Freddie Mercury’s Yamaha C2 baby grand piano sells for £1.74m at auction, but Brian May says he “can’t look”
Handwritten Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics fetch £1,370,000
“We might look back on 2023 as the last year when humans really dominated the music scene”: Brian May warns of AI threat to musicians
The Queen guitarist says music is probably the least of our worries when it comes to worst case AI scenarios but voices concern over authorship in a industry transformed by tech
Unlock Josh Homme’s QOTSA tones with the Skeleton Key, the new £99 drive pedal from Funny Little Boxes
Is this the pedalboard solution that Queens Of The Stone Age fans have been waiting for?
Who is the greatest of all time: The Beatles or Queen? Producer Steve Lillywhite has an interesting take
"I would never say anyone is better than The Beatles, but…"
"It was the antithesis of Bohemian Rhapsody and on the same album" – Brian May on the Queen deep cut that doesn't get the love it deserves
"It just sits on an album there, and people who really want to get into Queen are aware of what that was and what it is"
"I don’t think anyone else had ever attempted something like that" – Brian May chooses his best performance from the Queen back catalogue
And it's not Bohemian Rhapsody
Brian May explains how Queen rewrote the guitar recording rulebook when tracking their self-titled debut – but they were not happy with the album's sound
The sessions found an ascendant band learning to make their own rules but May admits too many overdubs and a "dead" studio detracted from his eureka moment for recording guitar harmonies
