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Brian famously plays his own homemade Red Special guitar, which has three single-coil pickups that can be used in a multitude of combinations. Add to this the Vox AC30 amp and the Treble Booster pedal to add gain, and you have the core of Brian’s sound. For straight‑ahead rock songs like this, Brian typically used the middle and bridge pickups in an ‘in phase’ position. For our track, we used a Brian May Guitars Red Special through IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube Brian May plugin. We selected the “Now I’m Here” preset and off we went, picking with an old English sixpence for that Brian style metallic pick attack.