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DigiTech Brian May Red Special Pedal (No Longer Available)Item ID: BrianMayPedModeling Guitar Pedal with Seven Classic Brian May Tones 
Sorry, the DigiTech Brian May Red Special Pedal is no longer available. We've left this page up for reference only. Check out the great alternatives on this page or call toll-free (800) 222-4700 to speak with a Sweetwater Sales Engineer about similar products. From Our Research Team:Brian May's Signature Tones Captured in a Pedal!DigiTech is collaborating with Queen guitarist and composer Brian May on a new entry in DigiTech's award-winning Artist Series Pedals. The Brian May Artist Series Pedal is being developed as Queen continues its latest tour. With a musical career spanning three decades, Queen founding member Brian May is a world-renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer and performer. Brian has penned 22 Top 20 hits worldwide, among them We Will Rock You, The Show Must Go On, I Want It All, Fat Bottomed Girls, and powerful ballads including Who Wants To Live Forever, No-One But You, and Save Me. His unmistakable tone has been sought after for years by guitarists around the world.DigiTech Brian May Artist Series Pedal at a Glance:
Seven of Brian May's signature tones, with input from Eddie Kramer Working closely with Brian May and under the watchful eye of legendary recording engineer and producer Eddie Kramer, DigiTech is recreating seven of Brian's classic, signature tones by applying its proprietary technology called Production Modeling. The Brian May Artist Series Pedal furthers DigiTech's philosophy of developing products designed to supply guitarists with the best sounding, most creative tools possible. Brian May Red Special Tones Include:
DigiTech's Production Modeling technology creates ultra-realistic emulations DigiTech employed their Production Modeling technology to ensure absolute accuracy in duplicating Brian's tone. Now guitarists can either use Brian's seven presets to recreate his classic tone, or just use them as a starting point to create their own sound. The Brian May Artist Series Pedal is a very powerful and flexible tone-shaping tool that will rock the world! Reproduces both studio and live sounds, complete with effects The Brian May Artist Series Pedal reproduces the studio and live guitar sounds, including effects and processing, of Brian May. This includes modeling the speaker cabinets, microphones and microphone placements, pre and post effects, and the recording engineer's production magic. Every aspect of the signal chain has been considered and recreated, resulting in completely accurate models of Brian's tones. DigiTech Brian May Artist Series Pedal Features:
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ReviewsVery Intense
by Patrick David from nashville
You will have to own it...to believe it!!!August 1, 2011 Music Background: Producer,Engineer,Artist Plugged a acoustic guitar into it, as an experiment,ran it thru a Pod X3 Pro,into 2 channels for stereo...and poww!!! Sounds like a wall of AC-... read more [+]30's!!! From just an acoustic guitar!! Dead serious.Combination of AC/DC,Queen,Who,all at the same time!!! You have to finite adjust the controls....but once you do....the sounds are endless.You can choose from seven different sounds....which you can adjust,and morph into just about any sound you want. close [-] Great Stuff!
by JakeD226 from Cary, NC USA
This is a simply amazing pedal and I absolutely love it! It manages to recreate all of Brian May's tones with Queen, while still giving you the ability to find your own sound, buy this and you won't b... read more [+]e disappointed with it! close [-]
September 2, 2006 Music Background: Gig Occasionally Killer tones
by Francis Reyes from Manila, Philippines
i'm a professional musician, playing gigs quite regularly with my band The Dawn (the band's been around for 20 years). I'm a Queen fan but was skeptical about this pedal simply because i do believe th... read more [+]at using someone else's tone instead of looking for your own is lame. i tried this pedal in a store and was pretty impressed of course, but i'm not Brian May (nobody but Brian is!). when i started to twist knobs though, i was hooked! the modelled May tones are all there, but you can modify them. when all knobs are set to the center positions, those are the basic modelled tones, and you can pretty much take it from there. i generally use the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' green mode, with more mids and bass, and higher gain and that's pretty much the distortion i've been looking for all my life: high gain and metallic, but warm and honky. and HUGE!!! (the modelling knob i usually set to 1 0'clock; i avoid using it all the way to 'HB' since that will model Brian's sound too much). the nice thing is if you roll back the volume knob on your guitar, it actually cleans up! from there you can get a distorted tone if you strike the strings hard, just like on a good tube amp. the pedal is kinda noisy though... with the settings i use, there's a bit of hiss. i used a footswitch to toggle between modes and programs but the changes aren't fast enough for live performances (there's a momentary silence between changes). i only use one sound from the Red Special live, so that's okay for me. (i run the pedal in front of a Zoom G9, which is where i do the delays, modulations, and a teeny bit of EQ to boost the signal a bit for solos. otherwise, the Zoom is pretty much set flat). January 10, 2008 Music Background: Pro Musician wish there was a way to store your own tones on a separate bank or something. this pedal has excellent basic (well not quite 'basic' but you get the point) tones that you can sculpt enough to get your own sounds (based on Brian's sounds of course). it's my main distortion pedal now, and as Brian (and Digitech) promised in the manual, it does inspire you to make your own tones, and you can. close [-] Sweetwater Advice
Chad ByersThe Guesswork is over! Need good tone with plenty of flexibility? This pedal can do it for you! Stick with the tones Brian came up with or create your own based off of the classic Queen sounds of the past. 
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