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Bohemian rhapsody amp settings — M-VAVE Cube Baby

The Queen guitar tone for “Bohemian rhapsody”, dialed in for a M-VAVE Cube Baby with a Fender Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster. Studio version, A Night at the Opera (1975) — rock solo section after the operatic middle

Original rig

Brian May Red Special (homemade, 3 single-coils wired in series/parallel/phase combinations) → Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster → Vox AC30 Top Boost channel. Played with a sixpence coin for pick attack.

Bright, singing lead tone with creamy overdrive, rich upper harmonics, and orchestral layered character

Amp settings — M-VAVE Cube Baby

CHANNELAC30 amp modelBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01M-VAVE Cube Baby (internal Treble Booster block)

Enable the treble booster or clean boost effect in the Cube Baby's effects section to push the AC30 model into singing overdrive — this is essential to May's tone

Drive/Boost 4 · Tone 7 · Level 6

Why these settings

The Cube Baby's AC30 model gets you close to May's Vox chime. Your Strat's neck+middle position approximates the out-of-phase harmonic character May used on the solo (his Red Special's fingerboard+middle in series out-of-phase). The Cube Baby lacks a physical presence knob so that's null. Treble stays high to capture the bright singing quality; bass stays restrained to avoid mud.

PRO TIPMay used a sixpence coin as a pick for that distinctive attack and harmonic content — try a metal pick or the edge of a quarter to get closer to that stiff, bright pick response on the solo bends.

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