I want to break free solo efect

  • HI everyone!!!


    I mainly use the Kemper for the amps profile for live performance and just use Delay, some reverb and tremolo......so i´m really into effects.....i wonder if someway we can achieve with the kemper, the effect that Brian May use for the I want to break free solo!!!!

    And if we can, how??


    Thanks a lot!!!

  • Synth solo played by Fred Mandel who toured with Queen. May double tracked the solo on guitar too.


    Somewhere out there is a Kemper profile that mimics Pat Metheny's GR300 synth. Has kind of a similar tone to the Queen song

    if you add a cocked wah pedal to it.

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  • I've got this effect - I use it when we play it live. Can't remember the settings exactly, but I'm happy to post the details once I get home on Friday.


    This is an old patch I made on the AX8 - I think the Kemper one is better:

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  • AFAIK you can reproduce the touch-wah-style filter action the synth patch uses, as Farley demonstrated, but in my very HO the underlying tone is quintessentially a synth one and I doubt it could be reproduced without the appropriate engine in the KPA.


    Still going by distant (decades-old) memory here, but I remember the tone, and I know synths way better than I know guitar.


    If, as Don says, Brian double-tracked his guitar over Fred's synth part, it must've been mixed fairly-low IMHO 'cause the synth tone is dominant.

  • It's a Jupiter 8, if I'm not mistaken. Even Mr May himself doesn't really cut it tone or style-wise here:

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