Brian May's Red Special Wiring Diagram

Brian May's Red Special has got some great futures as a 3-pickup guitar. All p-up configurations are possible, you can reverse the phase of every coil, and there is also a classic volume+tone control. It means a lot of cool tones to reach. All of them can be useful, there's no mambo-jumbo waste of space.

The original May's RS guitar wiring was made from quite „vintage” parts. Fortunately, today you can also build something similar, with modern electronics.

This is my Red Special wiring diagram:

The Brian May's Guitar Wiring Modification

The Red Special (May's guitar) is a great example of completely custom made guitar with an original design and wiring. My favourite thing in this wiring is a separate control for every pickup. You can find some schematic of this thing easily, by searching online. Here, I would like to present my modification of the Brian May's wiring: