The 12/6 doubleneck
Sometime during the mid 'noughts', after a brief conversation with Pete Malandrone, I designed a double necked version of the famed Red Special. After a few emails backwards and forwards with Brian, a design was finalised and construction cautiously began. Before the build was finished, I got my head together with my good friend Nigel Knight of Knight Audio Technologies, he suggested a new electronic layout, a volume for each neck rather than the normal volume and tone arrangement, and a row of small toggle switches to control the pickup on/off and phase reversal of the 12 string pickups. The instrument was finally finished during the summer of 2011 in time for the short Queen tour with vocalist Adam Lambert.
Sometime during the mid 'noughts', after a brief conversation with Pete Malandrone, I designed a double necked version of the famed Red Special. After a few emails backwards and forwards with Brian, a design was finalised and construction cautiously began. Before the build was finished, I got my head together with my good friend Nigel Knight of Knight Audio Technologies, he suggested a new electronic layout, a volume for each neck rather than the normal volume and tone arrangement, and a row of small toggle switches to control the pickup on/off and phase reversal of the 12 string pickups. The instrument was finally finished during the summer of 2011 in time for the short Queen tour with vocalist Adam Lambert.