Queen – The Miracle album cover

Queen – The Miracle

Album 1989

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1989 album The Miracle.

Music from The Miracle

Gear Used On The Miracle

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Queen – The Miracle (1989). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Freddie Mercury on The Miracle

Synthesizers

Yamaha DX7

Avg price: $209.50

Freddie Mercury used the Yamaha DX7 during the recording sessions for Queen's album A Kind of Magic and potentially The Miracle. Many stock DX7 presets, such as Syn-Orch, E-Piano-1, and Tubular Bells, can be heard throughout the album, as evidenced by the image provided on Equipboard.

Guitars used by Brian May on The Miracle

Semi-Hollowbody Electric Guitars

Brian May's Red Special

Avg price: $899.99

As evidenced by this photo from a 2017 performance at London's O2 Arena (courtesy Wikipedia), and per this article from Guitariego, dated March 19, 2020.

Though there have been many replicas and reproduction made over the years, original Red Special, the actual guitar he built from scratch with his father when Brian was just a teenager, is still Brian's main guitar.

This is one of the few homemade guitars famous enough to have it's own Wikipedia page.

Bass Guitars used by John Deacon on The Miracle

Electric Basses

Fender Precision Bass Elite

Avg price: $1,549.00

John Deacon can be seen here with his Fender Precison Bass Elite I. He used on songs such as One Vision and I Want it All.