Billy Corgan has been on the scene with The Smashing Pumpkins for a long time and also some other interesting side projects like Zwan. In this article we take a look at what our guitar hero uses for guitar gear and equipment. Let's take a look at what gear and equipment has been seen in Billy Corgan's Guitar Rig!
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Guitars
Note: Billy has played many guitars. Here is a good sampling of them.
- Reverend Billy Corgan Signature Electric Guitar
- Fender Billy Corgan signature Strat - this guitar has Dimarzio pickups. Don't be fooled - they look like Lace Sensors.
- Fender Mustang electric guitars
- Fender '57 reissue Stratocaster
- '74 Fender Stratocaster
- '72 Gibson ES-335
- Gibson Les Paul Special
- Gibson SG Special
- Gibson SG Standard
- Gibson Flying V
- Fender Eric Clapton Signature Strat with Lace Sensor pickups (used on Siamese Dream)
- Ovation 12-string Elite acoustic (black) and Ovation Standard Balladeer
- Epiphone G-400 SG (with EMGs)
- Gibson Dove Acoustic
- 1947 C.F. Martin 00-28G Acoustic Guitar (recording of "To Sheila")
- Taylor 610ce and 810ce acoustics
- Gibson Tony Iommi signature SG
- Schecter C-1 EX baritone (Gibson Tony Iommi Guitar Pickups)
Pickups
- Railhammer Billy Corgan Humcutter Guitar Pickups
- DiMarzio Billy Corgan Prewired Pickguard
- DiMarzio DP226 BC2 Billy Corgan Bridge Pickup
- DiMarzio DP225 BC1 Billy Corgan Neck Pickup
Note: Corgan has used Lace Sensor pickups on many of his Fender guitars
Amplifiers and Cabinets
- 1984 Marshall JCM 800 100-watt amplifier head with KT-88 tubes
- Marshall JMP-1 rack preamp
- ADA MP-1 preamp
- Vox AC30
- Orange OR-80 amp head
- Marshall MK II 100-watt head
- Marshall 1960A/B 4 X 12 cabinets
- Fender Twin Reverb
- Bogner Uberschall heads
- Diezel Herbert heads
Effects
Billy has a large collection of pedals, including:
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff distortion pedal (set to 1'oclock, 1'oclock, max)
- Fender extreme octave/fuzz pedal - The Fender Blender
- Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter pedal
- Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synth
- Alesis 3630 compressor
- EVENTIDE H-3000SE Ultra Harmonizer
- Digitech DHP-55 Harmony processor
- Korg SDD-2000 sampling digital delay
- Mu-tron Bi-Phaser
- Digitech whammy pedals
- Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress flanger
- DLS Effects Ultra ChorusII (thanks to Dave at DLS for the info)
- DLS Effects RotoSIM
- EHX Polyphase (old version)
- MXR Distortion II
- MXR Phase 100 (Siamese Dream lead tone, turn speed down)
- Ring Stinger pedal
Strings
- DR Hi-beam nickel-plated strings -.009's-.042's
