, the Smashing Pumpkins are still exploring the architecture of sound in their often explosive and unpredictable songs. For their current Spirits on Fire Tour, Billy Corgan leads with his Reverend signatures and a few other carefully culled guitars, and Jeff Schroeder lends support with his fleet of Yamahas.
, were a huge part of the soundtrack for the early ’90s alternative rock revolution. Still sounding revolutionary all these years later, the band’s leader, Billy Corgan, recently brought the Smashing Pumpkins to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for the Spirits on Fire tour, on the heels of their 11th studio album,
Are scheduled for January and April 2023. But meanwhile, there are live shows … and all the gear it takes to recreate more than three decades years of the band’s signature sounds. PS: Special thanks to super-tech Trace Davis for his help with the fine points.
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Billy Corgan’s main guitar, tuned in standard, is his Reverend signature Z-One in midnight black, loaded with Railhammer Billy Corgan Z-One neck and bridge pickups. This model is the third collaboration between Corgan and Reverend’s Joe Naylor, and Mr. C’s axe takes Ernie Ball Regular Slinkys, gauged .010–.046.
For a back-up, Billy has his Reverend BC1 signature in satin purpleburst, loaded—again—with Z-One neck and bridge pickups, which blend the bite of P-90s with humbucker heaviness.
Stare long enough at those pickup covers, and perhaps you’ll see the universe, putting a new spin on the old Zen koan. When Corgan wants things just a bit looser, in Eb standard tuning, he’ll reach for this Z-One sig in silver freeze. Oh! The strings? Ernie Ball Power Slinkys, .011–.048.
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For a classic P-90 voice, Corgan lets the strings on this 1994 Gibson Les Paul Special sing. He keeps it tuned to C# standard and the switch has been modified (it's a secret), as has the sticker. Ernie Ball Not Even Slinkys (.012–.056) adorn this axe.
Another low-tuned Gibson, Corgan’s 1972 ES-335 with block inlays and a trapeze tailpiece, lives in Eb standard land and gets called out to play on the song “1979.”
For some mini-hum sting, Billy plays this Gibson Firebird with a Bigsby in silver finish. There are several switches in the headstock, which Corgan’s tech Davis says control the “secret sauce and voodoo magic.”
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Corgan tours with two of his signature Yamaha LJ16BC acoustics—one in E and one in Eb standard. They’re medium-jumbos and all-stock, which means a spruce top, rosewood back and sides, a 5-ply mahogany and rosewood neck, and the company’s comfort traditional neck style.
Corgan tours with two identical amp rigs, with four different heads used separately for different tones, and all switched with an Ampete 444. This allows him to drive all four heads into one Laney Black Country Customs LA412 4x12 speaker cab loaded with Celestion G12H-75s. It lives in an iso box under the stage. The amps? There’s a Laney Supermod, an Orange Rockerverb 100 MKIII, a Carstens Grace, and an Ebo Customs Del Rio.
Here’s what underfoot: an RJM Mastermind GT/16 MIDI controller, an MXR CAE Power System, Analog Man Beano Boost treble booster with Mullard-style transistors, a Lehle III switching and looping tool, a Tone Bender-inspired Minotaur Sonic Terrors Evil Eye MkIII fuzz, a Strymon Brigadier delay, a Behringer Octave Divider, and a Dunlop Volume (X), used as an expression pedal for the Strymon.
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Jeff Schroeder plays Yamaha guitars. And he’s got four Revstars on tour. This one has an especially elegant finish. They came stocked with P-90s, but now one has Black Cat Vintage Repro Minis, another features Lollar Low Wind Imperial Humbuckers, and the one he keeps in drop D is totally stock. Schroeder goes with Ernie Ball Paradigm .009 sets for standard, .010s for Eb standard, .009s with a heavier .046 on the bottom for drop D, and .011s for C# standard.
This Yamaha Pacifica has a scalloped fretboard and Seymour Duncan Hunter humbucking pickups in the bridge and neck, and an SSL-5 single-coil in the middle. It also features a Floyd Rose whammy upgraded with titanium parts.
As with all his axes, his plectrum choice is Dunlop Tortex 1.14 mms, including the the just-for-fun Dunlop YJMP03YL Yngwie Malmsteen picks (yellow), but the Dunlop YJMP02RD Yngwie Malmsteen picks (red) are beefier at 2 mm.
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No big boxes for Schroeder … at least onstage. He uses a pair of Two Notes Torpedo Captor X simulators, emulating a 4x12 mic’d with a Shure SM57 and Sennheiser MD421 on Celestion V30s. As a back-up, there is a Marshall 4x12 in an isolation cabinet—with a Shure SM57—under the stage. And Jeff’s “icing on the cake”—a suggested addition from tech Trace Davis (of Voodoo Amps)—is a Retrospec Juice Box. This inconspicuous box is a transformer-less, all-tube DI that has upped his live tones to a studio quality.
At his feet he has a Line 6 Helix Control Foot Controller that works with an Analog Man Beano Boost, like Billy’s. These are fired up for solos. Also, Schroeder has a pair of Dunlop DVP3 Volume (X) pedals (one for volume and another for pitch-shifting effect from the Helix) and a Dunlop JB95 Joe Bonamassa Signature Cry Baby wah.
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Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that Billy Corgan absolutely shreds. Since the early ’90s, The Smashing Pumpkins have been at the forefront of the alternative rock scene, with Corgan’s sublime layered fuzz tones and studio smarts being more than responsible for inspiring streams of imitators from all directions.
Back in 2008, Corgan and Fender teamed up to create the the Billy Corgan Signature Stratocaster, featuring a maple fretboard and custom DiMarzio pickups tuned to Corgan’s personal specifications. Although he used to play a production model onstage, Corgan’s personal Signature Strat features the modification of a new ’57-styled neck, which he discusses in the above video.
With Corgan recording the solo to ‘Cherub Rock’ and the iconic intro to ‘Today’ on the instrument. Last year, Corgan auctioned this guitar as part of his Offical Billy Corgan Reverb Store, where it fetched a hefty price of over a million dollars.
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Another one of Corgan’s main Strats from the ’90s, this heavily modified and stickered 1974 Fender Strat features a unique blue-on-black finish, with a maple fretboard and the infamous ’70s era Fender three-bolt neck.
Corgan also teamed up with Reverend to create another custom model, the Reverend Billy Corgan Signature, featuring an ultra-contemporary design to enhance playability. Designed with thinner wings and resonant chambers under the pickguard to reduce weight, the guitar notably features Corgan’s custom Railhammer pickups, combining the snap of P90’s with the chunky tones of a humbucker.
Era, Corgan retired his Stratocasters in favour of a variety of Les Pauls, including this Tobacco Sunburst Les Paul Special. Corgan later auctioned most of these guitars on his Reverb page last year.
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On more recent Smashing Pumpkins tours, Corgan has been seen playing an assortment of Gibsons, including a variety of SG models as well as this cherry red ES-335 with block inlays.
One of Corgan’s main acoustic guitars, you can see this Gibson Dove throughout various live videos from the band’s ’90s output, including this performance of ‘1979’.
In The Smashing Pumpkins early era, Corgan was a devout user of a Marshall JCM800 head fitted with KT88 tubes, which he paired with a 1960 Marshall 4×12 slant cab for those classic tones. In addition, Corgan used a whole stack of power amps and preamps including a Marshall JMP-1 MIDI Tube Preamp, a Marshall 9200 Power Amp, an ADA MP-1 MIDI Tube Preamp, and a Mesa Boogie Strategy 500 Power amp, all of which contribute to the revered Corgan wall of sound.
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Nowadays, Corgan’s rig is just as beefy: in fact, it’s almost ridiculous. In his rig rundown with Premier Guitar in 2014, he showcases a mammoth setup comprised of eight custom made preamp modules, including a ’60s Selmer, “Soul” Marshall 2203, Reeves Custom Jimmy (Jimmy Page Hiwatt clone), Marshall Super Lead 1959RR Limited Edition Randy Rhoads, VamPower amp with a fuzz mod (for
If there’s one thing Billy Corgan is most renowned for, it’s his insane collection of pedals, particularly those of the fuzz variety. Check out the video above to dive into just a small selection of his favourites.
Era, Corgan’s pedalboard was comprised of an original Op-Amp EHX Big Muff Pi, a MXR Phase 100, a Moog Ring Modulator, a BOSS NS-2 Noise Suppressor, and a Boss FZ-2 Fuzz.
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Nowadays, Corgan uses a more sophisticated rig, making use of a selection of Keeley loopers to control featuring a Skreddy Echo, two MXR Phase 90s used for solos, a Fulltone Catalyst used as a preamp, a Chicago Iron Octavian, a Boss PS-2 Phase Shifter, and a Strymon El Capistan, as well as a custom pedal called The Bloody Finger used for
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