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

- Fender Billy Corgan signature Strat - this guitar has Dimarzio pickups. Don't be fooled - they look like Lace Sensors.

Note: Corgan likes Lace Sensor pickups on many of his Fender guitars

- 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

- Ovation acoustic

- 12-string Gibson acoustics

- Epiphone SG

- Gibson Hummingbird Acoustic

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 Amps
- Marshall MK II 100-watt head
- Marshall 4 X 12 cabinets

- Fender Twin

- Bogner Uberschall heads and two 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