Rig Rundown - Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan 

And then he's talking about hump points and all kinds of other sound engineer type jargon. He didn't get his sounds by accident, that's for sure.

He’s got each component of the sound in a separate piece of equipment equaling a higher quality of sound. More customization especially with the preamp sections. It’s a great idea and very organic sound.

Tell me all of your secrets

You don't have to know the details of the tools, but a professional knows what they are using and why. That is how I understand the "not super technical" comment.

i realize it's pretty randomly asking but do anyone know of a good place to stream newly released movies online?

Yeah, I like when artists do that, it lets you understand the artist's personal take on their gear

Billy Manilly I like it as well

Have you noticed that the artists did the rig rundown themselves a lot more often when Rebecca was doing the interview? Wonder why? :-D

Joe M the tits?

Billy is just being himself

he did? is there a link to that story

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@@mattmarkus4868 There's an article or even a video on it. It wound up being found at a garage sale. The woman who bought it (for dirt cheap) learned it was Billy's and got in contact with him.

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Did he really?!

LOL. Totally.

based

@@barbdrake5999 based

That goes over most heads

Unless this video was made prior to Jan 1 1993 the guy is from the Czech Republic 🇨🇿, NOT “Czechoslovakia” as its dissolution was on Dec 31,1992.

Yeah. Billy is kinda notorious for playing coy when people ask him gear questions. But he's not ignorant. I think he's intentionally a little evasive, in order to protect some of his tone secrets. However, his comment about not being "super technical" is believable with regards to this particular set up. It looks like a lot, but it's essentially just a bunch of different preamps running into a power amp and a 4x12 cab. And then he has a footswitch to select different amps, plus a handful of phasers and echos for soloing. He didn't make all those preamp clones or set up the system. He just knows what they do and how to use them.

Yeah. He basically has 8 different amps with an 8 way splitter.

Id get Billy to fix my guitar any day.

He’s clearly some kindof technical whiz who wants to be seen as an aloof artist type

He probably just knows what he likes with his sound.

+Space Boy despite the many stomps, knobs and other stuff you see it's actually a very bare signal. at best he has a flanger and a delay on, the keely pedals are only loopers. even the preamps are on one at a time, and he plays in mono.

+Sadland Machines when he says he's not super technical he means he doesn't understand how it really works. Same thing happens in the video where he shows off his reverend guitar. He didn't know what the bass contour was for.

Yeah and then he goes off talking about the section of the tree his mid 70s strategy was cut from and how it effects the tone, geez billy

+Sadland Machines epic!

Sadland Machines I was thinking he said that because he maybe assumed she didn't know much and didn't want her to feel uncomfortable and what the hell was that about, that certain section of a tree & weight has everything to do with the sound?! Lol

Hasn’t changed? He has got fat!! Like his riffs!

Quickest way to get blocked by Billy on insta is to say that on one of his Q&A's

Horacio Lopez a lot of times the techs actually know more about the gear

I think it's the fact that a lot of guitarists don't know that much about the gear they're playing............there's nothing wrong with that, but a lot of guitarists just hire people so they don't need to worry about things like that

Billy Corgan never gives up a chance to talk about himself

Stfu bro

His rig.

about 15 years ago

jamieson conkin u vil sufer ze wraf ov gru

hahahaahahahaaha

Gru Corgan

Best comment xD. It's funny because that's exactly what I was thinking and was hoping someone else noticed.

rshone99 I understand. Still when you plug in your guitar and the lights in the city dim I get a kick out of these tech/guitarist discussions. I have been collecting effects pedals,guitars,amps and cabs since the late 70s. I have enough pedals,mostly ods and fuzzes to open a store. A lot of the older effects such a EHX are notorious for tone sucking and noise. I have 2 large Pedal pro floor racks crammed with pedals all running through loopers. Keeps the signal out of them and also you do not want to go stomping on a $500 plus Big Muff or early big box Proco Rat. 2 Voodoo pedal power supplies,power filters etc...Yeah I am a gear geek.

It does make you wonder how he is able to strike a good balance with the tubes and transformers in the power amp because the old 60's and 70's preamp circuits rely so much more on you flogging the power amp section than the more modern high gain preamps.

Well, he said he runs the preamps at half power so it gets more saturated more easily, if I'm understanding you @@joem1256

Super technical and you know all the guts and exactly what they do... Many can build their own effects boxes and amps. Soldiering, set up guitars, etc. Potentiometers, fuses, Gates, diodes, tubes, transistors, ohms, read schematics, etc.

Well said

lokotron1 He’s got it back!

Check their official youtube channel! He got it back!!!

He is almost crying.

lol Yeah, my heart really weeps for the poor situation this man was in...

​@@465marko oh give it a rest

Nice comment. Everybody use to make just kinky comments about Rebecca.

It's doable. Competent layering and pedal stacking.

I've spent a long long time trying to figure out how to build a ridiculously oversaturated fuzz tone and finally figured it out a grip and a half ago

Pretty easy nowadays.

Just kill all the cymbals

I just use a lot of gain and open strings to emulate a pumpkins style fuzz. More like a buzz than a fuzz . Lol

Me too!

Imagine being the kid that bought that pawned guitar. It's probably in a closet or frankenstratted

Only if he pries it from my cold dead hands, cause I'm sure not giving it back!!

Is that yous Toki?

well he got it back yesterday :)

He's probably super knowledgeable about the stuff he likes.

Cheer up he got it back yesterday

because the way he's dressed?

Farley On Fleek Are you dyslexic? Shut up, you'll never be the man your mother is.

He's a big Infowars guy, so he must be dumb as dirt...

***** back to touching yourself again aren't you?

***** Suddenly you've become the conscience of the world...see I knew it would work out for you!

Thanks Sir, I was having a rought afternoon

Hahahaha yes!

Omfg....weird!

Maybe George Lucas sounds like Billy Corgan when he sings?

Damn, it’s like poetry...

You are surprised when a pretty woman isn't empty headed?

HAhahahahaha!

Jon S What's so funny?

I've always been intrigued that their signature sound was a wall of Big Muff Pi fuzz yet their live sound is almost 100% distortion. I guess when you play loud enough and in big enough venues close will get you there. Plus it must've been hell even recording the earlier CD's since there are so many layered parts... BMP's aren't exactly known for cutting through the mix.

Type on RU-vid . "Billy corgan stompland"

smoss469 Billy spoke before in an interview about how when Siamese Dream first released, he and james attempted to use the fuzz pedals live but they did not cut through the mix in a live setting at all and made for a poor sound. I find this to be true with my own gear as well. I have own a handful of different fuzz pedals and none of them could get the optimal sound with a live band like they could on a recording. I would assume this still holds true for Billy, plus the fact that he plays so much other material which he didn't record with a fuzz.

Mellon Collie* With a bit of Infinite Sadness.

+mattjonesable Yes Matt that was the joke.

+PANICBLADE specially when he speaks of his lost guitar, he broke my heart.

Matt is a bit slow.

XD yesss

Rave LTG he really is. very nice

He got it back!

Every top he wears he likes to show off his beer gut.

He likes it small.

He likes to show his ripped body.

Yes yes Yes!!!

Yes!

yesssss

I will gladly join you and we'll jam at all sorts of places on our search to find it

+Spencer Cowan sounds like a reality show waiting to happen

Well....how did it look actually?

Gumpa2 it’s in the I am one video. It has like a rainbow psychedelic paint job. It’s actually a really beautiful looking strat. Kinda similar to Eric Clapton’s cream era SG, but a little different. It looks like it was painstakingly painted There’s a strat on reverb right now that actually looks a lot like it, but the headstock is painted.... I doubt it’s that one, cuz reverb would’ve blown up if it was....

I doubt you're going to find it in some pawn shop. Likely some rich prick has it and brags about it at pretentious parties.

right. both interviewer and the person showing the rig were so cool. not guitar techs aren't awesome, but for the fans it's more personal to show the artist going through their stuff, even if they don't know what speaker is in there. i thought that was a good spot of advice to leave your precious guitars at home. with the moisture and temp differences over time and all that. that was pretty sweet of gru to give off advice like that.

Black SuperWoman only if you give me back my hair

He just got it back yesterday :)

He hot it back! Go Bill!

He's said before that he can't use the big muff live because it's such a bassy low rumble fuzz it gets lost in the noise.

Noah Jaybird15 the Big Muff is a VERY scooped sound. Great sounding pedal, but in the context of a band the guitar tends to get lost because of the lack of mids. That's likely why he didn't use them live.

James Ogilvie great info there.. thanks

Gustavo Rodríguez I like big muff

first, the Muff is not a fuzz, Mike Mathews has been known to say it's a distortion pedal. Second, a cheap 7 band EQ easily solves the lack of mids to cut through any live mix; I've never found the "scooped mids" to be a veracious explation. It never deterred Dan Auerbach or Jack White from using them live. Billy simply seems to be more preocupied with sounding like Jimmy Page, Randy Roads and Uli John Roth, classic amps sounds. Also, he didn't disclose what type of fuzz he uses, other than mentioning some fuzz built into one of the amp mods.

I doubt you have a guitar on display... maybe to your mom or something..

You're right Colton! My mom bought me that guitar... it's right there next to my jam jams from when I was 4. Thanks!

Fidel Rivera You are right on bro. I recently had to stop playing my first acoustic. It came down with the inevitable ovation bulging bridge. It hangs on the wall and comforts me. I cried for a week, when I had to stop playing it.

Andrew Pappas ayyyy

Taimir Gore I'm just happy they have a new album out, 8 years is way too freaking long plus the album is so badass, it reminds me of a lot of their earlier material

+Taimir Gore On their most recent rundown for Meshuggah, Metallica was apparently doing a soundcheck since they were practicing one of their songs (I think it was The God That Failed, but I forget). Maybe there's hope for us Metallica fans

I hope

He does and it occasionally still gets used in the studio.

Benjamin Thomas What guitar was that?

Andrew Pappas a Kimberly Apollo II

Brad White Never heard of them, sorry

Yeah he is