Billy Corgan’s $100k live rig is now a pedal – Meet the Laney Supergrace
Laney has unveiled the Supergrace Loudpedal, a floor-based dual-amplifier platform that puts Billy Corgan’s live rig within reach of any guitarist.
Developed in close collaboration with the Smashing Pumpkins frontman himself, Supergrace captures the core of Corgan’s touring sound – without the towering backline or $100k price tag.
At its heart are two of Corgan’s essential amplifier voices: the high-gain Carstens Grace, and the iconic Laney Supergroup, now distilled into a single, compact 60-Watt floor unit.
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Translating those two professional-grade amplifiers into a compact floor-based format was no small task, says the brand. Working alongside Laney and amp designer Brian Carstens, the goal was to preserve the feel and character of each amp rather than simply approximate their tones.
“We wanted something that would be used night after night on the world’s biggest stages-not as a compromise, but as the real thing,” says Carstens. The result is the Supergrace: a dual-amplifier platform designed for players seeking both heritage and innovation.
On one side sits the Grace channel, born from Corgan’s demand for extreme gain and massive headroom. Adapted from the original Carstens Grace amp, this channel delivers articulate high gain with exceptional note definition, even at saturation levels where most amps collapse.
“It’s really solid,” says Corgan. “There’s so much body to the notes.”
Credit: Laney
Alongside it sits the Supergroup channel, a faithful recreation of the legendary Laney amp from the late 60s that shaped early heavy metal. Even the circuit’s distinctive “transformer rub” sub-note, a detail prized by vintage Laney fans and heard on countless Laney recordings, has been preserved.
Beyond the amp tones, the Supergrace is built as a complete modern rig. It features a true analogue signal path with no digital amp modelling, paired with Laney’s proprietary LA·IR Advanced Speaker Emulation. The pedal comes preloaded with Corgan’s own touring Impulse Responses, which can be swapped via the company’s LA·IR app.
USB-C connectivity enables latency-free recording straight into a DAW, while MIDI control, a transformer-isolated FX loop, auxiliary input, and headphone output make it equally suited to studio, stage, or silent practice.
Crucially, the unit has already been tested in the real world by the man himself. Corgan took a Supergrace prototype onstage at a My Chemical Romance show in Chicago, performing in front of 60,000 people without his usual $100k+ touring rig – and the pedal passed the test with flying colours.
Priced at $629.99/£449/€529, each unit is handcrafted at Laney’s Black Country Customs workshop in Birmingham, England, and ships in a premium presentation box, complete with power supply and USB cables.
Learn more at Laney.
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