Jeff Shroeder's Guitar Rig

Jeff performing with The Smashing Pumpkins on November 9, 2011 in Paris.

Jeff Shroeder is a guitar player originally from southern California. He was a member of several shoegaze-pop bands like The Lassie Foundation and The Violet Burning before joining The Smashing Pumpkins in 2007, replacing James Iha as the band's rhythm/lead guitar player. I like to describe Jeff's guitar tone as My Bloody Valentine-meets-Judas Priest because of his textural leads and metallic edge. I was fortunate enough to catch the band perform three times this year.

On any given night, he is playing six different guitars: three Fender Jazzmasters (red, black and cream colors, all in standard tuning), two black Gibson Les Pauls (one Standard tuned standard, one Custom tuned Eb standard), and one white Gibson SG Custom (tuned drop-D). He has also been spotted using a sunburst Fender Stratocaster for a song or two. He tends to rely on the black Jazzmaster and the two Les Pauls the most. The black Jazzmaster has Curtis Novak Stealth Wide Range Humbucker pickups installed to reduce noise when the band plays locations like old theaters with poor electrical planning.

Jeff's modular amplifier

For an amp, Jeff uses a Randall MTS modular system into two Marshall 1960 cabinets. In this modular amp, he's using the Randall Tweed, Salvation Mash All+, Salvation Mandarin Stonerverb (this is his main distortion sound) and a Salvation Salvado. 

This year, Jeff has forgone a super-rack mounted effects rig to a standard pedalboard layout. I am told that during rehearsals for this Other Side of the Kaleidyscope tour, Billy Corgan and Jeff ran their guitars straight into their amps with no effects and loved their tone so much that they decided to get as much of an unbuffered tone as possible. Jeff's using a set of three bypass loops so that if all three are bypassed, he's running his guitar with an unbuffered signal straight to his amp. As far as which effects he's using, this comes straight from horse's mouth (er, well, fingers):

Guitar –> Fulltone Clyde Wah –> 

Loop 1: Mad Professor Forest Green Compressor (my favorite compressor), Tone Freak Naked OD, Tone Freak Abunai II OD, Instruments for a New Electric Music Compact Faye Sing Phaser, Analog Man Chorus, Boss PS-5 Super Shifter -->

Loop 2: Boss RE-20 Space Echo, Eventide Time Factor Delay, Eventide Space [Reverb] -> 

Loop 3: Line 6 M13 –> Amp