Bonus content from the Carstens Grace amplifier video interview.
Carstens Amplification and Billy Corgan have combined creative talents to change the guitar amplifier game.
Brian Carstens has long been working with The Smashing Pumpkins as an amplifier technician. In late 2018, Billy Corgan and Brian began discussing an amp collaboration. Billy expressed, in over 30 years of creating music, “I have never played a high gain amp that I like.” Billy’s lofty request: for Brian to make him an amp with an unheard of amount of gain, high headroom and distinct tone. Brian got to work, and the Carstens Amplification Grace amplifier was born. Billy was so blown away by the Grace that this custom project turned into the signature Billy Corgan amplifier — his first and only.
This handmade/handwired, 100W, single channel amplifier offers a staggering amount of articulate high gain and is equipped with premium components, including specially designed, hand-wound Mercury Magnetics transformers. The result is a beautifully open and versatile high-gain overdrive with incredible note separation. To really understand why Billy Corgan calls the Grace “a game changer” and “a step forward,” take a listen.
This limited first run of 50 amplifiers are all individually signed by Billy Corgan. All are handmade Brian Carstens.
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Video produced and directed by Vincent Labriola
Cinematography by Kyle Probst
Filmed on location at Madame ZuZu's in Highland Park, Illinois
Completely handmade/hand-wired in the U.S.A by Brian Carstens
Custom cabinet handcrafted in the U.S.A
Specially designed, hand-wound Mercury Magnetics transformers
Mercury Magnetics hard-wired power cord
Premium capacitors
High grade vacuum tubes for low noise and peak performance
Powder coated/silk screened, high quality aluminum chassis
100W
4 x EL34
4 x 12AX7
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