Michael John considers Jerry Garcia as a major influence. Jerry toured for twenty years with this "magic box", a Mutron Envelope Filter. For the past 7 years Michael has toured with MuTron III+ thanks to the generous support of Henry Zajak of HAZ Laboratories, the makers of the Mutron III+. MU-TRON III+™ translates the envelope or "volume profile" of every musical passage, automatically... into an easily-controlled, vowel-like sound, as you play. Use MU-TRON III+™ to create a variety of synthesizer sounds with most electrified instruments: guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, flute, saxophone, brasses, even microphone. The sharper your attack and the more percussive your instrument, the wilder your sound will be.Besides providing that inverted "snap" (perfect for funky bass), MU-TRON III+™ also functions as an automatic "wah" pedal.
Glen handmakes great lightweight vinyl guitar amp covers built to your specs. He has built three covers for me including most recently for my 1964 Fender Champ Amp. .
Michael John Ahern receives Artist Support from LM Products
I originaly purchased a Ralph Marlin American Flag LM strap after 9/11. (see photo to right) It quickly became my "go to" strap and I had to have more. Simply the most comfortable and best designed guitar strap available in todays marketplace. When I received the LM catalog I was captivated by the impressive number of designs,colors, textures and materials used in LM Industry straps. I tour with several now thanks to LM including some cool red,purple, and blue velvet straps. .- MJ
For the last 3 years I have been playing and recording with a beautiful hand carved acoustic guitaroriginally designed by Jerry Garcia in 1994 and finished by Warren Haynes in 2005. This guitar is a cutaway jumbo model featuring a solid spruce top, hand scallop bracing, and an exquisitel Australian lacewoodfor back and sides.
The DigiTech GSP1101 guitar processor is a world class piece of tone crafting gear. I use the GSP1101 live and in my studio. I used it's predecessor the 2120 with great success however with the GSP's new tone crafting engineering, profoundly easier user interface, the brilliantly engineered Control 2 floorboard (as good as any Bradshaw Board at a fraction of the price) plus USB connectivity allowing laptop storage of my user presets and access to updated software make this guitar processor and MIDI controller the most versatile and efficient I have ever seen. Gone are the issues associated with using stomp boxes. The GSP1101 is clean, quiet and really simple to work with. It is engineered with quality amp modeling, multiple EQ access, numerous quality guitar effect models, quality compression, gate, built in wah, and 99 presets that are an easy springboard to explore and build from. Thanks Digitech! MJ January 2010
