Mike Stern plays a guitar that is custom made by a friend of him from Boston, Michael Aronson.
The guitar has a Tele-style body with an original '50s Fender Broadcaster neck. In neck position there is a Seymour Duncan Humbucker pickup and there's a Bill Lawrence single coil in the bridge.
Mike Stern uses Fender nicklewound guitar strings going from .011 to .038.
This guitar replaced an original '50s Fender Telecaster which was stolen from him in an armed robbery.

Mike Stern's signature guitar is made by Yamaha and is a copy of Mike's custom made guitar.
It's got a Seymour Duncan '59 pickup in neck position and a Tele Hot Rail at the bridge.

This 100 watt Yamaha amplifier has 2 EV 12 inch speakers.
They are out of production.

Other Guitar Amps
-Pierce GR-1 with a Hartke cabinet and JBL 10 inch speakers.
Mike Stern has this old Yamaha effects rack for the harmonizer patch only. He uses it to create chorus and splits the sound between two amps.

Mike Stern has 2 of these digital delays. He uses them for ambience instead of a reverb.

An old school transistor type distortion with a wide range of sound possibilities.

Other Guitar Effects
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