John Mellencamp

John Mellencamp is associated with a 48th Street custom-built solid body electric guitar, as discussed in the Telecaster Guitar Forum thread titled "John Mellencamp's 'Telecaster': Can You ID It?"

The image shows John Mellencamp playing a Martin 000-18 acoustic guitar.

Mellencamp can be seen with a Fender Tonemaster to the left of him in this photo.

John Mellencamp can be seen singing into the Shure SM7b in this live performance from his own Belmont Mall studio in 2014.

According to their website Mellencamp is using the Fishman Matrix system on acoustic guitars.

To the right of Mellencamp we can see a Fender Supersonic 60w head atop a 2x12 ccabinet.

Used on No Better Than This, as stated in this August 17, 2010 Music Angle (now Analog Planet) article archived on Mellencamp's official website.

Equipped with John Mellencamp's then recently acquired vintage 1/4" reel-to-reel 1955 Ampex 601 mono tape recorder and a pair of iconic 50's era RCA ribbon microphones ( a 77 DX and 44 used singly) presumably supplied by producer T-Bone Burnett, the duo, accompanied by Mellencamp's wife Elaine, who shot the album's cover photo, hit the road during a break in last summer's Bob Dylan-John Mellencamp-Willie Nelson tour to record thirteen freshly penned songs Mr. Mellencamp had written over thirteen prolific days.

Used on No Better Than This, as stated in this August 16, 2010 Bloomington Herald Times article archived on Mellencamp's official website.

He’s never realized that ambition more than with “No Better Than This,” his 25th album. It’s 13 songs written and recorded over 13 days on a 55-year-old Ampex tape recorder using one classic RCA 77 DX microphone. The songs were all laid down on the road during off-days on his 2009 tour of minor league ballparks and off-the-beaten-path venues with compatriots Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

It is also mentioned in this August 17, 2010 Music Angle (now Analog Planet) article, also archived on Mellencamp's official website.

Equipped with John Mellencamp's then recently acquired vintage 1/4" reel-to-reel 1955 Ampex 601 mono tape recorder and a pair of iconic 50's era RCA ribbon microphones ( a 77 DX and 44 used singly) presumably supplied by producer T-Bone Burnett, the duo, accompanied by Mellencamp's wife Elaine, who shot the album's cover photo, hit the road during a break in last summer's Bob Dylan-John Mellencamp-Willie Nelson tour to record thirteen freshly penned songs Mr. Mellencamp had written over thirteen prolific days.

Used on No Better Than This, as stated in this August 17, 2010 Music Angle (now Analog Planet) article archived on Mellencamp's official website.

Equipped with John Mellencamp's then recently acquired vintage 1/4" reel-to-reel 1955 Ampex 601 mono tape recorder and a pair of iconic 50's era RCA ribbon microphones ( a 77 DX and 44 used singly) presumably supplied by producer T-Bone Burnett, the duo, accompanied by Mellencamp's wife Elaine, who shot the album's cover photo, hit the road during a break in last summer's Bob Dylan-John Mellencamp-Willie Nelson tour to record thirteen freshly penned songs Mr. Mellencamp had written over thirteen prolific days.

Mellencamp can be seen with a Fender Tonemaster 2x12 underneath his Fender Tonemaster 100w head