What Guitar Does Ty Myers Play?

The short answer

Three guitars do almost all the work. There is a secondhand Fender Stratocaster he bought from a stranger in a parking lot. There is a Fender Custom Shop Master Built Stratocaster he bought because it caught his eye. And there is a Gibson SJ-200 acoustic that was a gift. All three run into a Two-Rock Silver Sterling Signature amplifier through a board of sixteen pedals.

All of it is documented. Premier Guitar sent John Bohlinger to his show at the Egyptian Room in Indianapolis, and he published an itemized rig rundown with photographs. Everything on this page comes from that piece or a named source. Nothing here is guessed at from concert video.

Why this page exists

The Premier Guitar rundown is thorough and it is the primary source. It is also written for people who already read gear magazines. It says “Two-Rock Silver Sterling Signature” and moves on. If you are a fan who watched him play and wondered what he was using, that does not really answer the question.

The other page that ranks for this is an Equipboard entry. It lists one of his guitars, and it spells his name “Ty Meyers.”

So this page keeps every specification and adds what the equipment does. It also marks clearly where a published source stops and a general explanation begins.

The electric guitars

The San Antonio Stratocaster

This is the one that matters most, and its story is better than the equipment. It was the first nice guitar he bought himself, purchased from a guy in a Home Depot parking lot in San Antonio, Texas.

He has since swapped in Fender Custom Shop Fat ’50s pickups and strings it with Stringjoy .010s.

Two translations. Pickups are the magnetic bars under the strings. They convert string vibration into an electrical signal. Swapping them is the cheapest meaningful way to change how an electric guitar sounds. The “Fat ’50s” name refers to a voicing modeled on 1950s Fender pickups. Those are generally warmer and thicker than modern ones. .010 is the thickness of the thinnest string in inches. It is a common middle-ground gauge, heavy enough for tone and light enough to bend.

The Master Built Stratocaster

A Fender Custom Shop Master Built Stratocaster built by Dale Wilson. Custom Shop is Fender’s small-batch division, and a Master Built instrument is one assembled by a single named builder rather than on a line.

Premier Guitar reports how he got it. He went to Carter Vintage in Nashville with a different instrument in mind, saw this one, and had to have it. He kept the pickups it came with. He also intended to have the action lowered. Action is the gap between strings and fretboard. Lowering it makes a guitar faster to play, at the cost of some buzz.

The rundown adds one detail worth quoting carefully. Premier Guitar frames this as the guitar he would use if he played slide. That reads as him not routinely playing slide. Sites that call it his slide guitar are stating more than the source does.

The acoustic

A Gibson SJ-200, and this is the sentimental one. He got his first SJ-200 around age ten. The one he tours with was a gift from label executive Barry Weiss, president and co-founder of RECORDS. Weiss appears in the label photograph from the Heavy on the Soul announcement.

It has an LR Baggs pickup system and goes direct to front-of-house, meaning straight to the mixing desk. At amphitheater scale you cannot put a microphone in front of an acoustic guitar. It would pick up the drums and everything else. A built-in pickup solves that.

The SJ-200 is sometimes called the “King of the Flat-tops.” It is a large-bodied Gibson design from 1937, associated with players who need an acoustic to project over a band. It is a fitting choice for someone whose set includes a horn section.

The amplifier

One amp: a Two-Rock Silver Sterling Signature.

The reason is stated outright in the rundown. John Mayer is his biggest hero, and Mayer is associated with Two-Rock. So he went after one. He saw it at Carter Vintage the same day as the Master Built Strat. He bought it without plugging it in.

That is a genuinely unusual way to buy a high-end amplifier. It is also the most revealing fact here about how his influences drive his choices. And it lines up with the rest of the record. The Select includes a cover of Mayer’s “Man On The Side,” which you can find in the full discography.

The pedalboard

Built by XAct Tone Solutions in Nashville, a company that assembles custom boards. Sixteen items, in the order the signal passes through them.

The pedal names and their order are from Premier Guitar. The right-hand column describes what each category of pedal does. It is not a claim about how he sets it, because no published source lists his settings.

Two things stand out. Five or six pedals are overdrives or boosts. That is normal for this style rather than excessive. Each colors the sound differently, and stacking mild ones sounds unlike using one strong one. Two separate power supplies on a board this size means the pedals need isolated power to avoid hum. That is a working-professional detail rather than a hobbyist one.

What the rig says about the player

You can read the influences straight off the equipment list.

The Stratocaster is the guitar of Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Mayer. He names both as influences. His Wikipedia article records that seeing Vaughan perform “Lenny” was an “out of body experience” that ignited his love of playing. The Two-Rock is a direct Mayer choice. The SJ-200 is the big country acoustic. The horn section on Heavy on the Soul comes from the soul side, the Otis Redding and Sam Cooke records his mother played him.

So that is a country rig, a blues rig and a soul rig operating at once. It is also why his genre keeps getting argued about. Billboard charted Heavy on the Soul on both its Americana/Folk and Top Country albums charts in one week.

What is not documented

Being explicit about the gaps, because this site marks unconfirmed details rather than filling them.

No published pedal settings. Nobody has printed his dial positions, and inferring them from live audio would be a guess.

No confirmed full band gear list. One Setlist.fm recap describes a three-piece brass section and vocals from Kennadi Rose at his Pier 17 show. But no source lists what the band plays. This page covers his rig only.

The rundown is from 2025. Premier Guitar filmed it during The Select era, before Heavy on the Soul and before the Legal Tour. Touring rigs change. Treat this as accurate to that visit rather than guaranteed current. That is why the date is on the page.

Seeing it in person

If you want to watch the pedalboard get used, the remaining Legal Tour dates are all listed with doors times and venue detail. Sight lines matter more than usual here. At most of these venues the pedalboard is only visible from the floor or the first few rows.

For set length, stage times and what time he actually walks on, the concert FAQ covers it.