Stereo Imaging Acoustic Guitar with Ryley Walker | Reverb Guitar Tricks

Ryley Walker has been making a name for himself for his lush psychedelic folk music and in no small part because of his tasty finger picked open-tuned acoustic sound. In order to make his acoustic sound stand out in a live setting, Ryley has employed a multiple pickup stereo set-up for his rig and he was kind enough to stop by Reverb to share it. Read more about Ryley's acoustic rig and check out his performance of his tune "The Halfwit in Me" at bit.ly/2dH9yAy.
Check out Ryley's Signal Chain on Reverb: bit.ly/2dBENet
Gear Used:
Guild D-140 - bit.ly/2dnDZtG
K&K Sound Pure Acoustic Guitar Pickup - bit.ly/2dMa0NJ
Sunrise Soundhole Pickup - bit.ly/2cElGRz
Radial Tonebone PZ-Pre - bit.ly/2dcFKJO
Radial Tonebone PZ Deluxe - bit.ly/2dUWEi8
Ernie Ball 6167 Stereo Volume Pedal - bit.ly/2dUW4xi
Electro-Harmonix Cathedral Stereo Reverb - bit.ly/2aXtjzG
Check out Ryley's music at ryleywalker.com/

[@Gongasoso]

His tone cleared my sinusis. Holy smokes, it's a miracle!

[@tapirman111]

Having listened to Ryley's music before I didn't expect him to exude this goofy aura. What a rad dude.

[@justinhall2840]

This guy is my new favorite person.

[@beatarcheologzt]

Love this guys enthusiasm and playing of course

[@Ergydion]

same here and I dont even play guitar. amazing

[@SoMyungJung]

Dude's so excited to talk about his gear

[@christopherrusch]

oh wow. i love followed this guy on twitter for years and now i’m hearing him playing. what a gem

[@r4ttlech4n44]

might be the best video on youtube!

[@GrizzlyWang]

Love you Riley, stay up bud.

[@aldobrezenti]

Huge, yet natural sound. Love it!

[@theaceofspadesjl]

HAHAHAH i love this guy. No idea who he is. But I love 'em

[@buellosaurusrex]

Listen to "Roundabout" on KZbin. He has me digging around in my guitar case for my thumb pick again...

[@superandrd]

"HOLY SMOKES, I GOTTA TELL YOU" hahahaha

[@DelScully]

fucking legendary

[@mohitrahaman]

We're burnin' baby!

[@777Yoni]

Huge fan. Really have loved his last two discs. Am ticked I have to miss him on this tour.

[@jwstout007]

Immediate fan of this guy! Live shows must have amazing transition banter =)

[@bribo134]

At first I thought this guy didn’t seem very bright but by the end I knew I was listening to pure genius!

[@zorth42]

Dude go listen to his albums, his guitar sound is legendary

[@001mladen]

Who are you? you are a whole new person, this is the begining of the rest of your life. HAHHAHAHA EPIC

[@ExoShaman]

YES! So glad I randomly clicked this video. This guy rocks!

[@glisteningkabana8154]

Can't argue with that, it did sound beautiful!! Nice one man.

[@DMichaelJohnson]

The boy can play... mad talent right there...👍🏻

[@mattxibarra3331]

Ryley is the best 🖤

[@brandonglenn794]

Smokin' Oaks! That boys good! What an amazing presence that is created with the stereo sound.

[@slickcross]

Sounds amazing. not gonna lie.

[@DelScully]

this guy was born as a WIN !

[@PatTierneyMusic]

this was epic. What a legend!

[@juanmartinreborati7928]

You are the man! Sounds awesome!

[@leohastadhy]

MY DREAM SOUND FOR MY ACOUSTIC GUITAR...GENIUS!!

[@TheMcnooly]

Wow, cool. Sounds awesome!

[@Lorneplumber]

Fine playing sir

[@Ehzah8]

my boy playing some classic jansch right there

[@viktors6123]

Is this Jansch tune?

[@blessed7927]

So fun to watch you play!

[@marcoedisonperebaljoj6412]

Thank you

[@TheErikBleich]

This dude is incredible! 😎

[@BunchOfCrazyStuff]

This guy is so incredibly entertaining

[@jakereed7799]

honestly the most underrated video on Reverbs channel

[@markusostrowski1833]

Love this! :D

[@bettertvreceptionwithfoilf7100]

nice tunes

[@nicklevan8058]

Dude I fucking love this guy!!!!

[@BrendanCassidy2]

Fair play great video

[@mrnewty2]

I wanna know more about those right hand acrylic finger nails,, I did this in college and could not keep it up. Great acoustic playing and sound.

[@sc7244]

Damn does anyone know what he's playing near the end of the video? This dude is sick !

[@mrtanica]

Put ryley doing reviews and stuff 😂😂 so entretaining 👌🏻

[@jeremyyamma4364]

Much love to the inimitable being of infinite love and dialed in tone from a VoV alum n Hunted Creature All the best man- shit is rad

[@btlmania64]

How much to buy all that stuff ?? This guy is awesome ! Love his playing and he`s so funny too ! Must check out more !!!!!

[@protonwhitestar]

this guy is rad

[@jeffd8597]

Great guy and great player and the guitar tone IS great. The reverb is stereo but I don't hear any stereo guitar imaging, it's sounds center channel mono to my ears. Or it's very very subtle...IDK

[@ET2carbon]

Yeah it's not stereo. It's parallel processing after a split channel.

[@eizenga]

How is it wired internally?can the under saddle connect to the sound hole?

[@sunsleep8985]

wow!

[@Alphawolf2325]

So these pickups are wired to one output Jack on the guitar?

[@glouismusic]

Fun thanks.

[@anthonymiller7992]

Wish you would have widened the spectrum a bit. I heard the stereo sound, just wish you would have spread it out some more.

[@empathysgone96]

would love for you to elaborate on how you went about splitting your signal. im confused on how you went about making It stereo

[@ET2carbon]

Because it isn't stereo. It's split channel parallel processing

[@empathysgone96]

@@ET2carbon please elaborate as I’m still in the learning process. Thanksn

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[@laurifinlandia]

not a bad guitar for under 700 bucks. guild rules, especially in the hands of someone of ryley's caliber.

[@brookeclover7329]

Does the sunrise magnetic pickup do anything without the other internal pickup?

[@billdedrick1914]

Whata tone... What strings, type and gauge do you use on the D-140? What year is that D-140? Is saddle and nut original bone?

[@tpedroso]

Could this work with active pickups and just eqs on the board? Those tonebones are pricey...

[@samwisegrangee]

Is he using any phase switching to keep those pickups synced? Or is that not necessary?

[@ryancorlett5590]

Tooooooooone

[@ET2carbon]

That doesn't make it stereo. Stereo has to do with delay and separation. If you're talking organic stereo field it is the discernable waves one ear hears compared to the other ear. You're describing what you could consider to be multi-channel parallel processing. Which sounds great yes but isn't stereo. In microphone placement, you need to have a center point and spread the microphone placement, or cross them in cardioid, or have one in cardioid and the other in bidirectional while setting mid/side processing in post. The other way is to generate delay to electronically spread the signal to a dual panned stereo signal. I'm only beginning looking into this (for no reason really) so my understanding could change but in my initial research (this is my first video) I don't think this qualifies as stereo even though it does sound good.

[@billdedrick1914]

very nice... what strings and gauge were you using on the D-140?

[@daMONSTERSpeaks]

Geesh! Each add-on is like $200-300. At minimum a $1500 board setup alone. Must sound great though. Gotta be a better way?

[@spiroskardas9356]

what 2 amps he going into...

[@kurniasandi1416]

what the tuning sir? its really amazing.

[@andyglenny6023]

kurnia sandi The tuning is open D

[@LapalmeJanson]

what amps are he using

[@brookeclover7329]

Does the K&K need to have batteries? If so how do you Handed the batteries? Do you have to take the whole thing out?

[@JustinZak7]

Brooke Clover the K&K Pure Mini is a passive pickup. No batteries are required.

[@GiovannyAlabi1]

Brooke Clover qqqqqqqqqqqq

[@GiovannyAlabi1]

Its a pasive system, so no battery is requires

[@frankpaulus7205]

does he really Play over an Fender tube amp with a acoustic guitar?

[@JamesNoble97]

anyone know how he manages to get both pickups to go to one output?

[@johnchristiancaldwell4403]

The two sources, sound hole and bridge PU, share a common ground, so the signals leave the endpin jack in a TRS connector: eg. Tip: Soundhole PU; Ring: Bridge PU; Sleeve: Ground shared by both. You are free to process the two sources thereafter as you wish. He is a nice player, but not sold on the ton rendered here, personally.

[@JamesNoble97]

Thanks man, so I guess the stereo signal is maintained for him to be able to split them to two preamps like that? Yeah I guess it doesn't sound incredible heard directly like this, I can imagine the full stereo effect live is a completely different story though, his acoustic tone on his albums is certainly very nice.

[@johnchristiancaldwell4403]

The two sources, pickup and mic, can be processed through two entirely signal paths - meaning different preamp, eq, compression, Fx, and panned center or wide.

[@andorrasrevenge1683]

Build another band bud!

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Bill and ted

[@Simon-ww8pe]

This is hilarious

[@uglyawesome]

I'm just pissed I grew out my nails to play Ryley Walker's music and it ends up he uses fake nails.

[@ryleywalker1751]

uglyawesome don't be pissed! Acrylics are great for touring. I would often grow my nails out and break one and be stuck in a tough spot. Acrylics are just more durable for travel and every day playing in front of a crowd. Your nails are probably dope! Keep jamming. Sorry I made you pissed! Apples/oranges/bananas/hamburgers!

[@uglyawesome]

Ryley Walker Dude, thanks for responding! You played at Wild Honey Records in Knoxville a few weeks ago and I missed it. Figured out too late.

[@piercestang]

Hey Ryley, great video demo! Which K&K pup system are you using? Amazing tone, dude!