Guitar World deals of the week: get up to $800 off Gibson, save $120 on a Yamaha Revstar, plus a mega sale with up to 50% off electric guitars
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Welcome back to another super-saving edition of Deals of the Week, your weekly digest of the best sales on guitar gear from all across the wide web. We’ve got some absolutely stonking savings for you this week so no wasting time, let’s get to it.
Musician’s Friend have launched their massive Guitar Fest sale this week with up to 50% off a huge selection of electric guitars, pedals, and amps. We spied big money off Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, Gretsch, and Jackson guitars amongst many more major brands. It’s aboslultely the palce to shop if you’re looking for a brand new electric guitar.
If you don’t mind buying B-stock, then you’ll want to head over to the Gibson Demo Shop on Reverb, which has some mind-blowing reductions of up to $800 off. These guitars all have minor cosmetic blemishes but are in full working order, making it a great way to save big on a premium guitar.
Over at Guitar Center, there’s no specific guitar sale at the moment, but they are running a Live Sound promo with up to 40% off. You can pick up some nice discounts on wireless guitar systems, headphones, DI boxes, and plenty of other guitar-related bits of gear.
There’s a similar sale happening at Sweetwater too, with their Live Sound Month continuing to offer up to 40% off. It’s the place to go if you’re looking for a new mixer for your rehearsal space, or a full-blown PA to take to shows with your band.
That’s it for major sales this week, but as usual we’ve picked out some of our favorite individual deals below for you. Catch you next week for some more guitar gear bargain hunting!
Editor’s picksGuitar sales to shopAmazon: Guitar gear dealsAndertons: Save on guitarsFender Play: 50% off annualFender store: Up to 20% offGear4Music: Clearance dealsGuitar Center: Save up to 40%Guitar Tricks: One-year sub just $99IK Multimedia: $200 off Tonex MaxMusician’s Friend: Up to 40% offPlugin Boutique: Money off pluginsPositive Grid: Save on SparkPMT: Up to 50% offReverb: 100,000+ discountsSweetwater: Epic guitar dealsThomann: Last-minute dealsWaves: Buy two get one freeHow we choose our deals of the weekHere at Guitar World, we are experts in our field, with many years of playing and product testing between us. We live and breathe everything guitar related, and we draw on this knowledge and experience of using products in live, recording and rehearsal scenarios when selecting the products we recommend.
First and foremost, we are guitarists, and we want to match other players with the right products for them, at the best prices.
For us to recommend a deal it has to be a product we rate thatâs a genuinely great price or part of a truly fantastic bundle. Itâs also important that we only recommend retailers where you will have a positive shopping experience.
Why you can trust our choicesWe spend a lot of our time scouring guitar retailers for fantastic deals on our favorite gear. Not only is it our job to research and recommend the best gear in our buyerâs guides, but weâre also dedicated to helping players get the best deals for the gear they need, too. After all, the only thing better than new gear day is a hearty discount.
We cover a lot of the big sales events throughout the year, including Memorial Day, Black Friday, 4th of July sales and Amazon Prime Day, and we have a good view on which products are likely to receive the biggest discounts and when, the prices theyâve been in the past and which deals are genuinely worth a look.
Where are the best places to shop?Online shopping is definitely a lot easier and more secure than it used to be, and we like to recommend a small handful of online retailers who have a sterling reputation and offer fantastic benefits like fuss-free returns, great customer service and, in some cases, full checks and setup of guitars before they are dispatched. So, all the deals weâll recommend on this page are from retailers that tick these boxes.
What sort of deals should I look for?Great deals come in all shapes and sizes. There are a few key types to look out for:
Single item – A single product with a great discountSite-wide discounts – A single discount percentage on a large range of products across a siteDiscount codes – Load your basket to a certain value and redeem a discount code for money off your basket contentsAdded value deals – These include multi-buy discounts, or additional products or software for free when you buy certain items
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Matt is a Junior Deals Writer here at Guitar World. He regularly tests and reviews music gear with a focus on guitars, amps, pedals, modelers, and pretty much anything else guitar-related. Matt worked in music retail for 5 years at Dawsons Music and Northwest Guitars and has written for various music sites including MusicRadar, Guitar Player, Guitar.com, Ultimate Guitar, and Thomannâs t.blog. A regularly gigging guitarist with over 20 years of experience playing live and writing and recording in bands, he’s performed everything from jazz to djent, gigging all over the country in more dingy venues than you can shake a drop-tuned guitar at.
