With Easter weekend approaching, there are loads of Spring Sales happening across the web, which means great deals on guitars, pedals, amps, and loads more gear. We've been hard at work hunting down the biggest savings from all the major retailers across the web, so if you're looking for a saving on some fresh gear, you're in the right place. Let's get to it...
Over at Guitar Center the Guitar-A-Thon continues with discounts on hundreds of guitars, amps, and pedals. There are loads of deals on electric guitars, so if you're looking for a new axe, then it's definitely the place to go shopping this weekend. We've seen great deals on Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, and plenty more so it's well worth a browse to see what you can pick up.
The Musician's Friend Spring Sale continues to add more deals to its offering, with some gigantic savings of up to 60% off gear still available. This sale has been running for a little while now, so we can't see it hanging around too much longer.
A new sale has launched over at the official Fender store this week, with up to 30% off a selection of their web-exclusive guitars. It includes limited edition Player Series guitars, as well as some great discounts on Squier's. It might only be around for a short time too as there's no end date for this one, so get on it if you're after a great value guitar.
Finally at Positive Grid you can continue to get up to 45% off their smart amps and software. We spotted some decent savings on the Spark Mini and Spark Cab, and you can get massive money off their excellent BIAS amp modeling software too.
That's it for this week and although it's a slightly lesser offering than we had last week there are still plenty of sales if you want to pick up something fresh this weekend. As always, we've picked out some of our favorite deals on gear for you below, and we'll be taking a break next week, so catch you in a fortnight for more of the best deals on gear.
Editor's picks
Guitar sales to shop
- Amazon: Guitar gear deals
- Andertons: Save on guitars
- Fender Play: 50% off annual
- Fender store: Up to 20% off
- Gear4Music: Clearance deals
- Guitar Center: Save up to 40%
- Guitar Tricks: One-year sub just $99
- IK Multimedia: $200 off Tonex Max
- Musician's Friend: Up to 40% off
- Plugin Boutique: Money off plugins
- Positive Grid: Save on Spark
- PMT: Up to 50% off
- Reverb: 100,000+ discounts
- Sweetwater: Epic guitar deals
- Thomann: Last-minute deals
- Waves: Buy two get one free
How we choose our deals of the week
Here 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 that’s a genuinely great price or part of a truly fantastic bundle. It’s also important that we only recommend retailers where you will have a positive shopping experience.
Why you can trust our choices
We 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 buyer’s guides, but we’re 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 they’ve 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 we’ll 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 discount
- Site-wide discounts - A single discount percentage on a large range of products across a site
- Discount codes - Load your basket to a certain value and redeem a discount code for money off your basket contents
- Added value deals - These include multi-buy discounts, or additional products or software for free when you buy certain items
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