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Take your guitar on a trip back to the '80s, with Marshall's JCM-1C all-tube combo amplifier! Commemorating 50 years of Marshall amplification, the JCM-1C is a single channel, 1W/.01W combo with a custom voice Celestion 10" speaker. Its voicing sounds like a vintage Marshall from the '80s, and its era-correct cosmetics look the part too. And for period-correct sound, two ECC83 preamp tubes and a ECC82 power tube are ready to rock. As part of the series of 50th anniversary amps that Marshall will release throughout 2012, we're sure the JCM-1C combo amplifier will be an instant classic!

The First Collaboration Between Epiphone and the Gibson Custom Shop. Made in partnership with the Gibson™ Custom Shop, the Limited Edition 1959 Les Paul™ Standard is Epiphone's stunning recreation of the rare vintage classic. Featuring a mahogany body with a maple top with a AAA figured maple veneer, comfortable 1959 hand-rolled neck profile with long neck tenon, aged finish, Gibson USA BurstBucker™ 2 & 3 humbucking pickups, Switchcraft® selector switch and output jack, CTS® pots, 50s era wiring, Mallory™ capacitors, non-beveled pickguard, new Epiphone Deluxe vintage tuners, and a vintage-style brown hard case. It also comes with an Epiphone Limited Edition metal medallion toggle switchplate. Available in Aged Dark Burst and Aged Dark Cherry Burst.

The FRM100 is a solid body electric guitar introduced by Ibanez in late 2011. It was the first mass produced Fireman series guitar, which was designed by Paul Gilbert and is part of Gilbert's signature series. It was produced in China. This model was also sold in a package with a gig bag as the FRM100GB.

The Yamaha F310 (also known as F310P) offers outstanding quality at a truly budget price. The lively sound from the spruce/meranti body has a bright, sweet resonance not unlike Yamahas renowned FGs, and real rosewood is used for the fingerboard and bridge. The handling comfort of the slightly reduced body depth and intermediate scale length will be particularly appreciated by younger players.

We redesigned everything about it layout and parts wise. The casing is now smaller like an MRX size unit. It features the big old school film caps which are way fuller sounding and went with carbon resistors because they are a bit warmer than what we were using. The biggest difference you would notice right away is the taper in the gain control. The old ones were bunched up at the end. The new ones are spread out and have a even progression to the max gain setting. It also has a better note decay to my ears because of the way we configured the new gain control. Tech terms, we shunted 100k off the input signal to ground which helps with the decay and a smoother feel. I think this version cleans up even faster on the guitar volume knob because of the input signal being padded down now.

An American-made Tele at an unbeatable price — that’s exactly what you get with the Fender American Performer Telecaster. Experience balanced tone and extreme comfort, courtesy of a lightweight alder body, maple modern C-shaped neck, and easy-playing 9.5"-radius maple fingerboard. Heat things up with an awe-inspiring combination of vintage-tinged sonics and modern output, thanks to two Yosemite single-coil pickups. On top of that, Fender’s Greasebucket tone control keeps things from getting muddy. The American Performer Tele includes ClassicGear tuners for rock-solid intonation.

The Aire Standard is an electric guitar designed and engineered on the base of the Made in Italy version, aiming at offering exactly the same concept guitar to a very affordable price. 24-frets with no "modern" impact, a positively sharp and penetrating sound, with all the features of our Made in Italy production.

The result of collaboration between John Suhr and rock guitarist extraordinaire Doug Aldrich, the Aldrich humbuckers are the ultimate high-output pickups for aggressive rock style of playing. The Aldrich bridge humbucker is now our highest output pickup but it oozes tone across its sound spectrum.

The neck pickup – It’s big sounding yet focused and punchy in the mids and tight in the lows. You will never hear this pickup get flubby and undefined in the highest gain settings. The high-mids will cut through like the sharpest knife but the treble will be sweet and never grating on the ears. From chunky low-string metal riffing to screaming string bends in the high register, the Aldrich bridge humbucker covers them all while retaining the dynamics of your picking attack. The Doug Aldrich Neck humbucker is the perfect complement to the Aldrich bridge pickup. Carefully calibrated for the neck position, the Aldrich neck pickup is warm, clear with exceptional string-to-string balance. This is our highest output neck humbucker pickup but it never gets muddy or undefined.

The Indigo Plus CY takes full advantage of the tonal potential of a solid western red cedar soundboard and layered mahogany back and sides. The back is pressed into an arch thanks to which no reinforcing braces are necessary. This design has a positive effect on the guitar’s resonance. The guitar has a high-gloss soundboard, while the back and sides are protected by open-pore finish that leaves wood pores exposed. This combination of tonewoods and finishes lends the Indigo Plus CY a very strong, loud, dynamic, and balanced sound.

Audio-Technica’s premier studio vocal microphone, the AT5040 represents a milestone in condenser design, offering remarkably musical high-fidelity performance, with profound realism and depth, presence and purity of sound. Designed as a first-choice vocal microphone, the AT5040 cardioid condenser features an extremely smooth top end with controlled sibilance. Large-diaphragm characteristics and fast transient response also make it ideal for recording acoustic instruments such as piano, guitar, strings and saxophone.

The first of our design criteria for the AT5040 was purity of sound. To achieve this, Audio-Technica engineers developed a four-part rectangular element, the pinnacle of our recent breakthroughs in sound-capture technology. Four exquisitely matched ultra-thin diaphragms function together (with outputs proprietarily summed) as Audio-Technica’s largest-ever element, providing combined surface area twice that of a standard one-inch circular diaphragm.

By using four diaphragms in a single capsule, the AT5040 delivers the benefits of an exceptionally large diaphragm--along with an extremely low noise floor--without increased weight, decreased transient response or other drawbacks that typically restrict diaphragm size.

Another key AT5040 design feature is advanced internal shock mounting that effectively decouples the capsule from the microphone body. For additional isolation, each AT5040 is also provided with Audio-Technica’s innovative new AT8480 shock mount.

Every AT5040 is hand assembled and individually inspected for 100% quality control. Each studio microphone is enclosed in an elegant housing of aluminum and brass with high-quality gray finish for durability and low reflectivity.

Discrete components have been selected for optimized capsule performance; in fact, every aspect of the microphone has been carefully considered to minimize any effects on the audio signal.

The MSM100 is an AZ series solid body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 2019. It is the second signature model produced for Italian progressive metal/ instrumental rock guitarist Marco Sfogli, replacing his previous MSM1. It was made in Japan by FujiGen. The MSM100 features a 4mm thick AAA-grade flame maple top on an alder body bolted to an S-Tech roasted maple neck with an S-Tech roasted maple fingerboard with 24 stainless steel frets, abalone dot position markers and luminescent side dots. Components include a pair of DiMarzio humbucking pickups, a Gotoh T1802 synchronized tremolo bridge, a bone nut, and Gotoh locking tuning machines with height-adjustable posts. – IbanezWiki

The Immerse Mk II raises the bar with eight rich stereo reverbs in one easy to use pedal. No user manual required. Experience studio-quality tone that can be used with instruments of all stripes.

The Excel DC is a standout double-cutaway semi-hollow offering classic tones and modern versatility. With deep, comfortable cutaways and a slim C-shape neck profile offsetting its 16-inch-wide body shape, the Excel DC's playability is remarkable. Seymour Duncan 59 humbuckers provide an impressive tonal range of vintage-voiced warmth to glassy high-end, while its center block fights off feedback at high volumes. Now featuring a rosewood fingerboard, Jescar 47104 fretwire, and vintage-inspired Grover Imperial tuners. Now available in Vintage Natural, Viola, Black Dog, Solid Black, and Trans Cherry.

This Fishman AFX Chorus Acoustic Guitar Effects Pedal is the first chorus stompbox to deliver such a high quality of depth and motion to your acoustic guitar. The 3 choruses, 2 tremolos, flanger, phaser, and rotary speaker are EQ’d to match the resonances of your amplified acoustic guitar, making sure only to enhance the unique sound of your guitar. Fishman's AFX level controls allow you to adjust the warmth or brightness, and the depth and intensity, of the chosen effect. The Fishman AFX Chorus Acoustic Guitar Effects Pedal’s durable, road worthy design has ultra-quiet 24-bit audio conversion and 32-bit signal processing with ¼” stereo inputs/outputs. The AFX controls allow adjustment for the effect level, tone, and speed (rate). The all-analog, buffered bypass foot switch ensures clear and clean tone when multiple pedals are chained.

The G&L Comanche® is Leo’s final word on the traditional double-cutaway bolt-on axe. Fact is, the first thing you’ll notice about the Comanche is the distinctive shape of the Magnetic Field Design™ Z-Coil™ pickups designed by Leo Fender† himself. These pickups deliver a bright and sparkly top end while offering a robust bottom end, all without any 60-cycle hum.

You’ll find plenty of power in the Z-coil pickups, but what’s surprising is how glassy and detailed they become as you roll back the volume and bass controls, the latter a part of the Comanche’s PTB™ (Passive Treble and Bass) system.* What’s more, the Tribute® Series Comanche includes an expander switch** on the treble pot to allow neck+bridge or all three pickups together. In a pinch, the neck+bridge combo does a convincing faux ASAT® Special. Talk about versatile! The new G&L Tribute Series Comanche features the power of MFD pickups and a Poplar body. Making the most of this delicious combo is Leo’s Dual-Fulcrum vibrato, a work of engineering art which allows bending up or down with unsurpassed stability, while offering a silky feel through its beefy aluminum vibrato arm. The Comanche was the very last double-cutaway bolt-on guitar designed by Leo Fender, the culmination of everything he had learned during his amazing lifetime. And now, it’s available at a price within reach of every working musician. Once you play a G&L Tribute Series, you’ll never look back.

In the spring of nineteen twenty six, SELMER had made enough small adjustments and improvements to the instrument to validate a new model. So accordingly they replaced the Model 22 with the Model 26. It was much the same instrument with some key improvements and some other minor adjustments. Production by this time had increased to about fifteen hundred instruments per year. They were ramping up quite nicely. So the model twenty six started around serial number four thousand four hundred (a little later for the C Melody, around four thousand eight hundred) and ran up to about eight thousand. Throughout the model twenty six run, the most popular instrument was still the alto. The soprano was next most popular. But interestingly, the C tenor or C melody had declined a little bit in popularity and the B flat tenor became the most popular instrument. (Selmer's website).

Sawtooth full size dreadnought acoustic guitars offer rich sound and tremendous value to all aspiring guitarists. Great for any player seeking a well-built and easy-playing acoustic guitar. Features a Spruce top with Mahogany back and sides for full and resonant sound, smooth-playing 20-fret rosewood fingerboard, chrome hardware and rosewood bridge.

We have also been aware of some players who will always prefer a U-shaped, screw operated capo that can be stored behind the nut while not in use. For these players, we have now designed the Shubb Fine Tune Capo. It represents the highest quality of craftsmanship and materials, and offers a few unique features not seen before.

• Its innovative adjusting knob makes it the most ergonomic screw-operated capo.

• The knob maintains a fixed relationship with the frame, for improved ease of use, and for the lowest profile when stored behind the nut.

• The knob’s six surfaces are numbered, providing a visual reference to more easily and accurately reproduce your ideal pressure.

• Greater contact area between screw, frame, and knob ensures that the fit will never become loose and sloppy.

• Specially developed rubber padding adds resilience to the capo’s closing action for finer control, and being absolutely inert, it will not mark an instrument.

• Rubber bumpers and smoothly rounded edges protect the instrument.

• Improved jeweler’s style latch prevents accidental opening.

• Carefully machined to the closest thread tolerance.

• Highly polished stainless steel with attractive abalone inlay.

• All models have been thoroughly tested on many vintage instruments, including 30s, 40s, and 50s Martins, 30s Gibsons, and most of the popular contemporary instruments, to ensure the best fit and performance.

The FineTune Capo is not available through our conventional wholesale distribution network. It is available only at a few select retail stores and websites, and directly from us here online.

Replacement sleeves: our FineTune capos use a different sleeve than our other capos While one of our standard replacement sleeves CAN be used on a FineTune capo, it is thicker-walled, and will slightly alter the closing action of the capo. Unless you are specifically seeking more padding and a softer feel when closing, we suggest that you use the replacement sleeve that is made for the FineTune capo.

The Boxer Telecaster® HH features a pair of hot humbucking pickups, a master volume, TBX™ Treble Bass Expander tone control and coil-split toggle switch. Each model also has a Medium “C”-shaped maple neck with a 12” radius rosewood fingerboard and 22 jumbo frets for fast, smooth playability with choke-free bending.

The Enya NEXG is the world's first smart audio guitar, combining a Bluetooth speaker, preamp, sound card, and onboard effects into a single instrument. A built-in tuner, vocal remover button, and a detachable outer frame round out this innovative guitar. NEXG is also one of the most comfortable guitars to play thanks to its radius fretboard and zero fret design. With modes of karaoke, silent playing, jamming, and digital output, Enya NEXG is designed to solve problems for all guitarists, from beginners to experts. For all music lovers, the NEXG all-in-one smart audio guitar is here to simplify your life.

Nile Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on recordings that have sold more than 500-million albums globally. Every hit record he’s produced has shared one essential element: the used 1960 Fender hardtail Stratocaster® Nile bought in a Miami music shop. Rarely is a single guitar so inseparably identified with its owner as The Hitmaker.

The Hitmaker features a 1960 alder body that is uniquely smaller and more contoured than a typical vintage Strat. The beautiful Olympic White lacquer matches the finish Nile sprayed on the guitar himself just after he acquired it in the early days of Chic. The custom ’59-profile one-piece maple neck has a 9.5” radius fingerboard, medium jumbo frets and a satin finish. A “Nile Rodgers & Chic” logo adorns the back of the headstock and a custom Hitmaker logo is stamped into the neck plate.

The Nile Rodgers Hitmaker single-coil Strat pickups are voiced to accurately replicate the quack, chime and bell-like clarity of the original Hitmaker. Other features include a hard-tail string-through bridge with period-correct bent-steel saddles, an eye-catching mirrored chrome-plated brass pickguard, locking Sperzel® tuners and a set of white speed knobs. The guitar also comes with a vintage-style case with Hitmaker-embroidered interior and a custom certificate of authenticity.

The Hammertone™ Distortion delivers the legendary distorted tones you need for nearly any style of music. The active 2-band Bass and Treble EQ controls provide modern tone-shaping flexibility, while the pedal board-friendly top-mounted in & out jacks and true bypass footswitch mean it will integrate seamlessly into your rig.

Whether you’re pushing your cranked amp into full-blown distortion or just adding some warmth, grit and character to your clean sound, the Hammertone™ Overdrive is an essential addition to your rig. This compact drive packs a big punch – the pre-gain mid boost adds the perfect edge for cutting through the mix, while the pedal board-friendly top-mounted in & out jacks and true bypass footswitch mean it will integrate seamlessly into your rig.