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Save big on guitar essentials this Black Friday with discounted gear staples

November 28, 2024

This Black Friday is a great chance to grab that last missing piece of your rig – the cornerstone bit of gear that’s well-regarded as a gear essential – a nice tuner, a classic fuzz, a great versatile gigging amp. Luckily there are some great deals on some fantastic bits of gear at places like zZounds, Thomann, Sweetwater, Reverb and Guitar Center that we’d happily put in any rig we’re putting together!
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The Walrus Audio Canvas tuner is, perhaps, the ultimate tuner. With multiple modes, high-quality bypass, a bright and colourful screen, it’s both gorgeous and very useful – and, yes, you can put a picture of your cat on the screen. So really it should be worth a billion dollars – but for Black Friday, it’s a cool 20% off at zZounds, so just a smidge under $120.
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The Phase 90 is, of course, a classic modulation pedal. Orange, one knob, you know what it is, you know what it does, and it’s 20% off!
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Far from a Tufnellesque escalation, the Phase 100 is very much its own thing with its own voice, thanks to a four-position intensity switch, and at Thomann it’s 25% off!
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The Neural DSP is for many in 2024, an essential piece of kit, an absolute cornerstone of a rig given the right circumstances. This unique limited-edition version is, for Cyber Week, available at a great discount from Thomann!
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The latest Katana amplifiers are incredible options if you need a versatile amp that’s at good as home practice as it is gigging at volume. They’re great pedal-platforms too, but also have a bevy of in-built effects on offer!
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The fuzz that put Death By Audio on the map – loud, unruly, and totally unique. Only a Big Muff-style pedal in the sense that it’s four transistors in a line, this is one of the most surprisingly versatile and powerful fuzzes out there. If you’re on the fence on fuzz, this is an essential taster to get you hooked.
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If you need to use two amps (and why wouldn’t you), the Orange Amp detonator is essential. Far from just a splitter in a box, it gives you a buffer, ground-lift and polarity invert to make sure your two amps are electrically isolated, being driven at the right level and in phase.
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Like the Phase 90, this is a pedal that’s been around for decades for a very good reason – it can be used as an always-on sweetener, or an amp-smashing drive.
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Unquestionably essential unless you’re getting really experimental with your playing – stock up on strings this Cyber Weekend with this bundle deal!
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For those in the EU or UK, this bundle of GHS Boomers is also a great way of making sure your stock of strings is healthy!
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