Guitar World deals of the week: save $200 on a Victory Amps pedal, get a TC Electronic pedal for nearly half price, plus all the week’s biggest savings

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Greetings deal hunters, and welcome back to another glut of savings brought to you by the Guitar World team. There’s a lot of sales happening across the web this week so we’ve got plenty to get stuck into. Let’s get cracking…

Presidents’ Day is still a little while away, but Musician’s Friend has seen fit to launch their sale early, offering up to 50% off guitar gear right now. It includes deals on Fender, Martin, Gretsch, and many more great guitar brands, so well worth a gander if you’re in the market for a new guitar.

Sweetwater has also launched a guitar-centric sale with up to 50% off in their Guitar Gallery sale. We spotted loads of high-end guitars with some pretty hefty discounts, as well as discounts on Blackstar amps, and some nice savings on bulk packs of guitar strings.

Guitar Center is the place to be if you want to upgrade your recording rig, with up to 40% off audio interfaces, studio monitors, and studio headphones. It’s a great way to start your home studio or upgrade an existing one and if you’re not interested in recording, there are some great deals on Line 6 and Ampeg pedals for you instead.

If you like free money, Fender is giving away a free $35 gift card to anyone who buys a $250 one, which is a nice way to top up an already existing gift if you’re feeling generous. They’ve also got some nice discounts of up to $100 off California Player guitars if you’re looking for a new acoustic.

Finally, if you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day gift, you should head over to the Positive Grid website where there’s up to 45% off smart amps and software. Apart from the Spark 2 and recently announced Spark Neo, every other Spark amp is included with the Mini, Go, Edge, Live, and Cab seeing a discount, as well as a new lower price for Spark 40.

That’s it for major sales action this week, but it’s the Presidents’ Day weekend next week, so expect to see loads more deals appearing in the coming days. Below you’ll find our usual selection of handpicked deals for you, and of course, we’ll be back next week with a bumper Presidents Day edition. Until next time…

Editor’s picksGuitar sales to shopAmazon: Guitar gear dealsAndertons: Save on guitarsFender Play: 50% off annualFender store: $200 off guitarsGear4Music: 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: 2nd hand dealsReverb: Up to 30% offSweetwater: Epic guitar dealsThomann: Last-minute dealsWaves: Buy one 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 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 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 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 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 Thomann’s 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.

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