Guitar World deals of the week: save $200 on a Fender guitar, get $135 off amp simulator software, plus all the week’s best deals

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Welcome back to your weekly dose of guitar gear deals from the team here at Guitar World. As usual, we’ve been hard at work this week hunting down the biggest savings from across the web, and we’ve picked out some fantastic deals for you. Let’s get to it!

If you’re in the market for a new acoustic guitar, then you’ll want to head over to Guitar Center where they’ve got up to 40% discounts on acoustics, classical guitars, ukuleles, and loads of accessories like clip-on tuners. We spied some great deals on Martin, Taylor, Fender, Epiphone, Ibanez, and loads more.

If you prefer electric guitar, you should over to the official Fender shop, where you can bag yourself $200 off Player Plus guitars. Decidedly more modern takes on the Fender staples, the Player Plus Series gives you features like rolled fingerboards, locking tuners, upgraded pickups, and some properly unique paint jobs, now with a serious discount.

At Musician’s Friend, their Winter Warm-Up sale continues with reductions of up to 40% off a huge range of guitar gear. We had a look through the sale and spotted some great deals on Gibson and Epiphone guitars with up to $400 off, as well as some fantastic savings on TC Electronic pedals.

Finally, if you’re in the mood for romancing, or you want to point your significant other in the right direction, Positive Grid has launched a Valentine’s Day sale with big savings of up to 45% off smart amps and software. Featuring discounts on the Spark Mini and Spark Go, as well as some big savings on accessories it’s a great one for gifting.

Below you’ll find five handpicked deals from the team here with big discounts on some of our favorite gear. As always, we’ll be back next week with more epic deals action for you so until then, happy hunting!

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.