recomend a guitar shop?

THEZAPPA

im looking for a guitar at the moment!
but i dont know what guitar shops i can go to,that wont rip me off!
my brother is helping me but his guitar is crap and i want to buy my own one!

can anyone please recommend a guitar shop in dublin?

thanks

Creamy Goodness

you can't go into a guitar in ireland and not get ripped off.

what i tend to do is go in and try some guitars and get a feel for the guitar then buy it online using the numerous shops in the resources sticky

THEZAPPA

true you cant get ripped off here!

i do that but can never find a really nice one!
ill have a look at some websites tonight!
might get one from germany!

Zapp Brannigan

Cremo wrote:

you can't go into a guitar in ireland and not get ripped off.

what i tend to do is go in and try some guitars and get a feel for the guitar then buy it online using the numerous shops in the resources sticky

Yup, but also you cant really go into a guitar either can ya?

Johnny Storm

Personally, I have found the people in Musician Inc (mostly) and Perfect Pitch (sometimes) to be more interested in customer service than the people in other music shops. On line is way cheaper, no doubt about it.

kawaii

Johnny Storm wrote:

Personally, I have found the people in Musician Inc (mostly) and Perfect Pitch (sometimes) to be more interested in customer service than the people in other music shops. On line is way cheaper, no doubt about it.

Perfect Pitch- can be kinda rude, they get some interesting things in there though (and a lot of crap...)

Waltons - Nice people, well laid out shop and pretty laid back atmosphere but a lot of the people don't know what they're doing...

Instrumental - Assholes...

Musicmaker - Nice people, lots of neat stuff...

Musician Inc - Nicest people, small shop but the people know what they're doing... Best customer service and my personal fave...

Goodwins - Also very nice people but not really the best variety of stuff...

That's just my oppinions of things... Prices don't really change much...

Ravelleman

kawaii wrote:

Musicmaker - Nice people

:eek:

Johnny Storm

kawaii wrote:

Perfect Pitch- can be kinda rude, ...

I agree - they were so rude to me one time (3 or 4 years ago) that I didn't go in there for ages. More recently have found them to be fine, quite helpful in fact and not adverse to knocking a bit off the price. Probably depends on the particular individual you encounter. I find them good for accessories. Their range of electric guitars is very limited IMHO.

THEZAPPA

Musician Inc-yeh i went there and they have some neat stuff mite go again next friday!
Perfect Pitch-yes i went their but they were assholes to me!

i think i might just buy from the web,i found a website!

but thanks ill keep looking!

feylya

In fairness to all the guitar shop staff, can you imagine having to put up with little 14 and 15 year olds (and older) coming in and playing Enter Sandman a hundred times a day? I know it's their job to help you but everyone has bad days.

THEZAPPA

yeh i do agree with you there!

Creamy Goodness

if i absolutely have to buy in a guitar shop in town (small things like leads, picks etc) i'll choose goodwins, as their prices are on par with everyone else ohh and they always play weezer.

THEZAPPA

Cremo wrote:

if i absolutely have to buy in a guitar shop in town (small things like leads, picks etc) i'll choose goodwins, as their prices are on par with everyone else ohh and they always play weezer.

yeh im always there!ha,i love the way they play weezer

feylya

Goodwins? Where's that when it's at home?

Johnny Storm

Capel St, not far from Slatterys. Was only ever in there one time but friendly and helpful service. Had a good range of electrics AFAICR. Seemed a little bit trad oriented.

Johnny Storm

feylya wrote:

In fairness to all the guitar shop staff, can you imagine having to put up with little 14 and 15 year olds (and older) coming in and playing Enter Sandman a hundred times a day? I know it's their job to help you but everyone has bad days.

I hear what you are saying Feylya. IMHO some shops just train their staff to cope better with their bad days or at least create an expectation that its not OK to be rude to potential paying customers.

feylya

Do shops even bother training their staff with customer interaction?

LundiMardi

Johnny Storm wrote:

Capel St, not far from Slatterys. Was only ever in there one time but friendly and helpful service. Had a good range of electrics AFAICR. Seemed a little bit trad oriented.

ah yeah i remember that place, decent range of tab books, i got my first book there, Jeff Buckley:) My god it was expensive!!

kawaii

feylya wrote:

In fairness to all the guitar shop staff, can you imagine having to put up with little 14 and 15 year olds (and older) coming in and playing Enter Sandman a hundred times a day? I know it's their job to help you but everyone has bad days.

We'll if some shops can deal with it then why can't all of them?

feylya

Cos different people have different levels of tolerance. My point was that everyone gets in a ****ty mood from time to time and takes it out on other people, no matter how hard they try not to. A combination of a bad mood and constant crap with people playing guitars badly would piss anyone off.

John

feylya wrote:

I know it's their job to help you but everyone has bad days.

In some shops it's always a bad day.

feylya

John2 wrote:

In some shops it's always a bad day.

And some people are just assholes

kawaii

feylya wrote:

And some people are just assholes

My point exactly...

THEZAPPA

some of them are not assholes but when a little kid plays crap its annoying!

fish-head

Musician Inc is the best in my honest and humble opinion.

ANarcho-Munk

If you're looking on the internet check out www.thomann.de and www.guitarampkeyboard.com

Thomann - you can get a lot of stuff for a low price there but for the more expensive goods they can be unrelaible
GAK - a lot of their stuff is the same price as it would be in the shops but it's a good website to look at and they are reliable.



most people know these site but in case you didn't...

THEZAPPA

thanks dude ill have a lok at them again!

mite see something!

cregser

fish-head wrote:

Musician Inc is the best in my honest and humble opinion.

Bought my first ever guitar 3 weeks ago from these guys and would also give them my vote. I did bring a friend in to tell me where to go and what questions to ask etc. as well play some decent guitar when I started to piss people off with my fumbly g-tar playing . I got a cheap solid-top Tanglewood that apparently sounds very good for its price (according to my mate).

ANarcho-Munk

THEZAPPA wrote:

thanks dude ill have a lok at them again!

mite see something!

I'm just kinda curious but what kinda price range are you looking at for your guitar?



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THEZAPPA

i have a 1000euro i mite save up and get a ibanez!

ANarcho-Munk

I've got an ibanez rg320 atm, got it second hand and with a free (shítty :rolleyes: ) distortion pedal and a lead

It's an ok guitar but i need to get new pickups.....

THEZAPPA

ANarcho-Munk wrote:

I've got an ibanez rg320 atm, got it second hand and with a free (shítty :rolleyes: ) distortion pedal and a lead

It's an ok guitar but i need to get new pickups.....

cool im looking for a new one!
ibanez rg370dx
or
js1000 joe satriani signature model

JMArr

Musician Inc. gets my vote -great customer service very friendly and helpful .know what they're talking about gear wise and not condescending at all unlike nearly all the others -the worst I've encountered being some muppet in waltons up near parnell sq which has to be the worst guitar shop in dublin .also as it has a basement floor you can try out gear in some kind of privacy and crank the volume a little too.:-) AND they give decent trade in values on gear. I used to hate going into music shops and trying out gear as its a weird experience ,a little mini gig if you will...and because of the condescension of the staff.now I'm like 'I wanna try the Gibson on the back wall and the mesa boogie lonestar bitch' and I 'm gonna crank it too !

THEZAPPA

thanks think il visit musician inc on saturday!

might see something!