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Guitar Center
4.3 ★★★★☆ 1,182 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Fountain Valley, California
Plan your visit
- Repairs & setups a repair bench comes up in reviews and the store's own info — call ahead for turnaround, since good techs run a queue
- Buys & trades used gear they buy, trade, or consign used instruments — bring the case and any original parts, and expect trade credit to beat the cash offer
- Lessons lessons come up in reviews and the store's own info — call about openings, instruments taught, and rates before the first visit
- Instrument rentals rentals mentioned — the usual route for band & orchestra season; ask about rent-to-own credit
- Today see hours ·
- Phone (714) 241-9140
- Website stores.guitarcenter.com
Hours
| Monday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Tuesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Saturday | 10 AM–9 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–7 PM |
What's on the wall
“This is the store I bought my new Dean Z Blueburst at and the Ovation double neck 12/6 String Acoustic/Electric guitars shown in the photos.”
“This is the store I bought my new Dean Z Blueburst at and the Ovation double neck 12/6 String Acoustic/Electric guitars shown in the photos.”
“They have basses, banjos, and ukuleles, too, as well as amps, pedals, and other types of non-guitar musical accessories.”
“They did not cringe or told me to lower volume when I was testing a Fender Guitar Reverb Amp dialed to 10 while I played Smoke in the Water or Stairway.”
“Overall, this Guitar Center location is the best in OC, and it has an outstanding team that cares about musicians of all levels, which is a really rare treat nowadays.”
“However in a crunch it'll come in handy and the guitar is a pretty solid if you're going to buy something used”
“Had my first DJ lesson with *Kobe Wood* at Guitar Center and it was an awesome experience!”
“They have basses, banjos, and ukuleles, too, as well as amps, pedals, and other types of non-guitar musical accessories.”
“We had one of the drum experts helping us (sorry that I forgot his name), and he was great to my son who was purchasing his first drum set.”
Brands they deal
“They did not cringe or told me to lower volume when I was testing a Fender Guitar Reverb Amp dialed to 10 while I played Smoke in the Water or Stairway.”
“Mike helped me with the purchase of a new Gibson Les Paul 60’s Standard and was very happy with his service and advice.”
What players say again and again
“The manager and staff were super awesome and he gave me great advice on the DJ board I was buying and even a discount so I could afford getting insurance on my equipment!”
“We had one of the drum experts helping us (sorry that I forgot his name), and he was great to my son who was purchasing his first drum set.”
“We had one of the drum experts helping us (sorry that I forgot his name), and he was great to my son who was purchasing his first drum set.”
From the reviews
Very friendly staff. Not pretentious at all. No hard selling; they just come around and ask how you're doing. Nice selection, many rooms. The acoustic room is three rooms deep. There are electric guitars all around the entire store with a robust used section.
I had a fantastic experience at the Guitar Center store and can’t say enough good things about the team there. The staff truly made my visits memorable. Lonnie and P.J. in the drum department are absolute rock stars — knowledgeable, energetic, and clearly passionate about what they do.
I've been playing guitar for over 25 years now and have been coming to this Guitar Center for about for the same amount of time. I've purchased a number of brand new guitars and pedals at this store and have never been disappointed.
Awesome selection of new and used gear here. Small isolation room to try an amp loud for a couple minutes if you need to. Friedman, Suhr, the good stuff from Vox and Fender, Orange, etc. This guitar center location really has some professional stuff.
Selling or trading gear at Guitar Center
Guitar Center comes up for buying and trading used gear — confirmed on their own site. Two things make the trip go better. First, bring the whole package: the case or gig bag, the original tremolo arm or bridge parts, the paperwork if you have it — a complete rig is worth real money more than a bare instrument, and it saves the back-and-forth of "can you bring the case in?" Second, know that trade credit almost always beats the cash offer, usually by a healthy margin — if you're upgrading anyway, price your old gear as a trade against the new one before you take cash. Either way, expect the offer to be below what the gear sells for on the wall; the gap is the store's margin for setup, warranty, and sitting on it until the right buyer walks in.
Lessons at Guitar Center
Reviews and the store's own info mention lessons at Guitar Center. If you're signing up a beginner (or restarting yourself), a quick call ahead answers the three things that matter: which instruments they teach, whether the schedule has openings at the time you actually need, and what a first lesson costs. There's no wrong first guitar — a good teacher will happily work with whatever you walk in with, and a shop that teaches usually keeps affordable starter instruments and rentals on hand for exactly this reason.
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