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Guitar Center
4.5 ★★★★★ 94 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Santa Maria, California
Music store carrying guitars, drums, keyboards, amps, recording gear, and DJ equipment.
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 (805) 357-2457
- Website stores.guitarcenter.com
Hours
| Monday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Tuesday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–7 PM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–8 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–7 PM |
What's on the wall
“I just purchased a Yamaha classical guitar and I get 45 days to decide if I want to keep it.”
“man, I have to say whoever is in charge at that location has orchestrated a group of guys and girls to work that store so completely right!”
“a whole wall of basses and 2 other small walls,and they are all playable and not locked up.”
“great prices on all the items egreat collection of used guitars as well as new Gibson if you want”
“But my interactions with the tech on the phone at this store switched my feelings and convinced me to go through with an exchange instead of a return.”
“2 DJ turntables and a whole room of acoustic instruments ,basses, guitars ,and ukulele’s.”
“Drums and some music production software and hardware.”
Brands they deal
“great prices on all the items egreat collection of used guitars as well as new Gibson if you want”
What players say again and again
“She was knowledgeable PLUS she knew how to play the keyboard, and very well.”
From the reviews
really really cool guitar center. a whole wall of basses and 2 other small walls,and they are all playable and not locked up.another whole big wall of electric guitars and you could play all of them.2 DJ turntables and a whole room of acoustic instruments ,basses, guitars ,and ukulele’s.
They have wide variety of guitars and electrics. Drums and some music production software and hardware. Adan, Isaiah, JJ, Anthony and Shay are very helpful. Tell them DJ Splenda sent you!!!!
Helpful knowledgeable staff willing to going the distance for the sale. I ordered a Les Paul on the website for home delivery and corporate packed it terribly and it arrived with a busted headstock.
Great store, with very passionate staff. All of them are musicians, and all of them are extremely knowledgeable and eager to share not only what they know, but their excitement and thoughts on the various aspects of music making earnestly.
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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