Music123 is having a special 10% discount on qualifying gear for all of you thinking of taking up an instrument, switching to a new one, or maybe have a relative that you want to pin your vicarious dreams of being a musician because you thought piano lessons were "lame".

All you need to do is enter coupon code
LEARN at check out. As always, we took the liberty of listing somethings that caught our eye (prices after the 10% discount):

If you like shopping at Musician's Friend plus getting $99 free shipping, bu then feel totally screwed when they tell you that you have to pay shipping on a $500 bass cabinet because it's too heavy, now's your time! For the rest of this week you can get free shipping on all orders - even big ass heavy things. Me personally, I'm fantasizing that they carry sheet rock or ordering the heaviest possible item at $99. Big Gear Ships Free Event

American Musical Supply has the QSC HPR151i Powered PA Subwoofer for $949 after applying the $150 mail in rebate. Strong enough for a man, but she likes it too!

Quickie specs:

  • Configuration : 15" powered loudspeaker
  • Transducers : 15" cone transducer with 3" voice coil
  • Frequency Response (-3 dB) 1 : 51 Hz - 105 Hz
  • Frequency Range (-10 dB) 1 : 43 Hz - 145 Hz
  • Nominal Coverage, -6 dB : 90° x 40°
  • Maximum SPL (1 meter) : 133 dB peak
  • Power output : 400W Class H,
  • Input impedance : 22k balanced, 11k unbalanced
  • Controls : Gain, Front LED On/Off, Power, Circuit breaker, Phase
  • Indicators :Power, Signal, Limit
  • Cooling : Convection
  • Amplifier protection : Thermal and Output Limiting, Output Short Circuit, Overtemperature Muting, Driver DC Protection
  • Current consumption at 120 VAC : (1/8 power EIA noise) 2.2A
  • Enclosure : Painted Birch plywood
  • Connectors : Balanced female XLR line level input x 2 (L+R), Balanced male XLR full range line level throughputs x 2 (L+R), Male XLR low-cut line level outputs x 2 (L+R)
  • Dimensions : 25" H x 22" W x 20.75" D (635mm x 559mm x 525mm)
  • Net weight : 98 lbs. / 44.5 kg

Abe's of Maine has the lowest price on the WAVES Masters Native Bundle for only $540 plus free shipping. Most places start selling this for about $20 higher, but hey, $20 is $20. That's an extra bottle of bourbon right there for a long night of sweetening your mixed tracks. The bundle includes:

  • Linear Phase Equalizer
  • Linear Phase Multiband
  • L2 Ultramaximizer

Musician's Friend has put the Fostex David Jones Drum sample drum collection back on sale for $9.99 per set again. Prices and linkage below go to product pages.

FYI, David Jones is a legendary session drummer in Australia and has performed on countless Aussie tracks for Jazz, Pop, Rock, and even Folk (!).

NOTE: this deal usually gets taken away pretty quick in the past, so act quick.


Fostex David Jones Drums VF Series (6-CD set) - $9.99 - GREAT DEAL!

  • 6 discs of samples
  • 2 discs Pop/Rock; 1 disc Jazz; 1 disc Percussion; 1 disc Latin; 1 disc Alternates takes/tempos
  • Stereo formats
  • WAV and REX2 formats
  • Songs broken into intros, verses, choruses, and endings
  • Mac and PC compatible

Fostex David Jones Drums Volume 1 - $9.99
  • 2 CD-ROMs full of samples
  • 5 drumming styles: Ballad, BusyBoy, Uptempo, PopSound, and StraightAhead
  • Tracks in 5 Rock formats ranging from 70-120BPM
  • Songs broken into intros, verses, choruses, and endings
  • .WAV and .REX2 formats
  • Mac and PC compatible

Fostex David Jones Mix It Volume 2 - $9.99
  • 2 CD-ROMs full of samples
  • 5 drumming styles: ContemPop, Country Rock, Grungie, Rock n' Funky, and Washy
  • Tracks in 5 Rock formats ranging from 88-136BPM.
  • Songs broken into intros, verses, choruses, and endings
  • .WAV and .REX2 formats
  • Mac and PC compatible

Fostex David Jones Drums Volume 2 - $9.99
  • 2 CD-ROMs full of samples
  • Tracks in 5 Rock formats ranging from 88-136BPM
  • Songs broken into intros, verses, choruses, and endings
  • .WAV and .REX2 formats
  • Mac and PC compatible

For you hardcore bargain hunters, you can use coupon code "OutletSale" at Woodwind & Brasswind for an extra 20% off anything in their Outlet Store. This includes new and blemished items. If "blem" or "demo" items makes you nervous, you'll be fine. W&B offers a 45 Day return policy in addition to their 10 day trial policy on all items. The only things you can't return are the following:

  • Copy protected material such as sheet music, videos, software, sample libraries
  • Recording Media: Cassettes, reels, DAT tapes, Mini-discs, CDR’s
  • Drumheads, drum sticks, cleaning and care products, rosin, tubes, strings
  • Reeds, harmonicas, pitch pipes, ear plugs and other in ear monitors

We took the liberty of cherry-picking some of the items on our wish list. All prices are blems (you have to be sure to select it on the product page) so you can apply the 20% off:

From now till July 31st 2009, Music123 is offering a $100 rebate on the Crown XLS 5000 1800 watt Power Amplifier Standard PLUS get a free Furman RR-15X Power Conditioner (valued at $40) minus the $10 discount for spending over $99 bringing the total to about $1289 for the whole package.

Quickie specs:

  • 1800 watts per channel in four-ohm stereo mode; 5000 watts in four-ohm bridge-mono mode
  • Sensitivity (volts RMS) for full rated power at 4 ohms: 1.25 V.
  • Frequency Response (at 1 watt) 22 Hz to 20 kHz: +0 dB, 0.8dB
  • Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20 Hz to 20 kHz)_A-weighted, below rated power: _>98 dB. _No weighting, below rated power: _>93 dB.
  • Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): <0.5%.
  • Crosstalk (below rated power)_at 1 kHz: 76 dB. at 20 kHz: 58 dB.
  • Input Impedance (nominal): 20 kilohms balanced, 10 kilohms unbalanced.
  • Load Impedance: Rated for 2 to 8 ohms per channel in Stereo, 4 to 8 ohms in Bridge Mono.
  • AC Line Voltage and Frequency Configurations Available (<## HV plusmn ##>10%): 120 VAC 60 Hz, 100 VAC 50/60 Hz, 220 VAC 50 Hz, and 230-240 VAC

Get up to a $20 rebate off the street price of four classic Shure microphones for vocalists or recording you amp or snare drum. The mics and rebates are as follows: