Guitar World deals of the week: get a signature Jackson with $910 off, bag an EHX overdrive pedal for half price, plus the PRS guitar that broke the internet gets a $250 reduction

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This week's best sales

Positive Grid Guitar Month:
Save on smart amps
Musician's Friend:
Up to 60% off Spring Sale
Thomann (UK/EU):
Last chance for up to 60% off

Welcome to the Easter edition of deals of the week, and despite the festivities, there's not a huge amount of sales on at the moment. Don't let that worry you, though. I've still managed to pull out plenty of great deals for you this week.

Over at Musician's Friend, a new spring sale has just launched with hefty discounts of up to 60% off. There are some huge discounts on guitars, with reductions hitting up to $900, as well as some half-price pedals, making it well worth a browse for any guitar player.

For our UK and EU readers, you've not got long to cash in on the Thomann Spring Sale, which has still got deals of up to 60% off gear. There's plenty of great guitar gear discounted here, with money off Gibson, Epiphone, Martin, Solar, Music Man, Strandberg, and loads more.

As usual, I've picked out a selection of the very best deals on guitar gear I've seen this week. I also send out a weekly email with the biggest and best savings on guitar gear, so be sure to sign up for The Pick: Deals to make sure you don't miss out on any discounts.

My top deals

Why I ❤️ this deal: It's a massive discount on an incredibly popular guitar, making it much more accessible.

This PRS SE Silver Sky has a gigantic discount at Sweetwater, with a hefty $250 off the regular price. The guitar that nearly broke the internet when it was launched, despite the hype, is an incredibly playable guitar that punches well above its weight, managing to be a tribute to the most famous S-type in the world without completely ripping it off. We gave it four and a half stars out of five in our PRS SE Silver Sky review, where our reviewer praised the price, build quality, and overall attention to detail.

In my Singular Sound BeatBuddy 2 review, I gave it four and a half stars out of five, and one of the things that struck me the most was how easy it is to use. I didn't have to read the manual to get going because the pedal is so well labelled that it feels very natural to jump straight into things. It's currently got a cool $100 reduction at Guitar Center, so if you're tired of unreliable drummers or just prefer playing at home, this is a great way to add a variety of high-quality rhythms to your rig.

Thomann's spring sale isn't going to be around for much longer, so for our UK and EU readers, now's the time to pick up a saving. This Gibson Les Paul Custom 70s has got a gigantic £323 discount, taking it well below the £3k mark. It features dual T-type pickups, which are based upon those Gibson manufactured between 1966 and 1979. They deliver a vintage tone that's bright with excellent note separation, and each humbucker is balanced to ensure no volume jumps and a nice sound in the middle position of the pickup selector.

I've had a Digitech Whammy Ricochet on my 'board for about four or five years now, and it's been a mainstay ever since I purchased one. If you love whammy tones but don't want to give up the amount of real estate a full-size Digitech Whammy takes up, then this is a great option to get those sounds in a compact package. It's super flexible thanks to the momentary switch, allowing you to spike up or down in pitch at will, and despite some serious abuse, mine is still going strong today. This open-box model is available at Reverb with a nice $30 off the price, taking it down to below the $200 mark.

Guitar sales to shop

Each week I search all the major retailers and manufacturers for the very best sales for guitar players. Here's a list of what's available and where this week.

Amazon: Big Spring Sale
B&H Photo: Money off pro audio
Gear4Music: Clearance deals
Guitar Center: Guitar gear deals
Guitar Tricks: 1 month for $1
IK Multimedia: 30% off iRig
Musician's Friend: Up to 60% off
Native Instruments: Big software savings
Plugin Boutique: 100s of plugin discounts
Positive Grid: Huge Guitar Month sale
Reverb: Big discounts on used
Sweetwater: Save big on gear
Thomann: Up to 60% off spring sale
Universal Audio: Money off plugins

Upcoming sales

If you're not ready to shop just yet but are looking to save some cash for an upcoming sale, I've got the insider knowledge on which sales are coming up soon. Here's what you should be saving your money for:

Guitar Center Guitar-A-Thon - It's usually around this time of year that we see the arrival of Guitar Center's Guitar-A-Thon. It's pretty much a yearly event at this stage, so I'd be very surprised if we don't see this massive spring sale event once again in 2026.

Top products

Part of my job is looking after all the buying guides here at Guitar World, which gives me a unique oversight as to which products are hot right now. Every week I look at what's getting the most clicks from our buying guides and list the top five products for you here.

Our clever widget sorts them by price and automatically picks up if there's a discount at a particular retailer, doing a lot of the hard work for me! If you're looking to see what other guitarists are interested in and get the cheapest possible price, then this is the place to start your search.

Why trust me?

Guitar World writer Matt McCracken holding a Telecaster guitar — (Image credit: Future/Matt McCracken)

You may be wondering, why should I trust what this random dude on the internet says? Well, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Matt McCracken and I've been playing guitar for well over twenty years. In that time I've gigged all over the UK, recorded in professional studios, bought and sold countless guitars, amps, and pedals, spent 5 years working in music retail for Dawsons Music and Northwest Guitars, and now I handle all things gear for Guitar World.

I am a guitar player first and foremost, and the reason I do this job is that I genuinely love all things gear. When I'm not working my day job, you'll find me in the rehearsal room with my band, helming the desk at my local studio working with other musicians, or writing new songs and testing gear in my home studio.

The main focus of my job is to test and research gear for our buying guides and reviews here, whether it's demoing the latest pedal release with my band, diving into the technical side of audio interfaces, or putting guitar cables head-to-head in group tests to determine which is the best. It gives me a great overview on what gear is out there right now, and unlike a lot of content you find online, I've actually had my hands on the gear I write about.

I'm also responsible for finding the best possible deals on gear for our readers, covering all the major sales events of the year like Memorial Day, Prime Day, Labor Day, and of course, the Black Friday guitar deals. I track prices of all the most popular gear throughout the year, so I know straight away whether or not a saving is the real deal or a dishonest retailer trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

How I choose deals

To determine whether or not a deal is worthy of inclusion in deals of the week it has to pass a few different hurdles. I'll ask myself the following questions about any deal before I decide whether or not to include it:

- Is the product genuinely good value for money?
- Is the discount amount real or has the RRP been inflated?
- Would guitarists benefit from having this particular piece of gear in their rig?
- If I've not had hands on experience with the gear, do I have a recommendation from a fellow staff member or musician?

I have various tools I can use to check prices if I've not been tracking it, like camelcamelcamel which can track the price of a product on Amazon. Generally because I'm looking at this stuff every week, I already have a good overview of what the product should cost.

Shopping tips

1. Consider your music goals - What do you want to achieve with your music over the next 12 months or so? Do you want to gig more? Learn a new instrument? Or finally, record your songs? Now could be the time to invest in gear that helps you fulfil your musical aspirations.

2. Create a wishlist early - The most sensible way to take advantage of any gear deals is to know in advance what you’re looking for. This will make searching much easier, rather than having to trawl through loads of deals you don’t want to find the ones you do, or pondering things you don't need. To help you create your dream shopping list, take the time to explore our expert and up-to-date buying guides and reviews.

3. Work out what you actually need - Check out your favourite brands, see what you need and will genuinely use - don’t waste your cash and fill your basket with stuff that will never truly see any action.

4. Streamline your current gear - Something else you should consider ahead of time is whether you have enough space in your collection for new gear. Could you offload some gear you don't use to make room and generate funds for some new gear?

5. Sign up to mailing lists - In addition to bookmarking this page, we'd recommend signing up to mailing lists of your favourite retailers now to get the jump on the best deals when they do come around.

Over to you

Spotted a deal that I missed? Drop me a line in the comments below and if it's still live I'll drop the best ones deal into next week's Deals of the Week.

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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. When not writing articles for Guitar World, you'll find him making a racket with northern noise punks Never Better.

With contributions from

Chris Barnes
Daryl RobertsonSenior Deals Writer

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