Posted By Jericho on May 16, 2012

Easy Music Center Guitar and Ukulele Recital featuring students of and a guitar and ukulele performance by Landon Mattox, Thursday, May 17th @ 5:00 at our King St store.
Students under 10 will be performing themes from video games and movies, teenage students will be performing recent pop songs and adults will of course be performing classics. Come check it out, these students (and their teacher) have been working very hard on this and it is sure to be a ripping good time. Interested in lessons? Contact us atadmin@easymusiccenter.com . For videos of Landon Mattox, go to www.landonmattox.com .

Category: Events, Lessons
Tags: guitar, landon mattox, lessons, performance, recital, ukulele

Posted By kingsley on May 8, 2012

Let’s be honest.  How many of us are guilty of leaving out guitars lying around the house with the possibility that someone may trip over it?  Have you done string changes on your bed and used your pillow to prop up the guitars headstock?  With one simple package deal, your problems are solved!  While supplies last, Easy Music Center will be offering the GS414BN Hercules Guitar Stand along with a FREE Neck Cradle.  Now your guitar will have a designated place to call home while you’re not playing it and your string changes become strangely convenient.

Category: News
Tags: acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, bass, electric bass, electric guitar, gs414b, gs414bn, guitar, guitar stand, hercules, honolulu, king street, kings, kingsley

Posted By Hans on May 6, 2012

I recently did a post on one of the James Tyler Variax guitars and immediately had to grab this gem by Roland and Fender. I was burning with desire to play it and compare its features. The Variax really impressed me with the instant tuning changes. The  Roland G-5-blk VG does not fall short in that area.

Both guitars really do the same tricks. Out of the box, I really did appreciate the aesthetics of the G-5 VG: the classic black color and  three single-coil pickup configuration makes this guitar nothing short of sexy! And, it sounds great too. That goes both for the (N) rotary knob selection – (N) standing for natural, or for straight up single-coil Strat circuitry – as well as the Roland COSM technology-powered, virtual Tele (T), Strat (S),  modeled Humbuckers (H), and acoustic (A) settings.

The guitar is really straight forward in selecting the sounds you need at any moment. And it feels, sounds and plays as well as an American Standard. Great job on this collaboration!

Category: News, Product Videos
Tags: electric guitar, fender, G-5-BLK VG Stratocaster, guitar, guitars, roland, v guitar, VG Stratocaster

Posted By Randall on April 30, 2012

Too many times have I seen it happen… A guitar player is totally going off with his performance and then BANG! Their axe goes straight to the floor. Don’t be that guy!

Dunlop Straploks are for everyone. They allow you to securely lock the strap of your guitar to the body. If you are an aggressive performer, or just have an expensive instrument, these are invaluable!

In the video, we describe what parts come in the package, how to install them, and how easy it is to use your strap with these locks.

Get your Straploks today!

Category: Featured Products, News
Tags: accessories, dunlop, electric gutiar, guitar, guitar straplocks, straplocks, straplok

Posted By Billy on April 22, 2012

Dust off those old acid wash jeans,  jean jacket (canadian tuxedo baby!) and your headbanger approved back patch and buttons because this month we’re checking out the new 25th anniversary  Ibanez S1XXV in 80′s approved fluorescent yellow ( also available in florescent green). When I was a little mullet headed lad, I wanted this guitar so bad…it was a shredder guitar, was florescent yellow, and just screams COCKROCK! What more could a kid want? Who didn’t think florescent yellow was  cool in the 80′s?  Back then it was called a saber because of how thin it was.  There was nothing like it on the market, and it ripped.  Aside from the new tremolo system, it is just as cool as I had remembered . Come by and check one out today.

Ibanez unveils an S Series in brilliant fluorescents.

Famous for its lightweight carved mahogany body, the S series can take a beating while still providing the resonance of guitars twice its size. It also comes equipped with the double-locking ZR tremolo and Zero Point System, a smooth ball bearing tremolo that makes every subtle nuance of whammy bar use come alive. The S series’ sleek, comfortable mahogany bodies, thin & fast Wizard III necks, and high-gain IBZ INF pickup combos make these instruments impossible to beat in any genre of music. And now it’s available in outrageous finishes sure to make a statement at any venue.

Features

• Mahogany body
• 3 Piece maple Wizard III neck, rosewood fretboard, 24 jumbo frets
• INF1 neck pickup
• INFS1 middle pickup
• INF2 bridge pickup
• ZR bridge with ZPS2

 

 

 

Category: News, Product Videos, Videos
Tags: 25th, billy reichling, guitar, guitars, ibanez, S1XXV, shred

Posted By Hiroshi on April 8, 2012

So, maybe you have been hearing people talk about “active pickups” and are wondering what they are talking about?

Well, worry no more, today we are going on a journey to active pickup land, and hopefully I can help you with your pickup quandary.

To start, you need to know what a regular non active or passive pickups is.  A passive pickup is a pickup that through a magnetic coil or some other means creates an electric signal from the vibrations of the strings and transmits it to an amplifier so the volume can be increased and/or recorded.  This pickup works on its own without any further assistance.

The “active” part of an active pickup has a thing called a pre-amplifier which is located either on the pickup or in the control cavity of the guitar.  What it does is alter the signal, eq and output before the signal goes to the amplifier.  What this means for you is that (depending on the model) aside from your normal volume and tone control, you could possibly have low, mid, and high control as well.

There are draw backs though with active pickups.  They require a power source.  Also, if the system runs on a 9 volt, the way the system saves power is that when the instrument is unplugged, the circuit is disconnected.  So if you leave the cable in the instrument while not playing it, the battery will drain faster than normal.

Another pro/con, depending on who you talk to, active pickups change the sound of the instrument.  This also goes for any pickup change, but it is worth stating.  The hard part is that the sound change is extremely subjective so the best thing to do if you can is to try it out for your self and form your own opinion.  Secondly active pickups cut out a lot of background noise associated with passive pickups so if you are in a magnetically “noisy” area they might help.

Hopefully this article has educated and informed you about active pickups, and helped guide you in the direction you desire.  If you still want to try out a guitar with active pickups we usually have one at our stores so give us a call or come on down and check us out.

Category: Hey it's Hiroshi, News
Tags: accesories, active, bass, emg, guitar, info, puckups

Posted By isaac on April 6, 2012

Now available at a Easy Music Center near you! SPECTOR BASSES! “Basses built for a lifetime”

We are proud to announce we are now an official dealer of Spector basses! Since 1977 these basses have been the buzz of all great bassists. Their legendary tone and completely unique shape is desired by bassists of all walks of life. These basses have given some of the worlds best musicians the tone and look they needed to soar into rock and roll glory! Jason Newsted of Metallica, Nikki Six of Motley Crue, Scott Smith of Loverboy… they are just a few of the legendary musicians that have forged a name for  Spector basses worldwide. Now you have a chance to forge your own destiny!

Take a look below to see some of the models we have in stock! And as always we are more than willing to special order the right Spector bass for you!

Category: Featured Products, News
Tags: bass, easy music center, guitar, guitars, new, New Release, Spector

Posted By kingsley on March 31, 2012

Presenting the Breedlove Atlas Series Studio D250/SRE Acoustic-Electric dreadnought guitar.  Featuring a solid spruce top and rosewood back & sides.  Also contains the LR-T CV preamp with built in chromatic tuner, phase and EQ adjustments for presence/treble/middle/bass.  Perfect for the studio musician or the professional musician live on the stage.  Hard-case included.

Category: Featured Products, News, Product Videos
Tags: acoustic, acoustic electric, acoustic/electric, acoustics, breedlove, fretted instrument, guitar, kings, kingsley, kingsley kalohelani, rosewood, spruce top