Musicians Centre Mini Sites - Schecter

At the Musicians Centre we are learning every day. We decided that we need a place to put all the new information we learn so that it can be referred to by both our staff and our customers.

To do this we are launching a new concept, Mini Sites. Basically these are websites that try to gather as much information about different brands as we can. Then if anyone needs, say, a Schecter wiring diagram, wants to date their instrument with a serial number etc. there will be a place to go.

We want this to be an involved community based project which anyone can contribute to, so if you have extra information then by all means leave a comment on the relevant page or send us an email and we will add it.

There will be other Mini Sites springing up over the next few months so keep an eye out, for now check out the Schecter Mini Site and tell us what you think. It's by no means finished, in fact it will never be finished, we'll always keep adding information as we learn it. We have a lot of work to do on it, so forgive the sparseness for now.

Tanglewood TW15-NS-WN Wide Nut Guitar Just Landed

Tom shows off the Pro Set up, all solid TW15-NS-WN which has just arrived.

Play at Bloodstock 2010 and Wacken 2011

Just heard about this opportunity to play at two of the worlds biggest metal festivals.  Taken from Leeds Music Scene Forum:

"You in a Metal Band? Want the chance to Play main stage at The Bloodstock Festival alongside bands such as -

TWISTED SISTER, FEAR FACTORY, CHILDREN OF BODOM, HEAVEN AND HELL, GWAR, CANNIBAL CORPSE AND MORE!!!!

Well here is your chance! I have been put in charge of arranging the regional heat of the 'METAL TO THE MASSES' competition to find an act to play this years Bloodstock as well as many many more prizes!

PRIZES IN FULL......

* PLAYING BLOODSTOCK 2010.

* PLAYING WACKEN 2011.

* RECORDING, PRINTING & PRESSING OF AN EP COURTESY OF SPINEFARM RECORDS UK.

* A UNIQUE DESIGN FOR THE EP COURTESY OF THE MASTER OF METAL ARTWORK - PAUL GREGORY.

* LASHINGS OF ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINKS TO KEEP YOU ON YOUR TOES.

* MOUNTAINS OF BACKLINE FROM THE LIKES OF MAPEX, EDEN, MARSHALL AND MORE.

Heats will take place april/may time at The Parish Huddersfield as well as The Old Cock in Halifax.

Heat winners will go onto the grand final on June 25th at The Well in Leeds, which will be judged by Bloodstock organisers + special guest judges.

The heats and final will also be getting lots of publicity both on-line and in the magazines!

How to enter-

Basically e-mail me @ mikey@fatcatbookings.com

attach a bio and link to your myspace or a track.

Simple

Good Luck!"

Get yourselves applied!

Musicians Centre Twittyvids

Twee name, but we're going to start posting small quick videos of what's going on in-store from mobile phones, it's never going to be a good way to get an idea of what a product sounds like because the sound quality is low, but we always recommending trying the thing you're buying first hand to get a good idea of it anyway..  You can see closer details of guitars and things which we post though.

Check the recently posted Twittyvids of the Tanglewood MasterDesign TSM-1 and the Schecter Demon 7 7 String guitar.

Freshman Open Plains Series Just Landed

Straight from the factory, the new Freshman Open Plains series is now available in store and on-line.

The Open Plains series is made on Freshman's Cedar Creek line which make the FA350 guitars, FA400s and them amazing no-corners-cut FA500 range.  We asked if there would be any electric pick up enabled versions of the Open Plains series and it seems Freshman want to split the series between Open Plains for pure acoustic and the Apollo series for electro-acoustics.  This does actually make a lot of sense, it's all about looking at where the money is spent.  In the Freshman Apollo Series it goes into the Fishman pickups and an A grade of AA grade spruce top.  On the Open Plains all that money is going into the wood with slightly higher grade woods for your pound.






Freshman Guitars' Open Plains series split down into three series. The Open Plains 1 dreadnought coming in at the lower end with solid A grade Sitka spruce and an Open Plains 1 OOO.  There's also a sunburst version of the OOO.  Series 2 has AA grade sitka spruce and series 3 has AAA grade Sitka spruce top and a stunning quilted mahogany back and sides.  Now there's a fair old price jump between the second and third series.  There's a big jump in cost to that AAA grade Sitka spruce top and the process of making an AAA grade laminate quilted mahogany back and side make up ain't so cheap either.  The Open Plains 3 series is available in dreadnought and OOO folk body shapes.






One big difference here from what we've seen from Freshman is a neck profile.  It is thinner and so so comfortable in the hand.  Binding is walnut with a slither of maple, like on the Apollo 3s.

Sound is amazing, real depth of character even on the Open Plains 1, very pure and the kind of sound which just makes you want to keep on playing.  It's very very hard to walk past it once you know the kind of tone and feel it gives.

Search For Guitars Easier

We've just implemented a new search drill down in the acoustic guitars section on Musicianscentre.com.

You can now refine your search by body shape and brand name. We'll be rolling this out to other sections of the site soon. Let us know what you think.

The more feed back we get the better we can make the site!

Tanglewood Starter Acoustic Guitar

A quick overview of the Tanglewood Discovery Deluxe acoustic guitars in dreadnought and folk bodies.