Came here for a minor repair. Super helpful service. Nice selection of new and used guitars. Keep it local, check them out. Thanks!!
Steve is hands down the best luthier I’ve ever gotten work done from. He really goes the extra mile to make your guitar sound amazing, and for an affordable price at that. You’ll learn a lot of cool stuff about the craft just from chatting with him. Worth every penny.
New customer for life! Steve and Tom helped me out with my Gibson Custom Shop guitar, which wasn’t correctly grounded from the factory, very astute and experienced luthier; even perfectly corrected the neck relief in a cinch. I will be taking my other guitars to them asap.
Professional
Nice little place, a little slow on the customer service.
Quality merchandise, was surprised how low some of the prices were.
Recommended.
Didn’t return phone, email/website inquiry from a week ago…nobody is that bitchen. At least return a message letting me know you’re to busy and cool to accept more business work…
I had the feeling that this wasn’t a legitimate business. The guy knows his guitar strings and he didn’t rip me off or anything, but I won’t visit again.
2. Cole Piano Services
Address: 908 Sumner St, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 , Twin Lakes , California , United States
Tom’s the best! He’s highly skilled and also a nice human being!
Will always call Tom to keep my Kawai piano in great sounding shape.
Tom has been tuning my old Baldwin grand, piano for years. He does a great job and is very professional and reliable. I recommend him highly.
Tom Cole is not only an incredibly wonderful gentleman but has a very sweet nature and did an incredible job with a family heirloom of mine the piano was 100 years old and he brought it back to life. My granddaughter who is four absolutely adores him and he was wonderful with her and our dogs. I would highly recommend this incredible man to come and work on your piano anytime he knows exactly what he’s doing
Laurel Thomsen is a consummate professional in every aspect. I’ve been taking lessons with her for 3-1/2 yrs. as a new adult violinist. My lessons have been consistent, organized, progressive, and challenging. Laurel has a way of cutting through new player frustration with her kindness and patience, as well as her ability to diagnose the source of those frustrations and work toward solving the problem with her students. She is quick to respond to emails any time I have a question. She also has a bank of technique videos that she makes available as they apply to my lessons and the level I’m at. I cannot recommend Laurel enough…her care, knowledge, encouragement, and teaching style have brought me this far in my violin journey and has been key to my enjoyment of playing.
Hired Laurel to play a wedding, she knocked it out of the park! Professional, courteous, prompt, and a wonderful player.
The Bride described her playing as, “Amazing. The ceremony music was perfection. A fabulous experience and made our wedding sweetly memorable.”
Laurel Thomsen is a great teacher. She connects really well with my child, who began taking lessons from Laurel in June of 2015. During school, my child sometimes would avoid practicing, but once she started with Laurel she was more interested in practicing the music Laurel chose. My child was excited to learn how to read music from Laurel and has now figured out how to play a couple songs by ear. When Laurel is on tour she will continue lessons via skype which is great. It is really wonderful for my child to have weekly lessons with a musician who writes her own songs and performs them.
6. Noise Eater Recordings
Address: 112 Chilverton St, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 , Twin Lakes , California , United States
Olav did a great job on being clear, up front, and efficient during the mastering process. Thanks for making our songs shine!
Chowder from @Irrelevant Souls :
Best recording experience I’ve ever had for such a good price. We felt very comfortable and free recording with Olav @ Noise Eater Recordings. We couldn’t be happier with the quality of our single and can’t wait to release it. Extremely satisfied with the whole experience, from the determination to get the best sound, to the attention to detail in the production and engineering. Highly recommend! We will most definitely return to record with Olav at Noise Eater Recordings again!
I will totally record again with Noise Eater. The guy knows what he is doing and I love how he worked with me to get the desired dimensions and feel in my song. He incorporated all my ideas even when I thought it wasn’t possible and when I listened to my track, I got a beautiful surprise. He was able to give me very clear, friendly and constructive feed back even though my song was in Spanish. Noise Eater is professional, talented and committed to delivering solid quality results. I would say book him if you are thinking about it!
OMG I can’t believe I made it in I feel like a rockstar. I just wanted to know on purposes of Google Maps and doing a good review for them. I don’t even know what to say I felt like a rockstar. If you want to have fun I recommend taking your family in or just going with a couple buddies and just checking now ask if you questions see if you can roll them up a little bit make him second-guess you have some fun with it.
7. Studio Cruz
Address: 227 Morrissey Blvd, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 , Twin Lakes , California , United States
This place is one of my favorite thrift stores! They have 50% days and coupons! Some days I find so many good things.
Lots of great clothes for good prices. There’s also a 50% student discount on Tuesdays which made everything dirt cheap. Bring your student ID.
Epic deals when you actually find something good. I walk out of this place 40% of the time with a new deal. Otherwise the selection can get stale and I leave empty handed. The book selection is quite large.
Love this thrift store. Thursdays is 1/2 off everything. It’s like a treasure hunt , I always find great things.
Used to be everything was 50% off, all the time. It was a deal you could rely on. Not anymore.
Its a thrift store so youll find good things. there is nothing good to say other than that
Unbelievable RUDE!!! I called from out of town to see if they had any size 9.5 sandals that might be suitable for a local model I am working with. Lucy answered and said that she would not be able to help me. It was the way she said it that was so unbelievable. She said “I cannot get my job done if I were to look for shoes for you. I don’t work for you!” I understand she has a boss, but isn’t she in retail? A business that requires sales to customers? There are plenty of second hand stores in my town that would totally do this for me. In fact one store near me will pull items that I am looking for and put them on a hold rack until I come in to ck them out.
Prices are a little high for the quality
9. DTXPerience
Address: 2400 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 , Twin Lakes , California , United States
Love Westside video! Great Staff and Great Specials a real Santa Cruz kind of place.
Big shout-out of support for Ashlyn and Westside Video! There’s no place like it left in Santa Cruz.
This store moved from Mission & Laurel to Mission & King st.
Ponder this, son: RedBox gets most new movies WEEKS after initial release. Westside Video gets them on the same day. Be sure to ask the staff there to put your name on the list for the new release that you want to rent. They’ll call you when it comes in usually.
Also, Westside Video offers discreet packaging even on the PG movies! What are the XXX movies rented in, hollowed out King James Bibles ?
