Great guy. He is passionate about helping others in their music journey. Helps with what you are looking for. Just an overall great person! Came for a petal lol .
Experienced a very encouraging and friendly environment at Ventura Music Center that I have not found anywhere else, Bravo.
Small music store with a decent selection of guitars, music books, and accessories. Music lessons are available too onsite.
Drove 20 minutes, on a Thursday. 4:45pm. They were closed!! Even had an “open” sign on the door. Nice job guys. Ya lost me and you didn’t even try. Maybe next visit to Ventura?
Don’t go here for guitar repairs, you’re welcome.
No answer on phone,mailbox full
2. LA MUSIC SUPPLY
Address: 1050 E Thompson Blvd, Ventura, CA 93001 , Ventura County , California , United States
The most honest and sincere business owner! He really knows guitars and loves his craft. Come here if you have any guitar needs or questions. Gannon will give you honest advice and fair prices.
Dope store, could have spent all day in here. Small store, but a friendly owner and awesome selection. Shop local and rock on
I wanted to buy a guitar and take lessons so I went to local stores to learn more because I am a “blank slate” when it comes to music. Of all the places I checked out Guitar Planet was by far the most friendly and helpful. The owner Gannon, told me a lot about guitars and answered all my questions. He stuck a guitar in my hand and gave me a quick mini guitar lesson. Since then I bought the acoustic guitar Gannon suggested and started taking lessons from Jake.
Guitar Planet is an old fashioned proprietor owned and operated local business that really takes care of their customers. I’m very happy with my guitar and the lessons are superb. I highly recommend Guitar Planet!
Cool place. Owner is mellow, no pressure, and he knows the business well. He likes to talk about musical equipment. Prices on strings and accessories are competitive. Good selection of guitars, especially for a smaller locally owned place.
Was being very inappropriate with my grandma in front of me. Was making my grandma, and me, very uncomfortable. Didn’t wanna give us a recipe and saying the guitar wasn’t playable. We took it some where else and it worked right away! Overall very creepy and weird.
Took my electric guitar there for some much needed maintenance. I got her back within the time frame promised and in better condition than she was in when I first got her. Robert is amazing! Highly recommend this shop for any/all guitar wants and needs.
Has the best guitar things around, and people that are passionate about music! Now easily my favorite guitar shop I’ve ever been to!
Super friendly and knowledgeable
Upper knowledge of instruments
Really nice store. Very clean and well organized. Some really pretty guitars. Fender, Guild, G & L, and many more acoustic. Only gave it a 4 because I went in for a set of acoustic strings and after 15 minutes no one had helped me. Poor guy was by himself and was helping a customer look for some stuff on the internet.
Emailed a guy there he never even attempted to respond not very good customer skills.
Poor customer service. Rude! Very possessive of my own instrument. Rob was being mean and passive aggressive with me because he made a mistake on my guitar and he had to fix for free. Right after I picked it up two days later from the shop my guitar came back with buzz that wasn’t even there before. I called him and told him that I’m unhappy. MY GUITAR WAS PERFECTLY FINE BEFORE HE TOUCHED IT!
He apparently put a new saddle on it. Which doesn’t seem to be much different from the other one in size. Which he kept and did not return. I tried communicating with him what I do and how I do it. However, this man was ignoring me the entire time and spoke down to me with false knowledge. He made me feel unwelcome in his shop and he made me feel that he was very close minded in music and didn’t understand anything about transposing and power chords on an acoustic guitar. It’s very disappointing for me because I live here in Downtown Ventura. I live in the WAV building for artists. Therefore, it’s very tragic the only music store open in town is ran by an ignorant, stuck up, close minded, old receding hair line, middle aged, sad, pathetic old guy.
P.S.
I know how to restring my guitar.
I just prefer to pay someone else to do it under half an hour, not two days!
GUITAR CENTER IS WORTH THE DISTANCE!
They totally get YOU (the musician)!
It is okay
6. Ventura Guitar Company
Address: Ventura, CA 93003 , Ventura County , California , United States
The best repair experience ever. Patrick was attentive and listened to what I wanted with my sax. He performed the repair and got it back to me sooner than I thought it would take. And it plays… more beautiful than the day I bought it. Thank you sir for your expertise and master craftmanship!
I was looking for a good quality instrument for my sons Band practice and found just what I was looking for. Love doing business locally. Definitely will go back.
9. Guitar Center
Address: 1741 Ventura Blvd Suite E, Oxnard, CA 93036 , Ventura County , California , United States
Very helpful. I don’t feel as if I’m just another customer. Every time I walk in every employee asks if I need help.
The staff share our love for music. Their experience helped guide me in the selection of a looper that will help me take my hobby one step further.
Very knowledgeable & friendly staff.
It was a guitar center and it had a lot of guitar to choose from so it was good
If you are buying an electric guitar this is the place. Good selection of acoustic guitars. If you want to learn classical music with Classical guitars you can find one here. If you want a quality classical guitar forget it. Order one on line from Spain. Or find a high end guitar purveyor.
Not a very large selection but the store was well kept
Nothing is in stock. It’s not this locations fault it’s GC corporate. They only care about beginning musicians. It’s painfully obvious. With no security at this location the free guitars are nice though!
How this place stays in business is beyond me.
I am giving 1 star since I can not do minus stars, I have been coming to this location for years since 2004 and I have watched it get progressively worse. Every time I ask for assistance it’s like they do not care about customers. I just called them to see if they had an item in stock the guy on the phone acted like it was an inconvenience for him and transferred me to guitars I was on hold for 5 minutes and then exactly at 9pm when they closed they just hung up on me! and when I tried to call back they would not answer! I will never ever go to guitar center again! I hope Sam Ash opens out here soon! Done with GC
10. Discoteca Mi Pueblito
Address: 146 S Ojai St, Santa Paula, CA 93060 , Ventura County , California , United States
Great people and a great local drum school and shop!
The store has great owners, experienced instructors, and offers a place to tryout different percussion instruments from all over the world! Highly recommended to come in and play some (literally) WORLD class drums!
Good place to learn drums friendly staff
I was stoked with the shop until i needed to return the $180.00 djembe case i bought yesterday that didn’t fit my drum. The only case that would fit was a $55.00 Ghana bag which is fine. They wouldn’t credit back the difference. Said store credit was the only option. I don’t understand why and now i feel mistrusting.
12. Salzer’s Records
Address: 5777 Valentine Rd, Ventura, CA 93003 , Ventura County , California , United States
Very cool store from clothing, to books, movies, records, jewellery, mugs, shot glasses, fun drinking games, hair, piercing and tattoo products, lighters, pipes, and adult toys. This store definitely has it all lmao.
Salzer’s Records is amazing. They have really cool accessories. And amazing jewelry. Awesome clothes. And nice employees
Great place! Knowledgeable staff, if they don’t have the album you want they can order it, you can listen to CDs before buying them, and they buy/sell/trade albums. On site they have an upstairs area filled with clothing, misc. merch and smoke shop. From time to time they have events like concerts or albums signings by various artists. There is also a Salzers video across Victoria.
Been shopping here for over 25 years and consider it a great pillar in the ventura music community!
They have alot of unique items very cool store
Great selection of cool and quirky stuff.
This is from personal experience,
The staff is too young.
Some of the college age kids are “wet behind the ears.”
Workers giving wrong info. Cheap product. wont shop here again
Terrible place to buy glass pieces, don’t recommend. Bought a rig and once I got too the car too look it had a crack on the neck of the rig
13. Derringer Products, LLC.
Address: 1591 Los Angeles Ave #1, Ventura, CA 93004 , Ventura County , California , United States
Such an amazing place to check out if you’re a fan of music. They have everything you need to get started in music production. The shows they put on next door are a bonus.
Came in to check out some amps not intending on buying the same day but they were still extremely nice and genuine, encouraged me to try anything I wanted and was extremely helpful
Great service! I live out of the area, but was in town and needed work on my guitar. They finished the job quickly for me even though they were busy and it was a holiday weekend.
Very helpful and patient. No pressure tactics. I found they ask a lot of good questions and give good advice. I wish I had found this store sooner. I probably would have made some different purchase decisions that would have made learning easier.
Always weird how music store employees have that vaguely condescending tone and actively convince you to use big box stores, and this place does not disappoint in that regard. Don’t misname a part, they will refuse to listen to you after that. Being stared at isn’t cool, and it’s off-putting from someone you are looking to give money to, when combined with the tone it just made the experience one I’m not going to repeat.
Soul Infusion has performed two years in a row for a gala fundraising event and have not failed. They are professional, timely, generous and really know how to perform! We can’t say enough about them – you won’t go wrong!
The Soul Infusion made my wedding! Every guest came up to us to say it was the best band they’ve seen and absolutely adored the music! Victor worked extensively with us on the types of music we wanted to hear and on our special request songs. The band did a phenomenal job keeping the energy high and the party going!
If you are looking for a band for your event… trust me. This is THE band.
What a great ukulele store and fantastic service!
The owner helped me change my strings on my uke and even took the time to teach me how to do it so I could do it myself next time. He helped me pick the right strings and even cleaned and polished my ukulele. Kind and generous! And a great selection of ukes and accessories too. If I could give 10 stars I would. Mahalo!
Friendly and helpful staff educated me on ukuleles and helped me find the right instrument for my daughter.
Extremely pleasant to shop here. Very kind and informative. Excellent service and selection. GOOD VIBES!!!
20. Venture Chamber Music
Address: 474 E Santa Clara St, Ventura, CA 93001 , Ventura County , California , United States
