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Recorded here for the first time last night and I must say it is one of the best if not the best studio I have ever had the pleasure of recording at! I worked with Seven and he is a consummate professional! He helped me bring out the full potential of my song and got it sounding almost perfect and that’s just the rough version ,it’s not even mixed yet! The equipment is top notch and that studio has a nice boutique feel to it! I will definitely be coming back!

Seven does a great job with his studio. Top of the love equipment, friendly and professional. Quality is clean but he differs to however you want it to sound .

Quality!!!

Fine quality instruments! It’s hard to believe the quality of these instruments are so good at such a low price point. My customers rave about these basses and guitars and for good reason.

Leo Fender’s Music Man instruments rock! The Sterlings are amazing and won’t clean you out. You can get into one for less than $350.00. Nothing sounds quite like it. You won’t be disappointed. It’s the way to go!

Great Products! Great service! a pleasure to do business with.

Guitars are absolutely beautiful and play flawlessly. Some of the terms for shipping products to dealers seems questionable if the dealer is paying for shipping. Overall the customer service is excellent!

Destroyed B.C.Rich

Great place nicer people

These guys are simply great! They love what they do, they know everything about their equipment, and are willing to share their knowledge in a respectable manor. I would recommend them to everyone in need of audio or visual equipment. And also, reasonable prices for the quality products!

Gear Connection is very proficient at what they do and one of the fastest service here in OC. Not only they serve their customers with respect but their professionalism makes me want to come back and rent more.

Highly recommended, period. Thank you guys for helping me get the right equipment and for being so cool about my last minute NYE party. Those speakers rocked the party with clarity and deep bass. Nominated as our GO TO from now on. Keep up the great work.

Each year we rent sound equipment from Gear Connection. They have everything set up ready to test and show you what plugs go where. Reasonably priced and friendly staff packs up my car. Suggest calling ahead if dropping off in the morning, they weren’t open at 9:00am.

The owner is a rude man.

They keep selling us out – Jay Sakae and Jay Sakada .

Love Starbucks though I do have troubles with my special order, they always put too much milk in it.

Ok good

Moved a bit slow and night cashier wasn’t familiar with the app.

Great!!!

They upgradedthe pleace and it looks amazing

Worst one I’ve visited! Horrible! The service is horrendous!

I had a promotion to make extra money as an Uber eats driver their store hours says they close at 11 pm I got there 10:40 my pick up was very short pickup and I had 11 orders done with this one I only needed one more just to accept before 11 pm I had to stand in drive through like everyone else to pick up my order when their hours on their front door says they close at 11 that’s really not fare for us hard working Uber drivers to wait and lose promotions just to wait in line like everyone else we are working hard too and wasting lots of gas time and money for pennies I’m very very disappointed at this store even though i was knocking on the glass door several times trying to let them open and just hand me the Uber delivery but they won’t come to the door pointing me towards the drive through it would of took a moment for them while it wasted so much of my money time and gas you need to keep your doors open for Uber eats and other drivers very disappointing I waited 20 minutes waiting for my order in the drive through and missed my promotion this isn’t right for us drivers very disappointing

Never coming here again told the lady my order twice and still got it wrong so ridiculous

Haven’t had problems finding movies and games on this Redbox

clean quick and no complaints.

Facil y rapido solo falta mas selecvion en algunas

Located inside food for less

Great store!! So many cool and unique things you can look through!! I highly recommend if you love to thrift!!

hidden gems, super friendly love the place!!

Excellent, hidden jewel a huge array of used items, from tools, clothes,games, records, pictures, books, glassware, visual, cds, dvds, odd ins everything you can think of. Great personal, with excellent cheap affordable prices. Must go to.

Love this place always find what I’m looking for

Me parece muy bien

They alot of stuff. I bought a blanket I needed it, try to buy a sheet, one woman told me it was a dollar if it is a set then it would be 3 dollars. So the other tried to charge me 3 dollars for one sheet so I didn’t get it. I bought a moose frog, he is cool.,

I used to shop here until one day the old man started accusing me of shoplifting, the lady was so kind to me I appreciate her she knew I never shoplifted(not sure if she still works there). He would harass me and my boyfriend.. and say if you are shoplifting I can check the cameras my boyfriend will always say check the cameras, I’m not one to argue with people but I’m just saying if you look young and want to shop there don’t.. unless you want that old man breathing down your neck I myself don’t like that kind of behavior especially when you would come back to buy multiple things and even bring customers for them.

Totally overpriced, no fresh inventory , and the nice ladies became evil just because I drop a tool , big mistake ,both ladies rise the voice , and get mad so fast “…, that was the point of brake , angry , faces , , if some of them read this , I’m a CUSTOMER , “Nice ladies “

This spot is a true thrift store, you will find every little treasure/trash; most is reasonably priced too. Some things are not in good condition. Do NOT TAKE THEIR WORD for something in a box, that has all parts. If you CANNOT VERIFY do NOT buy. I bought a “new” taped pop up laundry rack clothes dryer. I asked if I could open and see, and the woman assured me that all parts were there and it could not be opened to verified (why? I’m not sure, seems like you could tape it back up). It was under $10 I think, so I just thought I’d take her word at it. When I got home and tried to assemble, 2 parts were missing. The item was useless for me. I did find another item there that I liked, but the price wasn’t that cheap. I didn’t mind the price, as it was a rare find for me, but all that left a sour taste in my mouth and I won’t be going back and I don’t recommend. The place is very dusty/dirty, LOTS of “stuff”/junk that is really old and not necessarily in the best of condition, and it’s in a somewhat questionable neighborhood for safety. However, you may find a classic treasure there if you collect 70s, 80s stuff. It may not be in the best of conditions, but you’ll have it.

Extremely happy with my SW-1O sub woofer and Echo bookshelf 5.1 speakers. The service is even better – responsive and accommodating. It’s hard to find great service and products that ship to Canada from smaller US companies…. Starke has exceeded my expectations for sure.

Had a really great experience spread out over two days, Friday and Saturday. On Friday i went in planning on playing several guitars with the intentions of purchasing one within a week. I was greeted by Matt in the guitar section and asked for a pick right away, got one, and proceeded to ask about a few of their used pedals and decided on two i wanted to demo these guitars with. Matt got me set up with cables and power through a Mesa Mk IV and i played every Ibanez they had in stock.

My only complaint is that every single guitar is out of tune, and i had to go ask Matt every time i needed to use his tuner. I fully understand the limitations if retail labor and that it is completely impossible for the employees to keep hundreds of guitars in tune all the time. i do not expect that at all. I do however think it would be wise to have some tuners available for the responsible patrons (as in: serious buyers who wont steal them) to keep during the duration of their visit to have when needed, because every instrument will need to be tuned. Minor gripe, but a gripe nonetheless.

I hadn’t planned on returning until the following Friday, but as luck would have finances worked out to allow me to purchase my guitar the following so Saturday i return to make my purchase, and i fell in love with the Ibanez RGAIX6MQM. Such a beautiful guitar that feels fantastic, sounds awesome and has some great appointments. I also bought one of the used pedals i was playing through the day before, a pedal i had sough tafter for a long time, the one and only Digitech Whammy! Matt even threw in a free gig bag! All in all a great experience and some great gear.

All the employees were friendly and accomodating. Thank you

Gr8 service friendly environment

Ok, it’s SamAsh, probably better than Guitar Center, but still not like it was years ago.

Esta bien

Great service, great equipment… staff is on point but maybe homeboy in guitar dep is a little overworked -_-

I placed an order in person on Friday, 8/25, which had to be delivered hence it was only available at the Connecticut location.
I was suppose to get a tracking email by Monday and receive instrument by today Thursday.
I called yesterday Wednesday and the sales manager told me he would look into it and call me back with an update.
Never heard back.
I called again today Thursday for an update and the Sales Manager told the answering sales rep to inform me that due to hurricane weather CT had been affected with shipping orders and that there was no way of knowing when it would be shipped or tracked.
My child had a school deadline and I was guaranteed a timely delivery.
I had to call the CT office and speak
with a manager to help me locate the item and physically ship the item to me.
I was informed the order was processed incorrectly and their office never received the order.
Things happen and I totally understand.
But what bothers me the most is the lying part about being affected by the weather and not care to further assist me by a “manager”
I paid this instrument in full.
Unacceptable customer service!!
Will never go back to this location.

I brought in a JBL 518S for repair and Aaron who worked the desk and checked in my equipment was awesome. He explained the outsourcing of repair, the expected lead time with buffer and even helped me test out equipment as I considered other options.

The reason this is not a five star rating is for the management of the repair itself. The communication was horrible. I got a voice message with the quote, asking for my approval to begin work. I called back to give my approval, however Charlie asked me to call back because he wasn’t at his desk. I called GPS electronics to give my approval directly, but I didn’t have the reference number that GPS gave Sam Ash for my repair. So I called Charlie again a day later and gave him my approval again. A month goes by and I still hadn’t heard back. My gig was less than a week away. After not hearing from them in over a month I called back to check on my repair and Charlie said they were waiting for approval to work on my equipment. Really?! I try not to let things bother me and I don’t like leaving negative reviews especially for a brand I support. But I just couldn’t shake this one and had to write something.

If I averaged the experience with Aaron (5) and Charlie (1) it should be a 3 star review but the negative residual emotion due to the fact that trust is a huge part of a repair and even though I accommodated for delays, I still got my gear so close my gig. The negative just outweighs the positive.

I used to go to Sam Ash on my lunch breaks to play the guitars and eventually bought several. Now I only go to Sam Ash when I need to because I trusted them more than Guitar Center. In the end, business is business and I need to have confidence that my gear is in good hands.

To be fair Aaron also gave me the option to go to GPS directly (which is why this is a two star not a one star rating).

Says they are open at the Hawthorne location…they ARE NOT! New location is ready for another month and the Westminster Store that your phone call is directed to employs the single biggest arrogant jerk I’ve ever dealt with. He was unhelpful, pompous, and actually told me that I have the problem because my google map says they are currently open at the Hawthorne location.

Guitar Center just gained five new customers in my band in one phone call!!

What a wonderful experience doing business with both Victor and Kevin! Through my own misunderstanding, I ended up ordering the wrong machine. Victor, whom I believe is the owner, was gracious enough to make everything right for me. Very sincere and honest people to do business with. Thank you Victor! You’ve got a customer for life here! Lenore

Always feel welcome here!

Down to earth owner and great enviorment

My friend is in a band and rehearses at CideShow. Every now and then they get together with other bands and put a show together. It’s great to see these talented bands put on a show. It’s always a good time!

Good rates easy access. Sherman is the owner.

A friend of ours rented out the studio, to put on a variety show. It turned out really well.

Only speaking as a guest to a show here, but overall it was a great space. The staff seemed nice and the space was ample enough for a performing band in the back patio. Came here in the night and was ok to find, maybe more obvious signage would have been helpful. There’s a liquor store nearby, and byob here, so I can appreciate that.

1st timer at this place, person on the phone said one price and at the end of rehearsal.. slapped me with another price…. I guess they are short on business?

“solid for a quick rehearsal with plenty of parking, but NOT safe as a monthly lockout”

Sherman is a cool guy/musician but incompetent when it comes to running Cideshow. I’ve had rain leak into my unit 5-6 times and the police battered down my unit’s door in December 2014 based on his poor tenant choice. Such a shame b/c LA needs affordable space for arts & music. Cideshow is solid for a quick rehearsal with plenty of parking, but NOT safe as a monthly lockout.