Selling top branded electric guitars, bass guitars, acoustic guitars, guitar amps, drums, guitar effects, accessories and more. We are also specialist in PA supply & installation.
Fret Music has been trading in musical instruments for 29 years and is one of the primary rock & roll stores in the South. We were one of the first online music stores in the country and now trade from our Southampton store and online.
Our MD is a founder member of the largest buying group of music retailers in the UK, "The Firm". We aim to keep our prices keen. We price match any genuine UK advertised price wherever possible.
We take immense pride in our back up service and believe you should be able to combine great prices with first class back up. Our in-store guitar service dept is a selected Seymour Duncan pick up exchange centre.
Learn to play guitar, bass and drums with The Fret Music Academy and ADW Musictech.
So visit the Southampton store or shop online the choice is yours. We ship worldwide.
Don’t forget, we love part exchange and can offer great allowances.
Electric Guitars
There’s a phenomenal choice of
electric guitars to be found on the Fret music website. If you are looking for cheap electric guitars there are several high quality electric guitars that are on offer for under £200. The makes of electric guitars to be found at www.fretmusic.co.uk include ESP electric guitars, Fender electric guitars, Ibanez acoustic electric guitars, Dean electric guitars, Peavey electric guitars, Squier electric guitars, Tokai electric guitars, Hofner electric guitars, Spear electric guitars, and Hutchins electric guitars. There are great beginners’ electric guitars on the site and they include Ridgewood electric guitars, ESP and Ashton electric guitars. For left-handed players there are 10 electric guitars from which to choose and they include the Dean DGA, the Dean Dimebag, the Fender American Standard Stratocaster Maple neck, the Fender American Standard Stratocaster Rosewood neck, the Fender American Standard Telecaster Maple neck, the Ibanez GRG and the Ianez RG370 DXL.
To complement electric guitars it is necessary to buy electrical leads for the amplifier and speaker and it is also necessary to buy spare strings, an electric guitar strap, an electric guitar stand and an electric guitar case. Some players of electric guitars also like to have a slide and a tuner.
There is a tremendous choice of amplifiers to go with the very wide range of electric guitars on the Fret Music website and there are also renowned makes of speaker including Wharfedale.
Guitar Amps
To complement electric guitars it is essential to have guitar amps and a speaker. There are specialist
guitar amps that are mixer amps which are manufactured by a number of companies including Peavey, Phonic and Wharfedale and these guitar amps range from 100 Watts up to around 800 Watts. For real guitar amps with serious power there is a choice on the Fret Music website that includes Peavey 2 channels x750 Watts and Peavey guitar amps with 900 Watts per channel, 1300 Watts per channel and 1700 Watts per channel. To look at one of the most powerful guitar amps in more detail the Peavey PV-3800 Power Amp is one of the top guitar amps and produces 1300 Watts RMS per channel into 4 Ohms and 775 Watts RMS per channel into 8 Ohms. This is one of the guitar amps that offers 2600 Watts RMS into 8 Ohms bridged and has LED indicators for the input signal and for the power. Another fact regarding this make of guitar amps is that it has two built-in 100 Hz crossovers and also 40 Hz low cut filter. Typical of most guitar amps, the Peavey has a volume control per channel and is kept cool by a dual-speed fan that offers turbo cooling. To avoid guitar amps blowing speakers, the Peavey is one of the guitar amps that has speaker protection. This make of guitar amps is only 89 mm high x 482.6 mm wide 413 mm deep. As with most good guitar amps this make of guitar amp is quite heavy coming in at 20.2 kg. So, if you are looking for top quality guitar amps at a very good price it is worth your time checking out the excellent selection of guitar amps provided by Fret Music.
Acoustic Guitars
There are very few more beautiful sounds than the playing of
acoustic guitars especially when in the hands of a maestro such as Julian Bream or Paul McCartney playing ‘Yesterday’ on one of his acoustic guitars. The makes of acoustic guitars to be found on Fret Music include Ashton, Breedlove, Crafter, Ridgewood, Seagull and Yamaha. All of those manufacturers know how to produce fantastic acoustic guitars. If you are looking for 12-string acoustic guitars then Ashton and Crafter both produce excellent examples of 12-string acoustic guitars. Classical acoustic guitars are manufactured by great classical names such as Alhambra classical acoustic guitars, Ashton classical acoustic guitars, Breedlove classical acoustic guitars and Crafter classical acoustic guitars. Another type of acoustic guitars is the electro version of acoustic guitars. Manufacturers of electro acoustic guitars are Ashton, Breedlove, Crafter, Dean, Ridgewood, Seagull, Tokai and Yamaha electro acoustic guitars.
To give an example of one of the great acoustic guitars it is necessary to look no further than Crafter acoustic guitars which offer a rich sound that emanates with great resonance from their chambers. Crafter acoustic guitars are as individual as the musician playing one of Crafter’s acoustic guitars. Typically, Crafter acoustic guitars are manufactured with solid spruce, India rosewood, and solid mahogany. The most wonderful aspect of all makes of quality acoustic guitars is that the feel fantastic to the touch, they have a wonderful smell, and when played by a good guitarist, acoustic guitars are one of the world’s finest musical instruments.
Bass Guitars
There are two types of
bass guitars and one of the bass guitars is electric type of bass guitars and the other type of bass guitars is acoustic type of bass guitars. On the Fret Music website you will find up to 110 different types of bass guitars. The makes of bass guitars that you will find on the Fret Music website include electric bass guitars manufactured by Ashton, Collection, ESP, Fender, Hofner, Ibanez, Peavey, Spear, Squier and Lakland. There are 13 types of acoustic bass guitars on the Fret Music website and they are manufactured by Ashton, Breedlove, Crafter and Dean. There are three left-handed bass guitars available on the Fret Music website and they are manufactured by Hofner bass guitars and Peavey bass guitars. Accessories for bass guitars include amplifiers and speakers for electro bass guitars together with strings, a case for bass guitars and leads for bass guitars. Acoustic bass guitars also need a case and spare strings. Other items that are available for bass guitars are stands for bass guitars, straps for bass guitars and slides for bass guitars. Some classical musicians will also want to have music stands for their bass guitars. It is important for bass guitars whether electro bass guitars or acoustic bass guitars to be fully in tune and to help with that process there are special electric tuners that are available.
Guitar Effects
All types of guitar effects are available for example there is a pedal that turns an electric guitar into an acoustic guitar and it is available on the Fret music website. Other guitar effects include a Dynamic Wah guitar effects pedal and a Blues Driver guitar effects pedal which gives electric guitars a bluesy sound. There is also a Boss guitar effects Flanger and a Boss Chorus Ensemble guitar effects pedal. Other Boss guitar effects include a Super Chorus guitar effects pedal, a Compression Sustainer guitar effects pedal, a Digital Delay guitar effects pedal, a Dyna Drive guitar effects pedal, a Distortion guitar effects pedal, a Bassman guitar effects pedal, a Deluxe Reverb Amp guitar effects pedal, a Fuzz guitar effects pedal, an Equalizer guitar effects pedal, a Line Selector guitar effects pedal, a Mega Distortion guitar effects pedal, a Metal Core guitar effects pedal, a Metal Zone guitar effects pedal, a Super Octave guitar effects pedal, an Overdrive
guitar effects pedal, a Phase Shifter guitar effects pedal, a Loop Station guitar effects pedal, a Digital Reverb guitar effects pedal and a Tremelo guitar effects pedal. There are other guitar effects pedals available through Fret Music which are complemented by the Boss TU-2 Convenient Pedal-based tuner.
