Major guitar fair Amsterdam Guitar Heaven, November 23, 2024, with numerous prizes to be won
The event for guitarists and bassists – Gearshow Guitar & Bass and Workshop Festival in Q-Factory Amsterdam
Brand news 31-10-2024 17:04
Tickets only €14.50 for the whole day: Gearshow + Workshops + Final Concert.
Order them now at Ticketmaster!
If you are a student, you only pay €7.50.
Together with De Bassist, Musicmaker.nl, Guitar Matrix, GitaarschoolNederland.nl, Abbey Road Institute and Q-Factory, we are organizing another great edition of Amsterdam Guitar Heaven with Gitarist on Saturday, November 23.
Also register for the Facebook event and stay informed!
IIn this article you will find everything about the brands at the Gearshow Guitar & Bass and we show you which great prizes can be won.
If you want to know which workshops you can go to, click here.
Gearshow Guitar & Bass 12:00 – 18:00
In the Main Hall and the foyer of Q-Factory you can view, touch and try basses, amplifiers, effects and accessories at the dozens of stands of manufacturers, distributors and luthiers.
These are all brands available:
Aguilar • Aristides • Ashdown • AxLabs • Bacci • BACE/Bass-Cello • Baton Rouge • Beetronics • Boss • Blackstar • Brixx • Carl Martin • Cordoba • Cort • Crazy Tube Circuits • Dejawu Guitars • Digitech • Duke Guitars • Dunlop • Egmond • Eko Guitars • Ernie Ball • Fender Audio • FGN • Focusrite • G&L • G7th • Get’m Get’m • Guild • Hagstrom • Harmony • GRBass • GRGuitar • Guitar Nails • Hercules • Heritage • Hughes & Kettner • Ibanez • IK Multimedia • J. Rockett • Kernom • KJ Band • Korg • La Mancha • Lâg Guitars • Lava • Levy’s Leathers • Martin • Maruszczyk • MXR • Ortega • Paul Belgrado Stringed Instruments • Pedaltrain • Positech Design • QuickLoc • Rapier • RH Guitars • Roland • Schecter • Schwung Guitars • Sire • Source Audio • Sterling by Music Man • Strymon • Trace Elliott • Tyrone Guitars • Ultimusician • Vandermey Guitars • Vintage • Vox • Walden • Walrus Audio • Warm Audio • Way Huge • Zeegers Artwork Guitars
And these are the prizes that will be given away by various exhibitors during this day.
Grab your chance!
* A Hagstrom Adina Dark Storm
Offset solidboy with two cutaways, mahogany body with flamed maple top plus single coil and humbucker (with coil split) pickups worth € 1198,-
at the Musik Meyer stand
* A Fender Audio Riff Portable Bluetooth Speaker and Guitar/Bass Amplifier t.w.v. € 519,-
at the Voerman stand
* Of Vintage V62 ProShop Custom as we reviewed it in Guitarist: a solid electric guitar with screw-on neck and single cutaway worth € 1370.
at the JHS stand
* A Tonex One pedal, inclusief AmpliTube 5 SE software t.w.v. € 216,-
at the Pro Media Connect stand
* A Guild D-320 Natural dreadnought with mahogany top (as tested in Guitarist) worth € 330,-
at the Cordoba stand
Below you will find all exhibitors and the brands and special products they present at the Gearshow Guitar & Bass.
Algam Benelux
Martin, Ashdown, Lâg, Eko, Ernie Ball, Sterling by Music Man, Kernom, Dunlop, MXR, Way Huge, Get’m Get’m, QuickLoc, Aguilar
Many brands at Algam, including a separate section for the acoustic Lâg Guitars. From Sterling by Music Man we hope the Cutlass can be tried. You can try out the Layers from MXR, among other things
Aristides
Aristides
Aristides comes with guitars with Evertune bridge, among other things. In the photo an eight-string guitar with multiscale (fanned frets) and Evertune.
BACE/Bass-Cello
Base, Bass-cello
Best Acoustics
Baton Rouge, Duke Guitars, La Mancha
From Baton Rouge there is of course the Alexandr Misko signature. Misko will also give a workshop. From La Mancha Guitars there is the rECO Series: steel-string and classical guitars made of sustainable wood from Germany and Austria. Also on the stand are Duke Guitars: new, completely German-built Pro Acoustic Series guitars.
Boss
Boss
It’s time for the third generation of Katanas. Come see them. And of course a whole bunch of effects, such as the IR-2 Amp & Cabinet we tested. There is also the brand new Boss SDE-3 delay, a dizzying amount of possibilities in a classic compact pedal.
Brixx
Brixx
Comes with, among other things, the Brixx Sadé
Cordoba
Guild, Cordoba
Comes with, among other things, the Guild Travel Guitar and the 300 series from Guild.
Dejawu
Dejawu Guitars
Comes with four new models, including the Dejawu Panucci Special Relic Edition
Egmond/Victory
Legendary Egmond guitars revisited and guitars from luthier Dallas Seger
Face
Blackstar, Peavey, Beetronics, Walrus
Peavey brings Ad Vandenberg’s new signature and also the Peavey Classic 20 amp! Of course, Face will also bring the Blackstar Debut series amps, as well as the Polar 2. And every year there are enormous battery effects to see and try out at the stand. From Walrus there is the Fundamental Ambient and an update of the Mako series.
Guitar Nails
Guitar Nails
Hoshino
Ibanez
We will certainly see electric guitars such as the GRGs, AZ Premiums, the RG series and also the AAM Advanced Auditorium acoustic guitar. Also effects of course, such as the Pentatone Gate and the Pentatone Equalizer.
JHS
Vintage, Rapier
Vintage comes with the Revo series and the V62 ProShop Custom
KJ Band
KJ Band Guitars
Maruszczyk
Maruszczyk
Meyer Music
Cort, Digitech, Hagstrom, FGN
Ortega
Ortega guitars
All kinds of acoustic guitars and ukuleles
Paul Belgrado Stringed Instruments
Boutique guitars and basses
Positech Design
Positech Design
The LTwist measures neck twisting to the nearest degree
Pro Arte
Tyrone, Bacci
In addition to the Bacci basses, there are also Tyrone’s recently Guitarist-reviewed Bronze OM Ash and Silver OM Walnut acoustic guitars
Promedia & Total Sonic
Universal Audio, IK Multimedia, Heritage, Harmony, Strymon, Warm Audio
From Universal Audio there is the Anti 1992 High Gain Amp for metal guitarists. You can test the BigSky MX from Strymon.
RH Guitars
RH Guitars
Momentum
Momentum Guitars
We recently tested the Ultimate and Kaster guitars from this boutique brand. Come see them (if they haven’t already sold by then)
TMA Benelux
Sire, Koch, Hotone, GR Guitar, GR Bass, Hotone
We recently tested the Hotone Pulze. Come hear this 100-watt amp! GR Guitar has three new combos for acoustic guitar
Vandermeij
Vandermeij Guitars
Carter
Schecter, Vox, Lava, Korg, Fender Audio, AxLabs, G7th, Source Audio
Voerman comes with the Vox AmPlug 3 and new wah pedals from Vox, the V846 Vintage and the Real McCoy. There are the Pitchblack X tuners from Korg, the ME Air from Lava, an extra thin acoustic guitar, and Carbon Pro and AxLabs guitar parts. The Source Audio Artifakt Lo-Fi Elements pedal we recently tested will probably also be there.
WORKSHOPFESTIVAL
But Amsterdam Guitar Heaven is not just a large fair. There are also about 20 workshops for guitarists and bassists.
Read all about it elsewhere on Gitarist.nl.
Together with De Bassist, Musicmaker.nl, Guitar Matrix, GitaarschoolNederland.nl, Abbey Road Institute and Q-Factory, we are organizing another great edition of Amsterdam Guitar Heaven with Gitarist on Saturday, November 23.
Amsterdam Guitar Heaven
Saturday, November 23, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Q-Factory Amsterdam
Tickets €14.50 for the whole day: gear show+workshops+final concert. Order them from Ticketmaster!
Students pay only €7.50.
LOCATION Q-FACTORY accessibility ideal
The event takes place in Q-Factory, Atlantisplein 1Amsterdam. There are plenty of bicycle sheds for locals. If you go with the tram of bus you can get off at the Oostpoort stop and then it is a three-minute walk. From Muiderpoort railway station is about a five-minute walk to Q-Factory. Trains stop here every few minutes to and from Utrecht, Amsterdam Central Station, Leiden, Haarlem and Rotterdam.
Q-Park Oostpoort has almost a thousand parking spaces, you can enter and exit 24/7 and the Atlantisplein exit is right on the doorstep. Set your navigation to Q-Park Oostpoort or Polderweg 92, 1093 KP, Amsterdam.
Welcome to Amsterdam Guitar Heaven – A Day of Strings, Screams, and Surprises!
Hold onto your picks, folks, because on November 23, 2024, Amsterdam’s going to be strumming its way to glory with the Gearshow Guitar & Bass and Workshop Festival at the Q-Factory. Now, whether you can play Stairway to Heaven without butchering it or you’ve just mastered “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” this is the event for you. Just €14.50 for a whole day! But students, fear not; you only have to pay €7.50 for this sonic extravaganza. I guess that’s what happens when you’re young—everything’s cheaper, including your chances of getting a date!
What’s in Store?
This isn’t just any ordinary guitar fair, oh no! We have workshops, gear showcases, and an epic concert to wrap it all up like a guitarist’s ego after a particularly good solo. I mean, come for the gear, stay for the inflated sense of self-importance! And let’s not forget, many prizes will be up for grabs! Who knows, you could stroll out with a guitar worth more than your rent!
Brands to Drool Over
We’ve got a list of brands so long it could rival the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song! Whether you’re enamoured with Aguilar, drooling over Fender, or just can’t resist the allure of a beautiful Ibanez, they’ll all be showcasing their finest gear. Some highlights include:
- Hagstrom: Ever wanted to get your mitts on an Adina Dark Storm? It’s worth €1198 and will be your chance to impress the neighbors—until they hear you play, of course!
- Fender Audio: Riffing on their Bluetooth Speaker/Amp combo value at €519. Take it to your next barbecue—because nothing says ‘party’ like a guitarist pretending they can sing.
- Vintage: That V62 ProShop Custom guitar worth €1370 will be hard to resist. And yes, it can be used as a highly inflated paperweight too!
Workshops Galore!
Feeling creative? You’ll have the chance to join about 20 workshops designed to refine your talent or, at the very least, to find out when to stop trying! We’ve got experts from every corner, shedding wisdom like confetti at a wedding. Whether you’re a budding Hendrix or simply looking to learn not to break a string—there’s something for everyone!
Location, Location, Location!
Taking place at the Q-Factory, Atlantisplein 1, Amsterdam, it’s accessible via tram, bus, or a short walk from Muiderpoort station. Or, if you prefer to arrive in style, park in Q-Park Oostpoort with nearly a thousand spaces—perfect for those who like to preen about their carbon footprint while slinging guitars around!
Tickets are flying off the shelves, my friends! Grab them before they’re gone, especially if you’re hoping to find your new favourite guitar—or just a great excuse to tell your boss you’re “working on your music career”. Click here to snag yours!
Conclusion
So, whether you’re looking to win some awesome gear, join in on workshops, or just want to bask in the glory of fellow guitar lovers, Amsterdam Guitar Heaven is the place to be. Remember, you’re not just going for the guitars—you’re going for the stories. And let’s be honest, every musician has at least one tale that starts with, “So, there I was with a bottle of whiskey and…”
Hope to see you there! And remember, if you can’t play well, just play loud!
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Amsterdam Guitar Heaven Set to Rock the City on November 23, 2024, With Exciting Prizes Awaiting Attendees
The Ultimate Gathering for Guitar and Bass Enthusiasts: Gearshow Guitar & Bass and Workshop Festival at Q-Factory Amsterdam
Brand news 31-10-2024 17:04
Secure Your Ticket for Just €14.50 for an All-Day Experience: Gearshow + Workshops + Final Concert.
Purchase Now at Ticketmaster!
Tight budget? Students can grab their tickets for only €7.50.
In partnership with De Bassist, Musicmaker.nl, Guitar Matrix, GitaarschoolNederland.nl, Abbey Road Institute, and Q-Factory, we aim to deliver an exceptional experience at this year’s Amsterdam Guitar Heaven alongside Gitarist on Saturday, November 23.
Stay in the loop by registering for the Facebook event!
Gain insights into the brands featured at the Gearshow Guitar & Bass while discovering the incredible prizes up for grabs.
If you’re curious about the diverse workshops waiting for you, click here.
Gearshow Guitar & Bass operates from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
In the Main Hall and the foyer of Q-Factory, music lovers can interact with various basses, amplifiers, effects, and accessories spread across numerous booths displayed by manufacturers, distributors, and talented luthiers.
The impressive lineup of brands includes:
Aguilar • Aristides • Ashdown • AxLabs • Bacci • BACE/Bass-Cello • Baton Rouge • Beetronics • Boss • Blackstar • Brixx • Carl Martin • Cordoba • Cort • Crazy Tube Circuits • Dejawu Guitars • Digitech • Duke Guitars • Dunlop • Egmond • Eko Guitars • Ernie Ball • Fender Audio • FGN • Focusrite • G&L • G7th • Get’m Get’m • Guild • Hagstrom • Harmony • GRBass • GRGuitar • Guitar Nails • Hercules • Heritage • Hughes & Kettner • Ibanez • IK Multimedia • J. Rockett • Kernom • KJ Band • Korg • La Mancha • Lâg Guitars • Lava • Levy’s Leathers • Martin • Maruszczyk • MXR • Ortega • Paul Belgrado Stringed Instruments • Pedaltrain • Positech Design • QuickLoc • Rapier • RH Guitars • Roland • Schecter • Schwung Guitars • Sire • Source Audio • Sterling by Music Man • Strymon • Trace Elliott • Tyrone Guitars • Ultimusician • Vandermey Guitars • Vintage • Vox • Walden • Walrus Audio • Warm Audio • Way Huge • Zeegers Artwork Guitars
Exciting prizes will be given away by various exhibitors throughout this thrilling day!
Don’t miss out on your chance!
* A Hagstrom Adina Dark Storm
Offset solid body guitar featuring two cutaways, mahogany body with flamed maple top combined with single coil and humbucker (with coil split) pickups valued at €1,198
available at the Musik Meyer stand
* A Fender Audio Riff Portable Bluetooth Speaker and Guitar/Bass Amplifier valued at €519
available at the Voerman stand
* A Vintage V62 ProShop Custom, which we reviewed in Guitarist: a solid electric guitar featuring a screw-on neck and single cutaway worth €1,370.
available at the JHS stand
* A Tonex One pedal, including AmpliTube 5 SE software, valued at €216
available at the Pro Media Connect stand
* A Guild D-320 Natural dreadnought guitar with a mahogany top (as tested in Guitarist) worth €330
available at the Cordoba stand
Discover all exhibitors along with their remarkable brands and exclusive products showcased at the Gearshow Guitar & Bass.
Algam Benelux
Martin, Ashdown, Lâg, Eko, Ernie Ball, Sterling by Music Man, Kernom, Dunlop, MXR, Way Huge, Get’m Get’m, QuickLoc, Aguilar
Many brands will be featured at Algam, including a dedicated section showcasing acoustic Lâg Guitars. Don’t miss the opportunity to test the Sterling by Music Man Cutlass and favorites from MXR!
Aristides
Aristides
Known for innovative guitars equipped with Evertune bridges, including an eight-string guitar that employs multiscale design (fanned frets) and Evertune technology.
BACE/Bass-Cello
Base, Bass-cello
Best Acoustics
Baton Rouge, Duke Guitars, La Mancha
Among the offerings, the Baton Rouge Alexandr Misko signature model will be showcased, along with La Mancha’s eco-friendly rECO Series, featuring steel-string and classical guitars crafted from sustainably-sourced wood from Germany and Austria. The Duke Guitars will impress with their entirely German-manufactured Pro Acoustic Series guitars.
Boss
Boss
Witness the third generation of Katanas and experience a multitude of pedals and effects on display, including the IR-2 Amp & Cabinet and the newly released Boss SDE-3 delay pedal, promising an extraordinary range of capabilities packed into a compact design.
Brixx
Brixx
Will present the Brixx Sadé alongside other exciting products.
Cordoba
Guild, Cordoba
Including the Guild Travel Guitar and the celebrated 300 series from Guild, sure to appeal to guitar aficionados.
Dejawu
Dejawu Guitars
Unveil four new models, featuring the exceptional Dejawu Panucci Special Relic Edition.
Egmond/Victory
Bringing back the legendary Egmond guitars alongside products created by luthier Dallas Seger.
Face
Blackstar, Peavey, Beetronics, Walrus
Peavey showcases Ad Vandenberg’s latest signature model, in addition to the classic Peavey Classic 20 amplifier! Blackstar will highlight its Debut series amps and Polar 2. Enthusiasts can also explore a wide array of battery-powered effects at the stand. Walrus will present the Fundamental Ambient pedal and updates from the Mako series.
Guitar Nails
Guitar Nails
Hoshino Ibanez
Expect to see various electric guitars including GRGs, AZ Premiums, and RG series, along with the AAM Advanced Auditorium acoustic guitar and various effects such as the Pentatone Gate and the Pentatone Equalizer.
JHS
Vintage, Rapier
Vintage’s display will feature the Revo series and the V62 ProShop Custom.
Pro Arte Tyrone, Bacci
Among the highlights are Bacci basses and Tyrone’s recently reviewed Bronze OM Ash and Silver OM Walnut acoustic guitars, presented at the event.
Promedia & Total Sonic Universal Audio, IK Multimedia, Heritage, Harmony, Strymon, Warm Audio
Universal Audio will reveal the Anti 1992 High Gain Amp, ideal for metal guitarists, whilst Strymon’s BigSky MX offers a unique testing opportunity.
WORKSHOPFESTIVAL
In addition to the incredible gear fair, Amsterdam Guitar Heaven will feature around 20 informative workshops tailored for guitarists and bassists alike.
Full details can be found elsewhere on Gitarist.nl.
Amsterdam Guitar Heaven
Saturday, November 23, 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Q-Factory Amsterdam
Tickets available for €14.50 for an all-encompassing day: gear show, workshops, and final concert — buy yours on Ticketmaster!
Discounted tickets for students at only €7.50.
Q-FACTORY: Your Preferred Venue!
Visit us at Q-Factory, Atlantisplein 1, Amsterdam, where you can find ample bicycle parking. Using the tram or bus network, hop off at the Oostpoort stop for a short three-minute walk. A mere five-minute stroll from Muiderpoort railway station where regular trains connect to Utrecht, Amsterdam Central Station, Leiden, Haarlem, and Rotterdam.
Q-Park Oostpoort boasts nearly a thousand parking spaces, open 24/7, with the Atlantisplein exit conveniently situated right at the venue’s entrance. Set your navigation to Q-Park Oostpoort or Polderweg 92, 1093 KP, Amsterdam.
Guitars. If you thought the only way to strike a chord was with a relationship, wait until you see what’s in store at the Amsterdam Guitar Heaven!
Ladies and gentlemen, gather round as we prepare for a day filled with enough stringy excitement to make even the most stoic of luthiers crack a smile! Picture this: you walk into the Q-Factory, and the air is thick with the sweet scent of new guitar strings and slightly awkward first-timers trying to remember whether their E-string is really supposed to sound like an angry cat. You can expect to see more gear than a kid in a candy store who just discovered sugar.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Isn’t €14.50 a bit steep?” But hey, for the price of a mediocre meal, you get an all-day pass that includes the Gearshow, workshops, and a final concert. It’s like getting a buffet of musical goodness! Plus, students can get in for just €7.50—because who doesn’t love a good deal? Remember, folks, the only thing better than playing a guitar is getting to brag about how little you paid for it.
And speaking of bragging, let’s talk about the fantastic prizes you could score while you’re there! How would you feel about rocking out with a Hagstrom Adina Dark Storm? Or perhaps taking home a Fender Audio Riff Bluetooth Speaker to better amplify your questionable taste in music? They even have a Vintage V62 ProShop Custom that could seriously up your Instagram game — just remember to angle it in the light to hide your shadowy past of unplayed chords.
Get ready to rub elbows with gear, from basses to acoustic wonders, and a parade of brands boasting names that will impress your friends. Ever heard of Boss? They’re not just a name; they’re the soundtrack of your teenage angst. And if you thought Aguilar was a funny-sounding bird, wait until you see the jaw-dropping gear they’re bringing!
And sure, the world of guitar might seem absurd at times—like why does every guitarist with a t-shirt and jeans think they’re the lead in a rock opera? But let’s embrace that chuckle-worthy absurdity together! The more, the merrier, right?
So, dust off that old guitar gathering cobwebs in the corner of your room, check the string gauge (you can’t just go trusting the ancient advice of “they’re all the same”), and make your way to Amsterdam on November 23, 2024! After all, whether you’re a strumming genius or someone who thinks a fret is a sound your cat makes when it’s unhappy, this is the day to embrace your inner rock star.
Lastly, don’t forget to visit the Facebook event page to stay informed. After all, you wouldn’t want to miss this extravaganza where guitars may not solve all your problems, but they can certainly distract you from them for a whole day—and who knows, you might just find the inspiration to finally learn that pesky guitar solo that’s been haunting you since high school.
To quote the wise words of every guitarist ever: “Let’s make it a day to remember!” or at the very least, a day that results in some hilariously awkward Instagram stories. Grab your tickets now!
