Best Drum Store Cambridge Near Me

Nicholas Jacovides: After extensive research, I decided to go to Mike's Monster Guitar shop to have my guitar serviced. Mike was very pleasant and easy to converse with. He got back to me the same day to tell me my guitar was ready. Talk about fast service! I recommend Mike wholeheartedly to anyone looking for good and fast service.

Audrey Day-Williams: Fantastic service!

M.J. C.: It's ok. Some middling vintage off brands. Not much of a selection but would do in a pinch. Owner polite but not friendly or welcoming. Ambience of a comic book shop or a thrift store. Fine for strings or pedals if you are in a pinch. I was very disappointed.

paul trunnell: Mike's done a great job keeping an authentic music shop right on Mass Ave. GREAT selection of quirky one-of-a-kind guitars. He's done solid repair work for me a couple of times and is a great quick stop for strings, etc.

Richard Vito: Great service

Andy V: Had to run in quick because I was late for practice and needed drum sticks- dude was super straightforward and to the point. In and out in less than 3 minutes! Props to the small shops

Jack Bossom: This is where you should take your business if you want an interesting vintage electric guitar or you need a repair. Mike is reliable and well-known.

Bashir Ali: Hh

John Harper: One of the original, old school guitar stores. Come in, play, and talk about the real gear.

Bob Sargent: Great place to buy trade or have work done.

M O: Had a setup done recently on two acoustic guitars. One guitar also needed to have a top crack cleated. All was done at a very reasonable price with great turnaround. Mike was professional throughout. Availability of street parking is a plus.

Carly Carney: Great guy honest prices

Yasin Pektaş: İ liked this shop.Here was small but so cute.

Jerome Oks: Mike worked on 3 guitars of mine. I highly recommend him for the quality of his repairs and setups, his fast turnaround and his very reasonable prices.

Jay Z: Mike knows guitars! Very cool place.

Bill Dwyer: Have had two guitars set-up by Mike (1 electric & 1 acoustic-electric) and both came out sweet! Fair prices for services and a unique shop with a nice inventory of axes. Great location too.

Diane Kaufman: Nice dig place goob staff friendly

Catherine Capozzi: Great selection of unique guitars and awesome guitar repair by Mike.

Pranav Kulkarni: Great place to visit to play new guitars. Staff is very helpful.

Loren Stallcop: Mike is an awesome guy and this shop has one of the most wonderfully eclectic collections of guitars I've seen in a small shop. Excellent.

Santo Ramirez: Exelente Servicio, Precios bajos..!

Alex K: The worst experience.I asked them to lower the strings on my acoustic guitar.They charged me for a platinum setup which includes new strings but instead they used my own string without asking my permission. They did not lower the strings, and its "platinum" setup took five days.

Champ: Synthesizers

Carolyn Willander: Went in and asked for a mic stand. Very clearly did not know my way around this stuff since I walked right to the counter when I came in and asked for help. Got home and learned it didn’t come with a clip for the mic. Good service would have asked if I needed it.

Jessica Luo: This place makes me want to shop at sweetwater

Samantha Em: Helpful and patient

Caroline: The staff was so friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful when we were picking out my son's first guitar. We will defiantly be back!!!

Le Dojo - Méditation et Sophrologie: Vendeur très sympa avec moi :)Le magasin, c'est vraiment le paradis des instruments de musiques courants (guitare, batterie, micros) mais dispose d'un maigre choix de percussions et aucun instrument de musique plus original (didgeridoo, kalimba, kora).

Scott McDiarmid: Great shop. Lots of inventory and helpful staff.

Stephanie Joseph: super helpful and informative employees. i walked in and was immediately greeted and assisted. i was on the hunt for something my partner needed and i had no idea what to look for. the employees grabbed it and told me about their replacement policy in case my item broke they would replace it. which is amazing!!! you can tell everyone working actually enjoys their job here and it’s refreshing to see. especially these days.

Cesar Garcia: Staff is great, but the variety of instruments and accessories is low compared to any other guitar center. Because is closed to college, most guitars have a lock and you must leave you credit card on the counter if you have to test a pedal. I didn't like the experience, again, compared to other guitar center I have visited.

Alp Arhan Uguray: Worst possible experience at this store. People are smoked high out of their minds at this shop. You’d spend hundreds of dollars of money on equipment and the customer experience you get is same as picking up a product from trash. My recommendation is to visit Boylston store for anybody out there, looking to purchase music equipment.Additionally, they lose equipment. I gave my guitar for repair before Covid and after Covid hit the said they lost it. Since everyone is high, they do not remember much what happened and who picked up the equipment. I am sorry to say this but avoid this store unless you are 8 years old and starting to play the flute to play jingle bells only

Elizabeth McIlroy: Super friendly staff that will help you feel comfortable and have everything that you need! Thanks for the help!

Sávio Júnior: Great staff...very smoothly guys!

Stephen Parnell: Wednesday, July 6th at Boston Guitar Center at about 12:30-12:45PM - you had a very talented person working at the Guitar Center. He had a Martin guitar that he was working on. I was wondering how much that Particular Martin guitar was. He was doing such a beautiful job with that guitar. He worked diligently on it as well as. I’d love to know his name or how much the cost of the guitar was?

Tristan DeCelles: Decent outlet, but small. Has stocked your basic/ and or general merchandise. So its not a bad stop to resupply on sticks if you're a drummer (drummah) like me or strings or picks if you're a guitar boss. It's a small store and I must admit the drum section is pitiful. Not much there. If you're looking to fool around in a drum section go to the Fenway store it has much more sample/display drums. Again, not a bad store since from what I could tell from my single visit the staff were agreeable and chill.

Gary Luongo: Max was very helpful with my questions and purchase. Thanks, Gary aka Louie Spats 😎

Kelvin Lewis: Very informative personal..

Matt: Love Guitar Center for the most part. As far as the pro coverage is concerned I am very disappointed. The salesman told me they would replace broken gear (in my case headphones) on the spot without a receipt. The day came where my headphones that I bought last year needed to be replaced. I brought them into the same store. Things did not go as the salesman from last year described. I was told to contact the insurance company to make a claim, who asked me for a receipt. Very disappointed with this one particular salesperson.

bzon66 .LoveDad06: Great place to shop And very nice customer service.

Jose Mercedes Alvarez: Guitar Center una Empresa con artículos de primera calidad a precios sin competencia. En caso, sus servicios son una garantía a mi inversión.

Benjamin Wilson: Brought my beginner 12 y/o to the store and were happy with Glenno's service. Would definitely go back.

Marc Vidal: The Environment is not always ideal to try things ( as it can be pretty noisy). But the team was nice and I found several instruments there :)The second hand part of the store is nice to get good deals.

Frank Buckley: Great experience

Adam Gesuero: Glen-O took great care of my buddy and I on our recent trip to Fenway Guitar Center. We were there for hours trying out tons of axes, and he helped us out but was never pushy. Gave our guitars some fine-tuning, adjusted the necks and polished ‘em up nice. Ask for him when you go there.

Daniel Franklin: Awful customer service! Can't even respond to a complaint after giving the worst customer service in Boston. Don't even bother visiting.

Adam Harris: Great service, good prices, fun time for the family. Some people can be pushy.

Zeus Pedersen: Don’t shop at this location. The customer service is terrible with the exception of a couple employees. I brought my bass in to have brand new pickups installed: I was informed on the pickup day a week later that my bass required extra time and that I was being charged $45 extra for extra work they had to do. Upon getting it back, my bass produced little to no sound. I brought it back and after plugging it into multiple amps we got no results and I got no answers. I asked for at least a %50 refund and was refused and was then told they could take it back to fix it but they’d charge me full price. The store manager then said “sorry, i don’t know what to tell you.” I brought it to someone else & they had it fixed within 15 minutes. As a newer musician, I’m very discouraged from shopping at the place that’s supposed to be the go-to spot.

R Z: I would definitely recommend this location..I received not only great help in finding headphones but I also had a great guitar lesson

Parker Tichko: The scene: It is New Year's Eve Day, the final day of the year, and you're driving to Guitar Center to pick up a new digital piano for your son. You'd like him to start piano lessons this year. You find the back parking lot full, so you decide to idle in front of a garage door that says "DO NOT BLOCK" and "NO PARKING," after arranging for a contact-less pick-up. It should be quick, you think to yourself. You notify the store that you've arrived via email and the curbsy website. You wait 10 minutes. You wait some more. You check the curbsy website, and it doesn't seem to be loading correctly. Moreover, the chat feature, which allows you to "chat" with the store, doesn't seem to be working. You turn off the car and decide to walk into the store to get the digital piano you've ordered. You're greeted by the door, and an employee immediately finds your contact-less pick-up order. He sends another employee out back to pack the piano into your car. What service! You walk back outside, excited to be on your way for NYE, only to find that your car battery is dead. Your car won't start, and it is now blocking the "DO-NOT-BLOCK" garage door. Another Guitar Center employee, who parked inside the garage, opens the garage door to find your dead car blocking his exit. He is desperate to leave his shift to celebrate NYE. He's kind and helpful, and he offers to jump your car with his cable. He tries, but it doesn't work. You're about to throw your car into neutral and manually push it out of the way so he can leave and celebrate the new year. You begin to mentally prepare to call a tow truck, knowing there might be limited service on NYE and that it will likely cost you an arm and a leg. Suddenly, another Guitar Center employee arrives. He has a long, wirey beard, but his eyes seem kind. He offers to try jumping your car again, this time, using his jumper cables. You're skeptical, convinced that it might be a bad starter and not a dead battery. He connects both black ends of the cable to the negative terminals on the two batteries. You tell him that one of the black ends needs to be grounded. He says not to worry, that he does this thing all the time. It works. He's right. Shaken but relieved, you step out your car, unsure how to thank your Good Samaritans. Before you can say anything, he extends his hand and says "happy new year." You shake it. Dazed, you step back into your car and begin to drive to O'Reilly's auto-parts to purchase a new battery with a new digital piano stuffed in your trunk. As you drive off, you hear the distant sound of shredding neo-classical arpeggios coming from a squealing guitar. You imagine it's the employee with the long, wirey bead. You feel grateful. Five stars.

Luke Pynchon: Tried to buy a Maschine Plus here twice. The first time I bought it used, but there were some glitches so I had to return it. The second time, I ordered it new, which cost me a bit more. When I picked it up and arrived home, I realized that the "new" Maschine I had bought was in worse shape than the used one I returned previously; no SD card, missing accessories such as he headphone adapter. There was even melted chocolate on the inner packaging. I was told it was ordered from another warehouse. Clearly Guitar Center doesn't take the time to check and make sure you've received what you paid for when you order a new item. This item is hard to get, and Guitar Center wasted about two weeks of time that could've been put towards waiting for a competent retailer to deliver it. Ordered from Sweetwater who has already been much more helpful. If you're thinking of ordering a large - ticket from Guitar Center, stop right there. Go to Sweetwater instead. They actually know what they're doing. Guitar Center is great for low - ticket items though. If you need a place that can be trusted with selling you a box of cables and a guitar pick, go to Guitar Center, but I wouldn't trust them not to screw up purchases much larger than that

Edenilze Halluch: Show time. 2 foor of music and all you need for music

Diana Rodriguez-Quiles: brought my bass to trade it in for something else. at first the staff was nice, as soon as they saw my puertorrican ID they turned sour. started to say that my ID isn’t valid (which it is), and i painfully explained how the US owns Puerto Rico and they still wouldn’t get it. they finally agreed to give me money for it, undershot what the bass was worth, and eventually gave in to some negotiation. worst experience i’ve had with my ID, they also insisted that they had to take a picture of me for this process which i found very inappropriate considering everything that went down.

Patrick Scott Welsh (Paugh): Me and Marty (what I named my Martin accoustic which I picked up here) are in love. We will never forget where we first met.

Nainil Maladkar: The place has a variety of options to chose from and has guitars of every type and price range.

K L: Bought a guitar cabinet from the online store, this store shipped it as “new” and when I called customer support they argued it’s ok because it’s “like new” and still playable, at least to their standards. I paid full price for a new cab, not a display model that are currently listed on the site for 2/3s the price. There is literally nothing Guitar Center could do at this point to ever get my business again after all the bad experiences I’ve had.

Donovan Jermyn: I mean it's okay. When you go in to just browse the sales team will hound you and then when you have money and need to buy something, they all disappear. Literally took an hour to buy two pedals.

Hendrik Gideonse: I made an appointment the day before to check out acoustic bass guitars. The guy on the phone was very nice and put some instruments together in the store for me. I came in to check out the instruments and the instruments weren't in very good shape. The strings on the instruments were old and oxidized even on the 'new' instruments. I figured, it's been a long pandemic, probably not a lot of people buying instruments in person. All of the necks were way out of adjustment with much more neck relief than was correct. All of the instruments intonated sharp as you went up the neck because the strings were too high. I basically was bending the strings sharp just fretting notes. There was one instrument that I liked the sound of, but the neck needed to be adjusted so I could check the intonation. I went over to the repair office and asked if he would adjust the truss rod. The guy said he was too busy to adjust the neck today. He clearly viewed me as an annoyance. He definitely didn't want to help me out. It takes about a minute to do the adjustment. Turning a wrench, maybe a third to a half turn. I asked if I could use the 5mm wrench to do it myself. Again no. This was more expected because he doesn't know me, but I had hoped that it would encourage him to help me out. He was not in the middle of a re-fret or a bridge reglue, but playing an instrument, maybe checking a set up. To me the customer in the store is the priority.It was really disappointing and a waste of my time. I know why this happened. The repair guy has no incentive to help sell an instrument. He probably is getting pressure to do more work than is reasonable. The store didn't have any sales folks on the floor because business is slow these days. But I literally had $1000 in cash to buy an instrument and couldn't get help to buy one. So I went home and ordered a bass off eBay. Now I am spending the afternoon cutting a new bone nut and saddle.If you aren't getting help from humans in the store, brick and mortar is gonna die.

William Boxx: I found the MIDI cable i needed!

Wazir Gray: James and Kemit were awesome! Highly recommend this location

Stephen Lafko: Excellent. Freddy's great. Very helpful. Very knowledgeable. Thanks Freddy.

The 3D Print Zone: My friend and I went into this shop and were disrespected by the guy who works there (not sure if he's the owner). Highly negative attitude, not sure what that guy's deal is. I would recommend finding another guitar shop where they treat their customers with respect.

Kevin Stillerman: FIND ANOTHER GUITAR SHOP! Wish I could leave a 0 star rating. The owner of the store was extremely rude and disparaging. His tone is very condescending when I asked him about how to wire my guitar. In addition the overall pricing at the store is very high including hourly rates. I encourage you to bring your business elsewhere, there are plenty of other guitar shops in the area.

Meghan: love this school it’swelcoming and cozy!!

Alan Foster: It was great meeting you today Deborah, thank you!

Catherine Jones: Great service! I really like to be here.

Jason Goodwin: Great staff, terrific deals, and they do a first-rate job fixing and setting up instruments.

Charles Bosselman: The owner was very nastyWhen I inquired about a position at this store. Told her the email I used wad invalidShe said it's not invalid. I don't recommend anyone for working at this store.

Te Liu: 2021-12-27 in store. not big, perhaps a treasure cove to some, worthy a hunt, did wonder if they knew what they had. met the owner Deb (percussionist & banjoist) and tender (violinist), very amicably and friendly environment and offering various musical lessons. (anti-virus filtering system.)---- 4 moths agoA tiny corner music store in Arlington. My be a treasure hunt for used music books.

Juan Venegas: Not very helpful. Will never go here now.

Mira Whiting: Super helpful staff -- both when I was buying a ukelele for one child, and when I needed an emergency violin repair for another. Highly recommend!

Aaron Leventhal: My son loves the guitar and voice lessons he gets there. He's made huge improvements in the last 6 months. The instructors are excellent.

Jennifer Redinger: Overpriced and guy was dishonest and rude. Charged me $35 for a $15-20 string and didn't have another option because I was in a tight spot.

zhao ruyan: Very nice service.

thomas olmsted: Simply the best