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NOW ANNOUNCING OUR WEEKLY FACEBOOK GIVE AWAYS
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Now announcing our Weekly Facebook Give Away called: “Free Stuff Around the Office Friday”. We’ll give away everything from pedals to strings, to picks—it just depends on what I can dig up that particular week. Whatever it is, it’ll be on every Friday, and it’ll be Dunlop! Winners are announced on the following Monday. Just comment on the Facebook post to enter. Now due to popular demand, we’re opening up these give aways to our friends all over the world. This weeks give away? The most versatile sheet-music holder ever! The D36 Music stand.
Click here to see the latest give away on Facebook.
GET TO KNOW YOUR INDEPENDENT MUSIC STORE: KEN STANTON MUSIC
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Get to know your Independent Music Stores – we take a look at what makes certain Independent Music Stores unique and what they can do for you as a player. Whether it be the best deals in town, a collection of rare and vintage gear, or a specialty in a certain area of music – we’ll sort it all out for you.
Ken Stanton Music serves the metro Atlanta area with stores in Marietta, West Cobb, Roswell, Woodstock, and Snellville. They sell a variety of instruments and accessories including guitars, basses, amplifiers, drums, pro audio gear, band and orchestra instruments, print music and more. We sat down with them and asked a few questions…
What sets your store apart from the competition?
60 years in business in the metro Atlanta market. Many of the sales staff have been with us over 10 years, several over 15 and 20 years.
How do you get people to know about you?
Through our reputation and our pricing. We are also supported by yearly marketing campaigns through radio, print, and web. We have an online presence and are also involved with the community.
Who runs your store?
The store is family owned and operated and is run by the owner Kenny Stanton, myself, Scott Cameron, and the store manager John Bond. We also have 5 other locations.
How is your business different today than when it first started?
It started out as a Band & Orchestra company mostly and is now a very large Combo company that still deals a lot with Schools and the B/O end of life.
Where do you think the M.I. retail industry is headed and what do you think will be the direction of independent stores?
It’s hard to say. This is my 38th year in the music retail business. I think one thing has not changed: If you want to WORK at making it happen, get customers in and make the most of that oppurtunity when they do. No disrespect to other companies and or owners/managers but if a business is waiting to see what happens: waiting for customers to walk in, waiting for their inventory to even out, waiting for their staff to improve, waiting to see if it’s safe to grow, waiting for manufacturer reps to do their job, they will probably have a long road ahead of them.
For more info on Ken Stanton Music, visit their site at www.kenstantonmusic.com
WAY HUGE PACKAGING GETS SOME WAY HUGE RECOGNITION
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Sometimes as musicians we tend not to care about the way things look, only how they sound. But at Dunlop we take pride in the work that we put into everything we create—from the gear itself to the packaging that it comes in. So we’re proud to announce that Way Huge has recently been featured on The Die Line (the world’s authority when it comes to package design) for its creative design in packaging. So the next time you rip open that new Carbon Copy or Crybaby from its box, take a moment to first reflect on the artistry that was poured into it. If you have any thoughts or want to share your support for Way Huge, you can rate the packaging on The Die Lines site.
For more details and the complete set of packaging pictures you can visit the post here.
“Dunlop’s in-house team set about creating packaging that spoke to the garage workshop heritage of Way Huge, but with an added bright, clean sheen as a nod to the forward-thinking sonic voyagers brave enough to use them. Everything in the Way Huge packaging system was designed to look as though a garage-based entrepreneur made it in 1976. What appears to be a “one-size-fits-all” kraft box with poorly hand-silkscreened graphics is really a custom box with distressed artwork printed 4up on a flexo press. The 4 artworks, while all containing the same pattern, are rotated differently to give a random appearance when all the boxes are viewed together. The label is designed to resemble a repurposed bumper sticker with fluorescent colors and crappy 70’s counterculture typefaces. Also included in the box: a printed “weathered” card that holds two souvenir buttons.”
SLASH’S NEW ALBUM DROPS: WIN A SIGNED SLASH SIGNATURE WAH
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Click on the image above to enter.
Attention Dunlop Fans! Slash’s new self-titled album dropped yesterday and is already one of the top albums on iTunes. In celebration of the release we’re giving away a signed Slash Signature Crybaby (pictured above). We’ve included some pictures below of his pedal board (you can see his signature wah on the right). Also on his board are the: MXR Custom Shop Script Phase 90, MXR Blue Box, MXR Tremelo, MXR Q-Zone, MXR Stereo Chorus, and a Custom Audio Electronics Boost.
To enter this Slash giveaway simply comment on this Facebook picture on our Facebook fanpage for a chance to win. The contest will end in exactly one week (Wednesday 4/14) in which we’ll pick a random winner. Note: in order to comment on a picture you must be a friend of the page. You should find the “become a fan” button at the top of this page link.
Here’s some more info on the Slash Wah:
Like the man himself, the new Slash Wah from Dunlop is both revolutionary and classic, right down to its hot rod metallic red finish and cutting edge circuit design. Now you can have all the features and screaming tone of Slash’s very own custom wah pedal—a tool as essential to the hard rock icon’s style as his Les Paul and Marshall amp. The Slash Wah deploys a searing high gain distortion coupled with the Fasel-loaded Classic circuit for instant lead tone that not only cuts through, but sings with a sweet and lush top end. Convenient LEDs indicate distortion on/off and wah on/off modes, so there’s no more guessing game every time you put your foot down. And with the batteries readily accessible from the top of the rocker pedal, you don’t have to fumble with a screwdriver when its time to re-power. So get your boot on a Dunlop Slash Wah. Top hat not included. Winner of Guitar World Magazine’s Gold Award.
Catch Slash live this Saturday at the Roxy in LA.
NOW ANNOUNCING OUR WEEKLY FACEBOOK FANPAGE GIVEAWAYS
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Since we’ve launched our official Facebook Fanpage less than a year ago, we’ve seen a steady growth of followers. We’re now happy to see that we almost have 5,000 friends, but we know that there are a lot more out there! We want to get the word out about our facebook page, so starting at the 5,000 friends mark, each week we will be giving away Dunlop gear like straps, picks, strings, etc. We have a huge archive of guitar accessories just waiting for a home. These giveaways will run on our Facebook page only, so you must be a Facebook fan to participate.
How can you speed this process up and help us reach 5,000?
Easy. Let your friends know about us! Right below our profile pic on our fanpage you will see a link titled “suggest to friends”. Add your music friends, guitar friends – whomever you think might like to hear about us.
As of right now we’re at 4,945. You can do it! www.facebook.com/dunlopmanufacturing
DUNLOP IN MUSIC RADAR’S “THE TOP 10 STOMPBOXES WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT”
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On the front page of Music Radar’s website is an article entitled “The top 10 stompboxes we can’t live without“. Voted on by Music Radar readers, Dunlop claims three of those ten spots. The MXR Carbon Copy, The Dunlop Crybaby, and the MXR Micro Amp.
Just imagine you could only use one pedal for the rest of your life… what would you choose? Distortion, fuzz, overdrive, chorus, reverb, wah-wah, phaser? It’s perhaps one of the more soul searching questions posed by Ask MusicRadar, and one with an equally perplexing outcome. This is a gallery of the top 10 essential stompboxes as chosen by you.
UNIVERSAL AUDIO ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH DUNLOP
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Universal Audio, a manufacturer of high-quality vintage audio hardware and award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins for Mac and PC, today announced a partnership with Dunlop, a leading manufacturer of guitar stompboxes and studio-oriented effects under the Dunlop and MXR brands. Under this partnership, Universal Audio will deliver a range of unique and classic effects to the ever-growing family of plug-ins available on the UAD-2 platform.
“Dunlop and MXR have innovated and defined classic effects sounds for decades,” said Matt Ward, President of Universal Audio. “We hope to extend this reputation by painstakingly modeling authentic Dunlop and MXR effects for the UAD-2 platform. Guitarists and producers have embraced these effects for decades, so we???re very happy about this partnership.”
“Universal Audio and Dunlop Manufacturing both have a commitment to maintaining a tradition of true analog gear for musicians,” commented Jimi Dunlop, Vice President of Dunlop. “When it came time to create plug-ins of our classic electronics, we knew there was only one company to turn to. We know our customers will be pleased with the level of quality and performance that UA will be offering.”
For more information, visit http://www.uaudio.com/ and http://www.jimdunlop.com
DUNLOP BOOTH NAMM VIDEO
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Guitar World stopped by the Dunlop booth at the NAMM show to see our new 2010 products. Check out this video they posted to hear some of the new stuff: Jerry Cantrell Signature Wah, MXR Custom Comp, MXR Black Label Chorus, MXR Micro Chorus, and MXR Phase 45. Plus get a rundown on our new accessories: Road Pro String Winder, new Lucky 13 Straps, BMF leather straps, Rev. Willy’s line, and Max-grip picks.
RACK CONTEST WINNER ANNOUNCED!
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Thank you all for entering our Dunlop Crybaby Rack contest! We received a huge number of entries and a lot of comments.
Congratulations to Steve from Minnesota who will be receiving a new Crybaby Rack Wah!
Don’t be too sad because we’re moving on quickly here and opening up a new contest soon. This time having to do with one of our new product launches from NAMM so stay tuned.
