A few gift ideas for your guitar player siblings

Guitar lovers happily spend a lot of money on purchasing a guitar but it is equally important to get the right guitar accessories for their instrument. Without the playing accessories like strings, picks, cables and a classic guitar cover, the joy of possessing a guitar is incomplete. A guitar case also ensures its long life and protects it from scratches and cuts.

If your younger brother, sister or a friend has just purchased a guitar after saving for months from his or her monthly allowance, you can gift them the accessories they require. Guitar accessories can become very nice gifts for guitar players on special occasions like birthdays or events when they have a stage performance.

Guitar cases

A guitar case is not just an accessory but it is an imperative need of the instrument. It keeps the guitar in a healthy condition. If you are a novice guitar player, you would need something to carry it as you go for your guitar classes. Guitar cases are made up of plastic, wood and canvas. Obviously, the wooden or the plastic covers are more rugged and give a better protection to the instrument. Cloth or canvas covers are light weight but soft and thus, they do not give full protection to the guitar. Another advantage of a wooden or a plastic cover for the guitar can be the added space that you get inside the case to put your other stuff.

Guitar picks

For any kind of guitar, whether it is an acoustic guitar or the electric one, a pack of picks is always required. As these are very small in size, they are often misplaced by people especially when they are travelling with the guitar. So it is always good to have more than one picks with you. Customized picks with names of the guitar owner or his favorite guitar player can be a delighting gift.

Guitar musical stand

A classic wooden musical stand can also be a very nice gift for guitar players. Nowadays you can get various types of guitar stands that are light weight, foldable and very compact in size. Such qualities make them very handy due to which they can be carried anywhere. These are needed by learners as well as professional guitar players. While at the learning stage, the guitar stands can be of great help for putting the musical sheets on the stand in front of the player. Professional players can use these while playing in front of an audience.

Guitar amp stand

A guitar amplifier is an electronic guitar stand having various kinds of volume controls that can produce diverse effects in the sound output of the guitar. It is used with the electric guitars which are connected with a cord. As the guitar is played, the sound produced by the strings is directly fed to the amplifier and then it passes to the speaker. By the controls in the amp stand, we can make changes in the volume and pitch of the sound.

A practice amp stand is sufficient for your guitar practice at the learning stage

Due to the increasing craze of guitar playing, many times school children save a part of their pocket money for months and then buy a guitar for themselves. But it becomes a very upsetting situation for them when they realize that they also need an amp stand. It indicates the starting of another term of saving money. A smarter option at this time is to buy a practice amp. These are good enough for starters and have a decent set of features like tone control, reverb and volume controls. The only shortcoming these may have is their low volume.

Practice guitar amp stands are affordable and have all the features required at the starting level. In larger stands with amplifiers, it is just the sound that results in increasingthe price of the commodity while the features remain the same. High powered guitar stands are only required by professional singers for performing in big events. For home use or at the learning level, guitar stands operating at 6 to 12 watts of power are sufficient. These have all the required features for tone control and sound effects which can be easily adjusted. So here are a few features to look for in your practice stand:

• Multiple loudness levels – The loudness power of a guitar is also termed as the gain of the guitar. It is preferable that your guitar stand has two or more separate

volume controls which will give you more options for adjusting the distorted sound.

• Three-band equalization – The band equalization or EQ controls are used to control the bass, mid and high of the tone. By this control, you can easily adjust the sound characteristics like the bass and the treble to make the guitar’s output better.

• Reverb control – This control is required to make a reverberating sound from the guitar which gives an echoing effect. This will make it seem like the guitar is being played in a given environment for instance, a room of varied sizes, a concert hall or a cathedral.

• Footswitch for channel switching – Channel switching is adjusting the sound between different sets or modes of volume and tone control. This feature is present in only a few of the guitar stands as it can increase the price of the stand considerably, so it is better to determine how important it is for you to have this feature. Similar settings can be made using the other controls of the stand.

• A head-phone jack – It is a small jack that is included in some of the guitar stands that enables the guitar player to get a fully amplified sound in his headphones without channeling it through the speaker. It is essentially good for the learners who like practicing on their guitar at late night.

Like the practice guitar amp stands, there are many other accessories that you can buy for your guitar. But initially it is important that you learn this art properly. Once you get proficient in it, you can think of investing a little more and getting a professional level guitar and a stand fully loaded with amazing features.