Fender recently released A Strat is Born, a four minute video following an American Special Stratocaster’s journey from slab of wood to the stage.

In this guitar giveaway, Fender is giving you the chance to win the very same Strat that was featured in the video, an American Special Series Strat with a maple neck and 2-color sunburst finish.

How cool would it be to own the guitar that thousands of people watched as it went through the Fender factory in Corona, CA!

Entry Deadline: February 7, 2013
Eligibility: Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Peru, Republic of Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, United States (excluding Rhode Island, United States territories, possessions, or military bases), Venezuela, and Vietnam, 18+

USA-made Stratocaster with high-end features at an import price.

The Fender American Special Stratocaster is outfitted with a gloss urethane-finished alder body, a 9.5″ radius maple neck with a modern C profile, and a maple fingerboard fitted with 22 jumbo frets.

You’ll get lots of gain and tones galore from the American Special series guitar’s 3 Texas Special single-coil pickups. The Greasebucket tone circuit rolls off the highs without adding bass. Other details include a vintage-style synchronized tremolo, chrome hardware, and a large ’70s-style headstock and Fender decal. Fender accompanies your American Special Stratocaster guitar with a polishing cloth and a gig bag.

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Who’s in the mood for a good old American tube amp giveaway? Me too.

From Premier Guitar magazine, enter to win a ValveTrain 2×10 Trenton tube amp. This tone machine features a pair of 12AX7 dual-triode preamp tubes driving the signal through a matched pair of cathode biased 6V6 power tubes. For added versatility, the Trenton features four distinctly different and switchable tube amp voices.

If you’re interested in buying a ValveTrain Trenton amp, they retail for $1,449, so I suggest entering this giveaway!

Entry Deadline: March 11, 2013
Eligibility: Worldwide

Designed in the tradition of the masters, the Trenton features a pair of 12AX7 dual-triode preamp tubes driving the signal through a matched pair of cathode biased 6V6 power tubes. The hand-wired all tube circuit is fired by a 5AR4 Tube Rectifier. The amp controls are Volume, Treble, Middle and Bass along with a Raw switch and dual power settings.

The Trenton 2×10 Vintage is loaded with a pair of custom 10” AlNiCo speakers designed by Weber Speakers specifically for ValveTrain. These speakers feature true vintage style voicing with modern components to increase the power handling capacity and tonal response. The bright red baskets make them the coolest looking speakers on the planet.

To address the needs of today’s guitarist, the Trenton boasts 4 distinct switchable voices through its hand-wired all tube circuit. The High/Low Power switchable output stage delivers a smoking 16 watts of dual 6V6 power or an apartment friendly 6 watts. The RAW switch disables the tone controls and takes you from the early 60’s voicing back to into the late 50’s.

Built with top shelf components, the Trenton is the real deal.

Hank at EffectsBay must have rocked about a dozen killer boutique pedal giveaways last year, and he’s starting on 2013 with a loud, fuzzy bang.

Enter his new Freqbox Pedals Square Tides pedal giveaway for a chance to win this hot pedal, which sells for $265. The Square Tides is an analog octave (lower octave range) with a square wave fuzz. It also uses an analog low pass filter and an expression jack input that will control said low pass filter. The controls are – volume for clean signal, fuzz, octave/resonance/low pass filter cut.

Entry Deadline: January 22, 2013
Eligibility: Worldwide

We’ve seen a few ZT Lunchbox Amp giveaways in the past, and they’ve always been crowd pleasers. In this amp giveaway, from Premier Guitar magazine, ZT has teamed up with Wilco’s Nels Cline for a signed ZT Lunchbox amp giveaway.

Entry Deadline: January 18, 2013
Eligibility: Worldwide

The 200W ultra-compact ZT Lunchbox Guitar Combo Amplifier has changed the way many players think about amps. The Lunchbox proves that an amp does not need to be big to be loud—or expensive to sound great. Thanks to the Lunchbox, you can actually gig with an amp that weighs less than 10 pounds.

Packing 200W of power, the ZT Lunchbox has enough output for a jam or live gig. The Lunchbox amp’s world-class tone has pros using it in the studio as well as onstage. In fact, the ZT Lunchbox combo amp has the muscle to handle any effects you throw in front of it, and the warmth and depth to sound great with single-coil as well as humbucker pickups on your guitar.

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Before today, I had not heard of Schroeder Guitars, a boutique custom guitar builder out of Redding, California. I like what I see!

In this guitar giveaway from Premier Guitar, enter to win a Schroeder Chopper TL electric guitar. This axe doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles, but it looks like a quality piece! Worth nearly $3K, the Chopper TL features a Northern California Pine slab body, aluminum pickguard, and a Lollar Special T bridge pickup. And most of the parts are made in-house by Jason Schroeder!

Entry Deadline: February 4, 2013
Eligibility: Worldwide

Good guitar cables fit into the category of bacon, laughs, and beautiful woman. You can never have to many!

The good people at Railhammer Pickups know this, and they’ve teamed up with Armor Gold Cables for this instrument cable giveaway. The contest winner will take home three instrument cables of their choice (great for guitar, bass, keys, etc), and an Armor Gold tee shirt.

Entry Deadline: January 31, 2013
Eligibility: Worldwide

I love gear giveaways that offer up some options to the winner. You never want to feel like you’re helping a manufacturer or retailer empty their overstock shelves.

That’s why I’m into this Railhammer Guitar Pickups giveaway from Armor Gold Cables. The winner will not only score a set of Railhammer pickups, but they will get to choose the perfect pickups for their guitar.

Entry Deadline: January 31, 2013
Eligibility: Worldwide

Don’t forget, we’ve got a great exclusive guitar pedal giveaway happening on GearPipe. Enter to win a Silver Solo treble boost pedal from Chicago’s Daredevil Pedals.

Based on the legendary Dallas Rangemaster, the Silver Solo conjures the singing, biting tone that defined some of the most iconic songs of ’60s and ’70s British rock n’ roll. The Silver Solo features:

• Unique silicon transistor version offers greater tonal consistency and better attack.
• Selectable frequency range for Treble or Full boost modes
• True bypass, all hand-wired in Chicago, IL
• High quality components for reliable tone and performance
• 9V DC power jack for easy setup in any rig
• List price of $170 (street price of $120 | Buy Now!).

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Juan Alderete was a founding member of Racer X and has played with bands such as The Mars Volta, Big Sir, and Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group. And Juan is a series pedal and effects geek! If you doubt this, check out his website, Pedals and Effects.

To celebrate the site’s successful first year, Juan has just launched “The 12 Days of PedalsAndEffects” giveaway. Up for grabs? Pedals from Ernie Ball, Earthquaker Devices, Dunlop, MONO, Source Audio, TC Electronic, Godlyke (who’ve put together a goodie basket of several pedals!), Samson Technologies, Pigtronix, Hardwire/Digitech and more. Day #1 is today, and you can win a Pigtronix EP-2 Envelope Phaser. You can enter that giveaway here, and follow the link below for info on the entire giveaway.

Entry Deadline: December 24, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

Last year we told you about a drum giveaway from Crush Drums as they were approaching 10,000 fans on their Facebook page. Now, they’re days away from hitting 20K and, when that happens, the Crush team is giving away a free snare drum to one lucky drummer.

Up for grabs is a 14×5″ aluminum snare, and I’m betting this drum has some serious snap! So, go give Crush a “like,” and good luck!

Take one look at the Profiling Amp from Kemper, and you get an idea of how far technology has come since the days of tubes and tweed (not saying it’s better…hold the angry emails!). What’s the difference between this amp and other modeling amps? The Kemper Profiling amp models real amps, meaning the beloved ’57 Champ that you’re afraid to take out of the house (or perhaps the 1990 Fender M-80 that you’re ashamed to take out!).

This sounds pretty cool, and one very lucky person has a chance to win a Kemper Profiling Amp from Premier Guitar. Hopefully the winner has more than a Peavey practice amp!

Entry Deadline: February 4, 2013
Eligibility: Worldwide

Hank at EffectsBay has the best boutique pedal giveaways on the Web, but he’s switching it up with his new giveaway. Instead of a pedal, Hank is giving away two StageLitePro units, LED lighting systems that a pedalboard can slide into, making on-stage tonal tweaks that much simpler.

Head over and enter to win either a Pedal Guard Pro (24″ x 10.5″ x 8″) or Set List Pro (14″ x 6.5″ x 2.5″), worth $99 and $69, respectively.

Entry Deadline: December 20, 2012
Eligibility: US-only

You come here everyday to find the best gear giveaways from around the Net, but today I’m excited to tell you we’ve got a boutique pedal giveaway just for GearPipe readers!

We’ve teamed up with Daredevil Pedals, a new pedal builder out of Chicago, to give all of you the chance to win a Daredevil Silver Solo pedal. Based on the legendary Dallas Rangemaster, the Silver Solo conjures the singing, biting tone that defined some of the most iconic songs of ’60s and ’70s British rock n’ roll. The Silver Solo features:

• Unique silicon transistor version offers greater tonal consistency and better attack.
• Selectable frequency range for Treble or Full boost modes
• True bypass, all hand-wired in Chicago, IL
• High quality components for reliable tone and performance
• 9V DC power jack for easy setup in any rig
• List price of $170 (street price of $120 | Buy Now!).

This contest has ended. Check out all current giveaways.

Foo Fighters might be taking a break, but their members are still rocking the giveaway circuit (did you know there’s a giveaway circuit?). The Foos have teamed up with Guitar Center and Fender for this guitar and bass giveaway.

Enter to win a Fender Chris Shiflett Signature Telecaster Deluxe electric guitar and Fender Nate Mendel Signature Precision bass guitar, each signed by their respective namesakes.

Looking at the Native Instruments Maschine 2, it reminds me of the time spent playing Simon as a child, but I have a feeling there’s a lot more going on here!

The Maschine 2 is actually loaded with over 6GB of killer sample content, plus a full version of Native Instruments’ Massive virtual synthesizer. It works as both an instrument and a controller, giving you 16 multi-color pads, 9 rotary encoders, and 47 buttons.

And thanks to GearNuts, you now have a chance to win one!

For the Joe Satriani fans out there, this is a MUST ENTER guitar giveaway. Twenty years after the release of Satch’s Surfing with the Alien album, Ibanez is commemorating the music with the release of a limited edition Silver Surfer electric guitar, worth $1,733.

And thanks to American Musical Supply, you have a chance to win one. Not only that, but the prize will be adorned with a back plate signed by Satriani himself!

Word on the street is that the MXR M78 Custom Badass ’78 Distortion pedal is, well, badass. Alex at GuitarTrump just got his hands on one, and is giving it away to one of his subscribers.

Head over to the GuitarTrump site to enter!

Entry Deadline: February 1, 2013
Eligibility: US-only

You probably got excited about today’s pedal board giveaway from Fresh Pedal Boards. It was cool, but what if I told you I had something even better?

What if I said you could enter to win a Pedaltrain 2 pedal board, loaded with killer boutique pedals. Would you believe me? You better! This thing is stacked with stompboxes from Blackout Effects, Catalinbread, Endangered Audio, Hardwire, Lovepedal, and TC Electronic, and the total value is $1,964.

If you’re one who likes to look cool onstage, a homemade ply-wood pedal board just ain’t gonna cut it. If you’re looking for a new board with style, check out Fresh Pedal Boards out of Toledo, OH (go Mud Hens!).

There’s been some buzz about these guys, and to say thanks, they are giving away a new pedal board on their Facebook page. Once they reach 1,000 likes, they will pick one of their fans as the winner.

Today’s snare drum giveaway had kind of a Spinal Tap thing going on, and here we are again.

Evans and Tama have teamed up for a drum set giveaway, and the grand prize is a Blacked Out Tama Silverstar drum kit. It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.