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Back to School!!! Paul Bothner Music Specials! ![]() BACK TO SCHOOL!!! ...Make Your Music Go Further... Valid Until End of February 2012 or While Stocks Last!! Don't Be Caught Without our 3 for 2 Specials on Select Items and Much Much More!!! |
WANTED: Your Gear!! REWARD: Trade-In at Paul Bothner Music!! ![]() A Chance to Upgrade to the Dream Gear You Deserve... Terms and Conditions Apply |
Every set of Zildjian Drum Sticks that you buy goes towards a free set of sticks!!! ![]() With our Zildjian drum stick Z-Cards, each set of sticks you buy will be indicated with a dedicated Zildjian sticker. When the 9 sets of required drum sticks are bought, you receive a 10th set free!! |
What’s Happening
| The Big Blues Music Festival In Kleinmond - 2 & 3 March 2012 To some, it was the "Little Festival that Could." But after the March 2011 festival, "little" is no longer a word one can associate with Kleinmond's Big Blues Music Festival. In its first solo year as the Western Cape's premiere blues music fest, the Big Blues Music Festival defied naysayers by mounting a near-flawless event with arguably the strongest line-up of blues artists ever to be assembled on one stage. |
Barry Van Zyl Exclusively at COPA ![]() Barry Van Zyl (current drummer for Jonny Clegg) will be introducing a new an exciting Drum Programme exclusively at the Campus Of Performing Arts (COPA). |
COPA's Higher Certificate Course for 4th Year Students ![]() COPA's 4th year level, higher certificate course recognises the need for musicians to develop industry contacts, studio and touring experience, as well as acquiring business and practical skills. It provides opportunities to pilot commercial projects, with guidance from working professionals. Avoid disappointment... Book now for this or many other courses in 2012!!! For more details on other courses try www.copasa.co.za. Also: COPA now opening a branch in KwaZulu-Natal... |
Special Products
The Analog Custom Shop Pedals By Akai Professional ![]() Akai Professional has a history of delivering sought-after, groundbreaking guitar effects. From the Shred-O-Matic, an outrageous multi-mode tube/solid-state distortion pedal with expression control, to our most famous pedal to date, the DEEP IMPACT SB1 Synthbass Pedal, Akai Pro has been bringing innovative and unique stomp boxes to guitarists for years. |
Akai Professional "MPC Fly" - The First MPC Designed Specifically For The iPad 2 ![]() MPC Fly merges unmatched Akai Professional technology with the power of your iPad 2, embodying legendary capabilities that have made the MPC an industry standard like real MPC pads, MPC Note Repeat and MPC Swing. |
| Roland 6 Channel Portable Recorder R-26 Hand-held field recorders have been hot commodities for musicians, recording engineers, and sound designers for years. Today, the mercury rises in this dynamic market with the debut of the game-changing R-26. This innovative recorder is portable yet loaded with first-class, professional features, the likes of which the industry has not seen before. |
Specials
| Tackle Our CLEARANCE SALE Prices!!! Tackle Our CLEARANCE SALE Prices!!! Demo stock, shop-soiled and end of range items! Look out for our Green Price Tags in store and pick up a last-chance bargain! Limited stock! First come, first served! |
Hot Products
The Analog Custom Shop Pedals By Akai Professional ![]() Akai Professional has a history of delivering sought-after, groundbreaking guitar effects. From the Shred-O-Matic, an outrageous multi-mode tube/solid-state distortion pedal with expression control, to our most famous pedal to date, the DEEP IMPACT SB1 Synthbass Pedal, Akai Pro has been bringing innovative and unique stomp boxes to guitarists for years. |
Akai Professional "MPC Fly" - The First MPC Designed Specifically For The iPad 2 ![]() MPC Fly merges unmatched Akai Professional technology with the power of your iPad 2, embodying legendary capabilities that have made the MPC an industry standard like real MPC pads, MPC Note Repeat and MPC Swing. |
| Roland 6 Channel Portable Recorder R-26 Hand-held field recorders have been hot commodities for musicians, recording engineers, and sound designers for years. Today, the mercury rises in this dynamic market with the debut of the game-changing R-26. This innovative recorder is portable yet loaded with first-class, professional features, the likes of which the industry has not seen before. |
Alesis Mic Tube Solo ![]() Natural tube warmth for any mic or instrument. Add warm, vintage tone to any mic or instrument with the MicTube Solo preamplifier. Ideal for any recording or live setup, the MicTube Solo features an easy-to-use control layout and one of the most classic sounding, lowest-noise vacuum tubes |
Groundbreaking New Zildjian GEN16 AE Acoustic Electric Cymbal - Available at Paul Bothner Music ![]() The Zildjian Gen16 AE (Acoustic Electric) Cymbal is now available at Paul Bothner Music. Unlike most existing electronic percussion systems, the AE Cymbal is not a sample trigger device. Instead, it’s an actual cymbal, and plays like one, but is much softer, utilizing a unique dual microphone and DSP engine to amplify and model the cymbal’s output. The Acoustic Electric Cymbal is capable of creating a wide range of sounds, from that of a classic Zildjian cymbal to some very non-traditional sounds. |
Seymour Duncan's Yngwie J. Malmsteen - YJM Fury STK-S10 - Signature Series Pickups ![]() Yngwie Malmsteen - "I found something I never thought was possible: the best of all worlds, the power, the definition, the violin-tone, the sustain, the bite, and everything". Hum-cancelling single-coil-sized pickup based on the original Seymour Duncan Stack® pickup design. Recommended for rock, neo-classical, shred, hard rock, power metal, and heavy metal. |
| Cort's G260 Series Electric Guitars Cort G260s - Swamp ash bodies, Wilkinson Bridges, Seymour Duncan designed pickups & a distinct wood grain surface. Impeccably crafted, optimal tone, reliablility & an accommodating price. |
Fender Super-Sonic 60 Combo ![]() Super-Sonic™ amplifiers are the favourite tool of pro guitarists across the gamut of styles. Glorious Fender® clean tones; expressive modern high-gain tones - a no-nonsense tube amp. Its vintage channel is based on two legendary Fender favourites. The burn channel ignites with overdrive flavours ranging from bluesy to flame-throwing. Supersonics have increased bass response and fatter tone. Heavily saturated tube overdrive and sustain can be fine-tuned without masking the tonal character of your guitar. |
The Laney RB7 - 300 watt Bass Amp ![]() For superior power and sound quality, this amp takes first place. Its a serious piece of kit that has a host of features that you will need when out on the road or recording. Dual input, Bass, treble, and twin parametric Mid, switchable compressor and limiter, DI socket, Tuner output and FX loop. It packs a massive 300 watts output stage that can deliver into a 4 ohm load, hook it up to a Laney RB115 to really blow your band mates, and the audience, away! |
Warwick's Vampyre Dark Lord Bass ![]() The Vampyre Dark Lord is the first bass worldwide to be especially built for F sharp F# tuning and is being manufactured as a regular, production Warwick bass. With its sandblasted Ovangkol body with French Ash top in a sandwich construction, its 35"-scale length and the active electronics, this Monster meets the needs of those who love to dwell in the lower realms of tone in terms of optics and sound. |
Latest Articles
Zildjian Artist Biography: Max Weinberg - From Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band ![]() From 1974 through 1989 Max would become part of one of the most popular musical forces in the nation: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Numerous albums and more than a few hits later Bruce broke up the band and Max found his way onto television as the bandleader and drummer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. |
Gene Simmons Accepts No Substitute! Check out interviews of him & the Cort AXE-2 & PUNISHER-2 ![]() Gene Simmons Accepts No Substitute: There is no one mightier than the God of Thunder himself, Gene Simmons. Check out the latest promotional videos coming out in 2012. Both videos feature the rock star himself telling you exactly why you need to own his signature model basses. Gene accepts no substitute. Should you? |
Check out the Boss RC-30 Loop Station YouTube Video and Features Here... ![]() New features: True stereo inputs and outputs; up to three hours onboard stereo recording & loop storage... a marked upgrade to its predecessor's mono I/O & 16 minutes of mono recording. The RC-30 has a new dual phrase loop feature that lets users create and play 2 independent stereo loop phrases in sync. The LOOP FX feature lets users process their loop recordings in real time, plus 99 memories for onboard loop storage and an LED memory indicator. Plus, a USB 2.0 port lets users swap and manage WAV audio loops. Phantom Power for condenser mics and onboard rhythms to play along to... |
How to Speed Up Your Guitar Playing… the HARD Way - By Guitar Master Duri Dhansay ![]() "So you’ve decided you’re ready to dramatically up your BPM and blur up the fretboard with a flurry of well-placed angelic notes, but the truth is, dazzling an audience with effortless-sounding, supersonic guitar lines isn’t easy." Duri Dhansay is one of our ‘Fastest Guitarist’ contest winners, officially called the Paul Bothner Music Fretboard Frenzy Competition. He clocked in a blinding victory, corroborated by his highly accurate, equally blinding speed in the branch level contest. He’s also a UCT graduate, composer, multi-instrumentalist, columnist and guitar teacher. |
| Cort's CR250 Rocks the U.K. The good people over at Play Music Pickup magazine took the CR250 for a spin. They raved on about the sound quality, playability and price. Although it may look like many other guitars on the market today, the Cort CR250 blows the competition away and we're sure you'll agree. |


















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