Sound Vibrations — Local services in Corpus Christi

I have a Vox AC30C2 amplifier that is a couple of months old. It was under warranty, but I had purchased it from an on line music store. I was told that the nearest Vox dealer was in San Antonio; so that meant driving 260 miles round trip to deliver my amp to be repaired, and driving 260 miles round trip to collect it when it was repaired. I called Sound Vibrations in Corpus Christi and spoke with their amp repairman, Buddy. Buddy told me that he was an authorized Vox repair tech and to bring my amp in and let him take a look. Well, Buddy had my amp fixed in 4 days and ready to go, and there was no charge to me because it was under warranty. I was amazed at the quick service, and the fact that my amp sounds better than when I first bought it. I am very impressed with the superior service provided by Buddy at Sound Vibrations! Buddy is a very knowledgeable amp technician and he will get all of my future business. I highly recommend Buddy to anyone who has problems with an amp, or other electrical components. Forget driving to San Antonio--take your business to Buddy at Sound Vibrations! Sound Vibrations is THE BEST music store in Corpus Christi that offers the best deals on new guitars, amps, and all musical instruments. If you want to buy something new, talk with either of the 2 Roberts at Sound Vibrations. If you have something broken and needs repairs, talk to Buddy at Sound Vibrations. You might see a cheaper deal advertised from a big music store chain on line, but you will not get any customer service if something breaks or needs to be returned. Sound Vibrations stands behind all merchandise that they sell. They provide great customer service and they will match prices of their competitors, too. Give Sound Vibrations a try, and I am sure that you will be pleased. Thank you, Buddy, for doing such a great job repairing my amp, and for the fast and...

Nice staff, but the same prices as everyone else. I wanted to buy a bass amp, but they didn't have the one I wanted in stock. Some sales guy took my phone number and promised to call me when he got one in the store. Six weeks passed and I never heard back from him. Oh well. Guitar Center took care of me.

UPDATE 8-18-2018 At the behest of Robert I decided to give Sound Vibrations another chance. I used their website's "Contact Us" form to send them a message about possibly fixing a broken amp I have. I sent the message last weekend (Sunday) and it's now Friday night and I have yet to receive a response. For this reason I deducted another star on their rating overall. Apparently they will sell you only what they have in stock, won't order anything for you, won't call you back, and don't respond to their own website questions. I was truly hoping to have someone reach out about the amp because I also wanted to buy some new cymbals. Instead, I searched the Guitar Center website today and found what I was looking for. I am now getting two used cymbals sent to me from two different GC stores and I should have them by Tuesday. Before buying from GC I did take time to search the Sound Vibrations site. It's just a mish-mash of drum items all on one page. There's no way to filter out what you want to search for. I love buying local and helping local businesses, but SV has fallen flat twice in a row. The only other local store (Music Mart) is a joke and horribly overpriced, so I will just say that. I wanted SV to win me back, but I guess GC will be my go-to for music gear...

Saved an old hondo electric guitar from the dunpster and replaced the broken tremolo block and string nut.

I took it into Sound Vibrations for help on figuring out if it still worked ( I didn't have an amp at the time). The staff were really helpful and welcoming and tested the guitar out for me and suggested I replace the jack port, and one of the dead pots. They ultimately suggested that if I am replacing one pot then I might as well replace them all, but they weren't pushy about it and left it up to me to make that call. They even gave me some free replacement knobs since the guitar was missing one!

I decided to take their advice, bought the repair parts there and soldered it all together the next weekend.

Ultimately, the repairs worked and the guitar works and sounds great for an old 90's Hondo! Took it back to show it off and bought an amp from them too!

Overall, it's a great local music shop that does it's own repairs in house, can sell you replacement parts, and they even service amps and what not! Yeah you might spend 10% more on some things than at a big box store like guitar center, but this place is local and these people know their stuff and are very helpful.

The only down side I experienced was that while they were looking for my replacement parts, the main technician got into an argument with another staff member about how disorganized the parts drawers had become and how it was causing him trouble to find the parts he was looking for. They ultimately got me what I needed, but as a first time customer there it was a little awkward to...