The culmination of this experiment? Gold Tone’s Banjolele series. Now they’ve released the BU series, a lower priced line of banjo ukes. And now the good people at Gold Tone are giving you a chance to win one of two BU series instruments. Enter to win either a BUS Soprano scale banjo uke, or a BUC Concert scale instrument. Each comes with a case.

Entry Deadline: July 4, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide, 18+

The hand-finished neck and chambered body are worthy of a much more expensive instrument. And this black onyx finish is gonna look c-l-a-s-s-y hanging off your shoulder! Now you have a chance to win a Radiator from The Music Zoo. Just sign up for their email newsletter to enter this guitar giveaway!

Entry Deadline: July 10, 2012
Eligibility: US-only, 18+

Either way, Battlefield Drums, a high-end drum builder, is giving away a snare drum wrapped in a custom camo print covering. Not for me, but I have a feeling there’s someone out there who will be way, way into this.

Entry Deadline: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

That’s why they’re giving you the chance to win a pair of Yamaha DRX15 active loudspeakers. This is pro level gear, with a pair of DRX15s selling for about $1,600. They’re even giving up a second place prize: a pair of DRX12 speakers.

Entry Deadline: June 25, 2012
Eligibility: US-only, 18+

And during the month of May, Gibson is giving away four Studios, each worth $2,199! This is an international giveaway, and Gibson has allocated two guitars to US winners, one to a Canadian winner, and one to a European winner.

Entry Deadline: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: US, Canada, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Ireland, & The Netherlands

But I want to make it bigger! And to do that, I know I need to grease a few palms. So, Stephen at The Signal just sent me a Mojo Hand Analogue Filter 443, a SICK envelope filter pedal that sells for $159 (I also need to thank Randy Saunders for his generous hand in hooking up this deal). Stephen said I can use this pedal however I want. So…

I want to reward my customers by turning their purchases into entries to win the Analogue Filter 443 pedal. Here’s how this will work:

Of course, for each guitar pick you purchase, we will donate one to our current Pick Education music ed program partner.

The rules:

• Order as much as you want. There are no limits to the number of entries you can earn.
• This contest will run through the end of the day on Friday, June 8, 2012.
• This is a worldwide contest.
• This is open to all ages, but if you are a minor you’ll need your parent or guardian’s permission.
• Legally I can’t make you buy something to enter a contest (but it’s for the good of the kids, so I hope you do). If you’d like to enter without making a purchase, send a postcard to: GearPipe Giveaway, 3037 West 28th Ave, Denver, CO 80211.

Thanks again to The Signal for sponsoring this giveaway, and here’s a nice demo video of the Analogue Filter 443 pedal.

From GTR Store, enter to win a D’Angelico NYSD – 9 in black sunburst. This solid-body, LP-style axe sells for $1,099.

Entry Deadline: Not Listed
Eligibility: Worldwide, 18+

From Acoustic Guitar magazine, enter to win an Alex de Grassi Signature Model from Lowden Guitars, worth $8,140, and specially designed by luthier George Lowden to match Alex de Grassi’s exacting guitar wish list. In addition, the winner will receive a signed copy of “The Alex de Grassi Fingerstyle Guitar Method,” just published by the folks who bring you Acoustic Guitar.

Entry Deadline: July 31, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

This is how I feel about the ProGuitarShop Triple Tele Giveaway. Although if I had to choose just one term, it would most certainly be zero cool.

In this guitar giveaway, you can enter to win one of three Fender Telecasters. Three very lucky people will win either a Baja Telecaster, American Vintage ’72 Telecaster, or a American La Carbonita. I’ll take any of the three.

Entry Deadline: July 15, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

This is a killer guitar giveaway, and open to much of the world, so get on it!

Entry Deadline: June 18, 2012
Eligibility: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, Netherlands, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Peru, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Venezuela, & Vietnam

This giveaway requires a video, but the guidelines are loose. You don’t have to be the fastest shredder, just tell Cannoy why you deserve to win. And it’s not a voting contest, which is nice. The Cannoy staff will pick the winner. And said winner will have his or her choice of one of the following prizes: a “45ACP” overdrive pedal, a “Clockwork Compressor” pedal, a “Shaky Old Dog” tremolo pedal, a “Signal Pirate” delay pedal, or a “Pimp Slap” envelope filter pedal.

Entry Deadline: May 29, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide (an international winner will pay shipping)

Jokes aside, this is a heck of a banjo! The Bishline Cimarron 5-string banjo is built in the US of A, and features a walnut neck with fancy burl walnut resonator, ivoroid binding, and an ebony fingerboard with original MOP inlay. The Bishline Cimarron usually sells for $1,195.

Entry Deadline: June 11, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

The other giveaway requires a bit more work. Explain how you would use any One Control switcher in a YouTube video and the owner of the best video gets to chose any current One Control product as a prize.

Entry Deadline: June 15, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

And now Chris has teamed up with Amazon for a killer guitar giveaway. Enter to win a Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster, signed by Chris himself. 20 second prize winners each will receive one copy of Songbook, signed by Chris.

Entry Deadline: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: US-only, 18+

From The Definitive Recording Guide, you have a chance to win a brand new Sonor “Perfect Balance” Jojo Mayer Signature Model bass drum pedal. What this pedal lacks in flash, it makes up for in pure smoothness!

Entry Deadline: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

From EVH Gear enter to win an EVH 5150III 100-watt amp head autographed by Eddie. It’s three massive-sounding channels of pure EVH tone and power—in ivory, with four-button footswitch included—and personalized by the man himself.

Entry Deadline: June 5, 2012
Eligibility: US & Canada, 18+

Carrie has teamed up with Great American Country (GAC) for a guitar giveaway to celebrate. One lucky winner will score a GAC acoustic guitar, signed by Carrie, and an autographed CD copy of Blown Away. Five first place winners will still score the signed CD.

Entry Deadline: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: US-only 18+

Enter this gear giveaway and tell DPS if you’d rather win a PRS guitar pack or Sonar drum kit.

The PRS Guitar Pack Includes:

The Drum Kit Includes:

Entry Deadline: When the DPS Music Facebook Page hits 25,000 fans
Eligibility: US-only 18+

Ten winners will each get to choose their favorite Squier signature guitar or bass, and it will be theirs! Choose from instruments bearing names including Mike Dirnt, John 5, Matt Freeman, James Johnson, Avril Lavigne, J Mascis, Simon Neil, Jim Root, Joe Trohman, Mikey Way, Pete Wentz and Deryck Whibley.

Entry Deadline: June 18, 2012
Eligibility: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Peru, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, United States (excluding Rhode Island, United States territories, possessions, or military bases), Venezuela, and Vietnam, 18+

Oh…and you want one for free? One of you is in luck! The Signal is giving away an Analogue Filter 443 on their Facebook page. This pedal sells for $159, so good luck to all of you!

Enter to win one of five copies of Riffstation, a useful piece of software that can slow down a track to help you learn difficult passages, isolate and mute certain parts of the music track, and much more.

Entry Deadline: June 4, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

Enter to win an Orange Tiny Terror head, an Orange t-shirt and a signed Exister CD. Two runners-up will receive an Orange t-shirt and a signed Exister CD!

From Alto Music, you could win a Shure Beta 58A, the souped up version of the venerable microphone. Get on this one for a chance to add a Beta 58A to your mic locker.

Now, Elderly is getting into the guitar giveaway game. Enter to win a Blueridge BR-40 dreadnought acoustic guitar. The BR-40 sports a solid spruce top, laminated mahogany back & sides, and retails for $550.

The Rancher features a Venetian cutaway, solid spruce top with scalloped X bracing, flame maple back and sides, mahogany neck, 21-fret rosewood fingerboard with Neo-Classic™ thumbnail inlays, 1940s-style Gretsch logo pickguard, compensated bridge, gold-plated hardware, deluxe die-cast tuners and a beautiful gloss Savannah Sunset finish. Onboard Fishman electronics include a Sonicore under-saddle pickup and Isys+ preamp system with onboard tuner, battery life indicator and controls for volume, treble, bass and phase.

To celebrate, Gretsch is giving away not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six Rancher acoustic guitars!

Entry Deadline: June 6, 2012
Eligibility: United States, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. 18+

Enter to win an autographed Schecter Synyster Gates guitar. The Schecter Synyster has a Deathbat fretboard inlay with SYN in gothic letters and a gloss black finish with silver pin stripes. It’s constructed with a mahogany body, bolt-on maple neck, rosewood fretboard, 2 Duncan Designed HB-108s, and a Floyd Rose-licensed tremolo.

Replacing conventional monitors, mixers and PA speakers, the Bose L1 is a great system for singer-songwriters or small combos. And now, from Premier Guitar, you have a chance to win one of these killer systems, which sell for $2,998.

Entry Deadline: June 8, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide, 18+

Gold Tone, makers of some wonderful banjos and other fretted instruments, have just introduced the Smiley Face Uke. To celebrate, they are giving away five of these upside-down frown adorned instruments.

Entry Deadline: July 4, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide, 18+

A Fire Bottle will run you $255, so this is one to jump on!

Entry Deadline: June 30, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide, 18+

From Premier Guitar, you have a chance to win an Orange Amps PPC212OB guitar speaker cabinet. This cab is loaded with two 12″ 60-watt Celestion Vintage 30 speakers, features an open-back design, and has a power handling of 120 watts, producing sizzling guitar tone that is unmistakably Orange.

The Sonor Bop drum set is a 4-piece kit (bass drum, snare drum, and two tom toms) in jazz sizes. And now, from Sonor, you have a chance to win one of these new drum sets. Also, a second prize winner will score a Sonor Special Edition Black Mamba Maple snare drum.

For over 20 years Alex Webster, the bassist for Cannibal Corpse and Blotted Science, has been at the forefront of the Death Metal genre of music. So much so that Spector has given him his own signature bass guitar. And now, you have a chance to win an Alex Webster Signature Spector bass, worth $3,999, from Ultimate-Guitar.

The high-quality USB headphone interface gives you the option of listening to your mix on multiple sets of speakers, in different rooms, just using headphones. And now you have a chance to win a VRM Box from the Pro Tools Expert website.

Two winners will each receive one of the sleek, Sonic Youth-ified guitars; a Blacktop Jazzmaster HS and a Classic Player Jazzmaster Special, respectively. Both guitars saw onstage action during the band’s November 2011 South American tour, with alt-indie godfathers Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo each rocking one.

The world’s first USB and XLR microphone combining studio standard 24 bit/192 kHz digital recording resolution—the highest digital resolution on the market—with analog XLR output, the Yeti Pro retails for $249. And, thanks to Blue, you now have the chance to win one of these excellent mics for your own studio.

Here’s more info on the Pimple Boost.

Thanks to Line 6 and Sam Ash Music, a brand new Line 6 JTV-69 James Tyler Variax Double Cut electric guitar will ship to one lucky winner, worth $1,999! Oh, please let it be me.

Enter to win Zoom A2 acoustic effects pedal, a multi-effects pedal built for — you guessed it — acoustic/electric guitars. Being a brand new site, The Guitar Slinger is probably still building its readership, so your chances to win this one are good!

Entry Deadline: May 14, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

Jon at Guitar Noize is throwing his hat into the ring with this T-Rex Effects Totenschlager distortion pedal giveaway. According to Jon, the Totenschlager is a monster pedal with a very wide range of available tones thanks to an on-board 3 band EQ.

According to Pigtronix (and why wouldn’t you trust a company called Pigtronix?), the FAT Drive takes a futuristic analog approach to create complex crunch tones using CMOS clipping and a variable low pass filter for tone shaping.

From Musicians Friend, enter to win an Ibanez ARZ400 electric guitar. This guitar is loaded with EMG 81X/60X brushed black chrome pickups, sports a set mahogany neck and mahogany body, 24 frets, a double-locking Edge III trem bridge, and retails for $826.

Enter to win a Feeltune Rhizome LE, which appears to be a really badass drum machine that you can also hook up to your PC or Mac for recording.

Entry Deadline: June 5, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

Audix Microphones, PDP Drums, and Sabian Cymbals have teamed up for a prize package worth over $4,000. Enter to win a 5-piece PDP drum kit, a Sabian Performance Pack including three cymbals, and an Audix mic pack including seven drum microphones.

Entry Deadline: May 31, 2012
Eligibility: Worldwide

And the perfect companion? How about a Taylor GS Mini acoustic guitar? The GS Mini features a Sitka Spruce top and an ebony fretboard complete with a tortoise pickguard and a three ring rosette. And thanks to Share My Guitar, you could win one of these beautiful acoustic guitars.

Entry Deadline: June 1, 2012
Eligibility: US-only, 13+

And choose you must! Tama is giving three lucky winners their own SLP snare drum in this giveaway, but if you expect them to force-feed you a shell material that you don’t want, think again. If you win, you’ll have your choice of any snare in the SLP line.

Entry Deadline: June 1, 2012
Eligibility: US-only, 18+

The KindBeats4Kids charity was started to help make sure that schools in need are provided with music education programs. To advance this mission, the org is raffling a rare 14″ Liquicy cymbal which was donated by John Stannard and the kind folks at Hammerax cymbals. Tickets are $10.

They’ve teamed up with Fender for this kick ass prize pack:

You can enter to win any of the nine, but each person can only win one pedal. And what’s up for grabs? TC Electronic Corona, MojoMojo, Dark Matter, Rottweiler, The Dreamscape, Flashback, Hall of Fame, Vortex, and Shaker pedals.

The OD808, the quintessential Maxon overdrive pedal, is made by the same Japanese company which crafted the original overdrive circuit in a green stompbox that’s been obsessed over by guitarists for the past 30 years, and sells for $150.