Musical Instruments
Sound and Image Media Studios has partnered with Student Music Committee from WBRS, and the Guitar and Bass Club to develop an extensive inventory of instruments available on loan to the whole Brandeis Community. These instruments are available for checkout at SIMS, and can also be used in one of our two audio recording studios.
Acoustic Guitar: Cordoba
Cordoba C3M Nylon String Acoustic Guitar
One of the most popular nylon string models and a staple in the Iberia Series lineup, the C3M is a full-sized, handcrafted guitar. It is built with the traditional Spanish fan bracing, a solid cedar top and mahogany back and sides.
Acoustic-Electric Guitar: Hummingbird
Epiphone Hummingbird Studio Acoustic-Electric
The Hummingbird Studio adheres to tradition with its solid spruce top over mahogany back and sides. This potent tonewood combination delivers a strikingly resonant tone that you and your audience can really feel.
Acoustic-Electric Guitar: Ibanez
Ibanez AW54CE Acoustic-Electric Guitar
Acoustically, the AW54CE delivers big dreadnought tone that's nicely balanced by the internal X bracing. The solid okume construction gives you a great-looking instrument with a big, balanced sound that's ideal whether you're strumming or fingerpicking.
Acoustic-Electric Guitar: Yamaha
Yamaha APX600 OBB Thin Body Acoustic-Electric Guitar
The Yamaha APX600 offers great sound, a smooth playing feel, and an eye-catching style. This thinline cutaway acoustic-electric features a built-in tuner and a System 65A preamp piezo pickup system, perfect for plugging in and playing coffeehouse gigs with natural acoustic sound that people will love.
Hollow-Body Electric Guitar: Ibanez
Ibanez Artcore AS53 Hollow-Body Electric
With its classic design the Ibanez AS53 semi-hollowbody electric guitar gives you the comfort of a smaller body and modern sound. The sapele top, back, and sides offer plenty of warmth and punch, and the nyatoh neck is fast and comfy.
Electric Guitar: Les Paul
Epiphone Les Paul Special Satin E1 Electric Guitar
The Les Paul Special VE delivers a fat and nasty tone, thanks to its two open-coil humbucker pickups. It features a poplar body that is acoustically resonant, and the mahogany neck and rosewood fretboard add warmth and sustain.
Electric Guitar: Stratocaster
Squier Classic Vibe '50s Stratocaster
This vintage-style solidbody electric guitar offers the sound and style that made the Strat the iconic instrument that it is today. It includes a trio of Fender-designed alnico single-coil pickups (including standard 5-way switching) that really capture the traditional Stratocaster sound.
Electric Guitar: Yamaha
Yamaha PAC112V Pacifica
The PAC112V features a lightweight alder body with a smooth maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. A killer trio of versatile pickups lets you dial in a variety of tones from clean highs to punchy midrange to low-end growl.
Electric Bass: Yamaha
Yamaha TRBX304 Bass Guitar
This sleek-looking, great-sounding bass gives you a comfortable Yamaha body shape and a fast-action bolt-on 5-piece maple/mahogany neck with a smooth-playing rosewood fingerboard. A pair of humbucking pickups deliver hum-free sound and the Performance EQ active circuit instantly optimizes your bass for different playing styles.
Electric Bass: Squire
Squier Affinity Series Precision Bass PJ
The combination of Precision and Jazz Bass pickups in this stellar bass gives you the vintage, gritty Fender tone that has won over so many players over the decades. And since each pickup has its own volume knob and master tone knob, you can tweak your tone to your preference.
Ukelele: Baritone
Kala KA-B Baritone Ukulele
From its traditional design to its mahogany construction to its beautifully subtle appointments, Kala's KA-B has all the hallmarks you're looking for in a fine baritone uke. Most importantly, it plays and sounds fantastic!
Ukelele: Concert
Kala KA-CG Concert Ukulele
This great-sounding uke is part of Kala's Mahogany series, providing you with stunning looks and tone to match. The lush and warm sound it produces is further proof of Kala's quality workmanship.
Ukelele: Tenor
Kala MK-TE Makala Classic Tenor Ukulele
This quality ukulele offers great tonewoods, solid craftsmanship, and impeccable uke tone.
Guitar Amplifier: Fender
Fender Frontman 10G
The Fender Frontman 10G packs classic Fender tone into package that's not even a foot square! All Frontman guitar amps, including the 10-watt Frontman 10G, feature dual selectable channels (normal and drive), auxiliary input for CD or drum machine use, a headphone jack, and 2-band EQ.
Guitar Amplifier: Positive Grid
Spark 40 Positive Grid
Positive Grid's Spark is a breakthrough new way to jam, track, practice, and learn songs. This powerful app-driven smart amp delivers a bedroom-filling 40 watts of 10,000+ classic BIAS amp/pedal/cab presets through its twin 4" ported hi-fi speakers, ready for direct injection into your DAW recording session or live PA via USB or 1/8-inch TRS headphone output.
Bass Amplifier: Laney
Laney Mini Bass NX Amp
The Mini-Bass-NX delivers impeccable Laney tone through two three-inch full-range speakers and provides controls and connections for Gain, Shape, Level, Tone, Tilt, aux in, and a headphone input for all your bass amp needs.
On-Stage Performance Amplifier: Guitar
BOSS Katana 50 Professional Guitar Amplifier
Sonically enhanced with BOSS’s evolved Tube Logic technology, the BOSS Katana-50 Gen 3 packs a plethora of amplifier voices and ample effects into a seriously compact and portable combo.
On-Stage Performance Amplifier: Bass
Ampeg Rocket Bass RB-108 Amplifier
The 30-watt Rocket Bass RB-108 bass combo delivers classic good looks and timeless Ampeg tones.