SC-1000LH SBK Progressive Line : As expected, it has hot pickups.

I was looking for a guitar with hotter pickups, that would overdrive without much effort, and this guitar does that. I read other reviews saying that you cannot get clean sounds, but that was not true in my case, at least with this particulart guitar. If you put the volume in the guitar very low and no gain at all in your amp, raising the volume in the amp only, you do get clean sounds. I have tried the guitar with different settings and it gives you quite a lot of different tones and sounds. It is quite versatile. I did not try to get metal music type sounds because I am more interested in rock, so I cannot comment on that aspect. Neither I have tried the guitar without the battery, which allegedly will make the pickups "passive" so giving you more tones possiblities that way. I use to have an epiphone les paul pro, and it was much heavier and very difficult to play, couldn't make the action low and the strings were always very tense. In comparison this Harley Benton is much better, low action and easy to play, not heavy at all and well finished.