Harley Benton DC-580 CH Vintage Series 5-stars Reviews

Incredible instrument for the price

Build quality is excellent, especially at the price point. Guitar came basically set up. Needed no truss rod, string height or pickup height adjustments, and just minor tweaks to get it intonated. Very impressed!

Very happy with this purchase. FOr the price point, you cannot do better than this guitar. Second HB guitar that I own, and both have been just great. Neck is perfect, no complaints. Plays and sounds very good, again, for this money it is not beatable. Love the look and feel. Fit and finish are flawless. Could use upgraded tuners and pots, but the ones on it are fine, I will not be changing mine. Pickup sounds great clean or with overdrive. Very pleased..........Thanks HB!

Stop Nit Picking Guys

We All Know that Pickups, Strings Machine Heads Knobs ETC. Can be improved so Go And Spend 3 Grand Then. and there will be something you don't like on that one as well. Trust me I know , That's the way Guitars are, we are all different people with different Tastes in things. some people like low action others High, some people like a chunky neck, others don't, All im saying is for the money guys you cant beat it. If you have a few skills in setting a guitar up then theres no problem ive been playing guitar for 40 years. I Bought this for Home use Only In My Studio and was very impressed. Straight out of the box the Action was very good, But I did tweak it a little as I like really Low Action. Id like to see a Smaller Neck some Day on these Guitars about a 40mm Nut with a Softer C Shape profile ( That's just my preference ) The Quality of the build of the guitar was Insanely Fantastic Overall for me Just Fantastic value for the money.

A great SG style guitar

I am not a big fan of SG style guitars, but I feel that I have to own one. I bought the Harley Benton DC-580 CH to replace a Gibson SG I had sold, and for my use this works just as good as the Gibson.

This guitar was perfectly set up straight out of the box and it plays really great. It has got very low action without any string buzz. The fretwork is very good on this guitar with nice leveled frets and no sharp ends.

Because of my handsize I like the guitar necks to be a bit thicker, and this one fits me perfect. The neck is C-shaped and the thickness is close to a 59 Gibson Les Paul. The fretboard is a bit wider than the Les Paul.

The finish of this guitar is fantastic. A nice cherry colour where some wood grain is shining through.

This guitar balance really good when playing standing up as well. I have found that to be an issue on some of the SG's I have owned but this one is not neck heavy at all.

The sound of this guitar is the only thing I am not 100% happy with. I have 2 Harley Benton guitars with the vintage style humbuckers and both have a kind of sharp, and in my opinion a bit too hot sound. I assume there are ceramic magnets in the pickups so I will just swap them with some alnico 2 magnets to get a warmer sound. This is just my personal opinion but I decide to give 4 stars for the sharp sound.

I will recommend this guitar to every beginner who consider an sg-style guitar. You will get a fantastic guitar right out of the box I will also recommend this as a platform for upgrades for more seasoned players. The quality and playability is really great, and with the high quality of the build I find it a perfect guitar to upgrade to my own wishes.

All in all this is a fantastic guitar that I will recommend. I have owned a few SG-style guitars from Gibson and Epiphone, and in my opinion the Harley Benton is a better choice than Epiphone when it comes to quality and playability.

Considering the price of the Harley Benton together with it's quality I will say that this is a no-brainer.

It is a great guitar

I ordered this guitar, because I wanted to try Harley Benton after so many good reviews on the internet.

I wasn't disappointed. I love the finish, the color and the design, every aspect of it. I like the neck joint, the controls, the roseacer fretboard. I love that the jack is on the bottom, not on the front. The controls are versatile. It wasn't neckheavy. The action was a bit high, but the guitar was well set-up intonationwise. I could lower the strings by 2-3 mm and it was still not buzzing, but the playability improved a lot. I could set the intonation too. The fret ends are ok, but the tuners are the worst I've ever experienced. They kept the guitar in tune, but they have a big play and was hard to tune the guitar. I am not the fan of the neck, it is a bit thick and the feel of the lack annoyed me a bit. I think it is only personal preference thing. I am a stratocaster-type guy. I actually sent back the guitar, because I didn't feel playing it, but all-in-all I recommend it to anyone, who likes SG-s. The price is amazing and it is a great starter guitar. I already had some higher quality guitars and this one couldn't make it to the favourites. I really wanted to try an SG, just to see if I'm liking it, but it turned out that I don't, but if you do, I recommend it.

Everything I'd hoped it would be

Feels terrific to play and looks flawless.

This is an outstanding value.

My first guitar!

I love this guitar - great sounds, Great quality, Great time playing!

Zeer tevreden met alles van Harley Benton. Prijs/kwaliteit altijd top!

DC 580 CH vintage series guitar

This came flawless, the set up is perfect, the sound and feel is amazing. It is everything and more than I had hoped for.

Beautiful guitar amazing price for the quality.

Love this guitar!

Have had it for a month now and cannot find the words..but I'll try. I originally bought this with the intention of having something to add variety to my home studio palette and was expecting a toy. Was very surprised out of the box how good it felt, intonation spot on, straight neck, etc. Then I plugged it in; not a trace of noise or hum! Felt almost too good to be true so I took it to my luthier friend, who too, could find nothing wrong other than the need for some minor nut work to fix a slight buzz on the A string at the 3rd and 4th frets. So far so good, but how would it stand up in live performance? At this price surely the pickups would be microphonic feedback machines? NOT! The guitar held it's own with a full band and a guy in the audience asked me after if I was playing a 'newer Gibson SG'? Really, really impressed. I plan now on collecting more Harley Bentons!

SG guitars suitable for hard rock and heavy metal.

010 strings for great sound and heavy rhythm.

Need to get used to such a guitar,but then it is convenient to play.

I have SG guitars a few.

My advice is don't tink twice and buy SG guitars.

great value

My 12 year old grandson saved lawn moving money from this summer and was able to afford this beautiful guitar ($116.00). It is absolutely gorgeous! Sounds great!

Excellent Guitar

The craftmanship on this guitar is superb for the money! The inlay work, the action all seem perfect after close examination. I own a Epiphone Sheraton, and did own an Epiphone LP, both not finished as well as the DC-580.

The guitar is easy to play but for me I will be putting on 11's and have put chrome tele knobs on, only as a personal preference and I have to say this guitar looks even better. I do prefer the offset shape of the DC to the big G SG original. The paint work looks great!! This is a lovely looking guitar that plays well.

I think the pickups sound very decent so I will leave them in. The bridge seems alright too but the tuners are a little slack but I think they are decent too.

I totally recommend the DC-580 if you want a good quality SG/Gibson type of guitar.

Awesome

The red gloss finish looks beautiful. It sounds and feels good with the shorter scale length. It came already set up perfectly out of the box, just needed to re-tune it. I've had it for about a month now and have had no problems with it. It's not the traditional SG shape, the upper horn side is slanted so it's more like the ESP viper.

There are only three negative things I can say about this guitar, but these are mostly problems with SG-style guitars in general, and not this guitar specifically. First problem is that it has a bit of neck dive, which seems to be common in a lot of SG-style guitars. Second problem is I don't like the location of the strap button, as it gets in the way when trying to access the highest frets. Third problem which is very minor is that the pickup selector feels a bit floppy, but it works completely fine nonetheless.

I don't think you could really tell the difference between this and a 1000$ gibson sg. It's good

Beautiful!

The colour on this guitar is exceptionally captivating!

The way the light is reflecting on the red with the shiny chrome parts is a reason to get this guitar alone.

Other than that, the electrics are as they should be and the pickups support rock/classic rock and clean sounds perfectly. I fell in love with the neck pickup and the chimey/bluesy sound it produces on the higher frets!

Metal players should probably look elsewhere or change the pickups due to muddy lows on very high distortion.

On it's price it's a 5.

Compared to a 2k euro guitar maybe a 4.

Plays better than my Korean Mockingbird Exotic.