Harley Benton DC-DLX Gotoh Shell Pink 4-stars Reviews

Amazing Value!

For the cost of the guitar, the features provided are bar none the best you can buy. Why?

Let's start with the obvious Gotoh machine head tuners, arguably one of the most important aspects to a guitar. As a performer, you do not want to be tuning your guitar every song or worst yet, go out of tune in the middle of a song!

This guitar also includes GraphTech Tusq nut which aids to avoid string binding at the nut, as well as long lasting medium jumbo stainless steel frets for very high durability.

Outfitted with 2 Tesla VR-2 AlNiCo 5 Humbuckers, the sounds you can get from this guitar allows it to perform with the best of them. And to kick it up a notch, the 1 volume/1 tone control knob has a built in push/pull knob allowing you to split the coils of the humbucker to achieve that sweet single coil tones.

The only reason I couldn't give this full marks is I needed to polish the frets as they showed signs of oxidation (they felt very rough and the strings scraped the frets as you bent the strings). On top of that, there are signs of fret-sprouting (the wood may have shrunk due to change in humidity exposing the ends of the frets to your hand). These two aspects adversely affected the out of the box experience, fortunately I was able to address both issues to an acceptable degree.

TL;DR, If you're looking for your first guitar and you have a strict budget but do not want to compromise on high end specifications, this guitar is right for you!