Harley Benton G112 5-stars Reviews

I bought this cabin for double purposes: first, to hook to my guitar amp and 2ndly (with a couple brilliant tweeks) as center speaker in my living room 5.1 setup. So i can choose between these two functions through a switch. Sounds good both ways.

I could replace the the speaker later but it's doing a good job right now.

The built quality is very good no remarks there, i just closed the back of the cabinet with a multiplex plate i made myself.

Bang for Buck

Perfect lightweight 1x12 cabinet. Pairing it with my Revv D20 head produces great tone. Real Celestion Vintage speaker for an insane price. No-brainer purchase for anyone who needs a 1x12 cabinet.

Surprised by the quality

I bought this to use at home with my Mooer Little Monster AC, expecting to replace it at a later date and use the cabinet to install a home built 18 watt tube amplifier, and I fully expected to get the quality of sound I had paid for.

Well I am really surprised at how good this sounds just as it comes. There's plenty of dynamic range, transients are handled gracefully and the bottom end is tighter than I would have expected, especially in an open-backed speaker.

Yes, the cabinet is made of a composite (so are Marshalls) and yes it is glued, rather than screwed together. There is some untidiness in the finishing of the glue inside the cab where it can't be seen, and you only get one jack socket so you can't chain speakers together, but this costs less than many speakers without a cabinet.

From the outside the finish is fine, has reasonable corner protection and tidy grill cloth. Overall this is a bargain, and has the added bonus of being roomy enough to take an amplifier inside AND a long Accutronics reverb tank (if you felt inclined to do a little woodwork).

I think I might get another to build my Bluesbreaker home-brew amp into.

Good product at an affordable price

I have been using this cab for quite a while now with a jetcity 22h and have no complaints.The sound is good and you can upgrate in the future with another speaker Recomended

Excelent for the price! Great choice

Excelent for the price! Great choice

Could be better, off course, but for the price point you can't get better.

Very useful and practical

Can't get better guitar speaker for this amount of money.

I have orange rockerverb 50 and i use this speaker for smaller gigs instead of orange 4X4 cab. very practical for smaller gigs!

No complaints, great value.

I have been using this cab for quite a while now with a 5w tube head and have absolutely no complaints. Bought with Intention of upgrading speaker at some stage but see no need to now as I don’t find myself missing anything in the sound. I play for my own pleasure so cannot comment on use for gigs etc. Having played for 30 years plus I try not to be seduced by the badge on a piece of equipment but to trust my ears and if it works it’s a keeper. This is a keeper.

Good not too costly

Bought this wanting something not too costly and this fit all i needed, sounds really good and i am happy.

All i could ask for.

What more could you want?

I got this to use as a cabinet for a Joyo BlueJay banTamP, mostly for practice and playing at home.

I'm still working on breaking the speaker cone, but right away it's a huge upgrade from the 8" PA speaker I'd been using in the meantime. The tone is bright and open, while still sounding full, as opposed to the boxy sound that I had before.

I'm mostly using it on a pretty low volume (BlueJay's gain at noon, volume between 8 and 9 o'clock), but of course I had to crank it up to see how it handles and it did not disappoint.

Pros:

- Inexpensive

- Sounds great

- Not too heavy

Cons:

- Construction feels a bit cheap. Haven't tested durability (and don't plan to, this thing is staying home with me), but tolex feels thin and the handle and corner guards don't seem like they'd hold up too well against a bit of regular abuse. Still, for the price I'd gladly make those concessions for how it sounds.

Cool cab.

Plugged it to my Egnater Tweaker 40. Works perfect!

Great box for a great price

Cheap But Good

Well, what can you say about this cab. For the money it is really good, I am sure you could buy a better 1 but at a much higher cost.

I would recommend this to anyone that only has a 8" cab to play though great upgrade.

Decent Practice Cab

Bought this about 2 1/2 years ago to pair up with a Randall RD1 for practice. Since then it's been kicked back & forward between mine & a mate's garage a few times, even surviving sub zero temperatures, plagues of insects & the occasional rat!

Sound is decent, i've seen others commenting about it sounding like a g12t 75. Having never owned a cab with one in i can't say exactly, but with the Randall dimed out & a bb preamp in front it does metal very well; lots of searing high end, abit lacking on mids, and for more bass i just stick the back up tight against a brick wall.

Handle has faired well & besides a few scratches covering is great. Open back seems to collect dead spiders & don't spill drinks down the grill cloth - not that it's been killed by beer damage, it's just a hassle to clean.

Harley Benton G112 Cabinet

WoW! Super fast delivery all the way from Germany. Very Solid Cab and awesome sound. so glad i found you guys!! Thank you sooooo much. Great Service & Product!

Debbie

Happy

Great delivery time ordered over Christmas and it was here before New Year. Does exactly what I wanted, and much warmer than I had hoped, I would recommend this product.

Rwally good box for a low budget

It is a really cheap guitar speaker, so I was not thinking about something very professional. But I can say it nearly is. The robust housing is very good, it will never break or something. The sound is so dynamic, for its price is gorgeus. For an affordable guitar box, it is the best buy.

Excellent value cabinet

I use a Kemper and a Laney IRT-X (an FR power cab/monitor fitted with a couple of small-ish speakers) and was looking for a cabinet with a larger 12" speaker to make sure I wouldn't be drowned out by the drummer, the bass player and the other guitarist's 2x12" combo amp for a pub sized gig.

The HB cabinet did an admirable job - it sounded great from the start and it certainly didn't feel like the speaker needed breaking in. The cab is light (it has an open back) and well put together but doesn't feel, or sound like a cheap derivative.

Other 1x12 cabs are typically double the price of this, possibly due in part to being fit with branded speakers, but you can pick up the model with 'Vintage 30' speakers for a very reasonable price. If I find myself playing larger venues I may well order the 2x12 Harley Benton Vintage in future. If I had no neighbours and if my partner were deaf I'd immediately order the 4x12 V30 version...

Great value for money

These were used with various amps including a stereo Crate powerbock, Orange Tiny Terror and a Calibre 22 pedal and delivered good sound. A robust open back cab with a good quality speaker making this a pretty good piece of kit for those on a tight budget

Anyone call for a cab?

Edited after using the cab live a lot :-)

There are many better cabs out there, but none for the money. If you aren't a gear snob or tone hound and have realised that probably 99% of your audience really don't give a monkey about the nuance of sound but just want to dance like loonies and don't want to wince with any harshness in the sound.

Welcome to my world. Boutique cabs cost more before they start earning. My gear has to earn. I needed to reinforce our sound. Not 'make louder' but reinforce.

Combo on a beer crate behind me, extension cab on the other side of the stage on a beer crate. I'd been borrowing a Marshall 50watt combo + 1x12 which sounded no better. If we need louder, we mic up.Seems gear snobs and thieves like Marshall. I'm HB-80R+ this cab now and we still sound AWESOME! for less than the cost of just the stolen cab.

Construction wise, it classes as adequate. It's an MDF chassis and mine had a footprint on the inside...Who cares! It is adequate. Interesting to note how the audiophile hi-fi lot used to witter on about how much better the sound from MDF cabinets compared to ply was, yet in the guitar world, MDF is treated as a joke. There's MDF and mdf I guess. This passes muster for MDF as opposed to barely compacted wood dust in glue.

The speaker has no identifying marks on mine. It makes a sound. Not a very nice one at first, but run full power for 10 minutes and it smooths out.

EDIT

It has now spent some hours making some very high volume levels indeed, and those volume levels have been unperturbed by unwanted cabinet colouration or speaker distortion. Think of it as running the cone in, like you'd an old engine that'd been reconditioned. As it has softened up, so has any brittleness about the edges of the sound. The speaker is a good match for the Celestion Seventy/80 in the combo. Less bass and perhaps a little harsher but nothing of consequence. There are no strident overtones or pockets of missing frequencies, just a damn fine sound. No nasal honkiness when chunking and chopping either.

The cab is open back and reflex ported. There are no tubes, but is ported. This is a hint. You can place the cab near a wall or even gaffa stiff card at a pinch to make it a closed back. Bass beefs up as a result.

Same with open back combos. Make a closer for tighter bass.

The corner guards aren't fitted too neatly, but really, it makes a nice sound so who cares?.

For playing with amp heads for practice. As a cab, as an amp extension speaker, you'll not get better without spending big coin. The Vintage model may be more refined, but this has cojones. If you sip tea from a cup, go vintage model. Me?, I gulp from a mug

Light weight and very clear sounding speaker cab

Light weight but tough cab. This open backed cabinet has a very clear and biting sound - perfect for Fender and clean sounds, but a bit fizzy and trebly for high gain. When paired with a high gain Marshall you have to dial the presence/treble right off or use an EQ pedal in the FX loop. Better than many cheap cabs that are too dark and neutral sounding. Easy to replace the speaker.