Harley Benton GuitarBass VS Vintage Series Reviews

Great

This instrument has a great quality of build, and none of the intonation problems that plague the Squier model.The 5 way switch offers tons of versatility, a very good instrument a steal for the price it is sold at.

Good!!

Great bass/guitar for its price..few minor adjustment to make

it playable .. strings are ok.but upgrade to better brand strings

should do the trick..

Awesome Little Bass

This is my first Harley Benton purchase and I have to say Im absolutely astonished at what a great instrument you can get for such little money. Ive been playing music for 20 years, have built several guitar and basses from scratch, modded and played pretty much most brands and styles of guitars/basses and I can in all honesty say that this absolutely stands up along side the many other decently built, well playing guitars that Ive used. This is without doubt a very usable bass 6 copy with and without the added benefit of its low cost.

Out of the box it was set up well which implies it has gone through a QC process. Finish was fine, picks sounded like decent single coils to my ears and the neck albeit being a bit chunky for my liking is easy to navigate and without sharp edged that I hear is common with these guitars.

The guitar industry sells guitars with snake oil, mojo and ideals. You will not get any of those things with this or any other low budget brand guitar, but I most definitely got a vey usable tool to make music with.

Oh and delivery was extremely fast. 8 odd days from Germany to Australia!

In conclusion , VERY PLEASED with this purchase.

Bass VI Clone Does What It Says On The Tin

It's pretty much perfect. frets are all level. action is low, tiny bit of fret buzz so i'll try raising the saddles a mm or 2. it has good tone, frets feel a bit rough so a quick polish should sort that. The top string isn't as bad as i was expecting after Cory Mura's video and some reviews I've read, it's loose but workable. The back of the guitar has some blemishes but nothing of relevance. The strings are aligned correctly over the pick-ups. The bridge is in the correct position and the neck sits perfectly on the body. The machine heads do feel a bit weak having to adjust much larger strings. The Volume pot is fine, feels cheap but it works just fine. The tone pot fell off straight away but that an easy fix and its the only real fault. I was expecting that i may have to take the GuitarBass to a shop for set up but i was surprised to find it played very well out of the box. It was even in tune. All in all I'm happy with my purchase and would recommend the instrument to anyone thinking of buying one.

BASS VI COPY

GOOD BASS VI , apart from some sharp frets , the rest of the bassguitar is very nice , sound is good , im changing only the pots with good ones and get rid of the sharp frets , put on some flatwound strings instead of those crappy rusty roundwounds and its a great buy , !! keep rocking harley benton , for 200 euros such a good instrument with some mods its fantastic im impressed

Perfect toy for low end explorers

Use - for those who realized how good baritone guitars is and want to try one with single coils (for sure baritones suppose to have singles to enhance treble) or even to go lower to E.

Idea and design is perfect,

but unfortunately assembly quality is not good.

In fact all flaws could be easily corrected, except one (on guitar what I got) - Bridge is positioned wrongly and as result lower E string is almost at neck edge, while high E is far away from it. So bridge holes in body needs to be re-drilled.

For the price...

...it's unbeatable. I always kind of wanted a 6 string Bass, and it turns out I love having one, and the fact that it was under 200¤ convinced me to take the plunge.

Fantastic six string VI style bass straight out of the box

I'd been on the lookout for a six string bass for a long time and the Fender VI was top of my list having been played by George Harrison and John Lennon in the Beatles and Jack Bruce in Cream. I liked the idea that it was tuned the same as a regular guitar but an octave lower so I could easily switch from guitar to bass. The VI also had a thin neck. Unfortunately, it was (and still is) way out of my price range. Even the Squier version was priced steeply and having played one in store didn't feel as solid as it should.

So when the Harley Benton GuitarBass VS Vintage Series came out I took a chance I ordered. I'm so glad I did. Straight out of the box, it felt fantastic. The neck was comfortable, the action low without much buzz and even unplugged it sounded great with solid intonation right up its long neck. The finish looks even better in person than on the photos - darker and more subtle with its burst.

Plugged in it gets even better with a good variance of tone from the three pickups - they take effects very, very well. Often a lot of effects can take the depth out of your tone but starting an octave lower with a bass puts you in a great starting position for alt-rock/psychedelic experimentation.

As a standard bass, the Harley Benton GuitarBass VS Vintage Series is more than adequate but as a new voicing for existing electric guitar players it's a revelation. And an absolute bargain.

Nice hardtail bass vi

Really nice bass vi copy. Pickups give great range of tone down from nice deep bass to quite twangy highs if you wanted. A bit noisey but they are single coils...You can do cords (just carefull of low e), bass lines,leads and riffs on it.

I like the hardtail brigde (keeps intonation better then original tremolo) and easier to find baritone strings to fit it (to tune a-a or b-b instead of e-e).

Takes chorus and delays wonderfully for curelike riffs. Takes fuzzes well for postrock,doomlike styles as well. Neck and frets are quite nice and smooth (no sharp edges on it).

Even though I?m not into the 60s sunburst finish it is very well done, no bubbles/stains/etc in laquer. And nicely put togther.

Only reason why it?s 4 stars and not 5 is the nut is ok (could be better), electronics aren?t too well soldered (but thats a five minute job to fix if you know what your doing. and for the price I?ve seen ALOT worse), and the strings it ships with. Low E is a 0.084 (i think) way too thin, and even after setup it?s too loose causing fretbuzz (you could fix with shim, but too much bother). If you fit a 0.095 string that does solve the floppines though (or alternativly tune down to a-a or b-b with thinner strings).

Apart for those little niggles (that can be fixed quickly and cheaply), a very nice and versatile instrument (and very nicely priced compared to competicion).