Harley Benton HB-40R Reviews

Wow

Bouught this amp as an upgrade and hands down would recomeneded it to anyone.I do indie rock and it has easy handled what i need and could do more then i'll need

really good for the price! Im very happy!

If you ever want to go deaf

If you ever want to go deaf, just plug in something into the "Line In" input of this amp. I don't know what they did, but it's unusable and the noise that has resulted made me just sell the amp the next weekend.

Great amp for pratice and small band rehearsals

I mostly use this for practicing at home but it is OK for louder situations and can compete with a live drumset. It sounds great and work well with pedals and digital multiprocessor pedals. It is very easy to use and straighforward. It just works, sound good and is loud enough for most situations. For the price you can?t beat that!

I use this amp at home, and 40 watts are pretty enough for me.

Cons: It doesn't have FX loop. Sometimes it takes 2 minutes after turning on to recognize the input.

Pros: 40 watts is a big plus. It has reverb control, foot switch connector and output for external speaker.

Good amplifier for home.

OK for bedroom practice, nothing else

The amp has a decent clean sound but a horrible crunch channel. It's not so bad on the speaker but through headphones it's really nasty. On the plus side the amp is pretty light yet solidly built. I mainly use it with another small amp so my sister and I can practice together.

Cost Effective

This product is cheaper compared to any amp product. It served the purpose. Sound is nice and this product is for for smart people. This product is not only for practicing but can be used also in gigs.

If you have a nice amp and very expensive amp and you are using a sound fx, probably there is no use of your expensive amp. sound fx can make your cheap amp sounds good to, and sounds like very expensive product.

One thing that this product lack of, is there is no reverb. but I did not see also in the market or other brand that has the same as this price and has a builtin reverb feature...

Overall I'm very happy for this amp as with in the budget. I recommend this product to those having a low budget.

Meh

Has good sound and nice features but after a month started not to play any sound, I had to repair it.

Missing one thing.

The amp is great for a little thing, however, I wish there would have been a EU to USA wall socket adapter included.

This is good!

Well, this amp is quite good for begginers like me :) It is a good one and very well packed and finishing. The sound is great even i still don't master how to adjust the sounds.

The only thing is i didn't like is, when you switch it on it didn't work immediately, you have to keep strumming until you hear a strong annoying voice, i mean it takes some time for the amplifier to detect the guitar. another thing is when i plug the AUX cable on it, it gives really a very strong, annoying and noisy sound, it keeps in a horriby buzzing untill you plug the phone or whatever then the horrible sound stops, after that there is no problem at all and you can play comfortably as much as your heart desires :)

Need to figure out how to require this or move to EU

Amp has good weight will probably sound good but I should have known better than to buy a european amp cause in U.S. We are wired different. Ha ha the jokes on me. I can't hook it up?? this is totally my fault. I should have known better

For the price, pretty good.

Shown in the title, it is a cheaper amp for bumming around so in terms of that, quality is pretty decent.

Bad bad bad

It sounds like a bag of cats being drowned. You get what you pay for should be Harley benton?s Motto. Buyer beware.

Brilliant amplifier

A fantastic solid-state Amp that gives a real tubelike sound with fantastic overdrive & distortion options ideal for any small gigs no problem being heard in a small venue or use as a practice amp fantastic quality for the price

A good beginner amp - but a bit too much for bedroom play?

40 watts is, quite simply, a lot of power; I've never been able to set the volume to this thing above 6 without fear of deafening myself.

Build quality is 4/5 , as plugging anything in to the dedicated AUX IN port for backing track play results in horrible buzzing and insanely loud popping noises. This was tested across several different aux cables and portable devices.

Other than that, the amp itself is very solidly built, and can definitely take a few knocks. The overdrive channel feature is a bit rubbish, but the clean channel is great. EQ controls are good.

Another note : This is very useful to bring to parties as a speaker. Simply make sure you're set to the clean channel, set the volume low (1 or 2 out of 10), and use an adapter to connect the 3.5mm jack from your phone to the regular guitar input jack. Many friends have commented on how great the sound is playing back party playlists, and the best part is that you can go from listening to music to playing it, with just an electric guitar and an aux, with the same amp. Very versatile.

Very good

I'm using this amplifier for my electric guitars.It's the best buy for it's price.

Pros: It has many functions and good maneuverability.

I can play music from my phone with a 3,5mm jack.

No cons at all.

HB-40R

I bought this as a practice amp, I am stunned by the sound of this little beauty, for the money its fantastic, i'd recommend it to anyone.

Decent cheap amp

This amp is loud and sounds pretty good for the price, I have come across worse amps and would recommend this to someone on a budget

Not bad,nor lasting

Only been used at home,except for 1-2 garage practice instances at friend's house and used only rarely in the past three years,as it is a bit bigger (wattage-wise) than I had expected.The sound was not too shabby,although,if dialed poorly,it can be pretty muddy.Even the reverb is decent,given the price of the amp.The thing is,some of the pots are now scratchy.The volume pot for the overdrive/distortion channel is pretty much broken,it is extremely scratchy and,somewhere between 0 and 1,it suddenly sounds like I turned it to 11.

A good starter amp if "loud" is your kind of music,although it is definitely not suitable for an appartment and it probably will be the first thing you will need to upgrade from your beginner gear.

not bad

Clean channel + reverb sounds nice.

Distorted channel is ok for classic rock, but not very versatile.

Doesn't have many features but it's cheap & loud.

Impulsively bought it as a part of starter package with a primary application for a home practice and I should've read more on the subject before.

1) It's large and heavy.

2) From my perspective it's too powerful and difficult to set quiet enough for an apartment inside a block of flats, especially during night hours.

3) Should be OK for rehearsal somewhere where you can go loud.

For home practice I replaced it with a slightly more expensive tiny combo with 0.1W/1.5/5W output settings which is way more suitable for a home practice and contains features like drum machine/metronome, tuner, effects & amp emulation- especially first two important for practice.

Otherwise seems to be fine & inexpensive product.