Harley Benton HB-40R 3-stars Reviews

Its decent for a solid state amp

Using in a small indoor setting. The clean sounds are really good, reverb is good as well. Overdrive channel sounds muddy, can get good rock sounds out of this, maybe even thrash, but metal and heavy metal sounds will need pedals. Tweaking around with the settings did not give a high quality sounding metal tone, but it is way better than the average 10w sh**box amp tone that you're probably used to from your beginner amp.

Personally, i would never buy this as a long term amp, tube amps are the way to go for that, the sound is unmatched. But if you are a beginner or someone who needs an amp for practice in an emergency situation, this is a good choice.

Okay for starters

The amp doesn't offer much and the overdrive channel often sounded way too dirty, but it works well for entry level guitarists. The only con is its weight - for what it offers, I feel like it's a bit too heavy when carrying around.

Meh

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

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.

Cheap amp

Quite a good sound and features, although I'm no judge - picks up a hum from somewhere and massive spikes when switching on and off