Harley Benton D-120CE BK Reviews

Excellent for the price

I bought this for my daughter who has started gigging a few open mike nights etc. Really impressed with the build quality and the pickup sound fine through a pa. For the money unbeatable.

Good guitar

Good guitar for that price. Recommended.

very good instrument..

I does'nt know about this guitar factory.I thought that it is very cheep to be good for playing.My other acoustic guitar (fender balboa)has a big problem in the microfone and the repair was very expensive.So i decided to order this guitar and now is my favorite...Very good and strong sound,excellent neck,very good finish...

If you looking for something cheap and very good quality and sound dont even think about it!!! BUY IT!!

Very nice sound,

Very nice wood,

Very soft keys and high quality

Rate 5/5

Great Cheap Option

This is a great cheap option if you are on a budget. Good build quality and sound, I have had no problems at all with it!

Great guitar for beginners

Well, to start off, I just want to say, to everybody, that this guitar for anyone, who is starting to play, learning just first things would be amazing.

I did first buy this guitar in the late 2012, and now after 6 years I can surely say what do I think about it.

1. There were some issues with the guitar, tho after just some polishing work at first it became a usual instrument that I picked up when got home after studies.

2. Tuning stability is fairly good, nothing to ride home about, but it works and you can have some fun with it for sure.

3.Sound is magnificent - I have played extremely expensive acoustics that just sound dull and doesn't have soul, for this instrument, playing it over these years - I have found the tone and versatility of it just brilliant.

4. I did add a pickguard to this guitar, as it didn't come with one when I bought it, but basicly - it has stood the test of time and I would recommend this to anyone who is learning to play guitar or is doing gigs and doesn't want to bring his 700 euro guitar with him :)

In the end I have to add, that in-built pickup system is OK at best, but I am not putting is down as this is after all under 100 euro guitar.

Very Pleased!

For the money I paid for this guitar you can't go wrong! It sounds great, looks great and plays pretty well too, the only thing I have bad to say is that after a while because the frets arent smooth on the side of the neck and may have a rough feel to them as your hand slides up and down the neck your hand gets all scratches but thats the only downfall I have with this guitar, defo worth your money!

Surprisingly good

This guitar is surprisingly good for the money. Looks amazing and feels good to play, Action is ok maybe a bit high, could also be me not so used to acoustic guitars.

The sound is really good accustic but has a little to much bass when added to an amp, but with some EQ it's is no problem. Intonation was good too.

For a beginner or someone like me that just needs and acoustic for occasional recordings this is the perfect guitar, and I'm sure it would do fine for regular gigs too.

GUITAR

VERY GOOD SOUND AND QUALITY

FAST AND PERFECT PACKED SHIPPING

Exceptional Acoustic !

I needed a dreadnought guitar and i thought id take a chance on this guitar . The one thing i will say is its extremely good value. I was expecting shoddy bracing , fretwork etc however on opening i was pleasantly surprised.

This Guitar beats the Fender Sonoran i brought earlier this year, in nearly every way ( i haven't tried the electrics yet ! ) . Its got a great sound well set up on arrival and easily playable and the strings aren't bad for a change !. It sais custom line in the label so for a second I thought id been sent a slightly more expensive guitar !!

I Recommend this guitar for beginners to full on pro players !

Still using it a couple of months down the line and just as good as when i brought it :)

Good Guitar!

I play guitar for like 8 years and i've been using this guitar for some months now, and I'm impressed with what guitar you can get for so little money.I really like the cutaway so i can real the higher frets.

This guitar was playable right away no tweaking done whatsoever.

The electronics are very reliable i've never had any problem with it.The hardware is pretty good and the tuners hold the tuning good for some months.

This Guitar sounds good and can be used for any music style i guess.Its also my first choice when it comes to live performances with band situations.

I don't think there i could get any better for such a ridiculous price.

Overall i'm pretty satisfied with this guitar so THUMBS UP to Harley Benton!

Well buikt

These guitars have been around a while and with the smallest of tweaking at the nut and perhaps the bridge you can have the intonation spot on, there is plenty of volume from the body and the fretboard is not too dry, perhaps a little lemon oil would brighten up the sound a little

A playable electro-acoustic guitar straight out of the box for £58 - how can you go wrong?

I set up budget guitars in my spare time and bought this acoustic as something of an experiment. About a year ago I bought another Harley Benton (a Les Paul gold top copy) which was pretty well made but also pretty badly set up. However, after fret-levelling, re-profiling and polishing and sorting out the action (bridge and nut) it now plays better than any other Les Paul copy I've had. On that basis I wanted to try out a HB acoustic to see if, for almost no money, I could end up with a decent instrument.

The D-120 came pretty well packed (a conventional guitar shaped box inside a large rectangular box) and felt very light. The first thing that greeted me on unwrapping was a 2mm chip to the top edge of the headstock; disappointing but for £58 not worth initiating a return for since I can drop a bit of black lacquer in there to fill anyway.

First impressions when unpacked were how light and how thin the construction of this guitar is (even by comparison with my 2002 Fender CD60). It's very black and very shiny but in patches the lacquer is so thin you can see the wood grain through it. It wouldn't take much to wear through to the wood sadly. A quick all-over check revealed a decent-looking instrument; 20 frets on a nice shaped neck, basic sealed tuners, lousy Chinese strings, a little EQ unit (9v battery supplied!) and a jackplug input socket that was loose. That is a REAL hassle on a guitar like this. Getting a hand or tool inside there to hold the internal part of the jack socket still while tightening down on the outside is going to be a challenge. Enough now to send back and request another one? Mmmm. Still no. It's too much hassle and I'm sure I can sort it out - but both this and the chipped headstock are basic quality control issues that should have been sorted and which could really spoil this guitar for someone without the experience and confidence to fix it themselves.

To my surprise the action on this guitar is not too bad straight out of the box. The tuners are 'all or nothing' and sticky but kind of work. The frets are awfully finished and scratchy as hell meaning string bends leave you wincing (but I can take care of that). But here's the thing: despite its several little faults, this thing is playable straight out of the box. It sounds pretty good acoustically and even better when plugged into my amp (which I have to say ISN'T a dedicated acoustic guitar amp).

So for £58 plus £10 postage what you get is a lightweight electro-acoustic guitar that plays better than almost anything else you're likely to find for so little money (apart from getting lucky and finding a second hand Fender or Vintage acoustic locally via eBay or Gumtree). This Harley Benton confirms my previous HB experience: these are great guitars IF you are able to put right the small niggling problems AND do some thorough set up work (including fret levelling & dressing). Otherwise this is still not a bad first guitar for a learner for almost no money - certainly far better than the all-too-common first 'acoustic' guitar that turns out to be an unplayable and cheap classical :-)

cheap and cheerful

when i bought this guitar i did so for alternative tuning i wasnt expecting anything special. it was cheap to buy and sounded good unplugged, but did need the fishman pickup adjusted inside to give an even sound to all strings when plugged in. over time a few of the guitars frets came off but again no real complaints as for the money its a great little guitar. recommend for beginners as its not expensive and sounds decent.

Beatyful sound

Very good basic half acoustic quitar with nice features, onlu minus is quitar mic, pick poor treble sounds, but it have been in hard use for couple years now and nothing problems shows up

Wish I'd spent more...

The guitar sounds okay for the most part when played acoustically, but the pickup is not very good quality. I think it would have perhaps been wiser to spend the money on a nicer guitar without a pickup, and then either buy a separate pickup or simply mic it up when required. The guitar is quite difficult and uncomfortable to play. The action is set very high, and it doesn't appear to be adjustable. You might be tempted to think this is an okay guitar for a beginner's first guitar, but please don't make the same mistake I did! It has somewhat discouraged me from playing it, at least until I buy a better guitar. This purchase has also rather put me off the Harley Benton brand.

Excellent value guitar

This guitar was bought for one main reason. To use it as a bugdet guitar outdoors and not to have to worry about the rain and humid conditions. I use this guitar with our scouts and therefore I never went for an expensive guitar. Therefore I didn't expect much of a quality, but I was positively surprised, that even when this guitar is exposed to sun, then rain, then fog,... it stays in tune, never had any problem with the build quality and therefore suits my needs perfectly. If you are looking for a low budget acoustic guitar, capable of withstading even extreme conditions, pick this one. It's great.

disapointing

the quality of this guitar just wasn't up to standard, there was still saw dust inside like it had just come off the machine, 3 of the string pins snapped when i tried to change strings, the fretboard has chips and is very rough so you cant bend a note without it sounding like your sanding the neck, also the string action was extremely high and overall it required a lot of maintenance before it could become bearable.