Harley Benton SC-1000 SBK Progressive Line 5-stars Reviews

Great guitar for metal

The guitar feels and plays great, the sound is great for metal and punk but not for anything else.The one ploblem I came across while owning this guitar is that it cant do clean sounds, the pickups are just way too hot and bring even the cleanest of clean sounds to overdrive.The guitar is also pretty light for a mahogany instrument but I rather like that.The neck feels like a les paul neck and is overall very nice, access to the higher frets is an issue however.

Really good guitar

I enjoy playing on this guitar. It is well-made and sounds great for this amout of money. Also a big thanks to reactive shipping!

I love it

As a newbie metal guitarist this instrument is all I could ask for, at an amazing price. The active pup's sound incredible distorted and the cleans are beautiful. The playability is great and the set-up out of the box was really good. I highly recommend it.

Excellent Quality

Great guitar for the price, tuners are toyish, but expected as I purchased the guitar, knowing i would have to replace them, nut will also go for a bone one. The rest, excellent, finish is flawless, playability is there, only minor setup needed to play out of the box.

Amazing

worth every penny. The quality right off the bat is very good. The playability is amazing.

Since I jump between metal, rock and jazz. This is kind of not made to be too subtle, but every tone is achievable

Incredibe!

For this money this guitar is exelent! It is really beautfull! frets, neck are cool! Only minus is pickups they are not nice. Anyway im gonna replace em.

Great bang for the buck

Great guitar, fit and finish are comparable to guitars 3x the price. I would recommend this guitar to anyone looking for something with active pickups at an affordable price.

My new favourite toy!

Just like everyone else, I was initially quite shocked by the way it looks, it is definitely a beauty. Quality-wise, mine doesn't seem to have any issues at all: the neck, frets, and strings are all properly adjusted and aligned, and look fantastic for the price. The guitar came pre-tuned, which was a bonus, but the tuners would be a negative if I had to pick one. Oh, and the weight is on the heavier side, but I already knew that before buying.

The sound is really good for a <200 EUR guitar, the active pickups, though not amazing, do indeed contribute to a high-gain, high-sustain metal-esque style. Contrary to other reviews, I enjoy the clean sound as well. I would have loved a bit more variety by way of the tone knob, but again, at this price point, it's acceptable.

Overall, I'm very satisfied with the guitar and immensely enjoy playing it/learning on it. Highly recommended if metal is your thing and you're looking for something around the 200 EUR mark!

Unbelieveable

I wanted an affordable single cut guitar for metal music, and I've always loved the look of the higher-end ESP Eclipses, so this looked like a good alternative. I hesitated a while because of the incredibly low price but there were so many good reviews that I decided to give it a chance.

When I got the guitar in the mail I was blown away, I could find no flaw in the build quality and the guitar was perfectly set up. The frets were perfectly level, intonation was on point, and the tuners keep the tuning really well.

I plugged the guitar into my Peavey Envoy 110 and was pleasantly surprised by the pickups, which provided more than enough punch for any songs I wanted to play. They obviously won't blow an EMG 81/85 set out of the water, but the difference was surprisingly minor. The clean tone of the guitar was quite good as well.

There were two cons I noticed with the guitar:

- The pickups are very noisy, at least with my amp, so you might want a noise gate with this.

- The frets were not smooth at all, which made bends uncomfortable, but that was easily fixable.

Overall, I'm very happy with the guitar and would recommend it to anyone looking for an affordable guitar with excellent quality. This guitar can easily compete with other guitars I've played, many of which are 2-3 times the price.

Good guitar for metal

Pros: good looking guitar, good metal sound

Cons: dificulties with clean sound

SC-1000

Could not be happier, I was trying to get an Epiphone les paul custom prophesy EX which I sold a while back and really missed it but decided at the price to take a chance on the sc-1000.

I am glad I decided to give the Harley Benton a go as having both the Epiphone and Harley I can't tell the difference.

Out the box its setup is nice and everything is as it should be , im a real fan of the pickups to. I had aimed to get an ESP EC-1000 but doubt ill bother now I can't see where the extra $1200 would go to get the ESP . I really was not expecting this guitar to be in any way good at the price I paid but I was way wrong. Big fan of this sc-1000, I think other brands should worry about how good the Harley Benton is.

Amazing Shredder

This guitar was awesome out of the box, and after some polish and new strings, this thing screams.

Brilliant unit.

replaces my stratocaster as preferred stage use.

great action ,tone control and balance

A really nice active guitar

In the end i decided the actives were not for me and sold this but thats not saying anything bad about the guitar.

Everything feels solid i changed the tuners and bridge on mine before i even started but not sure i needed to really

With the extra money spent on a new bridge tail piece and tuners it gives a really nice quality feel well playing guitar the pickups are as nice as any other active .. but they were not for me

Progressive thinking

WOW, what a beauty. I just love the Matte/satin finish of this guitar, offset by the gold hardware. Even the p/up covers are matte black. The p/ups are Active and will not work without the 9 volt battery, but when fired up they produce some wonderful tone. Crystal clear Hi's and full bodied Lows, and everything in between. The Mahogany neck (which has an original L.P heel joint) sits nicely in the palm of my hand, and is slick and sturdy, the Headstock has a nice individuality about it, with lovely cream binding. The Blackwood fretboard (which looks like Ebony), has 24 frets and some very nice Flag inlays. The Tuners maintain the tuning well, and are finished in Gold. There is a Master Tone and two volume controls, which allows for perfect "blending" of the two pickups. In action this guitar feels very comfortable, thanks to the "body cut-away", and is surprisingly light ,for Mahogany. The neck is fast, with easy access to all 24 frets, the p/ups are excellent....This guitar is to be recommended. A Great performer at a delightful price...Something which puzzles me is, why it is called an SC-1000, when it has L-1000 marked at the 12th fret ?

Good guitar for a fair price

The guitar came neatly packed and with quick shipping, i had the guitar in a week. I was very pleased with that.

The guitar sounds pretty great too, especially considering the price. I bought this guitar because it was a nice price for a starter as me. My guitar-playing friends are now considering buying guitars from 'Harley Benton' too. We are all amazed by how amasing this thing plays.

So in general, i'm veary pleased by buying this guitar.

There are 2 minor faults with the guitar though. It came delivered with a little scratch at the back of the neck.

Also, there is sometimes (once every week or two, and i play daily half an hour) a problem with the battery. You gotta take it out from time to time in order to let it play again.

I could've sent the guitar back for it though, but i didn't want to waste my learning time for these minor faults.

The best for your hard working money

if you are looking for a GREAT guitar for a super fair price with top notch features like Active pickups and a awesome design? Your search ends here, it doesn't get any better then this for the money.

Instead of buying an 800 or even more expensive guitar you could buy 4 Harley bentons and i have guitar on the ready for every tuning you like!

* Great pickups

* Fast neck and action

* Super cool looking

* Massive bang for buck

Read more about my journey towards this guitar below!

Personally i was looking for a 2nd guitar to play E standard with. I usually play allot of low and down tuned metal stuff and wanted a guitar for some more mainstream tuned songs.

My main guitar is a Schecter Hellraiser with a 81/85 pickup set. Recently it was fully serviced at the local guitar store so it's playing the best it can.

Not wanting to spend another 800 euro on a guitar and doing allot research this Harley Benton really got my attention. You see some negative reviews about the guitar here so you hope you are the lucky one when it arrives.

Out of the package the guitar looked great, except for one little dent on the bottom and it looked as if the paint got loose there and they tipped it with a marker pen. It's a small spot and hey not a 1k guitar so i thought what the hell let's play this thing.

Plugging it in the first thing i noticed was the massive gain the pickups have. Absolutely great, playing around a little with the guitar and tuning it i have to say it is an awesome guitar, it sounds great. The frets could use a little work maybe and the action could be lowered a little (action is user preference).

The tuners aren't as steady as the Gotoh's i had placed on my Schecter. So yeah every now and then you have to tune the guitar a little but that is like once every 3 days (yes i play everyday).

My next guitar will for sure be a Harley Benton again!

Better than my Epiphone LP...............

Much better than expected......Have played it more in a week than I have my LP in 6 months. I see a few new Harley Bentons in my future.

For the price it's amazing guitar.

I've bought this guitar as my first Les Paul model also it's my first guitar with active pickups.The guitar arrived in four days which was really great.This guitar have the great matte finish which feels very smooth and nice.I've found out that the neck pickups a bit noisy than the bridge pickup.The worst part of this guitar is the tuners,they are truly horrible I'd recommend replace them as soon as possible.

First of all I?ve always wanted a guitar like ESP EC-1000 or James Hetfield Iron Cross but we all know what the price is on this awesome guitars. But then i saw this one and it was love at first sight. I have little doubts when i saw the price but i was really surprised when I?ve opened the box and plug the guitar into my amp. The overall quality is just impressive for that price, the mate black finish if awesome I?m in love with it. The active picups on this guitar are really awesome but i prefer EMGs so i put in 60/81 and now its the definition of perfect guitar for me.

Pros:

+Guitar quality

+Price

+Harley Benton

+Sound

+Everything

Cons:

-ABSOLUTELY NOTHING !!