Harley Benton PB-Shorty LH BK Std. Series

The boy is rockin' this!!!

Needed to find a short scale LH bass as mine are to long for his reach!

This was the answer to our prayers, priced well and plays well....thank you!

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Great starter and more if needed!

Love the playability and amazing sounds for the price. Only issue we’re the fret ends, 1 tuner key broken, and needed a good tune up. But overall I’m impressed and love messing around on it.

You can go wrong here

If you’re looking for a short scale bass or perhaps a beginner bass for a child then this is perfect. The price is literally unbeatable and the quality is something you will not find at this price point, anywhere. Has excellent tone too.

Great value and great sound

Amazing value for money and a great bass regardless of whether your a beginner or not

Incredible for price

ordered for my son. He loves it, perfect length scale, he is excited to be learning bass! Incredible build quality for price point, beyond expectations.

Surprisingly good!

I've played 6 string guitars for so long that I find the fret spacing on a regular bass to be very unnatural and tough to play. So I went for this short scale option & it's a real fun instrument. I look like a giant playing a child's toy, but who cares :-)

Harley Benton PB-Shorty LH BK Std. Series

I bought the bass for my 12-year old daughter who is left handed; I didn't want to spend too much, because I don't know if she will cultivate the same passion as her father. The quality is certainly above expectations and it is more than fine for young beginners in terms of sound and handling

Great Instrument

Lovely instrument and well set up out of the box. I have added some shielding to get rid of some hums, apart from that it didn't need anything. Action and Relief were good. I'll probably change the strings soon, and might play with the capacitor value on the tone control.... at the price of this bass I can comfortably take it apart and play around without fear! Great buy.

Edit: I have had it a few weeks now. After sorting out the shielding issues (copper tape in the cavity and nail varnish on the pickup poles) I noticed that one of the pickups was microphonic: when I tapped the pickup housing I could hear the tapping through the amp. Pup probably needs re-potted. I swapped the pickups for some cheap Chinese ones and that fixed the problem. Put on some Daddario EXL220S strings when I put it back together. All sounds great. And I'm enjoying learning about the inner workings of a bass!

Absolute bargain!

Got this for my son to start learning the bass.

Great bass, amazing build quality and good output from the pickups (considering the cheap electronics).

Hardware is acceptable, but what is not is the strings. I would prefer the instrument to cost 10 pounds more than to have a string break due to mild slapping two weeks later.

All in all, an amazing bass for 90 pounds, should you include the 20 pounds spent on strings.

A really good first bass for its price

If you're a lefty and you're looking for a first bass, this one is a solid choice.

It has the standard features (volume and tone) which is all you'll need to start learning.

It has a solid build and a very good sound for its prince.

The only major con I found on this bass is that its head stock can be somewhat on the heavy side making it a little bit unbalanced, especially when playing those lower frets.

Overall, as a first bass I can recommend this.