Harley Benton RB-414BK Classic Series 3-stars Reviews

Weak Highs but Great Lows

The E string sounds great once the bridge has been properly adjusted, but the higher strings come out extremely muffled.

Said bridge is also quite finicky, using loose rollers that you need to watch out for when you're changing the strings.

If you can get past those niggles, it's a solid RB copy and quite fun to play once the pickup cover has been removed.

The only thing I can say about its construction is the nut on mine was very loose and was actually sitting on a small crack. A couple of dabs of wood glue sorted all that.

Not really a bass for someone who isn't willing to put in a bit of work on the upkeep of their instrument, but decent for anyone else.

its great...but....

a dodgy bridge lets it down...not a deal breaker but.....if a string were to break during a live performance then parts can come loose , which isn't good...i like to slap it too which is worrying.....but saying that it is a cool looking replica of a rick....the neck pickup is great the bridge not so. put distortion on it and you suddenly become lemmy. i do really like mine but the bridge i am considering changing.

sounds great but the quality of it let it down.

I was really looking forward to getting as it looks great & sounded great from the reviews I watched, but I'm not sure if I got unlucky with mine but out of the box it had loads of scratches on the back (the one I bought wasn't a B-stock product) & the neck was severely bowed.

I tried to amend it but to get it to stop buzzing like crazy it made the action really high above the 5th fret & due to the bridge design I was unable to level out the action.

The bridge is a bit of problem area as it only allows to raise all the strings rather than the individual saddles, which makes hard to get a consistent action.

I think this would make a great mod project if you have time to put into it but unfortunately I just don't at the moment!

Pretty good!

The action is a bit messy no matter how you set it up, obviously you want some fret buzz for that R*ck sound but at some points it's too much. The sound is great (read: incredible) for the price but it definitely isn't perfect.