Harley Benton ST-20HH Active SBK 5-stars Reviews

Punches 👊💥well above it's pricepoint

Looks so cool, fit n finish were practically flawless, especially for the price. It i a joy to play and sounds far better than the price would have you expect

AN ABSOLUTE BEAST!

Excellent build quality, great sounding active pickups, and comfortable to play. The lower the tuning the better it sounds. A metal monster that even looks scary! A no brainer at the price.

Excelente guitarra

Esta muy padre la guitarra, se ve excelente en color negro y truena muy bien! muy contento con la compra, la recomiendo!

The best bang for your buck metal guitar

Ever since I first saw this, I was in love with it. Looks mean, sounds even meaner. It's been hard to put it down and it's one of my main guitars for tracking songs now. Cannot recommend this enough if you're looking for a steal on a ripper

Very good for the price

Sounds fantastic for the price it costs, plays well together with my Line6 Spider IV.

Amazing for the price

Got it today and after a very short adjustment here and there the guitar plays great sounds great for the pickups not being EMG's. Only thing I will replace is changing out the tuners to locking tuners. But overall it's a great guitar .

Fabulous Guitar

You simply can’t do any better for a guitar in this price range with active pickups. The neck is a very smooth satin finish, the sound is as good as any higher level guitar with emg pickups, the tuners and bridge keep in tune and you can adjust to low action without any buzz. You will not be disappointed!

Best price

Great guitar for the price!

The quality is good, the guitar keeps the tuning, all smooth, no burrs, fret not scratch your hands. It also turned out that the guitar already has the strings height and scale length set, which was a pleasant surprise :)

The sound is not bad, even if the guitar would have cost twice as much. Sound pickups are active, no problem with the volume :) But they don't work without batteries, you have to take it into consideration.

I can not say anything about the faults of the guitar, I have not noticed them yet. For beginners who like HH configuration, this guitar is definitely an excellent choice!

Stunning

Looks and sounds great, the only thing missing is a whammy bar.

Incredibly fun to play, really clean body and polish

Amazing guitar, especially for Slipknot fans!

What more do I need to say? This guitar looks, fees, plays, and sounds amazing! Ive been a slipknot fan for 15 years and this guitar feels like a dream come true. It rocks!

For the price ... Unbelievable!

seriously, ive been playing guitars for over 20 years and cheap guitars always used to be that cheap and crap. But not anymore, no need to spend loads of money for a good guitar anymore these days cause this beast does it as well as the higher end branded makes. Yes the frets could be smoother but thats a quick fix, but for the price its a no brainer,

Beyond Expectations

Pros:

Arrived in 99.9% perfect condition (washer for a tuner broke off)

Loud AF

Stays in tune, good for riffage

Very minimal adjustment needed, ready to play

Battery Included

Cons:

Battery door kinda fiddly

Action can't get 'super' low for more shreddy stuff

Awesome metal machine!

This is a great straight forward hard rock, metal guitar.

wisely choice

Fret had small flaws in workmanship need to manually adjust

Killer metal guitar

I saw reviews of this guitar popping up all over YouTube and the price made it hard to pass up. The guitar isn’t perfect- there is some very minor splintering around the nut and when I placed some heavier strings on it (11-48 for drop C tuning) it caused the neck to bow quite a bit more than I was expecting. I was able to flatten the neck out using the truss rod but I’m not sure how it will hold up with even heavier strings. Also, I plan to switch out the tuners as they feel cheap.

However, the value of this guitar is amazing. It looks sleek and the pickups are hot and very well suited for heavier music. They sound great. At this point I don’t think you can find another guitar (especially if you’re into metal) that looks, sounds or feels as good as this guitar for close to $100. I have to give it 5 stars across the board because you would have to spend x3 as much to find a comparable instrument. It’s incredible as a starter instrument (my first guitar was $200 and was absolute garbage compared to this one) or as a modding platform (which is what I plan to do with it). You can’t go wrong at this price. Highly recommended!!

Great Value

Easy to play - though the pickups were a bit noisy. Great value!

Exceeded my expectations!!!

Best quality in sounding budget guitar I’ve ever owned! Definitely buying from again!

Cannot fault for the money.

For the price this thing is out there as one of the best affordable guitars you can buy. I wasn't expecting the quality to be as good as it was. No sharp frets, nice bridge which intonates well, tuners do the job, nut does the job. I had to take the bridge off to restring as one of the holes had debris from drilling but was sorted within minutes. Pickups are great. Very very hot. I immediately tuned this to Drop B with 56-11s, tweaked the truss rod, adjusted the strings at the bridge and it plays fantastic. Nut needed filing but it's only plastic. I imagine this will need changing if you plan to drop tune long term. Stays in tune too!

All in all, it looks absolutely beautiful, plays really well with a slightly chunkier neck than I was expecting (definitely not a thin neck, more a nice comfortable C profile) and it was just over £130 with a gig bag.

Bang for your buck for sure.

This is coming from a person completely new to guitars.

Great sound, great feel and the color is beautiful!

no messing about at an unmissable price

i have recently taken up playing again after many years and was looking for a cheap but meaty sounding guitar for heavy metal playing.

the guitar comes well built and looks gorgeous with nice string heights to pickups already giving out some beefy sound and only just out of tune.

after about an hour of checking over the guitar i was mighty impressed,the neck is fast and smooth the pickups are really good especially after stretching the strings and re tuning a few times.

i tried this with my boss katana mk 2 100 and a few nice cheap pedals from Harley Benton and Donner.

The sound when using some smooth and subtle overdrive is insane for the price, i mean you simply wont get this sound any cheaper.

I have done some calculating and i really don't see how they can make money on this guitar and even today the price has gone down by like £2.

If you are in the market for a good looking amazing sounding heavy guitar i really cant say this enough "buy this thing now" before the back orders get longer and longer, i've just bought another in case anything happens to my 1st!