Harley Benton Vintage Overdrive Reviews

decent TS sounds but noisy with PSU

Everything about the pedal is good and what you expect from any decent TS clone excluding 2 things. 1) poor artwork on the pedal , of little importance 2)its rather noisey with a psu that is fine with much higher gain drive. But with a battery 8 out of 10 sound wise, spot on. If you are on a tight budget, its a greatt choice, Although I would say an EHX east river drive is worth the extraa coin if you can afford a little more, but you cant go wrong at the price and it feels well built very solid. not bad at all does the intended job.

great drive pedal for the price

Its not a fashionable boutique pedal, but its well built and does exactly what it says on the tin. Great sound once youve played with the dials - it tends a little towards 'wasps in a jar' if you push it, but thats probably personal taste. Hasnt let me down. I like it.

Surprisingly Good

I have never owned a brand new OD pedal before, I just buy used stuff. This one of the best I've ever laid hands on.

good sound!

i used it mainly to push my tube head a little more. and it gives me the ability to get a natural feeling gain with richer harmonics and controlled feedback . Just as i want!

The build quality is okay,the battery department looks a little bit cheap with all the plastic and could be a problem in the future if something breaks there.

for the price its an absolutely great pedal!

Sounds like the real thing

I did an A B test with the pedal that this is trying to emulate and it gets very close at only a fifth of the price.

The only difference I noticed is that the Vintage Overdrive removes more of the lower end than the Tubescreamer. Not necessarily a bad thing. It's only a matter of taste.

However when it comes to the smooth clipping, mids and trebles, I can't see any differences.

Pretty good. Maybe not for bass guitar.

I bought this to a achieve a dirty bass sound akin to early Stranglers bass sound. I find that I need to dial the fx level right down to (nearly) get this sort of sound. On this basis I wouldn't recommend the pedal for bass guitars (unless you are playing metal).

Playing a guitar through the unit is quite satisfying, it produces a dirty yet warm sounding distortion. So I would recommend it for guitarists.

The build quality of the until seems good. Solid metal housing with a positive bypass switch. Great colour combination to give it that Bad Monkey look.

For £25 I'm happy with my purchase, even if it doesn't produce the exact tone I was looking for - this is not a reflection on the quality of the unit, purely personal taste.

for the price this is a really nice soundng tube screamer type overdrive pedal and very robust too love the price love the pedal

Vintage Overdrive

This pedal sounds great for the price and strong stomping box and love light green finish.The tones are sweet and i get a lovely fuzz 60's sound very Hendrix sounding well happy with this pedal .already gigged and recorded with it

Great Build Quality

To be honest, for this price I was expecting some sort of cheap plastic device, however my first impressions were great. The metal housing looks very tough and durable. The dials are very responsive. The mechanical switch also feels very good. The overall build quality is first class.

So far, I am very happy with the sound features too. This little pedal is nothing less than the "other" green pedal we all know and love. I am using it together with a Fender Mustang II. It is an absolute charm to hear it with very low drive, mid volume and high tone together with an amp preset with compressor and some reberb.

Satisfaction in a small cashout!

excellent booster on my randall rd20 and hotone heart attack, why spent a couple of dollars on a tone which you can get in a small cash.out.

Brilliant

Want a tube screamer without the price tag?

Get this! great little pedal :)

Lovely OD for the price

Quiet in operation, all analog, true bypass, can be used as a boost (not completely clean) or give a fair degree of overdrive, a bit like an inanely ts. Feels sturdy, all metal. I like it and it is great value.

First time buyer long time viewer

Very basic guitar player blown away by the reviews of this pedal so I took the plunge. Stunning piece of kit and I cant believe the price . Will buy more in this range and cant recommend both this range and company enough . Germany to Ireland inside three days - total customer service sadly lacking elsewhere ! Gives my amp so much punch its unreal !!

Bought it for my friend. He is a jazz/blues guitarist. This overdrive sounds like an expensive pedal, for the price it is excellent deal. The only thing is that the plastic battery cover is made out of cheap plastic, but who really cares about it. It is facing the floor anyway! Good deal! Thanks to Hennig from yt channel for presentation, it helped me a lot to make a decision of buying it.

Got exactly what i wanted

This is a Tube Screamer clone that is a very good sounding piece of equipment. I would even say it sounds exactly like the pedal it is cloned from and at a very good price. The quality is great and I have nothing to complain about. As a bass player I would say that this pedal, just like any tube screamer made for guitars, cut off too much low frequencies. There is a simple mod to make it more bass friendly.

Love this

Wanted that great vintage overdrive sound and saw henny pauly demo this, it is soooo! Nice. I am having great fun extending my sonic pallet.

TS808

Very good clone. You never know what to expect for this kind of money, but HB/Joyo isn't bad. Build quality is actually good. I did end up returning the pedal. I wanted to use it as a lead boost, but somehow the pedal didn't match with my amp, and my other pedals.. Would recommend to annyone looking for a TubeScreamer.

How can this be so good?

It's a tubescreamer clone, there's no getting round that. But my god is it a good one, cranked up into my old WEM dominator this thing sounds amazing. I was running an MXR overdrive before, and got this so I could have a lower gain setting, but it beat the MXR hands down, and has taken its place on my board.

If you like old school creamy overdrive, then this does it. If you are after super high gain heavy metal sounds, then this is not the pedal for you, but with its three self-explanatory simple controls it can do all the screaming lead sounds, and crunchy rhythms that you could ever want.

Get one, even if you don't need it.

Harley Benton Vintage Overdrive

Check out the many back to back You Tube reviews/shootouts of this (or the identical Joyo) pedal against the Ibanez tubescreamer and try to tell the difference. Then check out the prices of both pedals. Some claim that there are differences between the pedals in quality of components and quality of construction/assembly. I've not had any Harley Benton pedals fail on me yet and even if one did I'm not bothered because the 3 year guarantee means I can't lose.

Harley Benton Vintage Overdrive

This sounds great for classic overdriven Rock/blues stuff that I like to pay a lot.

Solid construction , cheap price . What more could I ask for ?