MONSTER PICKUPS In My HARLEY BENTON $125 Strat
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- A new wiring harness, GFS Vintage Extra Hot pickups, and just a little... modification to the body transforms this budget-friendly guitar into a vintage modern shred machine!
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Rubric: -5 points for Danzig references. -5 points for not reading the description. -5 points for not watching far enough into the video to answer your own question. -5 points for misquoting me in your comment. 20 points possible. Everyone starts with an A!
Sorry about the earlier mix-up with the video. I uploaded the wrong video file... should be all straightened out now.
0:17 Are you sure about that? 🤣
I knew it had to be something like that. Thank you Max.
Pickup Specs please ? Millivolt output ?
You're still "the man" Max....love your videos!!!
Your videos kept popping up on my feed, after 2-4 videos you earned a sub, I like your rather subtle personality, and realistic products every person could buy.
Coil splits are a nice touch but I've yet to hear better than like 80% coil split tones that truly capture single coil tone. I do thoroughly enjoy my epiphone les paul standard pro that have splits that can get me that "almost" single coil tone but it's again it's not more than like 65% there
I clicked so fast the thumbnail doesn’t even exist yet!
I love that strat btw, I love Harley Benton.
Max, You coulda went with a single-coil sized GFS "Lil Killer" Humbucker for the neck pickup! That would have spared the body "surgery" and still had your HH sound pallet.
gfs is trash
He used what he already had on hand.
@@Ottophil thanks for sharing, if any one is an authority it would be you.
Single coil sized humbuckers don't sound the same as a true humbucker. Aside from a vintage strat, I wouldnt use those on a bicycle. And yes, I'm also the authority.
@@randymiles904 Sure, "Single coil sized humbuckers don't sound the same as a true humbucker". That doesn't make them sound "wrong" by any means! 'Nuff said!
On my Strat, I swapped the single coils for stacked humbuckers. I'd suggest cream or black knobs, as the white knobs are too bright. Push/push for coil splitting is more practical. I have individual tone controls for my two pickups. No need for a middle pickup - they just get in the way. 😎
For about $300 you end up with a very nice guitar that plays and sounds great. I put a pair of the GFS gold foils & wiring kit in a Harley Benton pro-series Tele and it plays and sounds like a guitar costing 3x what I have invested. Great stuff !!
That's a pretty close single coil tone on the neck. Like, really close. So for a little more than 200 bucks, you have a killer guitar that does a little bit of everything! Not bad!
Gotta level up... install a momentary kill switch in that last spot in the pick guard.
That axe kinda looks like the great Jake E Lee's axe of choice and sounds great after the pickup modification.
Jake E Lee is the man.... I'm a huge fan. Badlands is an amazing album... it's truly a flawless masterpiece.
Max another thought, if you didn't want to do the routing, a Dimarzio p90 sized humbucker like a pair of super distortion maybe if you like to shred it in seriously high gain. Just a thought Max, I like your videos, you make any guitar sound really good no matter what the budget of the guitar.
That was killer, Max -- sounds great!
Hi Max ! i love GFS pickups i buy many of them : FAT PAT , vintage 59 , crunchy rails ,and many single coils specially overwound 60 ! All of them are great ! it's a good deal ! nice guitar ! thanks for the video ,take care and be safe .
I put a cheapish hot-rail into my Harley Benton ST62 along with a big brass block, new machine heads and Tusq nut. Neck's a little thick but it plays and sounds great. I like it as much as some of my expensive guitars.
I purposely waited to view this until I had time to really understand all you did in this mod. Thank you for mentioning all you did about the problems with making the modifications to the body to accept the neck humbucker. I was always curious if the output jack came with the Kwik-Plug wiring harness. Since you didn't mention having to solder anything other than the ground wire, the Kwik-Plug system definitely has my attention for a modification I would like to make to my 2018 Player Strat (from SSS to SSH with Push-Pull on the bridge pickup). Great video, as always, and please keep them coming!!!
I'm new here and I'm retired but I really really appreciate the time you take to teach people about cheap instrument sitar biltwell anything we can do to get music out two people to play I think it's a good thing I think because of the global community that the whole quality issue is changed a lot and I really appreciate what you're doing you seemed to be very very interested in helping people which is rare to find nowadays keep up the job and good work I'll look forward to more of your videos
My old guitar player has a new band, and the singer/rhythm guitarist has an awesome he uses GFS P-90's in. He loves them.
After watching your top 6 guitar video I went for the Harley fusion and then installed some suhr pickups in it… thank you guitar Max thank you 🙏
Excellent!!
The mods sounded great. You did what I wanted to do with the HB ST62VW I had. Had. I sold it. Now you make me wanna get another and do the mods cuz face it fella's. HB's are inexpensive and great mod platforms.
There it is a chunky pre-CBS strat body loaded up with some HB pups and melting faces off; Spectacular! Not for nothing GFS pups aren't bad budget friendly options for tweaking tone.
I love Guitar Fetish pickups. I have an old early 2000's Epiphone Student Les Paul bolt-on that I got used with bad wiring, so I slapped a Dream 180 and Dream 90 in the bridge and neck, respectively, along with a Seymour Duncan Blackouts Preamp, and I have been in love with the tone ever since. I have always been more of an Ibanez/B.C.Rich/Jackson/Fender kinda guy, to the point I've never even owned a 24 & 3/4" scale length guitar. I grew up playing my dad's fat strat and tele, and my first guitar was a GIO RG. Regardless, low to medium output, vintage voiced pickups with an active preamp just sounds monstrous. I threw the same Seymour Duncan preamp in an Ibanez with INF1 and INF2 pickups and now it just sounds like EMG 81/60, lol.
Guitar Max, I wish you were the one who Fender used to demonstrated the EVH 5150 iconic.
Me too!
I grabbed a "sparkle-tone-caster" and dumped GFS EVH pickups into it. Rocks like WOW and also has a very good split coil (i double split them for top or bottom) tele sound.. Amazeballs!
Wondering if the body was routed out for the extra room.. some strays have a huge rectangle cut out under all pickup area. Some have just The neck and bridge routed for humbuckers and a single middle..
Ok.. you answered in the video. Thanks
-5 points
Get creme knobs, and add a kill switch on the empty hole. I have a fender I did up just like this.
I search the UA-cam-verse and it’s like you’ve demoed everything lol. Thanks for doing these videos. Glad I’m sub’d up!
Thank you! More to come!
Since the Pandemic began, my guitar collection has gone from four Big Brand guitars (Fender, Epiphone, Danelectro) that I've had for twenty plus years to a dozen, thanks to Max and DBG & Music is Win, among others. I can't tell enough people about Grote and HB Guitars. I ordered three Glarrys, and got one dud, though, their "Shredder" type. Shame. I think the Glarry Tele is going to be my project guitar. Great channel, Max. Keep it up, brother.
Got the GFS Vintage Extra Hot in Les Paul neck position...love it! Same quality as pickups 2 to 3 times the price.😁
Great pickups, got ‘em in a couple of different guitars, only gripe is they don’t make ‘em fully cream. Only creme/black zebra, black, nickel, chrome, or gold covers, and white. But still no cream sets.
People need to also know that Guitar Fetish pickups are super affordable. I have a couple of Xaviere axes in my collection that come with them and love em. Keep up the great work!
Loved the rock tone on the blues jr....a very nice axe as you modified it. Thanks Max, top on YT
Absolutely love GFS stuff. I've installed their PBass active series in a bass I built.....I play it far more than my EMGx PJ pickups that I used to love as well. The wiring diagrams they provide are also identical to EMG....wonder where they got their idea from. 😉
Guitar MAX......You got my attention. I own several GTS XAVIERE Strat GUITARS. New pickguard, new wiring coil splitting harness, and new GFS humbuckers
will GIT 'R DONE. JiminCincy........
Nice. Very very nice. Still sounds like a hot strat. Just lovely.
Aww. I wanted to see the chiseled out mess! I even looked and your Instagram.
Pilot and photographer too? Very cool.
Can’t like the white knobs Max: But I love the clean tones and the overdrive sound.
Dude, after saying that you had to route out the neck pickup on the body you were supposed to pull out the sword and say it didn't take long! I liked the pickups especially when playing clean but at one point the neck pickup sounded a little muddy while playing dirty. I think you had to solder the wires to the output jack, am I wrong? PS I would be careful to suggest the Harley Benton neck will fit the GFS body without some adjustments. I don't think either one is the Fender standard. Great video keep experimenting. I bought a set of single coil size hot rails after watching one of your earlier videos. Hope to install them next week using a GFS 3 toggle pickguard instead of the 5 way switch.
Very smart color choice especially the zebra pickups
Just would change the white knobs to cream ones too...
From Leo: Great project. I have done the same thing with two slightly warm GFS humuckers, A little carving to make space for the pickup, and carefully moving some pick guard screws. Like yours, it made a great playing guitar. I did not plan ahead to add the coil split switch, I wish I had done that like you did
Just modded an Epi into a Gibson on my channel. Mods are just fun! Sounds good dude
I was going to say that you made it look and sound real easy to make this switch, Max. Not sure if it was fulfilling or disappointing when you got to the stage where you described what it actually entailed.
Mine ended its days as a van halen project.
But the wood quality was kinda okay for modding.
Good for experience
Love the GFS pickups and drop in prewired pick guards. Have fitted several Monoprice and SX guitars with them..Also their own builds of course.
I like two humbuckers with a 5 way switch. Yeah you get one less tone but I think I have ocd and I hate how a push pull looks pulled up. For the extra hole that would normally be your second tone knobs you should put a kill switch.
Those GFS pickups sounded really good !
I would definitely keep the Harley and make the mods in order to fit the pickups and the cream bobbins are the icing on the cake IMO..
I notice that you feel that guitar (and pickup as well) and you are comfortable with it. For under $300 what else say, you're certainly a great player.
Well, I got the Black with Gold hardware Tele Deluxe you reviewed a while back, and put the Andy Woods Suhr pick ups on it hehehe
Man, awesome guitar! really nice tone! Those Harley Bentons always sound very nice! Great solo in the intro.
It needs cream nobs Max!! I dig the tone with the humbuckers!!
Love GFS. They have a very nice selection of stacked and split rail single coil sized pups as well.
Sweet and my favorite strat color
It’s great to have options , as well innovative application .
I'm a long time Strat user, and while I did stick to single coils in my '97 MIM Stratocaster, I almost never use the middle pickup by itself. And I suspect if my Strat had a humbucker in the bridge I would probably never use the middle pickup at all since I'm not crazy about the neck/middle combo.
Sounds great Max
Thanks!
I went one better, I fitted a Seymour Duncan Everything Axe loaded pickguard with coil split and the Gilmour mod for the neck. Also fitted a set of Gotoh locking tuners. An absolute TRANSFORMATION!. The guitar is bloody grouse! All up owes me about $600. But the versatility and playability is incredible. Spoiler alert, I had to dremel out the cavity deeper to take the push pull tone pots. Oh, and I shielded with copper tape. Well worth it. Fender can piss off, not gunna pay theirs or Gibsons inflated prices. For LP I have Agiles, that are exceptional.
Great idea.
White knobs should be replaced with black or chrome metal knobs.
The tophats are very uncomfortable especially with push pull - i always install push-push pots.
Besides that its a great mod . Well chosen
Excellent mod. Sounds great. I like "Fat Strats" I've one in my collection
Change the knobs to cream to match the body & pickups.
Looks and sounds fantastic Max, great job ☘️
Glad you like it!
looks and sounds great now!
I have a Grote 335 style and I love it. I'm waiting for delivery of a Grote Les Paul style but I'm a little apprehensive because there's a blistering but truthful review of it on Amazon
I’m curious as how to you’ll like it. If you happen to remember, please let me know. I have the 335 Grote too. In Cherry red
Great vid, as usual, Max. Love what you have done to this guitar, really nice sound - I'm now off to thoman uk to check it all out. Have a great Xmas, Max and many thanks.
Man I love the videos ! Great guitar and swap. And playing is superb ! Keep rockin` !
This is great. I've been considering this exact project. Lol now that I see how badass it turned out, I'm gonna get on it. 😆
Good guitar to put a kill switch on. Put it where the volume is now and move the other pots.
Harley Benton now offers the ST-62 model with a hot rails-style humbucker in bridge position. I thought I should mention.
Woah your voice sounds sick, good for you.
VG video Max! They offer good quality at a you get what you pay for price. it's fair no ripping people off but no super deals either. good pickups. Have you tried single coils with Alnico II magnets? they're much warmer than normal singles. or try some P90's with Alnico V or II's in them. Warmth and clarity with a little snarl to them. And don't forget about Guitarmadness. He's still selling artec pickups and quality parts on ebay and amazon
I'm actually looking to do a one humbucker telly build with the GFS dream 180 pickup black tuxedo with pearl white top
Such smooth clean playing! You rock bro 😎
Thanks a lot!
should have moved the knobs down one hole, i always hit the volume knob on my strat. i'd change it, but i like how my second tone knob controls the bridge and the first middle and neck.
Love the whole thing!
Are you Michael Ian Black's brother or him in disguise or something? j/k love the channel keep up the great work!
The gfs sound good. But honestly those single coil stocks sounded really good so idk hard to say if it's an improvement
I don't think it was necessarily mesnt to be an improvement per se. I think it was more i like the stock guitar but it doesn't suit my playing.
Thanks for sharing, that’s a killer guitar for the price🤘🙌
Awesome job, love that. Waiting for you to do a Harley Benton Single cut or GRS review :). Lso.. off topic..Were you in a medevil renact battle recently? Looks like someone got through your forearm armour with a broadsword. Stay safe Max. 🤘🏻
Killer! I'd put some chrome or cream knobs on there now!
Good idea!
@@GuitarMAXMusic You know, it's only a fiver for some cream Strat knobs from GFS...
Sounds awesome with the upgrades.
Nice,’! Man, you have to find some black plastic control knobs, it would look better I think.
I'm surprised that these manufacturers who make Strat style guitars, don't use the "swimming pool" route that Fender used in their Strat Plus series of the late 80s/early 90s. That way, any pickup configuration can be used.
The reason why I like going to a store and playing the the guitar first before buying is this. I want to know the feel of the guitar along with the sound. If the guitar is not fit for me to buy the second I play it, then I don't buy it. There are too many risks in buying on the internet.
Just use the old pickups and use it anyway with that amp you got on those settings, it's mostly that than pickups imo
man, even with neck pup reversed it still sounded muddy. I reverse most of my neck pups. I like clarity and chime.
iron gears are super cheap pickups but sound amazing. My favorite set is the alchemist 90 with rolling mills bridge, I have that in 2 of my guitars.
very cool price on that Pickup system!
great job max
the tones sound great
I'd love to see Guitar Fetish put out a "Strat Style" guitar with 2 humbuckers. Hopefully they see this video and put this into play.
That sounds great!
can you do a video on the Ex-84 from harley benton?
Put a coil switch in the hole for the outer coils
Nice mod. So you used a two way switch? I didn’t see or hear clean or driven sounds from the middle position in split or unsplit mode !!
Killer tones from the GFS pickups, I'd have made use of a varitone switch so you didn't have an open hole in the pickguard
Sounds nooice:) have u done a review on sire guitars yet?
Coil Split is different than Coil Tap. VAH pups are Coil Tap not Coil Split. So rather than all the copper wraps being used only half are when tapped. In effect lowing the output etc. Coil Split is where the two North and South poles have one disabled making strat single style sound and well as hum etc. How do I know? I just bought two VEH and discovered this when approaching connecting a 5 way Alpha switch. :-)
I’ve been thinking about getting an HB Strat-style for a while now. After modding their Tele style, it just seems right.
Sounds great.
Love me some GFS pickups for the price
That neck is stunning. Wondering if it would bolt on to a GFS body?
GFS bodies are "supposed" to be Fender spec's, but who knows about HB.
I've been using GFS for over 12 years. Everything has been exactly as described in my experience.
I bought a Paulownia Tele body and its a perfect fit, strings alined perfectly as well. The Paulownia is amazing, w the China situation its unfortunately no longer offered.
@@terryenglish7132 what’s the situation ?
I've always wanted to put a hot rail style in my squier, just can't afford it, but makes me want to save up and get one