Harley Benton TE 20HH SBK. Affordable and good?
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- This is the Harley Benton TE 20HH SBK. An affordable guitar...one of the lowest priced guitar from Harley Benton. Find out if it meets the grade!
Guitar was provided for this review with the kind courtesy of
Harley Benton, Bavaria, Germany
harleybenton.com/product/te-2...
0:00 Intro
1:43 Performance
3:47 Clean Demo
5:45 Distortion Demo
7:26 Review & Conclusion
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Recorded with the
UAD Apollo Twin Duo
thru
Line 6 Helix Native
on
Digital Performer 9.5
Backing track from:
JTC
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Let's be real, HB makes awesome and beautiful guitars/basses that people like to shit on just because they are "CHEAP". If I had to choose between a 5k gibson and 5k worth of HB I'd rather start planning where to put them all.
Lol!! Thanks for sharing❤️✌️
let me ask, you never played a 5k guitar? I had both and hb guitars are like sht compared to custom shops and bfr music mans and so on. They are cheap and are only worth the price that they are.
That’s not true at all.. they are not all “shit” I have played all sorts of guitars. Yes the more expensive guitars are very different.. but calling all HB as “shit” guitar is just downright wrong and elitist.
@@JonIsJustTooLoud they cant win a direct comparing against a 500€ guitar, they are just hyped. They are only worth the price that they are.
@@braunibald yes.. but they are definitely not “shit” guitars at all
This guy is so good. He can sound awesome even with the cheapest guitar
This guy thanks you...✌♥
Yes he is nice guy to
Came for the Harley Benton review, subscribed for your smooth playing style.
Welcome to the channel!!!✌🤓
I came months ago for another HB guitar and I'm still here for the playing too ! Plus he's a lovely guy to listen speak
Same!
He's become my favourite guitarist online top bloke too.
Please note @ 8:30 I mentioned the pickups as Roswell. They are not branded as Roswell , they might not be Roswell pickups.
I wondered that when I got mine. I tend to think they are ceramic made in the same ant but who knows. They have no Marko gs when pulled out.
On their site it says Roswell:
harleybenton.com/product/te-20hh-sbk/
@@pyratoothNL Nope? I guess, they changed to Pickups: 2 humbuckers
@@belkocik Yeah, weird. Maybe it was a copy/paste typo they corrected and they were never Roswell to begin with.
Anyway I noticed a crackling in the pickup wires on my bridge so I dropped a DiMarzio Evolution in as a replacement ;)
Which would you recommend, this or the TE-40?
Just received mine last week & was pleasantly surprised on just about every level! Great demo, your sense of melody & phrasing are top notch! ✊
Thank you kindly!🤓✌
I have this guitar. This review is proof that a really good amp was used. It was unplayable out of the box: Neck was concaved, string action was almost at 3mm and intonation was whacked, due to the concave neck. Yes, fingers were black, yes, stays in tune. Pickup selector is hard, but maybe that will loosen up with use. The knobs are surprisingly smooth. The pups are really muddy IMO especially during distortion. I think the clean sounds are not bad. I played this through a Fender Deluxe Reverb. BUT, it's easy to set up and is a great guitar for learning how to set up a guitar, although I did had to shorten the low E spring to intonate. It's also looks rad on the wall, which is the reason I originally bought it, but I do enjoy playing it. My current collection by the way is a newer a American Strat, and a few Ibanez RG's ranging from cheaper to more expensive. I'm in SoCal, purchased on a Tuesday, arrived on a Thursday, can't beat that for $40 shipping. I plan on learning how to install pups on this. The look of it is as described. Would I buy it again? Absolutely.
Hey Jonathan, in your hands every guitar sounds great. And it's cool that a pro like you play these cheap guitars, and find them good. Thank you Jonathan, every beginner could start with great stuff these times. I like the sound of this Guitar, sounds like a Roch beast. Pus sounded good to my ears too. Have a good time and stay healthy🎸💯🙋♂️
Thanks, will do! you take care!✌♥
YEP.... what he said !!!
Your playing always blows me away, Jonathan. My Harley Benton strat arrived yesterday, I love it. Thanks for the thorough and honest reviews, and the good tunes!
Thank you Brian!! Have fun!!✌️❤️
Thanks Jonathan for keeping up to date with what's out their,in the world of guitars,I really appreciate it,so nice hearing you play,and putting um through the test,nice knowing what to expect. Thanks
My pleasure!✌🤓
A fabulous review of a very nice, exceptionally affordable, guitar by one of the very best players on UA-cam. Jonathan always gives a good, honest appraisal of every guitar he reviews and, as many have said, it is wonderful when such an accomplished player takes the time to critique ( and actually enjoy ) less expensive instruments. Thank you Jonathan for the variety of guitars you " road test ". If only every reviewer was as " open " to find the strengths and sometimes, though not always, weaknesses of budget friendly guitars ... especially when they are as accomplished musicians as yourself. My thanks to you once again Jonathan. Love & light brother x
Thank you Peter....I think at this time, there are fewer guitar snobs...they are still out there...but fewer lol
Your playing is on a whole other level. Wow, just WOW!
Thank you!✌❤
Very cool black affordable HH Tele style guitar.
Beautiful playing again Jon, thanks for posting.
My pleasure..Sharing good things is a blessing!!✌♥
You're the man!! On any guitar. Love your reviews. The playing makes me think they're all great deals. I bought the TE90 black paisley after your review. Keep it up bro.
Thank you Vess!!✌🤓
My face just melted after that solo Johnathan 😎
Lol!! ✌️❤️
I love your whole room setup you have. Very relaxing and nice. I need to step up my room game lol
Lol.. go for it✌️❤️
Just bought this one.Great review and playing as always cheers Jonathen👍
cool!!! Thanks!
I like a lot your re-designed room.
Playing awesome as always.
Thank you!✌🤓
Great as always, Jon! You can't beat the quality for the price
Absolutely!✌♥
Another great review. Really enjoy your playing.
Thank you Mark!✌🤓
Great review, lovely playing! I love mine though I have put Tusq nut and trees and Wilkinson Classic pickups in it. Plays like a dream, very resonant neck and body and it is STUNNING!
Nice!!!! Glad to hear you liked it✌️❤️
Nice one Mr. Koh, love your style of playing and reviewing.
Glad you enjoy it!✌🤓
Nice playing Jonathan.! I just ordered mine!
Awesome!!✌️❤️
Hi Jon,
Amazing video. Just ordered myself one of those as a project guitar. Your video has made me super excited to get my hands on one.
You’ve earned yourself a new subscriber :)
Cool! Welcome to the channel✌️❤️
This is one of the prettiest pieces of lead guitar I have ever heard well done Jon . Keep those fingers walking Kevbo and keep on keeping on
Thank you✌️❤️
Your playing is absolutely stellar!
Thank you!✌♥
Great sound and as always great playing!!! I have two Harley Benton's !! Love both
Thank you very much! ✌♥
Sounds pretty good Jonathan! Keep rocking!👍👍🎸😎
Thanks, you too!✌❤
Jeez man, that's fantastic! Well played, very well played.
Thank you ✌️❤️
Hi Jonathan... Got this guitar a couple of days before your video.. love it for the price no brainer! Watching your channel for a year or so for me your one the best You Tube guitarists! Anyway this guitar the only thing I find different from your review is the pickups very punchy not so weak! Looking forward to seeing your next video stay safe keep playing great guitar!☺
Thank you for your encouragement!! Please stay safe✌️❤️
Man you are amazing at playing and that's a hell of a guitar! Imma buy it for sure! Also you have a new subscriber! From Italy with love!
Welcome to the channel!!! ✌❤
played well again. I think it's nice when you play. sounds great. thank you.
Thank you!✌🤓
Came solely for a review of this guitar and ended up subbing for the playing 😂 so good man.
Welcome aboard!✌💙
You're an incredible player Jonathan!
Thank you Daniel ✌️❤️
Great job as always Jonathan !! :)
Thank you Terry ✌️❤️
How does he not have more subscribers i mean proper reviews doesn’t just do solos mentions every spec on the guitar and just you cant find a better guitar reviewer out there than Jonathan and by the Way great smile
Thank you ✌🤓
Indeed! The amount of work needed to build a guitar channel is big. I have enough skills and gear to put content down, however the time it takes is substantial. A following is tough, because people just watch, don't sub, and don't hit the thumbs up for support. It is very important and is drilled by the long term UA-camr's as canon.
And I thank you brother for being with me all this time ✌️❤️
Agreed imo he should have another 100k channel needs some promotion its awesome.
Great review. I will watch all the others, too..🙌
Thank you ✌️❤️
Best guitar reviewer online....period.
Thank you ✌️❤️
Love the look of this guitar. Thanks mate
My pleasure✌️❤️
great playing jonathan !!
Thank you Andy✌️❤️
You make every guitar sounds good! 👌👌
Thanks a lot!✌♥
Very stylish guitar playing Jon. Great job
Thank you ✌️❤️
Hi, great playing and review. I have had mine for almost a week now. I have got black fingers from this guitar as well. The fret ends are a little sharp as your example. I think the pickups are quite good for my needs. The nut could do with replacing and is a little high. But a lot of fun for a little money.
lol Black finger tips is a fad these days!!
Wow. On fire 🔥! Sounding great.
lol thanks brother! Great to see you in the stream✌️❤️
Met Jon in person I was a stagehand for him in California. Super humble guy , but he's also a total rockstar .
Man had me with the chills many times during his set .
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awww shucks Ian...you're too kind...Thanks man...Godbless you! Say hi to your dad!✌♥
From Leo: Thank you for this review. I really enjoyed your playing. You are an artist.
Glad you enjoyed it✌🤓
When I see you with all these HB, I think I'll buy one for my Christmas (loved the sound of the last part, that's my style). And this one is really affordable, incredible ! Being in France, I don't have to pay for the guitar being send to me, which tells me I should do it. Don't know what model I'll take, must investigate a bit (and your videos gonna help me choose a good one :-) ). It's a great thing to hear what a pro thinks of these guitars . Thank you.
glad to help! ✌♥
Amazing tone stained that's really Sweet!
Thanks✌♥
just ordered this to go along with my te52 and cst24 which i play more than my more expensive guitars the price for quality ratio is great with HB and they have great customer service as well. cant wait to get it.
Enjoy!✌💙
Love the sound and look of the guitar.
Thank you Jon✌️❤️
Hi, I have a Fender Tele but I’m gonna purchase this, loving it, thanks for your review
You’re most welcome!🤗
love your content man!
Thank you kindly ✌️❤️
sick tones man! and great guitar playing! I love my Harley Benton a lot (it is a 7string fanned fret though), I'm currently eyeing the 'les paul' with the P90 pickups and goldtop :)
Nice✌️❤️
I just got mine in the mail. It is much nicer than expected.
Nice!! Enjoy yourself!
You are awesome Sir! I'm gonna get this guitar and will do a review myself on my channel. Keep it up! Subbed!
welcome to the channel!!!✌❤
Awesome playing man
Thank you !✌♥
It's gorgeous and sounds great too .I've just ordered one ,
Cool✌️❤️
Looks cool - great playing.
Thank you✌️❤️
That looks and sounds great!
It does!✌♥
Very nice Jon.
Glad you enjoyed it My Connolly! ✌♥
Put anything from Roswell pickups in and youre good to go anywhere.
Use their Humbuckers LAF for Blues or HAF for Rock and Heavy or LGA90 for a singlecoil sound.
Bear in mind matte finish will, after sometime, get polished in places wherer you touch the guitar a lot.
Great guitar playing! Awesome. Just goes to show...the name on headstock doesn't matter anymore. And a great guitar player can play anything to perfection.
Thank you!✌❤
Beautifully played as always, Jonathan. Maybe the humbuckers are purposefully weakened so as to be consistent with the usual more clean voiced single coils in the normal tele's( PS I love tele's, no really, my partner of 35 years is surnamed Tele) this was as you noticed a fairly crisp sounding guitar, and maybe they didn't want a big crunchy permed and tightly Lycra' distortion metal type of sound.Since I don't have access to playing one, maybe you're correct in calling it overly bright, but still distorting. Either way it seems like a lot of guitar for very little money, so thanks for a proper thorough test for the rest of us out here!
Thank you Chris.. on the contrary the pickups are not overly bright.. fact is I have to adjust my settings to compensate. But it sounds great after tweaking.. which I normally do for other guitars anyway ✌️❤️
2:20 onwards so nice, then past 3:05 ! some xtra serious shit my man, great playing, myself not so much in the mood right now, but that makes me want to grab the guit. And what i like most: it's all in the player and his fingers, not so much the gear. And this cheap tele thing does look attractive, sounds in your hands like a 3k guitar. I really like your soloplaying with the occasional funk rythm chord/solo mix, you don't hear that so often these days, really fine mixture of solo but rockin' muted rythm strumming, more please, inspirational really rocks!
Thank you Walt!✌💚
I bought the ST 20 HSS strat style Black. And cutted my HB DC to a travel guitar with one bridge pickup 2 knobs . I think you like black guitars. Good job again . awesome playing again.
Thank you ✌️❤️
Due to the pandemic the prices in the guitar market skyrocketed! Was saving for an used LTD Deluxe but ended up getting a new HB SC-Custom II FR VB for half the price, couldn't be happier!
cool! ✌🤓
I ordered one along with a more expensive HB TE 62 and my 62 has been collecting dust lol. i have a blast with this guitar.
Good to hear!!✌️❤️
Nice playing, Jon
Thank you Daniel ✌️❤️
Acabo de recibir la mía. la compré gracias a tu video. Aunque no consigo el sonido increible que tienes jeje. Saludos
Gracias!✌❤
Brilliant playing and an excellent and honest review of a guitar that represents outstanding value for money. Which amp are you going through Jonathan? Many Thanks
Thank you.. I’m using the Line 6 Helix Native with my DAW✌️❤️
Dude!!!! This one is fantastic cool!!!
Thank you ✌🤓
It looks soo awesome. I bought a HB PB-20 SBK and it looks so insanely good with that Matte Black finish so now I have to buy several HB guitars with the same finish 🤣 Even though I have the models I want already I NEED them in that gorgeous finsih. Love your video as always.
Thank you!✌💙
I bought a copy of the Gibson hollow body 2 years ago and I can say nothing wrong about it. Well pleased
Nice!!✌️❤️
Brilliant shit, Jo
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Hey Jonathan, i know that wasn’t your favorite, but you were still all over that guitar, thanks
lol...its still a guitar!!! And i love guitars!!✌❤
great tones ...guitar looks super
Thanks a lot!✌❤
Great stuff, partner ordered one for my birthday, going to do a few upgrades with the string trees and insulate the cavity etv. have you thought about adding brass saddles? they change the tone really nicely :)
Of course they do.. but the guitar is not with me currently✌️❤️
There will be dye on the Harley Benton fret boards... and the frets will need polishing. That is almost 100% upon arrival at the door. That being said, the quality and wood selection still bring me back to Thomann for another round of Harley benton's.
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Man your vibrato technique is so insane! 1
Glad you think so!✌♥
I just bought this guitar, and i have never owned or really played guitar, This seems like a good guitar though so im happy with my choice. Knew id be a HB though ;) Cant wait to learn it!
Enjoy!✌💚
You play magnificently! I like ur technic of using 3 fingers mostly in ur solos here! Can u make a video of how to play this solo sometime : )
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Those pickups sounds really good. They don't need to be changed.
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@@JonIsJustTooLoud 👍🇪🇸
I think that Jonathan only opens his eyes while playing just to make sure he is still on Planet Earth. If only I had a tenth of a percent of his purely amazing talent/gift.
Lol.. thank you ✌️❤️
This T style rocks. And I did score one :D Selected specifically for the dual humbucker and the blacked-out look.
And as always, make me smile seeing you play. Pleasure to watch the genuine concentration and hear the great output.
PS: Please have someone record your Black Bart Cowboy gig 🤠
Lol... ok I’ll try to remember to record!!✌️❤️
i love this guys playing
its got a late seventies Larry carlton,lee rittenour kind of vibe to it, elliot randal those kindaguys
very few people pay like that nowadays
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Nice guitar, Will buy and make it an Te-20HH Pro, with an few tweak adjustments.
Cool✌️❤️
I've had mine for 8 days and love it. I put a black pick guard on and it looks killer. Sounds great, but there are some things I dislike. Otherwise a very cool guitar. All my friends love it.
Thank you for sharing.. what did you not like about the guitar?✌️
@@JonIsJustTooLoud I dont really like the tuners. It seems like there is a lot of dead movement before any positive movement. And the volume knob goes down about 75 percent before there's any change in volume. These are things to be expected in this price range and definitely not worth overlooking this guitar. I'd buy one again in a heartbeat. In fact, I'm already looking at my next HB.
As always nice playing....hb is 👌
Thank you!
Love your setup X, is it standard on the Line 6 Helix Native (please tell me more)!? Keep up the good work.
Thank you... no these are my own presets✌️❤️
Nice review Sir ❣️👍❣️
Thank you ✌️❤️
@@JonIsJustTooLoud welcome 😊 Sir ❣️
Can I use the guitar for professional stage playing???
I came for the review,but closed my eyes instead to listen to the great playing!! Wholly Molly...you rock on guitar brotha.heck ya!!...also..what is that beautiful acoustic sitting behind you to the right????????
Thank you… it’s this CLC-650SM-CE VS Solid Wood - Grand concert style
ua-cam.com/video/zmz5OLcZ3jA/v-deo.html
Very well spoken sir.
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I need a Humbucking Tele with the full plate bridge like this! They have their own mojo going and this on looks like the old Fender Noir series, huge bonus plus the price! Im going to buy one right now, ill do what i need to do to get it playing proper.
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Hey, Jonathan! Thank you for reviewing this guitar! What do you think about the Harley Benton TE-90QM HH Trans Blue model? Would you buy one? It kind of has a mid-ranged price, for a Harley Benton. It sits somewhere between their cheaper and their more expensive models.
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best! God bless you & your loved ones!
Thank you Christian.. I would rather buy the Fusion HH T✌️❤️
A lot of guitar for the money! There was a time when I didn't have the best and this would have been the best for me. I'd have taken a file, ever so lightly to dress the end of the frets, cleaned it up, put the best strings on it and I'd adjusted my cheap amp. And made that guitar sing.
Well said!✌♥
Hi ! Great video as usual. I'm wondering about the neck. I only play 10-52 strings and in another review the guy said frets are a little small and that bigger strings like 10-52 make the playability not so enjoyable.
What are you thoughts ?
That might be so.. but then again, that would mean a lot of guitars would be unplayable for you...✌️❤️
Hi John. I will probably be getting my hands on this one as well next week. You have me sold on these guitars. Awesome guitars for the money. And in my price range. I was in the hospital. And had back surgery. Plus went through two weeks of rehabilitation. So wife says I can buy another guitar. I am looking at this one to buy. You make them all sound so good Jonathan. I just want to buy everything you demo. Alas I am only a rhythm guitarist. I will let you know my thoughts when I get it. My heaviest one is the TE-52. Second is the SBK 400. Take Care Buddy.
Sure thing Jason...Hope you are feeling better! You are blessed to haver such a loving wife! ✌💙
If you had a back surgery, please remember, that this is not a lightweight guitar. Cheers
It's a beauty!
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I really enjoyed your playing and your review. I have a question: does the pickups make like white noise when you are not playing? Because that's an issue I had with my first HB guitar.
No it does not ✌️❤️
Hi, Jonathan, thank you for this review and one more time great playing.
How do you consider this guitar compared with your TE-70 Black Paisley ?
Will you (or did you) review some Gibson syle HB guitars ? I must say I have a Harley Benton DC custom (SG style) and for me it is faaaaaar better (playability, sound, weight, tuners, nut, overall quality building) than my TE-70 Black Paisley.
In all fairness, the TE70 is a better guitar...but for the price..you will have to make a decision yourself ✌🤓