Harley Benton E-1335 II

Perfect visual finish.
BUT a truss the road is useless: the neck is straight and the truss road is completely unscrewed.
Hopefully the handle never bomb ..
The knobs, checked the ohmmeter are very poor quality.

UTILIZATION

Comparing with ES335, the handle is good, but less comfortable, less easy, less feeling.
Originally, there was no real sound.
I will explain later.

SOUNDS

Originally, it's not a good sound.
No attack, no volume, no singing, no feeling ..
It's just the guitar for very beginner.
A day of free time, I completely dismantled the microphones and I threw the boards.
Bad wound, poorly assembled a rusty hair, normal that it does not go.
I tried with Epiphone boosted: surprise, it sings well, not very accurate but homogeneous, dynamic, its nice, not round
Needless to 57 Gibson finesse microphones reveals gaps guitar.
Frustrating, bad combination.
If you can also change the mail.

OVERALL OPINION

2 years ago.
Paid € 40.
Change the microphone, and you will discover a very honest guitar for its price.

Guitar made in china (like the harley benton tt I believe)
22 frets, rosewood key, 2Humbuckers, bridge tune o matic type gibson stop bar

tonalitée volume for each microphone

set neck.

Edit: after a year that has not changed, apart from the pickups, I put dream90 gfs that are much better than the original pickups, especially in the neck position.

UTILIZATION

The handle is quite nice not to be great,
ACCESS is corect without acute
is a copy of ES 335
the sound is quite nice on the other hand for a guitar of this price range.

1 year after edit:
the guitar is not as comfortable to play my gibson sg standard, the handle is a bit thick for my taste, access to treble is very good, but it's not a shredder guitar, the guitar is quite heavy (like any ES335) but the sound is very good! I think it's a great todo! I have since changed the pickups with GFS dream90 and AC makes it really great, I play almost as much with my gibson sg std my harley benton ES335

SOUNDS

The guitar is very typical blues hot, she knows how to jazzy
I used a lot in arpeggios, but also in crunch ben dirty.
(Microphones large single coils do not have the shiny side of simple fender, it's finally as p90 gibson what) I play on my engl screamer 50 watt 2X12 + engl vintage 30.

OVERALL OPINION

Q / P genial see exceptional for a 2nd (or 3rd for me) guitar.
it has the geule, it sounds nice by regulating the handle, the height of the strings and changing the strings (it is fear factory setting)

after a year it is still in very good condition, the origins are well meaniques the agreement, the plastic nut seems quite convenabe, the finish is remarkable for this price!
I tested a 2400 Gretch euros at the same time that this guitar (directly to the store thomann)
and frankly even if it is not in the same range of the guitar does not understand the difference in price,

with the experience I redeem 2 or 3 to customize (reglercorrectement, change the pickups and string) to sell four times the price!
I'll probably indulge me a copy of telecaster that I will also customize Harley benton.

Made in China, surprising.
Team two humbucker (paraffin in the state of the art ...). Tune-o-matic.
A knob of Tone and volume for each microphone, a three-position switch.
Mahogany, palisandre button. Caise beam Centale maple and maple.
A mechanical oil bath.
The quality of materials, manufacturing and finishing seems more than acceptable, it's not high art (a few micro defects imperceptible ...) but do not forget that this scraper is sold a ridiculous price. I give 10 given the price

UTILIZATION

The handle is the kind Maousse has not please everyone but I like personal.
Level ergonomics can not say, as a stratum is a skyscraper that is oublier.Dej the shape of the body is rather cumbersome, but mostly she weighs the weight (well over 5 kg), therefore, the also for the fans.
The main drawback is that the guitar is no rule book, so it's not out of the box top ... This by the way there should be a change of strings, the originals are really zero (especially a lousy shooting them). Personal I put a set of 11-48.A time rule is niquel .
I put 7 only for the history of the setting (a shame that thomann do ...), it offers the option not to death but has put off a lot of people, especially beginners (but explains also the price of the intrument amazing ...)

SOUNDS

The sounds are varied and quite nice, it was my corespondet attentes.Faut that was scratching my acists low-end (!) And thus has played on a behringer change.Je AC108, with the neck pickup sounds are warmer, rather typical jazz / clean sounds. The pickup is going well for sounds more blues / rock and distos.J 've also test by connecting a pedal Ibanez classic metal, so grossse distortion, and I found it sounded nice, especially with long sustain resonances and to summarize particulieres.Donc sounds pretty versatile thanks to the different configurations of micro possible. The level of sotie microphones is also quite high they are slightly saturates the clean channel of my ampli.Je not elaborate more because my skills are guitaristic limits.

OVERALL OPINION

It is not very long as I have this grate so my opinion is ammen to evolve.
I would love to try other guitars of the same kind to make me notice it more detaill.Je think neamoins worth the shot and did not have much concurrency in this slice of prix.Quand j 'I placed the order I was nervous to be back with something really cheap but really not at all, I think even that is not absurd to customize with microphones it almost as expensive .
In conclusion this is a great value for money, if the basic settings were correct shoeing a good first guitare.Pour my part I would say that this is my first real electric grate!

Manufactures in China and shows!
the finish is ok but nothing special.
acastillage the chrome is clean and the assembly is correct, only one of dtails (forgive that for the price) are dsagrables.
finishing the race is really average.

UTILIZATION

It is especially in the neck that way: the key is in "Rosewood", but probably from China. it has a smooth, plastisque. the worst is the very touch dsagrable (the bends, hai hai!). the shape of the handle is dja like, well rounded and well balèze.
the action is low and the strings do not frieze.
the rest of the guitar and the default quality of references MODEL.

SOUNDS

I buy to play the blues.
I plugged into my head lamp epiphone.
and oddly I have not the sound I expected: the sound is clear, precise and clean like a single coil. it's nice to have a sound jazz, country.
but I have not found the crunch, the mdiums, the roundness of the double coils.
I did a test: with the same setting amp, my strat crunch while the ES is clear and when I plugged my piphone with gibson pickups ...
the sound is enjoyable, clean, Dfine, hair flapping.

OVERALL OPINION

This is a review "hot" I have the guitar for a good Journe.
for the price of nine there is no competition.
The most dsagrable is the key. the rest is nice.
the sound is not typical as I imagined, typical single coil.
my first was a "JF1 peavey exp" bought substantially the same price used computer, there's no photo, harley benton makes hardware cot and sounds of the peavey is the level of an epiphone.
I do not have that choice would do, even if it is not CHRE, has not everything. micro can change (GFS) but the rest (the key). in the 200 I would go for a Ocassion a piphone DOT.