Test: Harley Benton SC-Custom III Gold Top 3, E-guitar

Harley-Benton bleibt ben Ball. Diesmal testing with that one Harley Benton SC-Custom III with Gold-Top-Finish. It is a classic Paula that has a few features of the previous examples, separated into a few punks.

The test candidate is not as big as the previous image on the first photo, because of a German look as “the original” and the cutaway fell and became sharper out. The mountain corridor of Hals zum Korpus is by comparison and was more ergonomically formed and the Cutaway was a fräsung, the ranges of the high layers erleichtert.

Both Tonabnehmer (Humbucker, split bar) are comparable to our new ones Harley Benton SC-Custom III Active Passive (were also without batteries involved), there were probably some guitar friends, because if a 9-volt block in the electricity has power, then it is possible to learn in separate moments.

The alternative was the SC-Adapted III If you wish to purchase a price or otherwise have attractive finishes, such as Desert Burst, Ocean Flame, Lemon Flame, the choice for your children was already available.

Harley Benton SC-Custom III – Facts and Features

Die SC-Adapted III comes from the Custom Line Series. The quality and price-quality ratio of the SC-Adapted III Instruments were available in the Vergangenheit in unseren Tests Grund zur Freude. Aufgrund des Kampfpreises von knapp 300,- Euro includes a suitcase bzw. Gig bag with ease.

At first glance the instrument is in final print. The workmanship including the beautiful Gold-Top-Lackierung is perfect. The instrument is so good that the neck lies in the hand. I like to activate the closure of the installation and the two safety locks.

My personal opinion is fragmented: If a friend of Security-Locks, who is busy with the time, has “schlackern”, the problem is that the security locks come loose and a stabilizing state device is used and that the flaschengummis is used as “gurtsicherung” and spare I think it is standard nachziehen der Muttern. If the security locks are less expensive, it may be that they take a picture themselves.

Body of Les Paul Guitar

The guitar cradles quite comfortably 3.4 kg. It is of course that the comparison is a slimmer body that thanks, it was a little thick or massively fallen out. There is a “beer-reduction fräsung” created, which is still accompanied by weight reduction.

Man vermutet richtig, it was a schmalere Harley-Benton Gold-Top-Paula for “three Hunnies” has no majestic tone of a guten (Gibson) Les Paul with its respectful flute mass. Here you can get an impression of the Ahorndeck view. It is about the Geldbeutel that is damaged by the Rücken.

The barrel pot is connected to the Coil-Split

For the Corpus comes the Holz Meranti with its Verwendung, the German Parallels of Mahagoni available. The cream-colored binding is probably one of the corpus edges and harmonious color with the cream-colored Pickup Frames and the cream-colored Toggle Switch.

Neck of the Harley Benton electric guitar

If all goes well, the neck (similar to Meranti) is a fact. At the Griffbrett comes the so-called Roasted-Jatoba for use. In this period the white Pearloid-Crown-Griffbrette-inserts are very effective. The 22 stainless steel blocks are perfectly equipped, aligned and polished. One of the Griffbrett edges was not so large as the Verarbeitung is tadellos.

The Headstock and Neck are gold colored

The neck profile is made of Hersteller with “Modern C” (stärke 1. Bund 20.5 mm, stärke 12. Bund 22.5 mm). The saddle width is 42 mm thick and is as minimal as with Vorbild. The application area is 628 mm high. The Griffbrett radius is straight and sporty with a length of 350 mm (drawbar 14″) and is lightened by the 22 Medium-Jumbo Blacksmith stainless steel bands, which have a long knit and are thus perfectly finished and polished. The Griffbrett edges ventilate a cream-colored binding. The neck would give off a Grafitsattel.

Electricity & Hardware

Body with “mountain corridor ergonomics”, “bierbauchfräsung” and a completely covered, gold-coloured lacquer

In the guitar we used Tesla TM VR-Nitro Alnico-5 Humbucker with classic caps in chrome. Jeder Tonabnehmer has his own volume controller, which was of course a great sound combination. The Master Tone Regler works best with a Push/Pull function for the Coil Split. The typical 3-way switch, the Tonabnehmer (Combination) anwählt (Toggle-Switch), knows the man for switching off instruments from the Gibson company.

The hardware (WSC Tune-O-Matic Pedal and Grover Mechanics with large, round wings) are chromed. The mechanisms are light and clean, but the playing is perhaps not so fun. The stimulation of the instruments has fallen into the belly.

Handling & Work Signalling

At work my test instrument was not optimally set. The neck was a cherry gear, also called ‘zu gerade’. It may be that the installation of the neck tension is a “minimal Banana”, but the Saiten in the first Bünden are no longer so good. enough space to swing.

About the Trussrod-Zugang and the Kopfplatte (under the sogenannten Glocke, also der Plastikabdeckung) the man is non-compliziert and the Halsstab. Those who are happy with their lives are loved by themselves). If one of the four wars connects a war, everything is empty, the Neck is such that it extends. Damit has the herunterdrücken der tiefen E-Saite am ersten en 22. Bund, die een Gerade-bildet, a distance van ca. ein bis zwei Zehntelmillimeter zum 9. Bund, womit der Hals tensiontechniek gut eingestellt.

If the test instruments are used first, the test will be so high. During the straightening of the screws and the bridge, a comfortable Saitenlage could be achieved.

My test instrument is not one hundred percent weighted on the child that lies and a minimal (quasi vernachlässigende) kopflastigkeit on, which is not unpleasant here. The weight of a guitar (from the series) can be individually scaled marginally. Liebäugelt man with the purchase of HB Gold-Top-Paula, should here a auge tekenwerfen.

The Steegton pickup offered by the two screws on the Pickup Frames has never been so old, one of the previous two Pickups are all the same.

Der Hals is a raised blessing form and maße sicherlich für (fast) jeden gut geeignet. The playability was perfect after one (ebene erwähnten) Einstellarbeiten. Obwohl der Hals von hinten deckend in Gold lacquer wurde, follow der Lagenwechsel ohne zu kleben.

The sound of the Harley Benton SC-Custom in practice

There are a few sounds with different tones, which are naturally interesting, when the guitar is weighted with “split coils”. The whole with clear and clear sounds. Start with the neck pickup and finish Ton. Outside the integrated hall of my test amps no effects were appreciated:

The sound reproduction has a solid output in the PAF range, which is split in split mode, but will not be recorded anymore.

Both Tonabnehmer parallel characters, each their own for different applications:

Horn with the Steg-Pickup. When the pickup is ready, the sound is split, while it is switched on for 20 seconds of the tone potential and the Coil-Split is activated. Beim Coil-Split is one of the two Humbuckers that are slightly inactive.

For a Bastler truth with the know-how and the extension of the Push-Pull-Tone legs on a parallel scale of the coil repair. Die brächte den Vorteil, the man of guitar playing was a schmalder bzw. Few powerful sounds can be extracted, but these are the worst noises (which are important when the harsh sounds are left) then they are eliminated:

We estimate that the SC-Adapted III can also rock. If you want to follow some of the technique of the Steg-Tonabnehmer and split it on a part of the section, a good example of your life. The Gain-Regler meines Testverstärker (Peavey Classic Minihead) before he in approx. 1 hour, the result of the sound-könnte in the Abteilung “Classic Rock” became:

Finally, Halstonabnehmer with “Zerre”, as here with the Pickup split to a secondary:

It’s a joy that this guitar has a good sound and that the single coil sounds are very practical.

The sound recordings were acquired with the following equipment:

Harley Benton SC-Custom III – Peavey Classic 20 MH – MESA/Boogie 1 x 12″ Thiele Box with Creamback Celestion speaker – Sennheiser e906 – MOTU M4 – Mac with Logic.