Adding a string makes the neck wider. Correcting this makes the strings closer to one another. For a 6-string player, there is no avoiding that feeling of "leaving home".
Got that guitar and will return it because low B is very hard to intonate and string tension is not ideal. Probably will end up buying Amarok-6 and Amarok-BT. For the price it is very hard to find something similar. Visually and in hands guitar is superb, but scale and intonation is a serious problem :\
Hey Cory, nice video as always :) I have been watching your videos for a long time and I can say you are probably the one that made me love Harley Benton. Funny fact is I was in the positives reviews you put on the screen... So this time I decided to stop by and explain why I love this guitar. Of course this is just a personnal feeling, my opinion is not better than any other and I want to be as careful as you on this point. About the specs, especially the pickups, I love two things. First one: it's a bit risky but very interesting to put an EMG hot 70 instead of more common setup like the 707 for example. The hot 70 add something to a setup made for metal in my opinion and the amarok has its own personality. For this price this is a great thing. Second point, I find theses pickups very accurate, when it comes to add some distorsion or to make djent stuff, they sound right, but indeed, they are good only with a little distorsion (around 50 on the pot with an Overdrive before in the chain). The clean sound as you said is also very good. About the neck, the shape is just perfect, I played on a friend's Schecter Cygnus and I feel it's too flat. So like you said before, it's a matter of taste and when it comes to pick a 7 string guitar for this price, this guitar deserve to be considered with all the specs in mind :) Thanks for you work and for your time if you read this.
I read all of it 😁👍 I repeat myself very often here with "its probably just me" when i say something i don't like.its obviously me not fitting to the guitar and i dont want to destroy the experience for someone else. But it just the way it is and the channel is about honest reviews. I agree with the EMGs.. I mean i think i proved they can sound good in the video but i know they can easilyzsound bad if you don't know what you are doing with amp settings etc. I liked them a lot on the amarok 6! The neck reminds me of my old Schecter Loomis... Baseball neck. Very fat. Like fat on a 6,really dislike it on a 7. Personal preference. Btw the EMG 707 were pretty bad on the loomis. Thanks for your long comment and your point of view!
Think I saw someone mention the resistance issue with the pots for the Fusion with EMG’s too. They loose some of their full sound and work passive too when the pots are high impedeance. HB should take note and correct the issue.
@@CoryMura I hope so too. Got a few HB’s myself, SC 550, SC 450, JM and an SC Junior, only had good experience with them so far. Considering to get a Fusion 3 with a roasted neck, either the dark pink HSS or one of the sparkly HH’s.
The neck, in my opinion , is the most important thing on a guitar. I play a vintage(the company) v6 strat and i absolutely love the neck- it's a 'soft c' apparently . I needed a humbucker guitar so i got a yamaha pacifica 311h in metallic red and it's a stunning guitar, the neck however is different, feels slightly narrower and maybe deeper(probably just more modern) and for that i play that guitar much less than the strat. The neck on the guitar is hugely important .
I fully agree! The neck is what connects you with the guitar, it's the part of your body that got always contact with the instrument. Most important but hardest to describe part imo
Hi! I have bought a red one, but have 2 issues: 1) Intonation of low B string is impossible without removing the spring. Did you have any problems with intonation? For Drop A it is even worse: no spring and saddle all the way back, still not ideal. Of course, with 59 string B std is ok, but lower tunings need thicker strings => even worse intonation problems. 2) Low B saddle has buzz in it, so string is partly muted, partly sound muffled after 12-15 fret. Before 12 fret it is ok. Apart from that, some visual flaws I don't care, but that buzz and intonation problem is a NO for an instrument :( I wanted a universal guitar to use as B std, E std 6 string and almost Baritone tuning all in one. But seems like 25.5" scale is really not ideal for 7 strings. Wish they made 26.5" Amarok-7 :( I will probably buy Amarok-6 and Amarok-BT for different usecases.
Yeah, i recommend getting the amarok 6 string baritone and use it for drop A. I never need the 7th string anyway and there is no getting used to a wider neck
@@CoryMura Thank you! I have MIJ 1996 Jackson Performer 6str with ultra thin and narrow neck, so this Amarok was a step up in all directions :) Nevertheless, I got used to it in a ~ day. But intonation and scale - that's dealbreaker. Have you had any intonation problems on regular 6str Amarok?
This was the main reason i didn't take the risk of buying this guitar when they 1st released, i spent the extra money on getting a multiscale rgd from ibanez that had 27 inch to 25.5 inch n I'm so glad i did!
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So far, only your review is this detailed. I'm currently on the market for a 7 string and I wanted to ask you would you recommend this guitar or an Ibanez rg4721 or ibanez rga742?
From The scale length should be 26.5" minimum in my opinion and not 25.5", so you don't have to use thicker strings. Also, I agree with you regarding the neck, it has a 14" radius, it should be 16" or 20" radius, but that is simply my opinion again.
that's why they have the baritone option, it's like: if you don't like the shorter scale, get the baritone. I own the Amarrok-6 and I love it, for 7-strings I go with multiscale if possible
@@fede.chachagua Yeah, I will return my red 7 and buy separate amarok-6 and amarok-bt, because of scale and intonation problems. How do you find your 6, have you downtuned? Any problems with intonation?
I also a love/hate relationship with the Amarok 7 and I largely agree with your sentiment. It's a very well built guitar for the price, excellent specs, no flaws in the finish (however I find the quilted veneer to lack depth ... but that's a veneer), love the stainless steel frets, the locking tuners and the neck through construction. But I really struggled to find a good setup for it, balancing string gauge, string tension and intonation (in Drop A) has been a real pain. The guitar still goes out of tune pretty frequently. And my main problem with this guitar is the pickups. I really struggle with the insanely high output of the EMG pickups, even with a fairly aggressive noise gate rolling back the volume knob and a fretwrap, the strings ring out super easily and it's extremely hard to keep everything muted correctly when playing. Everything sounds super compressed, clean tones are tricky to balance. Maybe it's a matter of taste, maybe it's a problem of technique on my end ... in any case, I don't enjoy them.
Cant agree more. Have one myself. The build quality is pretty nice but i cant get it to a proper setup. Strings are buzzing massively no matter of string height or neck tension. Its hard to intonate. It doesnt stay in tune etc.
I'm with you on this, guys. Have it for a few weeks and will return. In std B I had to remove the spring and move a saddle very far away. For Drop A: no spring and saddle maxed out. And still not an ideal intonation. Also, have a buzz in low B saddle after 12-15th fret. And buzz of the 7th string overall. One positive: I now can do a full setup by myself :D Before spring removal it was: open - in tune / 12th fret - +5-8 cents / 24th fret - +35 cents. And saddle buzz :) All other strings are perfect. Only low B gives me problems. Wanted a universal guitar, but I will probably buy separate Amarok-6 and Amarok-BT to fix this. Have you had them?
Most tuning problems come from 1. New strings have to be stretched out quite aggressively and repetitively to remove any slack still hiding in the windings around the tuner post. You wouldn’t think there was any slack but there is. If this step is not done then the guitar can continue going in and out of tune 2. If you’ve completed that step then look at the nut. This is a massive issue even with expensive guitars . Most guitars have nut slots that are too high. Also the width of the slot maters , especially if you change string guages. Also the material of the nut matters , I would replace all the plastic or fake bone type nuts with real bone or maybe tusq. A quick fix that can help tuning issues from the string binding in the nut slots Is the rub a healthy amount of pencil lead in there. Or buy some guitar grease graphite paste. For example , I had a 3/4 Ibanez that just wouldn’t stay in tune until I put the pencil in between the slots and now it’s a great play guitar.
Yeah, will look more into it. I just always used the right 25k on EMGs before.. BUT afaik if you turn a 500k pot up all the way it will still have a load.. Lets say like maybe 5-6k, thats added to the tone pot with 5-6k. Thats why "no-load pots" exist. they go in true bypass While a 25k turned up fully will have a rest load like 0.5k, tone pot too. Thats like a restload of 12k vs 1k. Numbers could be wrong but there is an impact with using 500k (twice) I will test this stuff in the future myself because i am very curious now.
Nice review. Lovely guitar and you got some good tones out of it. I'm not a 7 string guy. I'm sure someone will bond with this green beast. God bless and rock on 👍🎸😎
I bought that same color used, here in The US for $280USD, It came with a Set of Seymour Duncan Nazgul/Sentient pickups. I just couldn't get past the color. Im not a fan of Green at all. I liked the guitar though. I put a set of Ibanez pickups I had laying around in it, and Sold it Locally for $400, and I am Putting the SD pickups in another 7 string. I made out great on that deal..!!
I have no idea who Harley Benton is but his hands must be enormous. I loved everything about my amarok except the neck profile. I just can't get comfortable with it.
I have one and the big problem is that the pickups squeals with distortion when you turn up the gain. ( I had this on 2 guitars ). I took it to the luthier and he noticed that the guitar has 500k pots where it should have 25k pots, we changed the pots to 25 k but it didn't change the squealing. Now I'm changing the pickups to Seymour Duncan Alpha & Omega and we'll see if it solves the problem. otherwise I think it's great, I had to lower the strings a lot.
I know exactly what you mean. That squealing... , I thought was my fault, wrong amp settings.also it was at little better after making sure the strings behind the nut can't ring. There were some crazy overtones going on. As you can hear in the video, it's fine now. Maybe i should have talked more about this.
Sorry to say but all pickups squeal when in high gain mode. Like they say - its all in the fingers. Muting the strings with your right hand is also a skill.
Did you get the chance to try that one Harley Benton Fusion III with the EMG retroactives? I would like to buy a new guitar but i cannot decide between that one and the Amarok, any thoughts on this topic?
I got a fusion, but not the emg version. I would go for the fusion. Just from my experiences overall better quality and playability. More comfortable neck and thats the most important part of a guitar. Also overall lighter guitar. Feels easier to play leads on too. Fusion is the overall better guitar imo
Thanks for this video! It really helped my because I'm currently looking for a 7-string and a slim neck is a must have... and I was already guessing that the Amarok-7 has a comparably thick neck which won't fit my preferences. Thanks again for the review!
Do you have a recommendation for a 7-string (regular or multiscale) with a comparably slim neck? To me it looks like Ibanez provides slim necks on 7s but you probably have another hint for me :-) Cheers from Hamburg!
for a low budget guitar, i think keeping the neck the same as the 6 version is an intelligent choice. If you are new to 7 strings this instrument will be way better. If you can afford a better instrument there is no reason at all to buy harley benton, unless you just like to collect guitars for the looks
From harley benton or in general? In this price range I would go for an Ibanez or the Eart ex 7string. Harley benton got better 7s in my opinion but they still don't feel right to me.
@@CoryMura What about the Schecter Demon 7 or the Omen Elite 7 (same price)? They are about 130€ more buy if they're better for the price maybe I choose one of them. The thing is that I'm left handed and I like to play metal.
I didn't like the schecters i had so far. Necks were too thick. I had the hellraiser 7.cant talk about the Damien but I think they got the same neck profile (?) If you can test you in person, do so. Maybe the necks are fine for you
@@CoryMura yep big improvement, you’re really talking like a fluent RUclipsr these days. Wenn ich mich nur so flüssig auf deutsch ausdrücken könnte, beim Schreiben geht‘s leichter. Ich weiß, auf dieser Weise hast du dein Englisch ständig verbessern können, mit den kleinen Details immer im Auge: ‘faux’ ist blöderweise glaube ich aus dem Französischen, daher wird der letzte Buchstabe nicht ausgesprochen. Verarbeitung bei dem Teil sieht verdammt gut aus. Liebe Grüße aus GB
Faux ist aus dem französischen und wird ohne "x" ausgesprochen. Nun ist es mir nicht immer klar wie es im englischen ist. Ich habe vermutet, in dem Moment zumindest, das sie das "x" mit aussprechen. I am learning... Dein Deutsch ist super
@@CoryMura Danke, beim Sprechen allerdings geht‘s genauso bei mir alle drei Worte hehe. Dein Tonstudio sieht mittlerweile auch recht schick aus mit dem gekurvten Bildschirm, recht gut ausgestattet bist du! Grüße
@@CoryMura das kenne ich auch gut, eingedeutsche Wörter sollten mir leichter vorkommen.. wie sollte dann der blöde Artikel lauten für Hamburger, iPad oder Pickup?! Artikel für deutsche Wörter lernen, fein, aber für die Englischen auch! Ich schwöre das treibt mich in den Wahnsinn
I had this guitar. I loved it but the neck was too thick. If I would had the guitar now I would make the neck thinner at the back with sanding paper. That will automatically make the weight of the neck lighter and counter attack the neckdive.
Mine cut my finger on a fret edge, had glue on the fingerboard and crackly pickups so it went back, I got an ibanez rga for the same price and won't touch harley again haha
I had a similar experience trying to bond with a PRS guitar, despite all the hype, i just hated trying to play it. I say try, because the neck just didn't suit my small hands, it was way to thick. So it had to go! Don't feel bad about disliking a guitar Cory, anyone who has bought a number of them will always pick up the one that suits them the best. I am wary of any guitar that gets rave reviews, and when i try one, i think what on earth are they talking about? Sell it anf forget about it, Ibanez necks are the best in my opinion.🙂
But if you can check a PRS with pattern regular neck, its one of the bests out there imo. Yeah, you are totally right. No sense in keeping it for me. Need to go for an Ibanez 7 string again or try other brands. Always be skeptical when influencers got nothing bad to say about a product.
@@CoryMura I will stick with Ibanez, ESP and Schecter necks, their slim wide radius profiles are very comfortable to play. The style of PRS guitars is not for me, i prefer superstrats. I tried the PRS Silversky Se and it was way too thick and narrow, who wants an 8.5" radius neck? For me the minimum is 12".🙂
Cant make this recommendation. i tested one of those 7string multiscales some years ago but HB probably changed a lot on them. I need to check one of the new ones to answer you that. Maybe i will.
They stopped producing their best 7 string and the only one i would recommend. "HB baritone 7" its on my channel.. An all black 7 string. I still want to hunt one of these down again on the used market
I don't disagree with you, i am no fan of plastic, tusq or graphtech stuff myself. I am big fan of zero frets, especially stainless steel zero fret, brass and bone nuts.
Most of the times Is Just about feeling with a Guitar. I tryed many Stratocaster, originals too and i have no feeling with that Guitar. I am very confortable with Gibson style guitars. But this do not mean that the Stratocaster i was try, they aren't good. Just are not good for me. U had same issue with this amarok.
10-59 on a 7 string?? I use 10-56 on my 6 string tuned to drop b lol, anything less is a bit too floppy for me. I would probably go with a 62 or 64 for the low string.
Habe gerade das andere Video gesehen, schön das es dir wieder besser geht. Hört sich nach ketogener Ernährung an, mache ich auch da ich diese kohlenhydrathaltige Ernährung auch nicht sonderlich gut vertragen habe.
Ganz genau! Geht mir auch viel besser, Gewicht geht auch konstant runter ohne hungern. Fühlt sich an als wenn ich mich jahrelang vergiftet hätte. Bin endlich wieder klar in Kopf, ohne Dauermüdigkeit. Ich tu mich nur bissl schwer kein Bier zu trinken. Hast du da einen Tipp vielleicht? Weinschorle ist ziemlich ungeil 😁
@@CoryMura Weiß nicht, auch Alkohol wandelt der Körper in Zucker und zu viele Proteine leider auch. Das beste Buch das ich dafür gelesen habe ist "Die optimierte Keto-Diät", ist nicht nur für Sportler, sehr viele Detailinformationen. Der RUclips Kanal von Daniel Pugge ist auch sehr interessant.
Jo, lange Zeit gespielt. Gut das das sagst, ich wollt schon lange ein kleines Video dazu machen. Aber ich kann hier schreiben das 432Hz tuning ist ziemlich fein bei allen Instrumenten... AUSSER der Gitarre. Die Gitarre intoniert ja sowieso nie sauber und damit ist seltenst eine Note auf der Frequenz auf der sie seien sollte.
Jesus, wrong pots?? That's bad. That's not ok. This is their most expensive guitar. They have massively improved in the past couple of years, so I hope their new Amaroks are better.
@@CoryMura wow, that's really disappointing. Their SC custom plus and fusion IIIs have been excellent. I hope they fix these issues soon because I have loved everything I've bought from them
Good to hear you being so honest about your issues with the guitar Cory. I love to hear straight honest reviews like this.
Always honest, only way to do this right. Thanks for the comment
Excellent review. No player bonds with every guitar they pick up, we're all built and play differently.
Adding a string makes the neck wider. Correcting this makes the strings closer to one another. For a 6-string player, there is no avoiding that feeling of "leaving home".
Nice production Cory, excellent review. I guess we don't all fit with all guitars, no problem there really. It does look very well made.
Yeah, just me beeing honest. Thanks
The dealbreaker for me is the 25.5" scale. I really did not expect that. Otherwise this was for sure my next purchase.
Got that guitar and will return it because low B is very hard to intonate and string tension is not ideal. Probably will end up buying Amarok-6 and Amarok-BT. For the price it is very hard to find something similar. Visually and in hands guitar is superb, but scale and intonation is a serious problem :\
Hey Cory, nice video as always :) I have been watching your videos for a long time and I can say you are probably the one that made me love Harley Benton. Funny fact is I was in the positives reviews you put on the screen... So this time I decided to stop by and explain why I love this guitar. Of course this is just a personnal feeling, my opinion is not better than any other and I want to be as careful as you on this point. About the specs, especially the pickups, I love two things. First one: it's a bit risky but very interesting to put an EMG hot 70 instead of more common setup like the 707 for example. The hot 70 add something to a setup made for metal in my opinion and the amarok has its own personality. For this price this is a great thing. Second point, I find theses pickups very accurate, when it comes to add some distorsion or to make djent stuff, they sound right, but indeed, they are good only with a little distorsion (around 50 on the pot with an Overdrive before in the chain). The clean sound as you said is also very good. About the neck, the shape is just perfect, I played on a friend's Schecter Cygnus and I feel it's too flat. So like you said before, it's a matter of taste and when it comes to pick a 7 string guitar for this price, this guitar deserve to be considered with all the specs in mind :) Thanks for you work and for your time if you read this.
I read all of it 😁👍
I repeat myself very often here with "its probably just me" when i say something i don't like.its obviously me not fitting to the guitar and i dont want to destroy the experience for someone else.
But it just the way it is and the channel is about honest reviews.
I agree with the EMGs.. I mean i think i proved they can sound good in the video but i know they can easilyzsound bad if you don't know what you are doing with amp settings etc.
I liked them a lot on the amarok 6!
The neck reminds me of my old Schecter Loomis... Baseball neck. Very fat. Like fat on a 6,really dislike it on a 7.
Personal preference.
Btw the EMG 707 were pretty bad on the loomis.
Thanks for your long comment and your point of view!
@@CoryMura Thanks to you Cory for your honest and good work! Wish you the best!
Wish you the best too friend!
Think I saw someone mention the resistance issue with the pots for the Fusion with EMG’s too.
They loose some of their full sound and work passive too when the pots are high impedeance.
HB should take note and correct the issue.
I hope this video will help to make them change the issue. Its a shame, the amaroks are pretty good guitars
@@CoryMura I hope so too.
Got a few HB’s myself, SC 550, SC 450, JM and an SC Junior, only had good experience with them so far.
Considering to get a Fusion 3 with a roasted neck, either the dark pink HSS or one of the sparkly HH’s.
Those sparkle ones look ok great! Want one too
For me the pick ups aren't a deal breaker for me cause I switch them out anyways. I play Fishman Fluence pickups
The neck, in my opinion , is the most important thing on a guitar. I play a vintage(the company) v6 strat and i absolutely love the neck- it's a 'soft c' apparently . I needed a humbucker guitar so i got a yamaha pacifica 311h in metallic red and it's a stunning guitar, the neck however is different, feels slightly narrower and maybe deeper(probably just more modern) and for that i play that guitar much less than the strat. The neck on the guitar is hugely important .
I fully agree! The neck is what connects you with the guitar, it's the part of your body that got always contact with the instrument. Most important but hardest to describe part imo
Hi! I have bought a red one, but have 2 issues:
1) Intonation of low B string is impossible without removing the spring. Did you have any problems with intonation?
For Drop A it is even worse: no spring and saddle all the way back, still not ideal. Of course, with 59 string B std is ok, but lower tunings need thicker strings => even worse intonation problems.
2) Low B saddle has buzz in it, so string is partly muted, partly sound muffled after 12-15 fret. Before 12 fret it is ok.
Apart from that, some visual flaws I don't care, but that buzz and intonation problem is a NO for an instrument :(
I wanted a universal guitar to use as B std, E std 6 string and almost Baritone tuning all in one. But seems like 25.5" scale is really not ideal for 7 strings. Wish they made 26.5" Amarok-7 :(
I will probably buy Amarok-6 and Amarok-BT for different usecases.
Yeah, i recommend getting the amarok 6 string baritone and use it for drop A.
I never need the 7th string anyway and there is no getting used to a wider neck
@@CoryMura Thank you! I have MIJ 1996 Jackson Performer 6str with ultra thin and narrow neck, so this Amarok was a step up in all directions :) Nevertheless, I got used to it in a ~ day. But intonation and scale - that's dealbreaker.
Have you had any intonation problems on regular 6str Amarok?
No, the standard amarok got no issues.
They should make 7 string in baritone scale. It makes more sense. IDK why they made it in standards scale.
Doesn't make sense at all, especially since they got a six string baritone guitar
This was the main reason i didn't take the risk of buying this guitar when they 1st released, i spent the extra money on getting a multiscale rgd from ibanez that had 27 inch to 25.5 inch n I'm so glad i did!
great... 8mins into the video and now i want a 7 string guitar... thanks for giving me some G.A.S.
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So far, only your review is this detailed. I'm currently on the market for a 7 string and I wanted to ask you would you recommend this guitar or an Ibanez rg4721 or ibanez rga742?
From The scale length should be 26.5" minimum in my opinion and not 25.5", so you don't have to use thicker strings. Also, I agree with you regarding the neck, it has a 14" radius, it should be 16" or 20" radius, but that is simply my opinion again.
that's why they have the baritone option, it's like: if you don't like the shorter scale, get the baritone. I own the Amarrok-6 and I love it, for 7-strings I go with multiscale if possible
@@fede.chachagua Yeah, I will return my red 7 and buy separate amarok-6 and amarok-bt, because of scale and intonation problems. How do you find your 6, have you downtuned? Any problems with intonation?
I also a love/hate relationship with the Amarok 7 and I largely agree with your sentiment. It's a very well built guitar for the price, excellent specs, no flaws in the finish (however I find the quilted veneer to lack depth ... but that's a veneer), love the stainless steel frets, the locking tuners and the neck through construction. But I really struggled to find a good setup for it, balancing string gauge, string tension and intonation (in Drop A) has been a real pain. The guitar still goes out of tune pretty frequently. And my main problem with this guitar is the pickups. I really struggle with the insanely high output of the EMG pickups, even with a fairly aggressive noise gate rolling back the volume knob and a fretwrap, the strings ring out super easily and it's extremely hard to keep everything muted correctly when playing. Everything sounds super compressed, clean tones are tricky to balance. Maybe it's a matter of taste, maybe it's a problem of technique on my end ... in any case, I don't enjoy them.
Yes, that's exactly what's going on. Glad I am not the only one
You're welcome
Cant agree more. Have one myself. The build quality is pretty nice but i cant get it to a proper setup. Strings are buzzing massively no matter of string height or neck tension. Its hard to intonate. It doesnt stay in tune etc.
I'm with you on this, guys. Have it for a few weeks and will return. In std B I had to remove the spring and move a saddle very far away. For Drop A: no spring and saddle maxed out. And still not an ideal intonation. Also, have a buzz in low B saddle after 12-15th fret. And buzz of the 7th string overall. One positive: I now can do a full setup by myself :D
Before spring removal it was: open - in tune / 12th fret - +5-8 cents / 24th fret - +35 cents. And saddle buzz :)
All other strings are perfect. Only low B gives me problems.
Wanted a universal guitar, but I will probably buy separate Amarok-6 and Amarok-BT to fix this. Have you had them?
Most tuning problems come from 1. New strings have to be stretched out quite aggressively and repetitively to remove any slack still hiding in the windings around the tuner post. You wouldn’t think there was any slack but there is. If this step is not done then the guitar can continue going in and out of tune
2. If you’ve completed that step then look at the nut. This is a massive issue even with expensive guitars . Most guitars have nut slots that are too high. Also the width of the slot maters , especially if you change string guages. Also the material of the nut matters , I would replace all the plastic or fake bone type nuts with real bone or maybe tusq. A quick fix that can help tuning issues from the string binding in the nut slots Is the rub a healthy amount of pencil lead in there. Or buy some guitar grease graphite paste. For example , I had a 3/4 Ibanez that just wouldn’t stay in tune until I put the pencil in between the slots and now it’s a great play guitar.
The 500k pots make no difference on tone since these are active pick-ups. The reason 25K are normally used is for better noise immunity.
Yeah, will look more into it. I just always used the right 25k on EMGs before..
BUT afaik if you turn a 500k pot up all the way it will still have a load.. Lets say like maybe 5-6k, thats added to the tone pot with 5-6k.
Thats why "no-load pots" exist. they go in true bypass
While a 25k turned up fully will have a rest load like 0.5k, tone pot too.
Thats like a restload of 12k vs 1k.
Numbers could be wrong but there is an impact with using 500k (twice)
I will test this stuff in the future myself because i am very curious now.
I was always worried about the neck profile of this specific guitar. If I want a heavy metal machine, it HAS to have a thin neck.
It's good for big fat riffs and if you want to smash someone's head in. 7string guitars need thin necks imo too.
9:26, agreed.
Nice review. Lovely guitar and you got some good tones out of it. I'm not a 7 string guy. I'm sure someone will bond with this green beast. God bless and rock on 👍🎸😎
I hope ist can sell it to you someone who will like it. Thanks
Would love for your review of the now available again Harley Benton MultiScale-8 QEB and QBB.
I bought that same color used, here in The US for $280USD, It came with a Set of Seymour Duncan Nazgul/Sentient pickups. I just couldn't get past the color. Im not a fan of Green at all. I liked the guitar though. I put a set of Ibanez pickups I had laying around in it, and Sold it Locally for $400, and I am Putting the SD pickups in another 7 string. I made out great on that deal..!!
Sound like a great deal indeed
I have no idea who Harley Benton is but his hands must be enormous. I loved everything about my amarok except the neck profile. I just can't get comfortable with it.
Great review my friend I’m glad you are back again 😎👍✌️
Thanks! I am glad too, it's thankfully a joy again.
Thank you for honest review. Good video :D
Great Review! Thanks for sharing your personal opinion! 👍🏻
You're welcome. Thanks for your comment
I have one and the big problem is that the pickups squeals with distortion when you turn up the gain. ( I had this on 2 guitars ). I took it to the luthier and he noticed that the guitar has 500k pots where it should have 25k pots, we changed the pots to 25 k but it didn't change the squealing. Now I'm changing the pickups to Seymour Duncan Alpha & Omega and we'll see if it solves the problem. otherwise I think it's great, I had to lower the strings a lot.
I know exactly what you mean. That squealing... , I thought was my fault, wrong amp settings.also it was at little better after making sure the strings behind the nut can't ring. There were some crazy overtones going on.
As you can hear in the video, it's fine now. Maybe i should have talked more about this.
Sorry to say but all pickups squeal when in high gain mode. Like they say - its all in the fingers. Muting the strings with your right hand is also a skill.
@@vinylftw no absolutely not I have put Seymour Duncan Alpha & Omega and they don't squeal.
@@nicosonic Are those passive pickups? Thats why.
@@vinylftw yes they are passive.
Did you get the chance to try that one Harley Benton Fusion III with the EMG retroactives? I would like to buy a new guitar but i cannot decide between that one and the Amarok, any thoughts on this topic?
I got a fusion, but not the emg version. I would go for the fusion. Just from my experiences overall better quality and playability. More comfortable neck and thats the most important part of a guitar. Also overall lighter guitar. Feels easier to play leads on too.
Fusion is the overall better guitar imo
Thanks for this video! It really helped my because I'm currently looking for a 7-string and a slim neck is a must have... and I was already guessing that the Amarok-7 has a comparably thick neck which won't fit my preferences. Thanks again for the review!
You're welcome
Do you have a recommendation for a 7-string (regular or multiscale) with a comparably slim neck? To me it looks like Ibanez provides slim necks on 7s but you probably have another hint for me :-) Cheers from Hamburg!
for a low budget guitar, i think keeping the neck the same as the 6 version is an intelligent choice. If you are new to 7 strings this instrument will be way better. If you can afford a better instrument there is no reason at all to buy harley benton, unless you just like to collect guitars for the looks
Nice review. Any 7 string alternative you like more?
From harley benton or in general? In this price range I would go for an Ibanez or the Eart ex 7string.
Harley benton got better 7s in my opinion but they still don't feel right to me.
@@CoryMura What about the Schecter Demon 7 or the Omen Elite 7 (same price)? They are about 130€ more buy if they're better for the price maybe I choose one of them. The thing is that I'm left handed and I like to play metal.
I didn't like the schecters i had so far. Necks were too thick. I had the hellraiser 7.cant talk about the Damien but I think they got the same neck profile (?)
If you can test you in person, do so. Maybe the necks are fine for you
@@CoryMura Danke schön, Cory :-)
Your English has become very fluid
Thanks for noticing!
@@CoryMura yep big improvement, you’re really talking like a fluent RUclipsr these days.
Wenn ich mich nur so flüssig auf deutsch ausdrücken könnte, beim Schreiben geht‘s leichter. Ich weiß, auf dieser Weise hast du dein Englisch ständig verbessern können, mit den kleinen Details immer im Auge: ‘faux’ ist blöderweise glaube ich aus dem Französischen, daher wird der letzte Buchstabe nicht ausgesprochen.
Verarbeitung bei dem Teil sieht verdammt gut aus. Liebe Grüße aus GB
Faux ist aus dem französischen und wird ohne "x" ausgesprochen. Nun ist es mir nicht immer klar wie es im englischen ist. Ich habe vermutet, in dem Moment zumindest, das sie das "x" mit aussprechen.
I am learning...
Dein Deutsch ist super
@@CoryMura Danke, beim Sprechen allerdings geht‘s genauso bei mir alle drei Worte hehe. Dein Tonstudio sieht mittlerweile auch recht schick aus mit dem gekurvten Bildschirm, recht gut ausgestattet bist du! Grüße
@@CoryMura das kenne ich auch gut, eingedeutsche Wörter sollten mir leichter vorkommen.. wie sollte dann der blöde Artikel lauten für Hamburger, iPad oder Pickup?! Artikel für deutsche Wörter lernen, fein, aber für die Englischen auch! Ich schwöre das treibt mich in den Wahnsinn
Very pretty though. Guitars are specific to each player. I have one or two guitars that I keep around hoping I'll gel with them one day
That's an interesting way to handle that. Maybe i should keep it...
Check your 6 string version. It also has 500k pots. I have the fusion emg telecaster. Also 500k pots.
I know. Not sure why I didn't realise it before but it's somehow more than noticeable on the 7
I had this guitar. I loved it but the neck was too thick. If I would had the guitar now I would make the neck thinner at the back with sanding paper. That will automatically make the weight of the neck lighter and counter attack the neckdive.
Is it just me, or is the bridge tilted backwards?
Mine cut my finger on a fret edge, had glue on the fingerboard and crackly pickups so it went back, I got an ibanez rga for the same price and won't touch harley again haha
I hated the neck on a Harley Benton strat, sold it
I had a similar experience trying to bond with a PRS guitar, despite all the hype, i just hated trying to play it.
I say try, because the neck just didn't suit my small hands, it was way to thick.
So it had to go!
Don't feel bad about disliking a guitar Cory, anyone who has bought a number of them will always pick up the
one that suits them the best.
I am wary of any guitar that gets rave reviews, and when i try one, i think what on earth are they talking about?
Sell it anf forget about it, Ibanez necks are the best in my opinion.🙂
But if you can check a PRS with pattern regular neck, its one of the bests out there imo.
Yeah, you are totally right. No sense in keeping it for me. Need to go for an Ibanez 7 string again or try other brands.
Always be skeptical when influencers got nothing bad to say about a product.
@@CoryMura I will stick with Ibanez, ESP and Schecter necks, their slim wide radius profiles are very comfortable to play.
The style of PRS guitars is not for me, i prefer superstrats.
I tried the PRS Silversky Se and it was way too thick and narrow, who wants an 8.5" radius neck?
For me the minimum is 12".🙂
Great you find your "go-to" necks. The necks and their profiles are the most important things on guitar for me and the hardest to show on camera
Its really sad that they didn't do staggered offset dots like in the newer R446...having the dots on the top side in the higher frets is just wrong XD
Would look indeed better
Does anyone know the "riff" starting at 02:26 ? Sounds familiar but I can't recognize the song. Thanks !
Thats something from myself. Never made a song out of it though.
@@CoryMura Thanks Cory ! And also thanks for the review !
You're welcome!
I missed you
I am back here buddy
Would you recommend the Multiscale 7 tpb over this?
God i wish that guitar were necktrough and atcive
Cant make this recommendation. i tested one of those 7string multiscales some years ago but HB probably changed a lot on them.
I need to check one of the new ones to answer you that. Maybe i will.
@@CoryMura I know you have; that's why I asked. But they probably made them worse. xD I always wanted to try your model but never had the chance.
They stopped producing their best 7 string and the only one i would recommend. "HB baritone 7" its on my channel.. An all black 7 string. I still want to hunt one of these down again on the used market
vielen dank
Are those EMG pickups even the real deal? They lack those 4 small holes and screws on one row of the pickups.
just google them. thats just how they look like.
Tusq nuts are same category of crapness as plastic nuts. Even graftec are on a side if shitness too.
I don't disagree with you, i am no fan of plastic, tusq or graphtech stuff myself.
I am big fan of zero frets, especially stainless steel zero fret, brass and bone nuts.
Kinda like me and new foods. If I have to aquire a taste, I'm not eating it.
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Most of the times Is Just about feeling with a Guitar. I tryed many Stratocaster, originals too and i have no feeling with that Guitar. I am very confortable with Gibson style guitars. But this do not mean that the Stratocaster i was try, they aren't good. Just are not good for me. U had same issue with this amarok.
Exactly. I got hard times with 7 strings. They really need to be perfect that i can bond with them.
im pritty sure its a good guitar.
but rocksmith doesnt support 7-strings
10-59 on a 7 string?? I use 10-56 on my 6 string tuned to drop b lol, anything less is a bit too floppy for me. I would probably go with a 62 or 64 for the low string.
Yep, 10-59 are the stock strings the guitar comes with.
I use 64-11 normally for b standard
Habe gerade das andere Video gesehen, schön das es dir wieder besser geht. Hört sich nach ketogener Ernährung an, mache ich auch da ich diese kohlenhydrathaltige Ernährung auch nicht sonderlich gut vertragen habe.
Ganz genau! Geht mir auch viel besser, Gewicht geht auch konstant runter ohne hungern. Fühlt sich an als wenn ich mich jahrelang vergiftet hätte. Bin endlich wieder klar in Kopf, ohne Dauermüdigkeit.
Ich tu mich nur bissl schwer kein Bier zu trinken.
Hast du da einen Tipp vielleicht? Weinschorle ist ziemlich ungeil 😁
@@CoryMura Weiß nicht, auch Alkohol wandelt der Körper in Zucker und zu viele Proteine leider auch. Das beste Buch das ich dafür gelesen habe ist "Die optimierte Keto-Diät", ist nicht nur für Sportler, sehr viele Detailinformationen. Der RUclips Kanal von Daniel Pugge ist auch sehr interessant.
Danke, guck ich mir an
also in my amarok 6 strings the pots were wrong, so I swapped them for 25k pots and now sound much better
They need to get that sorted out. I am surprised no one talks about this. The amaroks are among the best selling HB guitars
@@CoryMura cause usually hates don't have any HB 🤣
Hast du schon mal die 432Hz Stimmung probiert?
Jo, lange Zeit gespielt. Gut das das sagst, ich wollt schon lange ein kleines Video dazu machen.
Aber ich kann hier schreiben das 432Hz tuning ist ziemlich fein bei allen Instrumenten... AUSSER der Gitarre. Die Gitarre intoniert ja sowieso nie sauber und damit ist seltenst eine Note auf der Frequenz auf der sie seien sollte.
Jesus, wrong pots?? That's bad. That's not ok. This is their most expensive guitar. They have massively improved in the past couple of years, so I hope their new Amaroks are better.
Yes, on ALL of the amaroks. I am pretty sure they will sort it out. They always do
@@CoryMura wow, that's really disappointing. Their SC custom plus and fusion IIIs have been excellent. I hope they fix these issues soon because I have loved everything I've bought from them
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Perhaps it doesn't like you.. ever think about that? :)