Active sounds clearer. However the weak spot of all the Harley Benton guitars aside from quality control is the Roswell pickups. It’s the main thing people change ASAP
Very true Horrible QC and the Roswell pickups are pretty much a "fancy name" given to cheap pickups. Preferred the Wilkinsons. What i tend to do is look for B-stock HB´s with a good discount, if they send me a lemon i refuse it, if i get a good one with a minor cosmetic flaw the price difference between "A-stock" and a b-stock buys me an SD or Dimarzio bridge PU ;) at the moment they have a batch of b-stock Sc-customs for 162€ which is a good discount (buys the PU!)
(3 years after) I actually prefer the Roswell pick-ups over the EMG ones. Harley Benton currently offers the same guitar in three editions of pick-ups: passive, Roswell active and EMG active. Their product pages (at both Harley Benton and Thomann) offer audio clips, including the same licks. In my opinion (so yours may well differ), the active pick-ups provide a "more focused" sound. Maybe EMG more so than Roswell, but I hear more "mud" in the deep of the EMG than of the Roswell - and definitely nothing to justify the price difference to me. [another opinion]
Awesome. I'm playing a WL-20 Rock Series now! This guitar is Amazing. It was a birthday present, been playing it for 2 years and never had any problems with it!🤘🤘
I'll never understand how you guys make such great guitars so affordable but I appreciate it. I got one of your Fusion Ts (the green one) and it's quickly becoming my favorite HH guitar. Might grab one of your single coil style teles and see if I like it better than my Squiers or Fender lol.
i absolutely love those guitars, also incredible playing (lvoe the chords), im always wondering how hb keeps their guitar prices this low and make such great products. im gonna buy some for chritsmas :)
Just ordered this morning my new Custom II Active Vintage BK... :-P need great sister for my Charvel's, B.C.Rich's and Jackson's LOOOOOOOL wanna try it with my old fifty/fifty...and wanna play metaaaaaaaaaaalllll ahaha LoL
they're planning to arrive tomorrow with UPS... planning to control everything is ok then...... making wiring shielding, replace tone pot with push/pull, make .47..22 mod and then..... go go go!!! LoL
pick it up and switch it LoL ...not really easy like on SC-1000 (same connector of EMG so remove/put simply) but...affordable..6 soldering lol...200bucks guitar 140bucks EMG pu... = 2000bucks guitar LoL
@@HarleyBentonOfficial nice thanks guys, btw I'm the one with the Tattoo, that guitar is awesome I love everything about her (the non active one), can't wait to have it someday
Just wondering, can you just replace these Roswells with some EMGs or Blackouts, i.e. just plug them in without modifying any of the wiring or the electronics?
@@HarleyBentonOfficial, for the record. I own many of your guitars and basses. I love them all. Ocean burst SC, DC 600 VI, CST 24T Emerald flame, 7 string progressive. The bz 5000 NT bass and the JB 75 NM bass. I gave the SC450 plus VB vintage to my son for his 18th birthday. Thank you for the great instruments 🤘
So I'm planning to add a hardtail besides my Kramer FR 220. I am still thinking which one of these 2 beauties is good for industrial metal and heavy. Cause both sounds damn good
Why do you do not use a Harley Benton amp? In my opinion, that would be a great combination to see if budget hardware also sounds good together. Taking an expensive amp with such a budget guitar is almost like cheating. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against budget guitars and Harley Benton in particular has improved a lot in recent years
do you belive a expensive guitar sounds good in a crap amp?, the harley benton guitar deserve a good sounding amp as all other guitars... cause its a good guitar, its not cheating at all, bentons are 1/3 of the price but 2/3 the guitar compared to much more expencive guitars :)
I like this guitar but it's a shame that they decided to change the shape of the body and now it's wider than the one produced 2 years ago like the one shown in this video (which was the closest thing to an original esp ltd) even the way where the pickup selector goes is larger and a bit deformed, I hope they return to the original shape of the esp / ltd
I need to know what's the difference between this guitar and the new SC-CUSTOM EMG FR VBK, because that guitar is more expensive and I think has the same specs, I really need to know what's the difference, the only difference I could find was the obvious one which is the color of the golden pickups and the knobs and the other golden parts on it like the whammy and the other stuff, these are the only differences I could find, the SC-CUSTOM FR is more vintage looking on the golden colored parts, that's it, please I need to know the differences, can somebody help? Because I don't know which one to buy
SC-Custom II Active Vintage Black...definitely awesome! ...after I need to: replace pickup, replace toggle switch, shielding it, replace tune o matic, replace string, replace pot with 25kOhm pot for ACTIVE PICKUPS (you put 500kOhm pot on active system...funny!), after replace all wiring cable.... now they sounds good! ;-)
And at the otehr hand, professionals, musicians are using these guitars even wthout any upgrade and none of them said that these guitars are crap (as you suggested) Looks like you are just a butthurt lil guy.
Harley Benton guitars are the worst guitars I have ever played. Lots of quality issues and outright damage (not shipping damage) to new guitars. Thomann doesn't care, they just keep on pumping out faulty goods and sponsor youtubers to shill them (lie to people).
Why put passive electronic (500k pots) in active pickup circuit?!?!?! Whyyyyyy ????????........ 😒😒 and...why no straplock in custom II? maybe 70/80cent is too high investment? ...i think i will send it back...really disappointed...very ugly finiture...bad painting...issue with toggle switch...500k pots on active... no no no....
Both sound good, but, I need the tab to that sick jam!!
Right! Need the tab 😬
Wow! 2:07 Super-sexy riffs. HBenton guitars are the new black!
Thanks!
Came for the guitar and stayed for the great playing
2:21 that lead has such a nice melody ! fucking awesome
Active sounds clearer. However the weak spot of all the Harley Benton guitars aside from quality control is the Roswell pickups. It’s the main thing people change ASAP
Very true Horrible QC and the Roswell pickups are pretty much a "fancy name" given to cheap pickups. Preferred the Wilkinsons. What i tend to do is look for B-stock HB´s with a good discount, if they send me a lemon i refuse it, if i get a good one with a minor cosmetic flaw the price difference between "A-stock" and a b-stock buys me an SD or Dimarzio bridge PU ;) at the moment they have a batch of b-stock Sc-customs for 162€ which is a good discount (buys the PU!)
I am gonna put some black winter in there
It's gonna be a killer motherfather
(3 years after) I actually prefer the Roswell pick-ups over the EMG ones. Harley Benton currently offers the same guitar in three editions of pick-ups: passive, Roswell active and EMG active. Their product pages (at both Harley Benton and Thomann) offer audio clips, including the same licks. In my opinion (so yours may well differ), the active pick-ups provide a "more focused" sound. Maybe EMG more so than Roswell, but I hear more "mud" in the deep of the EMG than of the Roswell - and definitely nothing to justify the price difference to me. [another opinion]
If you get hurt a least you get hurt while playing a beautiful tune
Well said :)
Awesome. I'm playing a WL-20 Rock Series now! This guitar is Amazing. It was a birthday present, been playing it for 2 years and never had any problems with it!🤘🤘
Rock on!
Mike, man of few words, plenty of strong riffs! Excellent!
I have the active pick up version and I love it. I have it hooked up to a joyo zombie and HB vintage 30 2x12 cabinet. Extreme metal 🤘🏽😂
Rock'N'Roll !!!
What high you have got for pickups I m train to adjust?
Saw this video, bought the guitar! Awesome riffage!
For me, active pickups have less charm than passive ones! And I have a custom sc that I love to death
Glad you love that guitar!
Best demo of a guitar I've ever heard
Just got my passive one this week. Definitely impressed for the price point.
They are sold out of the passive version of this. But there is a new silver face version. I'm gonna get it.
Quick question, do you live in the us? If so, how long did it take to get to there because mines been in customs for like 3 fucking months.
@@biowebset4581 yes I'm in the states. Idk where mine was stuck, but it took 6 weeks from the initial update of shipping
Great to hear!
Nice playing, dude! These seem like fine guitars by Harley Benton. I couldn't really tell much of a difference, between active and passive, however.
Thanks so much! Most important, you dig it :)
Nice one mate! Pickups are great and the playing is awesome!
Thanks a lot!
I would take the passive just for the looks alone
Really awesome playing and overall song
Nice One! Great guitar and good player! HB are amazing!
I'll never understand how you guys make such great guitars so affordable but I appreciate it. I got one of your Fusion Ts (the green one) and it's quickly becoming my favorite HH guitar. Might grab one of your single coil style teles and see if I like it better than my Squiers or Fender lol.
Glad you dig 'em!
How do you think they make them so cheap? Slave labour in Asian counties. Do yourself a favor and buy something made in your own country
Still hoping one day for a demo and review of the DC-600 Vintage White.
i absolutely love those guitars, also incredible playing (lvoe the chords), im always wondering how hb keeps their guitar prices this low and make such great products. im gonna buy some for chritsmas :)
Well that is simple. No third parties like distributors are involved!
Would love to see the Harley benton SC guitars getting the Fusion Treatment.
Dear HB, I very like your SC 550 model, and this model will be better with cherry sunburst colour. I want, you will read my comment😁
Great specs and great sound.... but Come on! We need a video for Sc Custom II silverburst noooow! 😂👍🏻
Coming soon!
Definitely plan on getting this then adding fishmans moderns into it for my Metalcore machine
Just ordered this morning my new Custom II Active Vintage BK... :-P need great sister for my Charvel's, B.C.Rich's and Jackson's LOOOOOOOL wanna try it with my old fifty/fifty...and wanna play metaaaaaaaaaaalllll ahaha LoL
they're planning to arrive tomorrow with UPS... planning to control everything is ok then...... making wiring shielding, replace tone pot with push/pull, make .47..22 mod and then..... go go go!!! LoL
This is the best song I’ve ever heard on guitar!!
😄👍🤸♂️🛸
The riffs are awesome, reminds me of Impelliteri
Defo need this as a tab :D
Are you guys planning to do any new v models? Preferably something more modern then what’s current available.
Hope I can buy it one day
What's the name of the song played? Very catchy!
Please, please, please: the SC Active Custom with EMG 81/60 🙏🏻
pick it up and switch it LoL ...not really easy like on SC-1000 (same connector of EMG so remove/put simply) but...affordable..6 soldering lol...200bucks guitar 140bucks EMG pu... = 2000bucks guitar LoL
Excelent
Please release a Floyd Rose version on the active sc custom
They have - www.thomann.de/intl/harley_benton_sc_custom_ii_fr_vintage_black.htm?i11l=en_GB%3ANO.GBP%3ANOK
With active pickups**
Holy moly 🚀🚀🚀
Glad you dig it Nic :)
I need the tabs so that song, so nice, especially the lick at 0:50
We will ask Michael :)
@@HarleyBentonOfficial nice thanks guys, btw I'm the one with the Tattoo, that guitar is awesome I love everything about her (the non active one), can't wait to have it someday
@@HarleyBentonOfficial so did hey say anything about the tabs?
Damm! Where can I get the tab to this mad riff?
I could hear Intolerance and Swamp Song from TOOL at the start😂
Really? Need to take another listen :) 👂
@@HarleyBentonOfficial You guys are THE BEST!
@@myrondcunha5670 Thanks man :)
Just wondering, can you just replace these Roswells with some EMGs or Blackouts, i.e. just plug them in without modifying any of the wiring or the electronics?
Nope, EMG use fancy solderless connectors, while Roswell solder the wiring like barbarians(
@@arnold90 lol, thanks!
I love the strape apparatus WTF SO NİCE
Any plans on doing these SC with EMG and 1000 Floyd rose? Maybe even if only with EMG and fixed bridge?
UUUUH, that sounds great!!!!
@@HarleyBentonOfficial, for the record. I own many of your guitars and basses. I love them all. Ocean burst SC, DC 600 VI, CST 24T Emerald flame, 7 string progressive. The bz 5000 NT bass and the JB 75 NM bass. I gave the SC450 plus VB vintage to my son for his 18th birthday. Thank you for the great instruments 🤘
Hi what is best high for alnico active pickups I have single cut sc custom guitar
So I'm planning to add a hardtail besides my Kramer FR 220. I am still thinking which one of these 2 beauties is good for industrial metal and heavy. Cause both sounds damn good
That’s nice. Now where the fuck is the demo for the SC-Custom Plus EMG FR VBK?
Its got the looks, its got the sound. When you guys coming to Aus/NZ?
When will the SC-Custom II Active VB be released ???)))
just ordered one this morning (CS II Active Vintage BK) ..seems next week they release it ...we stay tuned!
I love this. Where can I buy one?
Michael Goldsmith Awesome Dwesome....
Thank you so much! Glad you dig it! Michael rocks for sure!!!
you should make a model of the sc custom ii that has emg's 85-81
Kinda Zakk'ish? ;)
@@HarleyBentonOfficial yeeeesss. and if you also make one with the original floyd, i'd buy it right away!
I’m a lefty les black more three star burst
I wonder what they sound like without the effects I’m back in track????
It has this very special sound as you can hear, even without effects. I love this guitar.
Greetings
🐈
Is there no pre ordering on Thomann? Every guitar I try to buy is says Unfortunately we cannot currently offer delivery for this address
Sorry, seems like there are still shipping restrictions to the country you live in. Thanks Covid-19...
2 active dragon-fires would do it. little compression and yeah:-)
🤘🏽✊🏽ooh hell yes✊🏽🤘🏽
I was like 99 cause yo axes is so fine
Hi!! Nice Video!!! It’s better this or ltd ec-256???
Armand Martinez ltd...
hb r457 mn wh fanfret please review this
willing to buy one.
The sound from the std pickup is already very nice. Change the PU and it will sound greater
EC1000 and a les paul had a baby...
sc custom Vb stock out now!
available soon!! any idea guys! 😣
When fusion les Paul?
Nice but can you play Atemlos from Helene Fischer
Why do you do not use a Harley Benton amp?
In my opinion, that would be a great combination to see if budget hardware also sounds good together. Taking an expensive amp with such a budget guitar is almost like cheating.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against budget guitars and Harley Benton in particular has improved a lot in recent years
Well that's simple. Most people are familiar with a Marshall or a Fender :)
do you belive a expensive guitar sounds good in a crap amp?, the harley benton guitar deserve a good sounding amp as all other guitars... cause its a good guitar, its not cheating at all, bentons are 1/3 of the price but 2/3 the guitar compared to much more expencive guitars :)
At wich point is the HB junior with p- 90and/or 2humbuckers????
🤘😀🤘
i dont like so bright rosewood fretboard.. :(
That's a cool guitar
😄🤟💯 .....❤...🐿🐿🐿
( man kann nicht mehr als drei eichhörnchen erreichen ) THX
Na dann passt's ja :)
@@HarleyBentonOfficial Volle Bombe
Laf or haf Pickups? And whats the difference...
LAF means low output and HAF high output.
Wie heißt der Song?
Can’t seem to find the SC active on the website. Has it been discontinued?
Hi, it is currently out of stock but will be back soon!
@@HarleyBentonOfficial Thanks for the reply, I hope one day we see an upgraded SC active model with stainless steel frets and EMG 57/66 pickups.
I thought the active came in 24 frets
This as 7-string PLEASE!
Was soll man da groß sagen, ich hab beide und die haun dich einfach weg ❤
Rock'n'Roll!
Ich habe die SC-Custom FR VB 💣💣🎸Killer (mit besseren Seymour Duncan Pups)🤘leider nicht mehr im Katalog - kommt etwas vergleichbares zurück?
Ist deine FR stimmstabil ?
Hab keine genommen, war mir zu heiß
Bei thomann ist die mit den passiven Tonabnehmern nicht mehr im Sortiment :(...
Bald wieder erhältlich :)
Juhuuu! :)
Отличаются ли чем-то по электронике SC-Custom и EX-76 Classic?
Does someone knows where can I buy this guitar?? Bc it's out out of stock everywhere. Thanks
Hi, it will be back in stock soon!
@@HarleyBentonOfficial any expected date? (Days/weeks) Thanks!
Кто нибудь ответит,что за музон? Он у меня в голове постоянно!
Sorry in English please ;/
I like this guitar but it's a shame that they decided to change the shape of the body and now it's wider than the one produced 2 years ago like the one shown in this video (which was the closest thing to an original esp ltd) even the way where the pickup selector goes is larger and a bit deformed, I hope they return to the original shape of the esp / ltd
i am seriously considering anything for a Gibson/Epiphone due to their policy of "let's screw everyone over designs we stole from 1940s luthiers"
This or ltd256????
What amp ?
Marshall Origin 50 :)
I need to know what's the difference between this guitar and the new SC-CUSTOM EMG FR VBK, because that guitar is more expensive and I think has the same specs, I really need to know what's the difference, the only difference I could find was the obvious one which is the color of the golden pickups and the knobs and the other golden parts on it like the whammy and the other stuff, these are the only differences I could find, the SC-CUSTOM FR is more vintage looking on the golden colored parts, that's it, please I need to know the differences, can somebody help? Because I don't know which one to buy
simple, the emg one has active pickups.
@@polidevi535 so which one do u think is better for me to buy? U choose for me
@@yeezy69 no idea man, i am also stuck at the same decision.
Axel Zcolnic:-7
SC-Custom II Active Vintage Black...definitely awesome! ...after I need to: replace pickup, replace toggle switch, shielding it, replace tune o matic, replace string, replace pot with 25kOhm pot for ACTIVE PICKUPS (you put 500kOhm pot on active system...funny!), after replace all wiring cable.... now they sounds good! ;-)
Sounds great!
@@HarleyBentonOfficial Hi, i have one question.. Active or Passive ? for me is same sound, but i only think about changing battery every week xD
@Il Machete is this one ? www.thomann.de/fr/allparts_25k_push_pull_pot.htm - thanks
And at the otehr hand, professionals, musicians are using these guitars even wthout any upgrade and none of them said that these guitars are crap (as you suggested)
Looks like you are just a butthurt lil guy.
@@999slawter professional musicians never use Harley Benton...please... maybe you know professionals from minimarket... xD LoL
Не могу поверить, что на Харли Бентоне можно мочить такой музон
Harley Benton guitars are the worst guitars I have ever played. Lots of quality issues and outright damage (not shipping damage) to new guitars. Thomann doesn't care, they just keep on pumping out faulty goods and sponsor youtubers to shill them (lie to people).
Not mine, it's A You problem
Why put passive electronic (500k pots) in active pickup circuit?!?!?! Whyyyyyy ????????........ 😒😒 and...why no straplock in custom II? maybe 70/80cent is too high investment? ...i think i will send it back...really disappointed...very ugly finiture...bad painting...issue with toggle switch...500k pots on active... no no no....