Black Beauty!! Harley Benton Fusion III EMG HT Roasted SBK

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

HI! just to let you know if you like this video and wants to show your appreciation, you can buy me a cup of coffee with the "Thanks" button which is just next to the share button! ✌❤ Please support me in what I do thru Patreon! www.patreon.com/Jonathankoh 0:00 Intro 0:25 Unboxing 2:33 Song 5:28 Demo 9:18 Demo Dirty 11:46 Review 13:48 Conclusion

[@_JustinCase_]

Haven't been disappointed by a Harley Benton. Surprisingly good quality for a great price. Looks like another winner!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

looks like it...✌♥

[@gw2031]

If Steeley Dan needed a lead guitarist ,Jon is the man !_

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

awww man...

[@celmore11]

Your fusion of licks in that song had me roasted!🥰♥

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you✌️❤️

[@sunraiii]

You sold me on this guitar by playing more than just metal on it. Thank you!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

You’re most welcome!!!

[@baranina1986]

First I'm thinking this guitar are only for metal stuf, and than i saw this video! Very nice jazzy things and the sound this emg pickup are amazing. Thank You!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

glad you liked it!

[@admir_correia]

He could make a bow with 6 strings sound's awsome. What a player. Here for the player!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you kindly!

[@articloper8581]

I've got that exact model, had it around a year now, no issues whatsoever. I'm normally a Floyd fan, but wanted something hardtail to pair with my Charvel for when I need to use different tunings. I really don't think these Harley Benton Fusions can be beat for the price. The roasted neck is to die for. Doesn't sound quite as good without Jon playing it mind!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thanks for sharing!✌️❤️

[@Bluebuthappy182]

Man never mind the guitar your playing is 1st class.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you!

[@PeteAxeShields]

I can remember the days when I believed Harley Benton were just another " cheap and cheerful " guitar manufacturer, purely aiming at the beginner market. That belief may well have had a degree of merit 25 years ago ... but in that time, it has been amazing to witness this ambitious, forward thinking, company go from strength to strength ... to the point where, today, I now consider them to be a literal " God Send " to those who have a limited budget, as they are now producing exceptional instruments at a price most musicians, from those beginning their musical journey, to touring professionals, can easily afford and expect a great looking, great sounding and great playing guitar. This particular model is not of my personal preference BUT it is a great guitar with an incredible spec for the price .... and, in the hands of Jon, it sounds incredible ... but then again, what guitar doesn't sound great when Jon is playing it ? 😎 🙏

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Lol thank you dear Peter✌️❤️

[@SteveMavronis]

Love this guitar review. I got and modded the TE-20HH to check out what could be done with a cheap guitar and made it a lot better changing everything. But this Fusion III roasted EMG looks and sounds great. No mods needed. Maybe I should have gotten this first.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

✌️❤️

[@MarkFromHawaii]

Thanks!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Tuang you kindly Mark✌️❤️

[@thelolguy007]

Yet again you surprise and impress Jon. I thought with the looks of that guitar you were gonna com out all Guns blazing but you played nice and mellow and some lovely tones. Very nice

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

lol!! im too old...

[@thelolguy007]

@@JonIsJustTooLoud haha no chance mate. You just showed it’s a more versatile guitar than most of us would have guessed 😉

[@marck7270]

you make every guitar sound beautiful. i wish i could play half as good as you, seriously jealous. very nice, useful review. thank your for your effort. subbed.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you very much!

[@gerrymcgill3209]

Love your playing style, so melodic and unforced.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you!

[@4315jdickey]

So wonderful Jonathan!!!! That's my name too!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

so i see...✌😆

[@kevinkrause7900]

Jon is my guitar hero!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

🙏❤️

[@yetimatzenightcat8702]

Yes Jonathan, I think the same as you, the only thing I'm missing is the wiggle stick. 👍

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Right?? ✌️😝✌️

[@firdaus125]

I wish budget guitars were these good back when I started guitar as a 16 year old (20 years ago).

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Tell me about it!✌️❤️

[@ThorRavnsborg]

Uh, I'm tempted. Black might not be my first choice in terms of color (I still think the silver sparkle one is the prettiest) but I like the reverse headstock, jumbo frets and those EMG pickups. Even if you're not a metal head they seem able to put out some very tasty tones. But of course they do in your hands Jonathan🤩

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you

[@xHowler]

Imagine, a video where EMG pickups aren't used to only play hard metal with 100% gain

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Hahaha✌️❤️

[@Anjohl]

EMG makes all sorts of pickups for all sorts of genres.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Subtitles available in English, Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, Indonesian, Thai and Japanese.

[@stopUkrainewar666]

Same tone as the koa ltd with less sustain

[@gustirock]

Awesome playing man. Cool guitar too I have three HB guitars and they are all very good and fantastic for the price.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Yes they are!

[@jackbootshamangaming4541]

I got Three Amarok-7s, I'm thinking about getting a Fusion III EMG(or the Guitar Max one), or their Fusion-T with EMGs. The flat black finish with roasted necks looks so sick, even compared to Amaroks.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

✌️❤️

[@culeacosmin5650]

Thank you, Jon! Great review as always! Greetings from Constanța, România, Eastern Europe! 👍🎸😊

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

My pleasure!✌️❤️

[@rodgerbell810]

Hi Jonathan, a hidden gem I might add for the price. Excellent appointments (minus a trem) and tones exist under a hidden cloak. Cheers ✌️🎸💜

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Yes indeed!✌️

[@alkyhauler8185]

I have 3 HB's, this may be my 4th lol! Awesome review Jon!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thanks! 👍✌️😆

[@mylogify]

Nice, the neck and fretboard looks like my Q-52 Ibanez. I can feel how nice it is from the video... I loved the last 3 guitars a lot! This HB, the Suhr, and Valley Arts... 3 of them are... Must have.. Maybe... :D :D. For some ppl!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Cool, thanks!✌️❤️

[@Mcchubz]

Germany making some killer guitars . I love Japanese made as well. Harley Benton and FujiGen , Ibanez/ FGN make the best . Iam constantly impressed with . I just bought a 800 dollar Ibanez and out of the box it was prefect .

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Yes Germany does make great guitars.. this however is made in Indonesia ✌️❤️

[@sjazzp]

Very nice stealth look, sounds great! That’s a lot of guitar for the price. Cheers hermano! ✌️🤩👍🎸

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Gracias mucho!!! ✌️❤️

[@bluematrix5001]

Jon, you play so beautiful and so tasteful

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you so much ✌️❤️

[@MarkFromHawaii]

Nice guitar and nice demo playing as usual Jon. I have a reverse headstock Voodoo strat and recently tried turning the string tree so the 6th and 5th strings didn't go through the tree.I started having this weird harmonic resonance on the 6th string when I fretted an "A" on the 5th fret. At first I couldn't figure it out until it dawned on me that I had bypassed the string tree.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Oh! You might want to get staggered tuners✌️❤️

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Oh wait.. you said a reverse headstock! In my paoletti I left my string tree for the lower strings there.

[@dracov6667]

I plan to buy this

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Cool

[@olebrumme6356]

Did you check if the wiring is solderfree and correct potentiometer for active pickups?

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Nope I did not✌️

[@Al_Bundy666]

Both pickups are the same? Here, description just says retro active hot 70 humbuckers but the "Amarok" says the same but adds that one is ceramic and the other alnico-5. Is there any difference or just same pickups with more complete description? Thanks✌️

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

I think it’s best to check with Thomann✌️

[@damianp3305]

Hot 70 set = Bridge is ceramic Super 77, Neck is alnico Fat 50. Hot 70 is simple mix of 77 and 50.

[@tylermoore5659]

Been one my most reliable players, got mine b stock and i couldn’t find a single flaw, the pickups still had plastic on them!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Cool✌️❤️

[@grigorkostadinov2194]

Hi, John How do You compare the fusion iii neck to the neck of larry carlton s7?

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

I can’t remember

[@audiopain]

how the pickups are connected on the back? is it the EMG solderless system? i m thinking of buying this guitar and i wanted to do some upgrades.. one of them is the James Hetfield HET pickup set. is wouyld be possible for me to do it on my own?

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

I'm not too sure

[@pete614]

pity the volume knob is too close to high e string for my playing style 🙂

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

✌🏻❤️

[@rocinblues]

Jon, sounds really nice and a lot of "bang" for the buck, would have enjoyed lighter colored fret markers. Your jazz runs on this guitar sounded excellent! Cheers

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you ✌️❤️

[@xsamitt]

Epic Playing!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thanks!!

[@xainlex6150]

¡Hola!🙂 me gustaría comprar una guitarra tipo Stratocaster HSS por menos de 500. ¿Cuál consideras la mejor? ¿Yamaha, Squier, Harley Benton, Sire, Sterling, Ibanes u otra que consideres? ¿Cuál modelo?

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

All of them have really nice HSS models

[@xainlex6150]

@@JonIsJustTooLoud Muchas gracias por tomarte el tiempo de responder

[@Mcchubz]

can you get hold of a FGN Odyssey and review?

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

I can try.. No promises

[@cometirovinounacanzone]

Hello ... good review!! i would like to have an opinion .... i have wandered to bougth this brand Harley Benton and i have saw HB Amarok-6 BKNT Flame Burst too ( are similar specs, not then same but similar) ... what is your opinion ... what is better between this one in your rewiew or Amarok? thanks!!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Oh definitely this one here

[@markbrown7103]

I think this guitar sounds beautiful. I think you are a great guitarist. You have a beautiful style. I am myself and my finger picker. I play more like Chad Atkins I don’t care much for hard rock, but I did like Led Zeppelin Jimmy page is my favorite rock guitarist. I’ve heard these Harley Benton guitars are not that good but I don’t believe that the only thing I don’t like about this guitar is the head stock is turned upside down I don’t like that but like I say you’re a one beautiful guitarist appreciate your videos. Have a beautiful day my dear.👍🏼👍🏼🎸💖😎

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you kindly Mark!!! ✌️❤️

[@BrianWalters97]

I had that guitar but I couldn't get the bridge saddles low enough. Even at the lowest the action was way too high for my taste sadly. Other than that it was a great guitar.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

✌❤

[@UnboundImagination]

What action were you aiming for and what did you manage to get it to?

[@damianp3305]

It happened to me on different HB guitar. I sent it back and order new one and then it was good. If You keep guitar then the only solution is to shim the neck

[@FabrizioPeretti]

Waiting for a fusion 7 strings.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Cool ✌️❤️

[@UltraPvnk]

Great guitar! Not a bad price at all.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

aye!!✌♥

[@charlesgrey8651]

Holy Smokes, whe have us a winner🤗 Does this model come in seven strings?🤔 Jazz/Fusion is so much beter with seven strings 🤗

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Well.. who know? Maybe one day✌️

[@stopUkrainewar666]

Wow charvel and fender can go bak home ?

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Lol

[@serhiirabin]

Sehr gut! vielen Dank!

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Thank you ✌️❤️

[@N3RFTHIS]

Damn that looks great

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

✌♥

[@N3RFTHIS]

How can we get these in Australia

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Easy!! Thomann!! Check the link at the description✌️❤️

[@EYE7SS]

I see that you also got the wrong tuners. Thought I received a B stock or something. It plays and sounds amazing, cheers. Edit: I agree with you, the fact that a version with Floyd Rose 1000 series doesn't exist is a massive miss from Thomann.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Lol what wrong tuners? ✌️❤️

[@repoman5581]

This is the only tone of active pickups that I think sounds good... very good... emg 81 clean is so clinical...

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Yes indeed

[@judeworth938]

As usual I so enjoy your playing Jonathan. Extremely tasteful and articulate ❤...however regarding Thomann, while their customer service is really good, service team very attentive I must say, however the guitar I received (not this model) needed much work to make it playable. Rather than shipping back a 10lb guitar to Germany and having to deal with all that, I went ahead and took the guitar to a local music store for a complete setup and the have the extremely sharpe frets filed. Cost me $120 plus new strings. They offered me a choice of a $75 store credit or a $50 refund for the inconvenience. I opted for the refund. So needless to say I'm not a real fan of Harley Benton products. The service team was great...the product, not so much. Seems to me it's hit or miss, 50/50 gamble with their guitars. Some claim right out of the box their instrument was great...played well, felt good...no sharp frets, intonation and truss rod all good, well made and comfortable to play. Some seem to side with my experience regarding sharp frets, and needing complete setups. Many retailers don't bother putting a lot into their inspections for less expensive instruments...such was the case for me. Sadly my guitar was not well inspected ...I know that can happen. Companies are only as good as the folks who work for them.... They produce hundreds of guitars annually so it's inevitable that some will slip by careful inspections... My particular guitar weighs a ridiculous 10lbs ! Not normal for a Telecaster. Anyhoo..... Regarding this HB Fusion III EMG, I think for the price ($411 USD) if you add maybe $100 (which shipping from Germany will be very close to that in USD to the U.S.) one could do better with either a PRS, Fender, G&L, Gibson, Gretsch or others..... Great demo of a beautiful looking guitar Jonathan, just leery to purchase from them again. Signed: "once bitten, twice shy".... 🙁

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Lol ..fair enough✌️❤️

[@rickhammel9541]

lol, sounds like the Fender Player series strat I got. Horrible fret work, had to have it serviced out of the box. Happens to all companies. My Harley Bentons have been great, especially my Fusion 3 with a Floyd.

[@judeworth938]

@@rickhammel9541 Lucky re: the Harley Benton...sorry 'bout the Fender. I recently got a Squire Classic Vibe Custom Baritone Tele and the ONLY thing right out of the box was that on a tiny area in the back, on the bottom near that crappy jack cup (which I will replace) was a small bit of gunky stuff on the finish which I removed...other than that the frets and intonation were great ! Sweetwater refunded me $60 for that tiny blemish which NOBODY will probably ever notice . As you say, it happens. As my dad used to say "you get what you pay for, IF you're lucky" ! 🙂

[@sofyan_sauri]

buatan indonesia kah ?

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

ya!!!

[@TonicTroubled]

Yes

[@suriakumarsupra7091]

Even though made in Indonesia, their craftmanship have improved tremendously.

[@JohnDoe-iv6gl]

Wonder if these are real EMGs, as they don't look like the ones sold by EMG themselves.

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

They are

[@thomasremington2561]

I believe they’re made in Indonesia. The 81s are made in America. They’re still true emgs just made in a different country.

[@caterpillar4282]

yes, very beautiful.Don't give it to Pete Townshend

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Lol🤣

[@timothymathew1540]

Do a modification...put a tremelo

[@JonIsJustTooLoud]

Lol.. too much work ✌️❤️

[@timothymathew1540]

Thats why u got wayne