Harley Benton EX-84 --VS-- LTD Snakebyte

[@dicrimes3608]

I got the EX-84 with EMG Pickups and I LOVE this Guitar SOOO MUCH it´s incredible and for less than 400$ the BEST Guitar purchase I so far have made.

[@megahurtz30]

It's great value for money, no doubts about it !

[@legion7478]

I got mine with the roswell pickups. And it sounds just like a stock sg. Which was what i was going for. They also allow for dynamic playing. I never was a fan of active pickups just because the dynamics get lost

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

I seriously considered this as a cheap option for my last purchase, but I went semi-hollow instead for the feedback. I agree that this is a banger for the buck.

[@Jogvanelias]

I have to say that i am really satisfied with my HB EX84 EMG.

[@OlviMasta77]

Never wrong hearing classic 'Tallica riffs!

[@petersmith143]

If the pickups on the Harley Benton are an issue you could upgrade, and still be 2/3 cheaper than the ESP. It's a wake up call one thinks....

[@soulofanewmachine]

The hb ex-84 is a good value but the neck shape and stability are its weaknesses. At least on my ex-84 the neck likes to move weekly where as my two Esp ltds on the same rack stay perfectly set which I find odd since the Harley Benton has a much thicker neck than my Ltds or the snakebyte. I have thoughts though to Mod the ex-84 into a mini snakebyte eventually. The size of the snakebyte is just to big for me.

[@myunholyritual]

Harley Benton has Little bit More expensive version with EMG pickups

[@Günaydın-q3q]

There is an emg version already and its 355 euros with a case

[@Günaydın-q3q]

There is an emg version already and its 355 euros with a case

[@caedavch.9883]

9:45 Nice Bark At The Moon riff!

[@AlienPizzaZombie]

For the price, the HB holds its own very well!

[@soulofanewmachine]

I was surprised with the body thickness on the ex-84 when I got mine. It's thicker than the bodies of my ex-360 or fx-401. I found this review to be informative. As cool as the snakebyte looks this comparison convinced me to stay with the Ltd ex series and not pursue getting a snakebyte. I would also note that the Roswell pickups in my ex-84 started to sound different after 4 months of use. I replaced them with EMG 81x and 85x which cost the same as the guitar itself. I would say the Harley Benton is excellent value as entry level or as a Mod platform. However Esp Ltd is much higher quality at a much higher price.

[@richie7532]

What happened to the roswell pick ups? I want to buy this guitar and it'd be helpful to know haha

[@soulofanewmachine]

@@richie7532 they became very noisy. Not microphonic but just very noisy and lost high end clarity.

[@richie7532]

@@soulofanewmachine oh wow :( well I guess I gotta put better pick ups on it. Where did you get the EMG ones? I'm from Mexico and here I haven't seen any of those

[@soulofanewmachine]

@@richie7532 I bought thru a local shop to me. They had them on a discount so I thought I will try them out. EMG does sell direct to consumer and offer international shipping. Don't know about Mexico. Also I would try the roswells for a few months. The ones I had became noisy over months of use not right away. Possibly a quality control issue.

[@Bigdog0242]

theres emg versions of ex-84 which are good but problem is your not getting locking tuners with it

[@philsalvage]

I freakin love my Camo Snakebyte, most comfortable guitar that I own to play while standing. I have a LP standard, a SG , Strat and a Tele.

[@OlviMasta77]

Thank you for your service!

[@AngelAyala3PLA]

To my HB I got Het Sets on it and BOOM sounds WAY BETTER 😌🤟🏽

[@mhermit]

They're both a blast to play but the HB more so because you get play it indoors.

[@BatteryAcidEater]

Video starts at 9:47

[@karoltbg]

i don't think so, HB clean sound is what angels in heaven used to play

[@RenaldoSiete-vu3dm]

Muy buen canal sobre tdo la cuestión del balance de cada guitarra

[@karoltbg]

8:56 that's so deep

[@van8473]

In the mix you can’t tell that much difference. Me personally I couldn’t justify the extra cost of the LTD I have a LTD AS-1 and a mesa amp so I know the difference between cheaper gear and higher price gear and in this case I wouldn’t spend the extra money.

[@spicypotatoes301]

I'm a bit late, but I had a question regarding your Harley Benton. How did you manage to get one without the cut out on the bottom where the strap button is? All the listings I've seen of this particular guitar have a cut out for what I'm assuming is to avoid a lawsuit from Gibson. Are anymore around out there like yours that are available?

[@megahurtz30]

Never late ;) This version is from 2020, they had no cutout then. Now you can only find them, if you're lucky, in used guitar listings. I pre-ordered from Thomann in 2020 and even had to wait a few months for the guitar to actually arrive.

[@OlviMasta77]

heeeey ey... Bark At The Moon!

[@gerdez]

The neckdive on the HB is real. Very very annoying. Anyone found a good fix? And the neck is really fat. Though as I see in the video, not by much compared to the LTD. But I can play my Ibanez a lot better without much fatigue. 😅

[@treyslamp7569]

Yea change the location of the strap button is the only way really.

[@fipbip2794]

I read somewhere a guy glued some wheel weights to the the backplate to help with that and of course strap locations

[@rockinbobokkin7831]

Snakebyte, 500% , no question it is superior.....but I wouldn't be mad if I was a noob kid and my folks gifted me an HB, or it's all I could get money for. I would proudly learn to thrash on the El Cheapo here... As a middle aged man with guitars I like in my house, that neck dive alone is a no-no. I'll be reaching for my java while playing around, and bash that thing right into the floor, absolutely. I wouldn't be able to move past that tin box clean signal either. It's fine as long as there's dirt in the line though.

[@05Sergey10-hq5hn]

16:30 how is this song called?

[@megahurtz30]

That's just some riffs i came up with

[@05Sergey10-hq5hn]

Thanks bro. Awesome)

[@NostalgiaFreak_]

What is the song at 7:53??

[@megahurtz30]

Love Is on the Way, by Saigon Kick

[@Vo1dZy151]

Just wondering what I should get between the Harley Benton explorer with emgs or the new ltd ex200 explorer

[@megahurtz30]

It's tough to say, without me trying the EX-200 first. But the Benton comes with EMG, the 200 doesn't, i think. If you can try both, go for the one with least neckdive

[@Vo1dZy151]

@@megahurtz30 thanks

[@denouncedmusic]

Theres no doubt that the Snakebyte is the better guitar. Harley Benton are great budget guitars though. I have owned several. The Amarok in particular is great however the Snakebyte is in a different league

[@datutturugang666]

yeah it’s 7 and a half times more expensive..

[@ghiadetomaso1642]

LTD and ESP ones are not even, they look the same and same materials but they are different to originals, mostly in neck shape and HB did a great job, still with Roswell Pickups

[@tornadofire82]

Song around 16:00 plus?

[@megahurtz30]

The riff using the Marshall is Metallica - Disposable Heroes. The one after, using the Engl, is a riff of my own, no song yet

[@Dameritas]

i got the EX-400. i was thinking about buying the Snakebyte. is there a big diff?

[@megahurtz30]

I never tried the Ex-400, but i'm willing to bet the Snakebyte might be a little better, although the old EX were good quality and very well built

[@Dameritas]

@@megahurtz30 the EX-400 was last build 2009. and says build in Korea. i hope thats what u mean with "old"

[@megahurtz30]

@@Dameritas Yes, that was around the date i was thinking about. I have an EX-360 built in Indonesia, from around 2010

[@KalobPierson-l9x]

I do like the Harley is little smaller explorer

[@datutturugang666]

13% smaller

[@mrhachi19]

9:45 name song plis

[@megahurtz30]

Bark at the Moon, from Ozzy Osbourne

[@mcathawk1490]

Neck dive is not cool. I would get the snakebyte for that reason alone

[@frostedhansolo7210]

Being honest is it worth getting harley benton guitar

[@megahurtz30]

They are one of the best value for money out there. But it depends on what you are looking for, exactly, on a guitar...

[@ahrfisher66]

5:42 "just a bullet away"?

[@megahurtz30]

no, the clean part is from a cover of the song Breadfan, by Metallica

[@andychugs]

Impossible understand how these two guitars sound with the sounds he uses. Even a 5k guitar would sound bad. 

[@dougversion2.0]

Yeah, I hate to say it, but the tone is terrible. For the distortion, it sounds like the tone knob was turned all the way down and the mid knob was set to 0. The clean sound is also bizarre, almost like a fake computerized MIDI tone.

[@Fartinhalerr]

There's a few issues with this shootout that come to mine one is that these are not the same pickups 2 is what are the pickup heights

[@megahurtz30]

the distance of the pickups to the strings

[@Fartinhalerr]

Where the pickup heights the same for both guitars? What if you put the Hetfield pickups in the Harley Benton? I have an LTD snakebyte and I several other ltd's with EMG 81 85 and there is a pretty big difference between the Hatfields set in the 81, that's all I'm saying the difference here might be more about pickups

[@megahurtz30]

@@Fartinhalerr Of course, the difference are the pickups as well. I'm showing the guitars as they are, in the same conditions. You can always modify guitars afterwards. But the point is to show each as they are, so you know what you get when you buy each one.

[@Fartinhalerr]

​@@megahurtz30my nephew has this same Harley benton, I'll play it when he comes to visit this summer. It'll ge cool to play the snakebyte next to the HB, I think for 350 bucks you can't beat a HB with a proper setup. At least for entry level players

[@megahurtz30]

@@Fartinhalerr It's very nice value for money, no doubt !

[@mariniftekhar]

The only difference is EMG HET SET 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@philsalvage]

Just because you say it that doesn’t make it fact lol.

[@pietromeloni6486]

My main axe is a Jackson soloist Pro and this neck is too fat for me and its shape not comfortable.

[@megahurtz30]

Well, it is what it is, not everyone likes it. Ibanez and Jackson have the slimest necks i know of, they are really confortable for shredding. These are more rhythm oriented guitars and not too suited for soloing

[@pietromeloni6486]

​@@megahurtz30You're right, but I find the ex 84 uncomfortable even for rhythmics. It stresses the fingers and wrist. However, this is my personal opinion.

[@megahurtz30]

@@pietromeloni6486 Yes, i could be more slim, and that would even help with reducing neck dive. I'm not sure but they might have opted to do it a bit fat to increase sustain

[@blyp48]

Notice how they sound almost the same? If the pickups really are that big of a deal for you it’s cheaper to buy the Harley Benton + new pickups and install yourself than to buy the LTD. Just saying

[@aakaashbulani9237]

Snakebyte all nightmare long........

[@winnipegbandog]

The HB looks like a kids guitar.

[@EdgeOfHell666]

Yeah. No way harley benton beats the ultimate beast of a guitar such as the snakebyte

[@VladimirEkb66]

HB on distortion better than snakebyte

[@karoltbg]

i have ex84 and I thought snakebyte is much bigger

[@fearless4666]

It is massive

[@andrealmeida3947]

carrega portugal

[@megahurtz30]

😀

[@vaudronphilippe5415]

Yo quitte à avoir la guitare bah bosse la main droite et main gauche ! C’est le poignet droit qui travail et replis tes doigt et main gauche petit mouvement et synchronisation ! Courage

[@coat.thik1]

Harley Benton did a new shape of Explorer 84? More look like to snake bite?

[@megahurtz30]

The current shape has a slight cutout/curve around the strapbutton but it's doesn't look any closer to a Snakebyte

[@coat.thik1]

@@megahurtz30 what a pity I prefer classic Explorer shape

[@guistmagik2506]

There is NO comparison! the Snakebyte is 1,000 times better! don't waste your money on the cheap Harley benton! you are better off saying up for the real deal! trust me

[@Jogvanelias]

Trust me. I did not waste money on my HB Emg version! One of my most used guitars and it sits between my Fender and Gibson.

[@timmystoner7219]

Neither did I waste money on Harley Benton baritone 27 inch scale emgs sounds better than my 37 other guitars gotta give Harley an chance they will be on too soon enough to

[@05Sergey10-hq5hn]

9:12 how is this song called?

[@megahurtz30]

It's from: Love is on the Way, from the band Saigon Kick