Harley Benton SC-Custom II Lemon Flame - Guitar Demo/Review

My demo of the Harley Benton SC-Custom II. You can buy it here (affiliate link):
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Timestamps:
0:00 Hi
0:15 Intro Song
2:03 Overview
4:45 Clean Sounds
7:35 Crunch Sounds
10:32 High Gain Sounds
13:23 Conclusion

[@SRguitar]

Get it here: redir.love/thoprod/490837?offid=1&affid=398

[@Zearil]

I got mine in Ocean Flame color (you can see it in all my videos up to this day). Buying it was a great decision. I’m grateful for your help through this video

[@alexanderson5760]

Review has info about guitar weight - i press like

[@SRguitar]

Haha!

[@jasujokelainen5073]

Me TOO

[@benallmark9671]

Do you still have this guitar and play it ?

[@sandrocavali9810]

I've got all kinds of guitars. I love them all. My HB SC custom II has now three plus years. It's my Swiss army axe, I can jazz I can shred. I can do acoustic. I love it

[@charlesharper7292]

I am torn between this SC Custom II and the SC 550 II. I have to make up my mind by July...

[@PegeCovers]

Even the previous version is great. But the improved upper fret access is just sick on the new model.

[@thomasharnum6837]

Great video very easy to follow just bought that same guitar today loved the lemon color been waiting for an EVH stealth that's on backorder too ..rewarding myself for living in 2020

[@stevebell204]

I got the very last p90 sc custom ii...it's awesome.

[@boudewijnborger1492]

Great review/demo!

[@AllanGildea]

Superb demo Sash! Wow.

[@SRguitar]

Thank You! :)

[@BenjaminKanarek]

Great performance! Bravo!!!

[@rodolforopelato4246]

Good review!! Bought it!!!

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Very nice review and playing Sasha. I have the SC550 in Paradise City Flame. I love how the thing feels and sounds. Traded in my 2020 Epiphone Les Paul Custom for an EVH Wolfgang because the Harley Benton is all I need for that Les Paul sound.

[@SRguitar]

Thank you! Great to hear that you are satisfied with the HB-guitars too! ;)

[@kennyleejohnson5253]

That opening jam was awesome !!

[@SRguitar]

Thank you 😊

[@dinuachim2979]

Very nice performance, congratulations....

[@DoodlesGaming]

It reminds me a lot of the LTD EC-256, and that's not a bad thing at all.

[@JansenX12]

With the better comfortcarves its more like my EC-1000

[@duesenberger]

Great video! Thx. I think it is so light because it is so slim to f.e. a SC-550.

[@SRguitar]

Yeah that’s right, it’s definitely slimmer than a standard SC

[@DMSProduktions]

Looks/sounds like a nice instrument Sasha! \m/

[@lancefraijo8585]

like Slash, your playing is great, love the Guitar, great video. Thanks

[@Joe-mz6dc]

Back in my day good guitars were expensive.

[@69steve2003]

Just got one of these this week. I agree with the review. Seems many of the reviewers got strap locks with theirs, mine did not but then again its not in the description on the Thoman website. Love the neck and clean tones. Does not feel like a LP though and is more ergonomic in design nor is it that heavy, not compared to my HB TE52 anyway.

[@benallmark9671]

How are ya liking the TE-52 ?

[@averyplaysguitar]

Just got mine and it came with strap locks, weird

[@benallmark9671]

@@averyplaysguitar how do you like it and are you still playing it ?

[@steveroberts]

Another HB that plays and sounds so much more expensive. Nice video

[@SRguitar]

Oh yeah! Thanks!

[@jorgetome7089]

That should be +- the same guitar of my epiphone Les Paul standard pro, but for a half of the price.

[@emiliolopez8796]

Damn. I think this video just made me buy a new guitar (although im going to get the one with the floyd rose on it) and a patreon membership.

[@SRguitar]

Great that i could help you with that video! Thank you a lot for the support!

[@jamecke3216]

Tolles Video vielen Dank....würdest du diese einer Epiphone vorziehen? Danke

[@liquiddddd]

from what I can see/hear through the obvious limitations of an youtube video, to me it sounds like the tone control is good-for-nothing, except coil split... I actually liked that. But the guitar sounded amazing and looks gorgeous.

[@antonberger1233]

Hallo Sascha Tolle Vorstellung der SC Custom! Was mich noch interessieren würde, hast du die Gitarre nur vorgestellt oder ist es deine eigene? Gruß Anton

[@SRguitar]

Hi Anton, nein die Gitarre war nur für das Video geliehen :)

[@subsonic3633]

what song is that you played when you split the coil with the hammer ons at 7:16 . i recognize it but can't put my finger on it.

[@SRguitar]

Slow dancing in a burning room by John Mayer :)

[@Alfredo78666]

Is it a thing of a beauty or what?

[@Crowly666]

Она для Металла? И вообще стоит покупать как первую?

[@Lutzilla_]

moin! kannst du einen spielvergleich anstellen gegenüber der junior? welche ist bequemer zu spielen vom hals her zb...?

[@SRguitar]

Ich finde die SC-Custom ist etwas leichter zu bespielen, den Hals find ich etwas bequemer. Die höheren Bünde erreicht man bei der Junior aber noch etwas besser. Aber das sind wirklich nur minimale Unterschiede, finde sie sonst vom Spielgefühl recht ähnlich ;)

[@Lutzilla_]

@@SRguitar checkung, vor allem beim gewicht war ich bei der custom sehr überrascht...ist ja ziemlich ähnlich der junior zumal ja "paula´s" immer ziemlich schwer sind...dankö! :-)

[@Twirlyhead]

I have the same guitar which I changed the pickups on.

[@SRguitar]

That’s cool! Which pickups did you put in?

[@Twirlyhead]

@@SRguitar I have this exact model and I also have the black Floyd Rose version. I originally bought a pair of Iron Gear Rolling Mill pickups for this one and an Iron Gear Dirty Torque (b) and Blues Engine (n) combo for the Floyd. Finally I swapped them around to get the result I was most happy with thus this one now has the Dirty Torque/Blues Engine combo and sounds great to me. I was never happy with the Roswell LAFs, lacked musicality, definition and clarity to me.

[@benallmark9671]

@@Twirlyhead I hear what you’re saying but they sound awesome in this video.

[@vadibrin4023]

Саня, норм жаришь!

[@benallmark9671]

This guitar looks identical to a Carlos Santana signature PRS o saw for sale on Kijiji a couple months ago.

[@leodanryan966]

I have an Epiphone Les Paul Special II Slash edition guitar and this looks like a pretty good copy. I think the Harley Benton sounds better than the Epiphone.

[@NamelessGhoul0403]

Its also the gear you use

[@benallmark9671]

I don’t think that all. Of anything the Epiphone’s are a step above the HB’s not that the HB’s are bad. I have plenty of them.

[@AndrewAHayes]

I have the MkI with the original Wilkinson PUPS but now come with Roswell's but I don't see any difference between the MKI and MKII guitars, apart from the Harry Potteresque font!

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

I always thought the font looks like the font in the Purple Rain album.

[@PegeCovers]

Upper fret access

[@thehound2161]

No coil split on my Wilkenson equipped SC-Custom from 2016-17. I would like that feature. The logo is not an issue either way.

[@ianjamieson3985]

Seems to be a lack of bass on those pick-ups. I noticed it on other videos too. Maybe it needs drive and eq pedals but then it's not the guitar you're hearing. Finish flaws too. Budget guitars over £200 in 2022 should not have finish imperfections. Thomann need to look over their shoulders at their competitors' in house brands.

[@user-fc7uf3zb6j]

Саня, норм обзор

[@deHelli]

Hast Du die Gitarre noch?

[@SRguitar]

Nein leider nicht, hatte ich nur zum Testen hier

[@deHelli]

@@SRguitar ich hatte die erste Version. Bei der fand ich den Hals recht dünn. Wie war das denn bei dieser Version?

[@SRguitar]

Ist bei der Custom ll auch recht schlank, aber wirklich komfortabel

[@Pokrischkin]

split coil - это отсечка на синглы)

[@GhostyFilms]

The colors on the Thoman website make these guitars look terrible... They look so much nicer on KZbin... Probably hurts their sales to have such bad pictures on the website.

[@Nightingale1887]

These reviews are great and all but when I hear THEY sent me one I cringe. I mean they are cheap and QC is a bit over the place. It would be a lot more fair to randomly order a guitar to see what you'd get. Me and a friend ordered 2 older HB450 Les Paul's with the Wilkinson branded pickups. One was OK and the other one had the bridge drilled as a lefthand on a righthand guitar. Low E side tilted forward. This slipped though QC somehow.

[@l_burn]

I've heard about issues with QC but I got lucky. I bought the SC Custom for $170 just before the series II was announced and mine was absolutely perfect, besides a few minor cosmetic flaws - that were also on my Epiphone at over twice the price. My buddy ordered a bass and never even got it, they somehow triple charged his account and then his bank refused the transaction as fraud. Left a bad taste in his mouth about the brand so he went with something else. My experience was great, they even let me change my shipping options after the order was completed.

[@Slavetskiy]

Hello. Pickups too moody. Need to replace. Btw, nice video

[@hammondsfromtexas]

That headstock shape ruins it for me

[@benallmark9671]

Lol really

[@averyplaysguitar]

Seriously?