Harley Benton SC Junior vs Vintage V120 | Battle of the affordable Les Paul Juniors! Guitar shootout

Time for another affordable guitar shootout… today it’s the Harley Benton SC Junior and the Vintage V120 under the microscope!

These are both budget singlecut guitars that are inspired by the legendary Gibson Les Paul Junior, of course, and they’re pretty similar on the face of it. Where the differ is in the woods used, the pickups, and in the size of the neck – which is the key factor for me in deciding between these two.

The Harley Benton SC Junior has the more standard neck size, along with a standard Roswell P90. It also has a mahogany body and neck, and an amaranth fingerboard. The Vintage V120 ReIssued edition in Two Tone Sunburst, meanwhile, has a massive neck – it really is big! – and a mahogany body, one-piece mahogany neck, and a Lignum Rosa fingerboard. The pickup is a Wilkinson W90SK, which is stacked – more info on that and everything else is in the video.

Get the Harley Benton SC Junior here: http://bit.ly/SCJuniorRWM
And find out more about the Vintage V120 here: http://bit.ly/V120rwm

In this video, I play a bunch of riffs in my favorite genres on both guitars… let me know which one you prefer in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Hello!
00:26 Intro and what we’re doing today
01:23 Some specs and info on both guitars
04:55 Today’s rig

Amp on the Clean Channel
05:22 Clean reference chords
05:33 Country strummed chords
06:12 Country rock picking sounds
06:27 Country picked ballad riff
06:53 Poppy indie ringing chords
07:19 Indie barre chords
07:55 Indie picked arpeggios

Amp on the Crunch channel
08:32 Groovy classic rock riff
09:24 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
09:46 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
10:10 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
10:43 Indie octave chords riff
11:29 Indie rock rhythm chords riff
12:02 Droning indie rock riff
12:27 Kings Of Leon inspired indie rock riff

Amp on the Lead Channel
12:57 Classic hard rock riff
13:31 Airbourne inspired classic hard rock riff
14:11 Pop punk riff
14:36 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
15:04 Foo Fighters inspired rock riff
15:36 Alt rock rhythmic chords with open strings
16:28 Alt rock riff
16:56 Progressive rock riff (Drop D)
17:25 Chunky modern hard rock power chords (Drop D)

Clean Channel with Revv G3 distortion pedal (Drop D tuning)
18:11 Metal chugging riff
18:46 Hardcore rhythm chugging riff
19:06 Mastodon inspired modern metal riff
19:27 Hardcore punk riff
19:57 Metalcore riff
20:18 Lead sounds
20:41 Classic metal riff

21:45 My thoughts – there’s plenty to say today!
22:22 Looks
23:56 Build quality
26:04 Playability and that Vintage V120 neck
26:59 Weights
27:42 Sounds and pickup differences
30:02 Which one should you buy?
33:00 Thanks and goodbye
Here's my full review and demo of the Vintage V120: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckzLNIAoUX0
And my full review and demo of the Harley Benton SC Junior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HosEmW2Y-GA
My setup for this video was as follows: I ran the guitars into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, and used the Revv G3 distortion pedal for the really heavy sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head: http://bit.ly/rwmBS200

Revv G3: https://bit.ly/rwmRevvG3
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): http://bit.ly/rwmFR4i4
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Enjoy!
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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