Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue: stacked P90 and ebony board on a budget! Review & Demo
This is the brand new Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue!
A few of you asked me to look at this guitar because I’d previously bought the DC Junior FAT in Ferris Blue – so here we go! The DC Junior FAT is obviously Harley Benton’s homage to the Gibson Les Paul Junior double cut model, but this model features a stacked P90 pickup, meaning you can play in both single coil and humbucking modes. So, will the guitar be more flexible than a standard P90-equipped Junior model? Let’s find out!
Get the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue here: http://bit.ly/DCJrBentonBlue
In this video, I play a bunch of riffs in my favorite genres, and the at the end I do a short comparison between the Benton Blue and Ferris Blue models to see what the differences are.
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Hello!
00:38 Intro and why I have this guitar for review
01:42 All about the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue
Amp on the Clean Channel
04:19 Clean reference chords
04:31 Country strummed chords
05:12 Indie barre chords
05:45 Poppy indie ringing chords
06:14 Cowboy chords with tone control test
07:21 Strummed indie pop chords
07:57 Indie pop picked arpeggios and strummed chords
09:02 Bluesey southern rock sounds
09:29 Atmospheric lead melody with extra reverb
Amp on the Crunch channel
09:47 Classic rock sounds
12:49 Southern rock arpeggios
13:12 Indie rock sounds
15:10 Volume control roll-off test
Amp on the Lead Channel
16:09 Alt-rock riff
16:37 Foo Fighters inspired rock riff
17:09 Hard rock sounds
18:30 Punk rock sounds
18:58 Progressive rock sounds (Drop D tuning)
Clean Channel with Revv G3 distortion pedal (Drop D tuning)
20:18 Metal chugging riff
20:47 Hardcore rhythm riff
21:08 Hardcore punk riff
21:39 Mastodon inspired modern metal riff
22:00 Lead sounds
22:26 Comparing the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT Ferris Blue and Benton Blue guitars - clean sounds
24:50 Comparison: classic rock sounds
25:59 Comparison: hard rock sounds
26:39 Comparison: pop punk sounds
27:07 Comparison: metal and metalcore sounds in Drop D tuning
27:47 My thoughts – I’m a big fan of Juniors!
28:08 Are the Benton Blue and Ferris Blue models the same, or different?
28:41 Build quality
29:17 Playability and the Fat ’59 neck
30:21 Sounds and the stacked P90 Roswell pickup
31:43 Watch my video comparing the stacked P90 to a genuine P90 on the Harley Benton SC Junior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a57ykwxbNkc
32:19 Price and value for money
33:07 Final conclusion and goodbye
My setup was as follows: I ran the DC Junior FAT (through my Revv G3 distortion pedal for the really heavy sounds) into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That 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: Controlled Distress – Biz Baz Studio.
#HarleyBenton #DCJuniorFAT #DCJunior #LesPaulJunior
*Note: certain links in the description are affiliate links. If you click said links and purchase anything as a result, I will receive a small commission. This doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it does help to support the channel. So, if you do that, thank you very much!*
Видео Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue: stacked P90 and ebony board on a budget! Review & Demo канала Rich. Words. Music.
A few of you asked me to look at this guitar because I’d previously bought the DC Junior FAT in Ferris Blue – so here we go! The DC Junior FAT is obviously Harley Benton’s homage to the Gibson Les Paul Junior double cut model, but this model features a stacked P90 pickup, meaning you can play in both single coil and humbucking modes. So, will the guitar be more flexible than a standard P90-equipped Junior model? Let’s find out!
Get the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue here: http://bit.ly/DCJrBentonBlue
In this video, I play a bunch of riffs in my favorite genres, and the at the end I do a short comparison between the Benton Blue and Ferris Blue models to see what the differences are.
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Hello!
00:38 Intro and why I have this guitar for review
01:42 All about the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue
Amp on the Clean Channel
04:19 Clean reference chords
04:31 Country strummed chords
05:12 Indie barre chords
05:45 Poppy indie ringing chords
06:14 Cowboy chords with tone control test
07:21 Strummed indie pop chords
07:57 Indie pop picked arpeggios and strummed chords
09:02 Bluesey southern rock sounds
09:29 Atmospheric lead melody with extra reverb
Amp on the Crunch channel
09:47 Classic rock sounds
12:49 Southern rock arpeggios
13:12 Indie rock sounds
15:10 Volume control roll-off test
Amp on the Lead Channel
16:09 Alt-rock riff
16:37 Foo Fighters inspired rock riff
17:09 Hard rock sounds
18:30 Punk rock sounds
18:58 Progressive rock sounds (Drop D tuning)
Clean Channel with Revv G3 distortion pedal (Drop D tuning)
20:18 Metal chugging riff
20:47 Hardcore rhythm riff
21:08 Hardcore punk riff
21:39 Mastodon inspired modern metal riff
22:00 Lead sounds
22:26 Comparing the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT Ferris Blue and Benton Blue guitars - clean sounds
24:50 Comparison: classic rock sounds
25:59 Comparison: hard rock sounds
26:39 Comparison: pop punk sounds
27:07 Comparison: metal and metalcore sounds in Drop D tuning
27:47 My thoughts – I’m a big fan of Juniors!
28:08 Are the Benton Blue and Ferris Blue models the same, or different?
28:41 Build quality
29:17 Playability and the Fat ’59 neck
30:21 Sounds and the stacked P90 Roswell pickup
31:43 Watch my video comparing the stacked P90 to a genuine P90 on the Harley Benton SC Junior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a57ykwxbNkc
32:19 Price and value for money
33:07 Final conclusion and goodbye
My setup was as follows: I ran the DC Junior FAT (through my Revv G3 distortion pedal for the really heavy sounds) into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That 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
-----
Enjoy!
-----
Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress – Biz Baz Studio.
#HarleyBenton #DCJuniorFAT #DCJunior #LesPaulJunior
*Note: certain links in the description are affiliate links. If you click said links and purchase anything as a result, I will receive a small commission. This doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it does help to support the channel. So, if you do that, thank you very much!*
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