Harley Benton TE-62CC LPB | Is this the best budget Telecaster you can get for €149? Review & Demo

This is the Harley Benton TE-62CC LPB – a new, affordable take on the Telecaster in a rather beautiful Lake Placid Blue finish!

Get the TE-62CC here: https://bit.ly/HBTE-62rwm

Part of Harley Benton’s Deluxe Series, the TE-62 is very much a traditional take on the Tele, with a poplar body, roasted maple neck with maple fingerboard, and a pair of rather twangy Roswell single coil pickups! There’s four pretty cool finishes available too: the Lake Placid Blue I went for, plus Shell Pink, Sea Foam Green and Charcoal Frost.

For €149 (or $141 plus shipping in USA prices), this is the usual ‘a lot of guitar for the money’ from Harley Benton, at least on paper – but how is it in real life? And how does it stack up against similar models like the Squier Bullet Telecaster, or the Squier Affinity Telecaster? That’s what we’re finding out today!

Now, I’m a huge fan of the Fender Telecaster – I love its non-nonsense simplicity and its tonal versatility. It can do everything from sparkly country to mellow jazz on clean settings, and sounds great for rock and indie on its biting bridge pickup too. Plus you can throw one down the stairs and it’ll probably be just fine – don’t ask me how I know!

So, in this video, I put the TE-62 through its paces with a bunch of riffs from my favorite genres – from clean pop, blues, folk and indie strumming to classic and hard rock, some alt rock and some punk, and even a bit of metal in Drop D.
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:10 Intro and all about the Harley Benton TE-62CC LPB
01:10 Specs and features
03:17 Today’s rig

Clean sounds
03:52 Reference chords on all pickup settings
04:13 Poppy barre chords
04:29 Poppy indie ringing chords
04:43 Blues progression
04:56 Country lead sound
05:04 Country ballad arpeggios
05:17 Country chicken picking lead line
05:23 Country strummed chords
05:42 Indie pop picked arpeggios
06:01 Bluesey southern rock riff
06:14 Cowboy chords with tone control test
07:33 Atmospheric droning indie chords
07:54 Strummed folk pop chords

Crunch sounds
08:11 Groovy classic rock riff
08:27 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
08:44 Classic rock riff
09:01 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
09:19 Indie rock rhythm chords riff
09:35 60s rock rhythm tone
09:46 Indie octave chords riff
10:14 Edgy indie barre chords
10:29 Southern rock picked arpeggios
10:40 Droning indie rock riff
10:52 Indie pop octave chords
11:17 Indie rock barre chords
11:42 Volume control roll-off test

Higher gain overdrive sounds
12:36 Classic hard rock riff
12:54 Hard rock riff
13:11 Glam rock riff
13:24 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
13:42 Chunky alternative rock chords
14:08 Alt rock riff
14:22 Pop punk riff
14:36 Pop punk melodic lead sound
14:53 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
15:06 Less Than Jake inspired punk rock riff
15:18 Punk rock power chords
15:32 Punk rock rhythm sounds
15:46 Progressive rock riff (Drop D)
16:02 Chunky modern hard rock power chords (Drop D)
16:28 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy rock riff (Drop D)

Clean Channel with Revv G3 distortion pedal (all in Drop D tuning)
16:44 Metal chugging riff
16:59 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
17:12 Metalcore riff
17:23 Thrash metal riff
17:33 Fast chugging riff
17:44 Lead sounds
17:56 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff
18:29 My thoughts
19:00 First impressions out of the box – looks, weight, maple board
20:31 Build quality and hardware
21:46 Playability out of the box
22:20 Sounds and versatility
24:42 What other affordable Tele type guitars are out there?
27:31 My final conclusions on the TE-62CC LPB
My setup was as follows: I ran the TE-62 into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, and I used my Revv G3 for the heavy distortion 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: https://bit.ly/HKBS200rwm
Revv G3: https://bit.ly/RevvG3RWM
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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