Harley Benton DC-60 Junior in Pelham Blue | How much P90 fun can you have for €199? Review & Demo

This is the Harley Benton DC-60 Junior in Pelham Blue!

When this guitar was announced in July 2021, I knew I had to give it a try. It’s a single pickup guitar (which I love), the pickup in question is a P90 (again, awesome), it’s Pelham Blue (score!), and it’s less than €200! What’s not to like? In theory – and on paper – this guitar looks like a pure and simple rock and roll machine.

Get the Harley Benton DC-60 Junior here: https://bit.ly/HBDC-60rwm
Oh, and it comes in Faded Cherry too: https://bit.ly/DC60CherryRWM

The DC-60 Junior’s specs are proper decent for the money: mahogany body and neck, amaranth fingerboard, graphite nut, Roswell P90 pickup, WSC wraparound bridge, Wilkinson tuners, and a neck size, shape and profile that’ll feel right at home to anyone who’s ever played a Gibson SG, or an SG Junior of course.

But how good can it really be for €199? Well, that’s what we find out in this video. I put the DC-60 Junior through its paces in a variety of musical styles and genres, from country and pop to indie, rock, punk, and even a bit of metal. It’s all played into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, using the Greer Lightspeed and Revv G3 pedals for the drive sounds.
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:47 Introduction to the Harley Benton DC-60 Junior
01:48 DC-60 specs and info
03:28 Today’s rig

Clean Sounds
04:08 Clean tone reference chords
04:14 Poppy barre chords
04:30 Country pop strummed chords
04:51 Country ballad arpeggios
05:05 Poppy droning chords
05:23 Indie rhythm chords
05:43 Strummed open chords with tone pot sweep control test
06:24 Indie pop picked chord arpeggios
06:43 Choppy indie chords

Clean Channel with Greer Lightspeed
06:59 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
07:16 Groovy classic rock riff
07:43 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
07:59 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
08:11 Classic rock rhythms
08:28 Epic classic rock riff
08:56 Indie rock barre chords
09:10 Indie rhythm chords
09:41 Indie droning open string riff
09:53 Indie rock barre chords
10:19 Volume control roll-off test
10:46 Greta Van Fleet inspired rock riff
10:58 Indie octave chords riff
11:26 Kings Of Leon inspired epic indie rock riff

Lead Channel on Amp
11:41 Classic hard rock riff
11:59 Hard rock riff
12:16 Glam rock riff
12:30 Airbourne inspired hard rock riff
12:53 Chunky alternative rock chords
13:20 Modern alt rock riff
13:34 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
13:51 Pop punk riff
14:04 Punk rock power chords
14:18 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
14:32 Pop punk melodic lead riff
14:48 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
15:04 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D tuning)
15:28 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D tuning)

Clean Channel w/Revv G3 Distortion Pedal
15:44 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang (Drop D tuning)
15:56 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning)
16:11 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff (Drop D tuning)

16:44 My thoughts and impressions of the guitar straight out of the box
17:37 Weight and does it balance on a strap?
18:20 On closer inspection, a few finish imperfections
18:39 Build quality and those imperfections
21:21 The action out of the box
21:50 Playability and the neck
22:36 Sounds and versatility
25:47 Is the DC-60 Junior worth the money?
26:29 What’s the competition for the DC-60 Junior?
28:04 Final conclusion and goodbye

I ran the DC-60 Junior into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed and Revv G3 pedals for the overdrive and 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
Greer Lightspeed: https://bit.ly/LightspeedRWM
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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