Harley Benton Headless Prototypes

[lewis]

Well...im on board

 

[trem licking]

8 string with a trem and im in. lol at me, i know

 

[spudmunkey]

Praising the fret dressing on a prototype is a little bit pointless, but the split coil modes sounded nice, to my ear, through my shitty dell laptop speakers.

 

[gunch]

+ Its good to see more options in the lower price bracket
- That body shape isn't hideous but pretty... safe?
~ Omg fan fret 6er pls HB

Looks like the same bridge pieces on my NK

 

[littlebadboy]

The body is like the usual strat you see around. They could've gone a little rad with the shape.

 

[lewis]

They made a deal to start selling legators at thomann and this body shape looks very close to a model they sell im sure?

 

[angl2k]

If it is weight relieved I will definitely get one to test.. I am looking for a comfy lightweight headless!

 

[BlackSG91]

I like the guitar and it looks fun to play. I also like the colour of the guitar.


;>)/

 

[Ivars V]

Pretty cool! Thicks all the boxes for me, if I don't get a viper or smth

 

[PF Chang]

That type of bridge cutout would go better with a singe cut, which I'd like to see more of anyway.

 

[MatiasTolkki]

Welp, there goes Kiesel's entire market.

 

[Andromalia]

The body is like the usual strat you see around. They could've gone a little rad with the shape.

Considering the prices they make money by selling a lot of them, so I suppose they have to stay reasonably "vanilla" in terms of shapes. Those are mass market items, not niche, considering headless is already niche enough.

 

[Vegetta]

wonder how this will stack up against those NK headless guitars.

 

[jwguitar]

Well...im on board

That's really cool. I used to have a Steinberger spirit and a USA Steinberger. Both really good guitars. I wish I never sold them. Back when I got those guitars in the mid 90s it was nearly impossible to find headless guitars anywhere.

 

[Jeff]

I particularly thought the HX Stomp sounded good.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

+ Its good to see more options in the lower price bracket
- That body shape isn't hideous but pretty... safe?
~ Omg fan fret 6er pls HB

I'm actually happy about the "safe" shape. Been wanting a normal-looking headless like the old Steinberger M series for the longest time.

 

[gunch]

I'm actually happy about the "safe" shape. Been wanting a normal-looking headless like the old Steinberger M series for the longest time.

Valid, but a more single cut or Tele-oid shape would have had me more acutely interested

 

[spudmunkey]

Welp, there goes Kiesel's entire market.

*scratches head* In what way? Because it's a (likely) cheap headless?

I particularly thought the HX Stomp sounded good.

In theory, it should have the exact same tone as the big brother, it just doesn't have the same robust I/O, expression pedal, fewer buttons, but most importantly: it only has 1/2 of the processing bandwidth to spend on amps/cabs/effects. If you have a PowerCab+, you can offload the cab IR to the PC+. Meaning: what it can do, will sound the same as the Helix. But it can only do less at one time.

 

[littlebadboy]

So... when is it coming out?

 

[Jeff]

*scratches head* In what way? Because it's a (likely) cheap headless?


In theory, it should have the exact same tone as the big brother, it just doesn't have the same robust I/O, expression pedal, fewer buttons, but most importantly: it only has 1/2 of the processing bandwidth to spend on amps/cabs/effects. If you have a PowerCab+, you can offload the cab IR to the PC+. Meaning: what it can do, will sound the same as the Helix. But it can only do less at one time.

I know; I had one. I sold it once I got on the Fractal FM3 list. Kinda regret it.