Harley Benton R-446 Flip Flop Blue

Una guitarra realmente bonita. Los acabados muy bien, trastes, pintura, etc. El mastil es muy parecido al de la cs24 de Harley Benton. Pero por algun motivo se sienta mas pequeño. Resulta en esta guitarra mas rapido, el mastil. Los trastes tambien, parecen igual que en la cs24, a pesar de que la cs24 viene con trastes medio/jumbo, y la r446 con trastes jumbo, segun especificacines en la pagina. Las pastillas me esperaba mas "metal", siendo de alta ganancia, per aun asi, se puede sacar buen partido. La accion de fabrica super baja y comoda. trasteo cero. En resumen: una buena guitarra, muy bonita, pero si quieres sonido 100% metal, faltaria un buen pedal de distrcion. Aun asi, me resulta una guitarra muy bonita, divertida y extremamente comoda de tocar y versatil. Muy contento con ella.

If you have trouble with the guitar staying in tune, start by replacing the strings. The strings that came with the guitar I got were replaced within three weeks with a set of D'Addario EXL110 because of tuning issues. After that I tuned the guitar maybe twice a week instead of twice a playing session.

Other than the stock strings there's not much else to complain about. The frets started poking out of the fretboard a bit after a month in its new home's environment but that's just normal life of the wood and nothing a gentle filing won't solve. The string spacing is wider than what I've seen on other guitars of this style but the wider spacing made it easier for me to play as I have thicker fingers. The flipside is that both of the E strings are easier to slip off the fretboard as they're closer to the edges. This was an issue for me only a couple of months before my muscle memory updated itself.

The string action was set as low as it can on my example, which makes the guitar easy to play with very slight fret buzz on the first fret, but the intonation was way too sharp out of the box. Again, that's nothing a bit of patience with a tuner and a screwdriver won't solve.

I absolutely love the flexibility of the pickup setup. The lower gain single coil configurations between higher gain humbucker configurations offer an easy way to switch from a softer rhythm playing sound to crunchier tone for a solo. I've often found myself adjusting the tone more from the guitar's controls than meddling with the amp (or the amp sim).

The following observation may not be evident with all of the guitars manufactured due to tolerances of the electrical components and/or the input impedance of the device the guitar is plugged into: In the middle position with both humbuckers, the tone control turned all the way counter-clockwise, the pickups go resonant with the tone control capacitor which offers a nice fuzz effect to the sound when overdriven. In my case the guitar was plugged to a Line6 POD v2 to get this effect.

The iridescent colour of the guitar is dominantly dark green that turns to purple. My unit arrived with perfect finish. No dents, no scratches, absolutely nothing to complain about the finish.

Overall, for the price it's been perfect for the casual playing I bought it for, and now I actually play more than I used to with the previous almost playable "Stratocrapster". The hardtail bridge was an obvious choice for me after fighting with a constantly drifting cheap tremolo. However, before giving one of these to a beginner to learn to play with, have it checked and adjusted properly to make a happier learning experience.

Ist diese Gitarre super! Natürlich nicht perfekt aber gut!
Vorweg das wichtigste: Der lack ist mehr grün als blau aber das ist kein Problem für mich. ABER-Das ist kein Lack für eine "ich lass die irgendwo rumfliegen " Gitarre. Es ist was besonderes aber empfindlicher als ein gewöhnlicher Lack. Also beachtet, wer die will, muss Sie auch gescheit behandeln.
Von Sound ist licht und Schatten da. Je nachdem was man Spielt.
Rock, Metal, Heavy kann man easy Spielen und da is es fast egal welchen Pickup man nimmt. Wenn es aber mehr Volumen und Umfang braucht dann ist meine Erfahrung - Beide Pickups nutzen und Volume Regler bei der Gitarre etwas runter drehen. Dann geht sehr gut sogar sowas wie Blues zu spielen. Ja das geht mit der!
Zu dem was ich dringend machen würde nach Erhalt der Gitarre: Einstellen von Saitenhöhe und ggf. Sattel etwas nachfeilen. Hat bei mir sehr viel bewirkt. Aber unterm Strich folgendes Fazit:
Sehr gute Gitarre für Leute die wissen was Sie wollen und die grundlegendes beim für sich einstellen der Gitarre können.
Der Lack ist halt ne Diva aber dafür scheint er auch so wunderbar.
Bist du gut zu Ihr - ist Sie gut zu dir.