Harley Benton SC Junior | The best budget Les Paul Junior money can buy in 2021? | Review & Demo

This is the Harley Benton SC Junior! I got this guitar because I’ve recently fallen for P90 pickups in a big way (my 2020 Epiphone SG Worn and my Harley Benton DC Junior FAT both have them) and it seems like the Les Paul Junior style is the ultimate single P90 axe. This particular guitar comes in a rather beautiful black finish with tortoiseshell pickguard… very reminiscent of the Gibson Les Paul Junior signature model Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong had a few years ago, in fact! Beyond the looks, though, you’ve got the single Roswell P90 pickup and not much else – it’s a pure rock and roll guitar. But… would I miss having a neck pickup? Can a P90 do metal? And would the Harley Benton’s super cheap price mean it would suffer in the quality and playability stakes? Watch on to find out! Get the Harley Benton SC Junior here: https://bit.ly/HBSCJuniorRWM Here’s the timestamps for the different parts of the video: 00:00 Hello! 00:39 Harley Benton SC Junior specs and features 02:54 Today’s rig Clean Channel on the amp 03:16 Poppy barre chords 03:31 Classic pop rock chords and tone control test 04:19 Droning indie pop chords 04:37 Southern rock rhythm arpeggios 04:55 Country ballad picking 05:09 Country picked riff 05:17 Soul pop riff with extra reverb 05:38 Bluesey southern rock progression With the Greer Lightspeed Overdrive 06:03 Indie chord arpeggios 06:23 Southern rock rhythm arpeggios 06:35 Southern rock lead melody 06:51 Classic rock sounds in the style of AC/DC 08:24 Hendrix inspired classic rock 08:39 Strokes inspired indie rock riff 09:19 Indie pop progression 09:52 Indie rock chordal riff 10:23 Indie picked arpeggios 10:54 Indie alt rock octaves riff 11:17 Indie rock chunky rhythm riff 11:40 Indie barre chord rhythm progression 12:06 Volume control test 12:32 Upbeat pop punk riff 12:46 Punk rock riff 13:00 Green Day inspired pop punk riffs 13:39 Alt rock riff 14:06 Hard rock sounds 14:39 Glam rock riff 14:54 Foo Fighters inspired rock riff 15:19 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning) With the Revv G3 distortion pedal and Drop D Tuning 15:36 Metal chugging riff 15:55 Hardcore punk rhythm sounds 16:05 Mastodon inspired metal riff 16:16 Progressive rock power chords 16:39 Ascending lead riff 16:52 Hardcore punk riff 17:06 My thoughts on the Harley Benton SC Junior – just one pickup? 18:03 Build quality 18:32 The Roswell P90 pickup 19:00 One weird quality control issue 20:08 Final conclusion and what do you think? My setup was as follows: I ran the SC Junior through a Greer Lightspeed overdrive pedal and a Revv G3 distortion pedal 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: ----- H&K Black Spirit 200 head: http://bit.ly/rwmBS200 Greer Lightspeed: http://bit.ly/rwmLightspeed 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: Get Tough - TrackTribe. #HarleyBenton #LesPaulJunior #SCJunior #BudgetGuitar #RichWordsMusic