Harley Benton MR-Modern Baritone SB | Is this your perfect affordable first baritone? Review & Demo

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This is the Harley Benton MR-Modern Baritone SB in 3-tone sunburst!

Aesthetically based on the cult Mosrite guitar brand, the MR-Modern Baritone is a quirky offset axe that – for €349 – could just be the best way to take your first steps into the world of baritone guitars.

Get the MR-Modern Baritone here:

I chose the MR-Modern Baritone for my first real try with one of these low-end monsters because, for the price, it has some pretty fantastic specs and features. Where else can you get things like stainless steel frets, an ebony fingerboard, locking tuners, glow-in-the-dark side dot inlays, a Graph Tech TUSQ nut, and a Wilkinson VS-50 II bridge for €349?

The goal of this video is to showcase the MR-Modern Baritone in as many musical styles as possible from the perspective of a baritone newbie – which is exactly what I am!

So, we’ll play some low-tuned metal and some ambient clean stuff, of course… but what about more standard genres? Can you play classic rock and indie on a baritone? What about blues, funk, pop, country, punk rock, and so on? There are playing samples of all of these genres and more here for you to enjoy. Watch on to see how the guitar copes with all of it!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:35 Introduction to the MR-Modern Baritone
01:55 Specs and info
04:44 Baritones and standard guitars are… different!
05:39 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
06:43 Clean tone reference chords
07:16 Strummed indie pop chords
07:47 Atmospheric droning indie chords
08:07 Strummed open chords
08:30 Modern neo-soul barre chords
08:41 Country lead sound
08:48 Country ballad arpeggios
09:01 Funky rhythm chords
09:15 Tone control test
10:27 Blues progression
10:39 Strummed folk pop chords

Clean Sounds + reverb/tremolo
10:56 Poppy soundscapes
11:19 Surf chords
11:40 Ringing open indie pop chords
12:14 60s soul riff on all three pickups
12:50 Indie pop picked arpeggios
13:12 Atmospheric arpeggios
13:35 Poppy melodic chords
13:51 Indie droning riff

Overdrive sounds
14:14 Fat indie rhythm chords
14:43 Edgy indie rock chords
15:02 Indie rock octave chords
15:28 Upbeat indie rock barre chords
15:51 Volume control roll-off test
16:08 Garage rock riff
16:24 White Stripes inspired garage rock riff
16:38 Droning indie riff
17:16 Kings Of Leon inspired indie riff
17:30 Indie octave chords riff
17:58 Classic rock riff
18:14 Groovy classic rock riff
18:31 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
18:40 Bluesey classic rock riff
18:57 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
19:13 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff

Higher gain overdrive sounds
19:29 Classic hard rock riff
19:46 Hard rock riff
20:03 Classic metal melodic lead sound
20:18 Glam rock riff
20:33 Hard rock single note riff
20:58 Alt rock riff
21:21 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
21:34 Pop punk melodic lead riff
21:50 Pop punk riff
22:04 Punk/metal riff
22:14 Punk rock power chords
22:37 Progressive rock riff
22:53 Modern rock palm-muted power chords

Heavy sounds
23:17 Metal chugging riff
23:33 Intense metal riff
23:51 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
24:06 Metalcore riff
24:17 Progressive metal riff
24:27 Modern hard rock riff
24:39 Hardcore punk breakdown

24:56 My thoughts
25:36 First impressions out of the box
26:29 Weight
26:57 Build quality and hardware
27:29 Setup/playability
29:06 Sounds
32:42 Things to watch out for
33:40 What other affordable baritone guitars are out there?
36:24 Why the MR-Modern Baritone is a great buy
37:07 My conclusions on the MR-Modern Baritone
38:13 Thanks and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the guitar into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Fender Tre-Verb for reverb/tremolo sounds, my Greer Lightspeed for the overdrive, and 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:
Fender Tre-Verb:
Greer Lightspeed:
Revv G3:
Focusrite 4i4:
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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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