Harley Benton Duality | Dual reverb and delay goodness for €99 | Review & Demo

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This is the Harley Benton Duality dual delay and reverb pedal – a member of the brand’s affordable new Double Pedal Series!

Get the Duality here:

Coming in at €99, the Duality is about as cheap as you’ll get for a pedal that gives you multiple delay and reverb sounds in one box. You get three of each here: Studio (i.e. room), Church and Plate reverbs, and Analog, Real, and Tape flavors of delay. (I originally assumed the Real mode was a digital delay, but Thomann have since updated their website to state that it’s a ‘Space Delay’.) You can run the two sides together, stacking them either delay into reverb or reverb into delay, or you can play with one side at a time.

For a pedal of this type, the Duality is refreshingly simple to control. The Delay side of the pedal gives you Time, Feedback and Level controls, while the Reverb side offers Decay, Tone and Mix knobs. There’s no tap tempo for the delay, and the Duality is strictly Mono only – so if you’re after stereo effects, you’ll need to look elsewhere.

So, for this price, that’s a lot of tones on offer… but do they sound any good? That’s what we’re finding out in this video. Using my Epiphone Les Paul, I test the Duality’s six modes out in as many different musical styles as possible to see how versatile it truly is. We’ll play through the reverb and delay modes separately, as well as the stacking the two together, and at the end I do a nice ambient loop where I get to twist all the knobs around and really see what extremes the Duality will go!

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

00:00 Hello!
00:26 Introduction to the Duality
00:52 Pedal controls and features
03:59 Today’s rig and plan

Reverb Sounds
04:31 Clean reference tones and turning on the reverb
04:55 Studio reverb sounds
06:48 Church reverb sounds
08:51 Plate reverb sounds

Delay Sounds
11:13 Clean reference tones and turning on the delay
11:34 Delay length options
11:51 Analog delay sounds
14:08 Real delay sounds
15:18 Tape delay sounds
16:24 Hard rock rhythm and lead test

16:51 Delay & Reverb Sounds
22:03 Post rock sounds with heavy distortion

22:53 Ambient loop testing all pedal settings

32:06 My thoughts
33:25 What I like about the pedal
35:03 What I don’t like
39:41 This pedal overloaded my amp – sound example
40:54 What other cheap delay/reverb pedals are out there?
43:01 Final conclusions on the Duality
43:23 Thanks and goodbye


My setup was as follows: I ran the Duality straight into the BluGuitar AMP1 Mercury Edition amplifier. That went from the amp’s Recording Out straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That’s it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my Boss RC-10 to play the loops.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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BluGuitar AMP1 Mercury Edition:
Boss RC-10R Rhythm Loop Station:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!



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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – Track Tribe.

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