Harmony Silhouette | A unique boutique offset guitar with gold foil mini humbuckers! Review & Demo

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This is the Harmony Guitars Silhouette Flame Maple model – a premium, USA-built offset electric guitar with a style and character all its own!

More on the Harmony Silhouette here:

Harmony Guitars have been around in one form or another since 1892, and the current Silhouette is a mixture of retro offset looks and modern features and playability, all held together by Harmony’s custom-wound gold foil mini humbuckers!

This is a premium instrument through and through. It was built in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, at the same factory where Gibson Guitars used to be made, and Heritage (and Harmony!) guitars are currently crafted, and it certainly looks, feels and plays like no expenses were spared.

This limited flame maple edition features an alder body under that beautiful sea blue top, while the neck is maple with a bone nut, locking tuners, and an ebony fingerboard. The body and neck both have a nitro finish. The C-shaped neck is pleasantly chunky in the hand, and it has a 25” scale length, a 12” fingerboard radius, and 22 medium jumbo frets – all of which make it perfect for chords, solos, and anything in between.

On the body we have that pair of Harmony mini humbuckers, the iconic Harmony cupcake knobs, and a custom half Telecaster-style bridge with compensated saddles.

Finally, this being a boutique axe, it’s delivered in an exquisite MONO Vertigo soft padded case, which are the best gig bags I’ve ever seen. More on the Vertigo here:

Put simply, then, the Silhouette is an enticing proposition, even when you consider its $1700/€1700 price tag… but is it worth the money? That’s what we’re going to find out! In the video, I play the Silhouette in as many different musical styles as I can!

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

00:00 Hello!
00:16 Introduction to the Silhouette and Harmony Guitars
02:01 Specs and info
04:41 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
05:28 Clean tone reference chords
05:42 Blues progression
05:53 Ringing open indie pop chords
06:06 Poppy barre chords
06:22 Funky chords
06:36 Strummed country chords
06:55 Country lead sound
07:02 Country ballad arpeggios
07:16 Ascending droning indie riff
07:29 Cowboy chords with tone control test
08:24 Indie pop picked arpeggios

Overdriven Sounds
08:43 Kings Of Leon inspired riff
08:58 Garage rock riff
09:15 Choppy barre chords
09:23 Droning indie chords
09:38 Indie rock barre chords
10:02 Volume control roll-off test
10:25 Fat indie rhythm chords
10:41 Southern rock arpeggios
10:51 Classic rock riff
11:08 Groovy classic rock riff
11:34 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
11:44 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
12:00 Driving classic rock riff

Higher Gain Drive Sounds
12:15 80s rock riff
12:34 Hard rock riff
12:51 Classic hard rock riff
13:08 Hard rock lead
13:32 Hair metal riff
13:46 Glam rock riff
14:02 Alternative rock riff
14:16 Chunky alt rock chords
14:29 Pop punk riff
14:42 Pop punk melodic lead riff
14:58 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
15:11 Less Than Jake inspired punk riff
15:23 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
15:39 Palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
16:02 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)

Clean Channel w/Revv G3 Distortion Pedal (all in Drop D)
16:20 Metal chugging riff
16:37 Heavy metal lead sound
16:53 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
17:05 Metalcore riff
17:16 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
17:29 Classic metal/sludge riff

18:07 My thoughts
18:34 First impressions and the Mono soft case
19:14 Looks
19:33 Weight
19:49 Build quality and hardware
20:17 Playability, neck and setup
21:02 Sound and pickups discussion
22:57 What competition is out there for the Silhouette?
26:05 My conclusions on the Silhouette
26:47 Thanks and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the Silhouette into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, using my Revv G3 for 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:
Revv G3:
Focusrite 4i4 (the new 2i4):
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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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