Harley Benton SC Junior vs DC-60 Junior | Which is the best affordable P90 guitar under €200?

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Today, we pit the Harley Benton SC Junior in Black against the Harley Benton DC-60 Junior in Pelham Blue in the battle of the affordable Junior style guitars!

Get the SC Junior here:
Get the DC-60 Junior here:

Now, I love a single P90 pickup guitar, because they’re so simple and they basically force you to focus on just playing. Plus, the raw aggression of a P90 into an overdriven amp is one of the best sounds out there!

The SC Junior (which is clearly based on the iconic Gibson Les Paul Junior) and the DC-60 Junior (which is an SG Junior style) are some of the best and most affordable guitars of this type I’ve found. For under €200/$200 dollars each, you get a lot for your money: both guitars have mahogany bodies and necks topped with amaranth fingerboards, and each is equipped with a single Roswell P90 dogear pickup.

You also get Wilkinson Deluxe tuners, a WSC wraparound bridge, and a neck that’ll suit Gibson fans down to the ground: 22 medium jumbo frets, a 24.75” scale length, 12” fingerboard radius, and a comfy C shape that should be suitable for just about any hands.

So, in theory, what we have here are two pure and simple rock and roll machines – and what we’re going to do today is found out which does it better! In the video, I put the guitars through their paces in a variety of musical styles and genres, from country and pop to indie, rock, punk, and even a bit of metal. Which guitar do you prefer?

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

00:00 Hello!
00:25 Introduction and what we’re doing today
01:34 Specs and info
03:32 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
04:54 Clean tone reference chords
05:34 Poppy barre chords
06:04 Funky rhythm chords
06:18 Country ballad arpeggios
06:31 Country lead sound
06:46 Country pop strummed chords
07:05 Blues progression
07:29 Indie pop picked chord arpeggios
07:48 Retro soul rhythm tone
08:10 Droning pop chords

Clean Channel with Greer Lightspeed
08:27 Indie rhythm chords
08:55 Indie octave chords riff
09:19 Upbeat indie rock barre chords
09:43 Edgy indie barre chords
10:10 Kings Of Leon inspired indie rock riff
10:25 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
10:56 Groovy classic rock riff
11:21 Classic rock rhythms
11:40 Airbourne inspired rock riff

Lead Channel on Amp
11:56 Classic hard rock riff
12:13 Hard rock riff
12:30 Hard rock lead tone
12:55 Glam rock riff
13:24 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
13:42 Alt rock riff
14:06 Pop punk riff
14:31 Pop punk melodic lead riff
14:47 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
15:14 Punk rock power chords
15:40 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
15:56 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
16:20 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)

Clean Channel w/Revv G3 Distortion Pedal (all in Drop D)
16:51 Metal chugging riff
17:24 Hardcore punk riff
17:40 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
18:03 Glam metal melodic lead sound
18:19 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
18:32 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff

19:05 My thoughts – Juniors are surprisingly versatile
20:06 Comparing the two guitars: price
20:41 Looks
21:26 Build quality and hardware
22:26 Playability
22:52 Does the DC-60 Junior balance on a strap?
23:18 Necks and neck profiles
23:49 Weight
24:27 Sounds discussion
26:33 Do you really need a neck pickup?
27:16 What’s the competition for these guitars?
28:16 My conclusions on the guitars
28:40 Which guitar would I buy (again)?
29:12 Final conclusion and goodbye

I ran the guitars into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed and Revv G3 pedals for the overdrive and 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:
Greer Lightspeed:
Revv G3:
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 – TrackTribe.

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