Objayda TV – Harley Benton vs Rickenbacker Bass Review
Tim gives his personal initial thoughts on the Harley Benton RB414bk ( Rickenbacker style ) Bass Guitar as compared to his much loved Rickenbacker 4003 – price considered.
https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_rb_414bk_classic_series.htm?ref=prp_variations_367487_2
Thanks to @colmdawson7018 for pointing out my faux pas and a simple potential fix:
Hi, the pickup you identify as “not great” is the bridge, not the neck as you point to. On mine I clipped the bridge pickup springs and added some foam underneath and now it’s just as loud as the neck pickup and sounds great.
Watch the ‘Unboxing’ video here on Objayda TV
Link to Rickysounds Bass Strings https://www.rickysounds.co.uk/product/rickysounds-105-bass-set/
Bass riff from OBJAYDA – The Dreamcatcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60B-dAegq-I
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''…great bass…'' well, apart from the very sharp frets, crappy strings, dodgy neck pick-up, not loud enough…. etc. etc.
Excellent! Subbed you
I don't get that pickup guard – they could have easily made it look less cheap. Other than that, looks like a great bargain to me!
Is the bridge pickup quieter or louder than the neck? You mentioned the volume difference but not which is hotter (unless I missed it). What would you replace the neck pickup with?
Bent-on. Is that a reference to the neck.
Don’t forget the Firefly version of this bass!!!!
Hi, the pickup you identify as "not great" is the bridge, not the neck as you point to. On mine I clipped the bridge pickup springs and added some foam underneath and now it's just as loud as the neck pickup and sounds great.
What is the weight of the HB? Does it balance w/o neck dive when sitting on one's knee? Is the neck thicker than a Rick? ~50 years ago I briefly had a Rick and the neck was too slim for comfort.
C'mon man, your playing style doesn't exist! Five frets are more than enough for you. You talk like a pro but you play like an absolute beginner! I can buy the most expensive bass guitar, but, will it serve me when I can not play? A good bassist makes a bad bass sound good. A bad bassist makes a good bass sound crappy.
Rickenbaker is much warmer and fatter in sound by a wide margin
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Hb sounds and looks shit lets be honest here.
Are the pickups in the exact same position? As the real rick?
Why doesn't Rickenbacker just get with it and manufacture budget models just like Fender and Gibson have done?? I love my Squire basses and Epiphone are superb instruments, and other companies make cheaper models, so it's about time that Rickenbacker got with the times.
You don't file saddles down.
Do you?
Hi what neck pickup did you use?
Buyer Beware!
I'll take the real one.
While this IS a well made bass, its design flaws, make it hard to achieve a low playing action. The bridge needs replacement & the saddles need to be filed down to get it really playable!
The vol difference between the 2 pick ups can be fixed by adjusting the height. RAISE the back 1 & lower the front 1!
Apart from that, it IS a nice instrument, & is usable for sure!
I have heard & PLAYED worse!
Another difference is that the Rick has a glossy fretboard whereas the HB is matte. I guess that’s another area where HB was able to shave off a few dollars in manufacturing costs.
Brace Yerselves for the Ricky Fan backlash????!!
???????? I can't believe you guys are still peddling those Harley Benton piece of garbage basses. Wow! ????????
I have a lefty HB RB414 in the burst colour scheme, yours seems to have the same problem as mine and that is the poorly aligned tuning pegs, my E string is offset towards the treble side quite a lot, it's the main reason mine is heading for the firewood pile, I just hate the sloppy design of the headstock layout that and the crappy electrics and the awful paintwork, the back has an uneven patchy look.
I have the RB-414 which I completely gutted and installed new wiring, new pots, a Seymour Duncan humbucker for the neck pickup and a Bartolini humbucker for the bridge pickup. Also replaced the two 0.022 uF capacitors with a pair of 0.049 uF capacitors. And the icing on the cake, replaced the 3-way switch with a genuine Rickenbacker 3-way switch. Re-wired everything using a Les Paul wiring diagram. The bass now has improved punch along with an improvement at the high, mid-range and bottom end. Swapped out the stock tuning machines for a set of Grover tuning machines, and the difference is night and day. It's now the first of my five basses that I play on the regular.
I own that exact same harley benton and the sound difference between the two pickups is huge, neck one is like a boost. I also removed the pickup guard but I also added a ric style white plastic "spike?" to the headstock and it looks cool. Its an alright guitar, feels very soild. I have another harley benton jb-75 that is far superior and would highly reccomoned to people, my fender p bass sits on the wall now.
There is no comparison, there is only the real one or fakes.
Who wants to be the be the player on stage with a fake ?