i disagree i think the black with tortoise pickguard is a stroke of genius

@NeoRichardBlake

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. I have an Epiphone SG in black stain with a black pick guard, and it's nice, but feels a little too monochrome. The red of this pick guard really pops and gives it nice character. Makes me want to cut a new pick guard for my SG. :)

@jeffhopkins5704

3 жыл бұрын

I`ve wrapped my pickuard in black and it looks a beast, shame I can`t share a pic on here.

@jamesfindice2871

2 жыл бұрын

yeap it looks amazing!

@chestersgorilla8465

2 жыл бұрын

I have The HB Tele black with tortoise pickguard and it looks absolutely fine!

@innocentoctave

Жыл бұрын

'Tor-twarrzz', please.

Lets be honest, Rene could play a loaf of bread and it would f#*king rule.

@reneflachsenhaar2968

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could:)

@wilfredbastian5167

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. He's a groove machine.

@reneflachsenhaar2968

3 жыл бұрын

@@slawaschwed Sorry, to hear this.

@patrickfitzgerald2861

3 жыл бұрын

@@reneflachsenhaar2968 I have a loaf of very stale, hard rye bread in my kitchen that I'm going to mount a neck and some strings on and give to you. 😎

@reneflachsenhaar2968

3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickfitzgerald2861 :)

Beginners these days have it so much easier than we did 30 years ago, so many more viable starter axes.

@MegaBnadm

3 жыл бұрын

and we're so happy about it :D and the pandemic gave us time to practice too

@MOMOMOMOMOMOMOMOM

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

@boristischner4359

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, my first bass was everything, but not in tune, hahahahahaha!!!

@pilotreg

3 жыл бұрын

Hah I was stupid enough to get one for 79 pounds , ordered pj bass but the p pickup didn't work so it was a jazz bass without the neck pickup , the controll knobs kept falling off and and the it was just bad in general. Never get a bass under 150 if it's not a well known brand.

@SimulacronX

3 жыл бұрын

@@pilotreg Sorry about that. I got no problem whatsoever, guess I was lucky. Love this bass.

When Harley Benton makes a Bongo six strings copy I’ll buy one at least.

@jrburger95

3 жыл бұрын

Bongo is like a Stingray but looks like a toilet on a stick.

@juanfranmar

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrburger95 I need six strings, jajajajaja. No matter if it looks a toilet

@Jihadbearzwithgunz

3 жыл бұрын

Dude a cheap toilet seat looking bass I want them to make it..

@NeoRichardBlake

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jihadbearzwithgunz Sounds like a fun DIY project. You could get a toilet seat for less than $50. ;)

@Jihadbearzwithgunz

3 жыл бұрын

@@NeoRichardBlake lol and a warmoth neck and just a hunk of mahogany lol don't tempt me ;)

Best Rene Bass-Face in a long time! 😆👍

I play a Sterling Ray 35 and honestly these don't sound a million miles away from that. Colour me impressed.

Hmmm active Thunderbird, passive Stingray....someone in HB messed with the specs lol

@ts4gv

3 жыл бұрын

George Vrachliotis loll

@Dapno_

3 жыл бұрын

I believe that's on purpose. The market for conventional specs is already saturated enough with epiphone and SUB

They are really stepping up there game. Killer looks and tone

Bass players today have it made. My brother played a Fender bass for 30 years starting in the 70's. He was on stage a lot and his bass weighted close to 12 pounds.

Love the pick guard contrasting colors make the instrument easier to see I doubt if it were a white base with a black pick guard there wouldn't be a complaint I changes most of my guitars and basses because I want them to be seen and since it's a passive bass the two volume controls is thinking outside the box to keep the Stingray look

I'm loving Gregor's humour here haha :) Love this in the description: more beard: @Rene Flächsenhaar less beard: Gregor Fris Nice to see a cheaper Musicman alternative from Harley Benton

Harley Benton is always killing it!

Great review ! Detail, humour, just great. Such a refreshing change .. Thanks

Another fine product review video again. I agree with all the comments about your sense of humour, the comment about the neck had cracked me up. Rene's playing is inspiring and entertaining as always, makes me feel immediately grab my bass guitar and start to play. Cheers!

Just ordered one. That's my 6th Harley Benton. I now have one electro acoustic, one bass and four electric guitars from this maker. All of them are fantastic.

The OLP was also passive with volume knobs doe each pickup coil. The neck was so thin you could dive bomb by pressing on the headstock

No need for the Dart signature then 😂

@TheFunkyCriminal

3 жыл бұрын

Dude that’s exactly what I was thinking!! I don’t even like active, back when I had an OLP stingray, the original owner put an active eq and first thing I did was take it out 😂

I need more "bleck" basses in my life right now :) The first clip is really awesome BTW.

Haha, sehr cooler Humor, Gregor! Ich bin ebenfalls total begeistert von diesem Bass, der macht echt Laune und klingt einfach großartig! 😎👍

I made some simple and cheap adjustements. Strings through the body. There are already holes in the bridgeplate. Simply drill 4 holes through the body. Then cut off the electronics. Pickup directly to the output jack. Sounds like a musicman. Combine with any preamp or passiv. Perfect. Greetings from Hamburg

just ordered one. love my pb20, and being a long time stingray lover I can't wait to try this. as always, great review and demo!

@Minimalist1266

Жыл бұрын

I assume you got the bass by now? What's your verdict?

@presentrlb

Жыл бұрын

@@Minimalist1266 Absolutely mind blowing how they can do this for the price. Looks, feels, sounds like Ray, plus the ability to get a single coil tone, which sounds REALLY good. I'm gifting the PB20 to a friend's son.

@lartisan6274

Жыл бұрын

@@presentrlb u have the mbk ? u can slap with it ? i have difficulty for do it.

Harley Benton's require two things. Locking tuner upgrades and a new set of strings of your choice. Beyond that they are solid as any brand name and a lot more affordable.

@richardrichard5409

2 жыл бұрын

Most come with D'Addario strings?

@wretch1

7 ай бұрын

Strings no. Tuners sometimes.

As an owner of 2 Musicman basses, I'd like one of those as well.

What have you done, Gregor? Now I'll have to buy this one too. Not only for some good touching experience. Thanks for a great review! 🐷

Thanks for the review. I need a bass but only for my little home studio. I think this is the perfect fit.

Got hold of one recently £115 + shipping crazy cheap sounds and looks fantastic. Feels good to play no issues with neck size for me. Get one you'll love it. PS mine is sunburst but I saw one in black and a black pickguard it looked much nicer IMHO.

These basses sounded pretty cool. \m/ sounds killer with distortion at the end of the video.

Yes guy! Nice bass playing - love your bass face too.

Sounds grrrrrrreat! Rene is so cool.

Cool bass but dealbreakers for me are the nut width and headstock shape, probably gonna stick with my Sterling SUB Series 4, but I like the idea of separate coil volume controls!

Same thought with the pick guard, gonna paint it black tbh

Had mine for over a year. I love it. I put a flat black pickguard on it and some DR black beauties.

@georgebowling842

Жыл бұрын

Hi where did you buy the pickguard please?

@jasongallman2032

Жыл бұрын

@@georgebowling842 i painted the existing one.

I bought a sunburst one the other night when I was PISSED - It arrives tomorrow. 😀 I don´t even play bass but a good friend had her bass nicked years ago .. so I´ll let her have it. 😎 I actually have a 1983 EBMM Cutlass on my bench for a service .... so will make a comparison tomorrow. Hopefully I´ll remember to hit RECORD ! Letcha know how we get on!!! Cheers from Madrid

I was very surprised by the price. You could probably kit it out with active circuitry if you needed, but I'm not sure we heard both volumes, and is there a difference?

I love how groovy Popeyes bass lines are!

@reneflachsenhaar2968

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, Popeye never thought about him! Made my day!:)

It is an OLP with 6 bolts in the neck instead of four. Killer look, and I want one ^^

Larry Graham Hair on that slap bit....sounds great.

Just got mine.....love it

For 132 dollars, this is very tempting

youtube channels or what you call them are so stupidly commercial, you want to watch people but you see commercials... BUT this review, the first for me, is amazing... elegance, humor, great bass playing, and very good points... even though I love the pickguard red :) so, right away I subscribed to this channel or what you call it :) thanks for the great review!

I have a passive OLP MM2 STINGRAY and it has thr same control's but i play everything wide open. It also has the actual Stingray 3+1 tuners because it was the only bass Ernie Ball gave a license to and it was before Ernie Ball made Sterling

I wanna order one and upgrade it with emg mmtw5 and emg bqc preamp what say you? I think it will pretty much sound wise challenge a 1000 euros stingray, as for the features, it will outperform it with the mid controls and the high freq switch!

I have 2 Musicman basses. These basses seem awesome as well!!

Im in the process of building a passive music man style bass from scratch right now too!

We all want to see you play! Make it happen

Hi! I love your video('s) and because of this one i ordered one myself. My question is if you change the strings or came the once we listen to on the video with the bass?

@basstheworldofficial

3 жыл бұрын

the bass in the recording was fresh out of the box. We didn’t change a thing

Sound great !!!

Yes! Love it!🤨🎶👍🏾

I just bought Schecter SGR for 200€ four weeks ago. Knowing new HBs would look this stunning and cost 130-140€ I'd definitely would've waited. Dammit, I'm satisfied with the Schecter, it sounds better than these but I'm on a tight budget, just for home playing, so HB would've been good enough, especially with that 5th string...

Never meet your heros, for years I wanted a Stingray 4H. Bought a 2000 4H in Trans Orange with maple neck....usual quiet G string, neck like a baseball bat, neck wasn't stable for ever tweaking the truss rod, sold and replaced with another VMJ jazz.

The bass sounds good, silver pickup magnetic poles, actually match the silver frets and silver strings.

I have a Sterling SUB, and the flat finish on that has also become shiny over the years. So even with the "real" fake Music Man, you're going to have that issue....if it's an issue. I kind of like it.

I got a Dr Tech bass that looks exactly like this. But sunburst finish. Got it from a friend but looked up website and it originally sold for $130. Not sure if it is manufactured in States but assembled in California. They are out of business now I guess. Man is mine heavy though.

Oh mein Gott! Sie haben’s getan. Sie haben einen Klassiker gebaut. Gratulation an Thomann! Ich werde einen bestellen und modden!

Makes me want to upgrade my face with some beard attachments!

Can you please let us know how your action and truss rod is set? Like measurements? I have noticed that you generaly have very nice low action, and i would love to duplicate that on my basses 🙏

Happy birthday!

If I had a need for a stingray . This is definitely the bass I'd buy. Great demo btw . I'm better off with a precision and a jazz but this is a great bass especially for the price.

The neck on this good for someone with small hands? Looks awesome.

That sounded better than my squier I just upgraded from. Maybe you had some noise suppression, but I didn't hear a buzz, hiss, or hum.

Gasp sooo thats how you pronounce his surname !! Btw his playing is absolute inspiration!! i have never heard anyone else groove with stank like he does. I see Rene - click like

I never had a Stingray because I don't like active basses, but now this is not an excuse anymore. I think I'm gonna get one, or two for that price... when was your birthday again? ;-)

@basstheworldofficial

3 жыл бұрын

I kept the 4 string... I’m good, but thanks 🙂

Could you do a followup video after upgrading the pickups/electronics? maybe EMG MM5tw to keep the dual/single coil on a push pull volume switch and add the BQC control for a four band EQ Would love to see the tone possibilities!

@basstheworldofficial

3 жыл бұрын

I kept the 4-string but really like it as it is

@BassRacerx

3 жыл бұрын

@@basstheworldofficial it sounds pretty good!

I have a PB , looking at picking one of these up too. Would prefer a fretless one but they don't make those unfortunately

Want one of those!

Missed you Gregor!

The knob configuration i'ts kind the same the Eko made on his M style basses (tone, bridge coil volume, neck coil volume)

I had a genuine stingray five and the only problem I had with it was the g string was so close to the edge of the front board I kept pulling it off. I'm curious if that happens but this one

Harley Benton it's just like Kakashi Sensei, the copy ninja! And always makes copies with excellent quality!

I like the bleck with tortwas.

I've had one of the HB mb-4 for about a year now. The volume/volume/tone arrangement with the stock pickup is pretty much useless as it is. Terrible hum, especially if you isolate the bridge pickup. Leave it in MusicMan mode and it sounds great though; in other words, just don't touch the volumes. Though I've doing the research and started getting the parts together for a Nordstrand Quad Coil and also swap in a push/pull pot. This setup will then allow for series/parallel/single coil switching. From what I've been reading should take it from a one trick pony to a dynamic tone machine.

More matte black finishes holy heck

Impressive😎

Dude! It's a humbucker and the volumes allow you to coil split but also give more choices.

You can remove the pickguard and make it more black. ;)

THE best Stingray copy around.

Great looking bass they should have made it active passive tho

HB are killer basses for the money.

Question: I see the pickguard has a white outline, so is it in two layers and could I remove the screws and take the top layer off and have a white pickguard?

@basstheworldofficial

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, that’s 1 piece

Lockdown is over? René got a shave! 🤣

@reneflachsenhaar2968

3 жыл бұрын

:)

Very nice . I like

Wow okay these basses are no longer available.. too bad, I'd like to try one of those since HB doesn't have to hide itself behind other, more expensive and more established brands anymore

What string does have on? Would you recommend to buy flatwound string for it?

@puebloruizrecords8255

3 жыл бұрын

yes

Damn I'm gonna buy one it's crazy This is really sounding like a stingray

Is it possible to change the pick guard on this? I love the colour, but not a fan of the shape :[

THEY NEED TO BRING THIS BACK!!😭

@randomcitizenname

2 жыл бұрын

It is back!

@jasonbenford3427

2 жыл бұрын

@@randomcitizenname It is?😳/😃 I haven't looked on their site recently!🕵🏾

@randomcitizenname

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbenford3427 yep, at least the 4 string one is.

hello bro I'm not sure whether to buy this harley benton bass or a yamaha trbx 174, which is better in terms of performance? Or well, if you were in my place, which one would you choose?

@basstheworldofficial

Жыл бұрын

This one here

Just bought me 1. $205 with shipping.

I want a four string one.

Hello. Does the original Stingray 5 pickguard fit the MB-5? And also, where can be bought different colour pickguard for MB-5? Thank you.

@basstheworldofficial

2 жыл бұрын

I would be surprised if a MM fits here. I don’t think you can buy replacements

@satanssurfer5965

2 жыл бұрын

Found replacement mirror finish pickguard for my MB-4 on EBay, fitted perfectly.

I like the red pickup-guard! But the back of the neck...yes, should be natural.

Is Harley Benton trying to make me buy a "Stringray"? I guess they are...

@theTrend7

3 жыл бұрын

Harley Benton reading this: 🙉NOOOOOOOOO

@cd0u50c9

3 жыл бұрын

I'd say they're putting people off the Stingray, as this appears to be an amazing option for a fraction of the price... EDIT: I thought it'd be like £350... £110 on Thomann... WHAT!?!?!

@edbrito-swdev

3 жыл бұрын

@@cd0u50c9 I agree. That's why I wrote "stingray". These bad boys here sound just fine.

How does it compare with HB B-550? There is a small price difference, but which is actually better?

If u can get ya hands on one could u do a Mark Hoppus Signature Bass review?

Man, this video is only from a month ago and they don't sell this Bass on Thomann anymore. :/

@OriginalTLab3000

3 жыл бұрын

They will most likely be available again in May 2021.

YEAH!!!!! have you the name of the track at 00:08 !??? THKS Rene est un tueur !!!!

real nice, but Fender already has an MB5 bass. ???

Already no longer available on the linked site :(

Would a standard Stingray 5 pickgaurd fit on the MB5?

The tune from about 8 seconds in, is that by somebody or your own jam? Sounds great.

@basstheworldofficial

2 жыл бұрын

René Flächsenhaar wrote this (the player)