Harley Benton MB4 / MB5 SBK Deluxe Series Basses 

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Harley Benton is always killing it!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

Sounds grrrrrrreat! Rene is so cool.

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

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

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

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! 🐷

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

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!

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?

No need for the Dart signature then 😂

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!

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

Just got mine.....love it

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.

We all want to see you play! Make it happen

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

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

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

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...

I love how groovy Popeyes bass lines are!

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

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

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.

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!

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 🙏

Yes! Love it!🤨🎶👍🏾

Sound great !!!

Happy birthday!

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

HB are killer basses for the money.

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.

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

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

Missed you Gregor!

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

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

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.

THE best Stingray copy around.

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

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?

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.

I’ve got a left-handed MB4. Terrific for the price! The only thing is the pick guard is easily scuffed revealing its white base colour. Also, why don’t HB do lefties in any other colour apart from black???

More matte black finishes holy heck

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

Want one of those!

Would a standard Stingray 5 pickgaurd fit on the MB5?

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

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

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.

Does anybody know if there will be a lefthand-version of this bass?

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? ;-)

What riff is he Renee playing when he first intros the bass? Or is he just jamming to a backer track?

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

Impressive😎

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

Can anyone recommend a direct fit replacement bridge for both the 4 & 5?

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

Best bass face ever

Lockdown is over? René got a shave! 🤣

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?

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.

I like the bleck with tortwas.

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

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

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

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.

Very nice . I like

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?

Already no longer available on the linked site :(

String spacing on the 5?

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

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

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!

I want a four string one.

THEY NEED TO BRING THIS BACK!!😭

Does this guitar neck dive ?

I like the bass for money even more