Harley Benton MV-4JB Seafoam Green

What a buy! I've been playing electric guitars and basses for over 50 years of my life, and recently I thought why not give a Harley Benton Bass a try. So I bought the MV4 jazz bass in seafoam green. It came within a week of me ordering it and was shipped by DHL. Excellent service here.

It was well packaged with plenty of foam wrapping inside a Thomman box within a Thomann box

On first site I was wowed with the gorgeous finish and smoothness of the neck. The parchment coloured neck binding and silver block inlays with the matching coloured headstock make this instrument look something special. I liked straight away the modern looking block chrome string tree.

Before I plugged in, I adjusted the action slightly by lowering the saddles about half a turn of the saddle nuts. This is obviously my personal preference. Once plugged in to my 'house' amp, the tones oozed quality and fingering notes was effortless. What a feel. The two volume and single tone pots are very responsive. I like the jack socket on top of the guitar to take an angled jack plug. I see that there is a handy finger rest for 'thumb' bassists but I don't use this. This of course is personal choice.

This piece of kit is as good as, if not better than some of the high end basses I use. For less than 200 quid, well what can I say? I can't fault it. This is not entry level. It's certainly gig quality.

Phil Tennant
68 years
Belper
Derbyshire
England