Harley Benton PJ-4 SBK Deluxe Series

To be 100% honest, I bought this bass as I was looking around for a P bass body with a J bass pickup rout to fit to a fretless bass neck that I bought a while ago. The prices for the bodies alone were quite restrictive. After some thought and research, I looked up what Harley Benton P basses were available with the thought of removing it's neck and fitting the fretless neck in it's place. Luckily, the PJ variant of this bass recently became available on Thomann. This is one of many Harley Benton products I've bought. This is probably the best set up "out of the box" that I've bought. The truss rod and intonation were spot on. The only adjustments I've made so far is to lower the bridge saddles a turn or so. I'm very pleased with the sounds on offer. Pickups seem to be pretty good so far. I like the sound of a P bass, but the added tones with the J bass pickup offer a wide array of tones. The looks of this bass are the most surprising of all. The almost all black satin finish is well applied and looks nicer than in the websites photographs. The tortoiseshell pickguard is a nice touch, although I think I'll be fitting a black pickguard at a later date. All in all a great purchase at a great price. I'm not snobbish about the gear I use, these Harley Benton guitars and basses are fantastic value for money, and are great if you are starting out or if like me, you have a certain project or idea in mind. Well done Thomann. This is another winner in my book.

I´m a guitarist with already a few HB guitars and am very happy with them. So far I hadn't tried to play bass and didn't want to because you know, "bass does not sound". I decided to experiment so I bought this bass after watching some videos on youtube and reading some posts on bass player blogs. Best choice ever. A month later I´m still amazed by the quality of this bass. It´s so much fun to play it that I´m already playing songs with a level that never crossed my mind. If you are new, don't want to spend a lot of money and want a sure bet, this is your bass. The sound is very good (I may change the pups in the future and strings for sure, but no rush at all), it came almost ready to play just out of the box, it s very beautiful and very comfortable (now my guitars feel weird!), and keeps the tunning very well. Have fun!

As a guitarist I was searching for a bass guitar to add to my home studio setup. I wasn't sure if I should go for a J-Bass or a P-Bass. And fortunately and surprisingly this bass has the best of both worlds. I'm relative new to bass guitars and this is my first bass guitar I've bought so far.

The bass came in very well packed and in a perfect condition, the job of the matte black paint and finish is amazing and very well done. The also matte black hardware and the turtle-red pick-guard is just candy for the eye. The black roseace fretboard is a great match and the fret job is surprisingly well done.

After the basic checking and tuning the strings the bass guitar was good to go. No need for extreme fine-tuning on the action/stringheight and/or intonation. After playing for a while, the mix of the P & J style pickups where sounding incredible. This was above my exceptation.

So, if you are a beginner bass guitarist like me and don't know to choose between a J or P Bass, I would highly recommend this bass guitar. Aside of that you will get a goodlooking and great sounding all-round bass with a relative good (surprising) quality for a very nice price.

Last but not least: Big thumbs up for Harley Benton for producing this amazing bass guitar and for the great transport caring and customer services.
And of course I greatly want to thank Thomann for a perfect delivery, their customer care and support. Very satisfying! Keep up the great work!

This is my first bass guitar.
Before I pulled the trigger, I read and watched reviews on beginner basses and these, actually their sibling the Standard series, came recommended. I decided to go with these for a few € extra.
I am learning to play it and I freaking love it.
I had never hold a bass guitar before but I had picked a few cheap electric guitars and this does NOT have that feel.
Feels heavy and sturdy. Checked for any noticeable bend on the arm and looked fine to me.
The body, beautifully painted black matte, smooth, feels premium even though it was on the cheaper side.
Being able to switch between the P-style and the J-style pickups is pretty neat.
If I have to nitpick negatives for this bass is that turners do have a kind of loose feeling when you're turning and that the neck is kinda heavy and pulls downward when youre using a strap and not holding the bass.
Nonetheless, I'm very satisfied with my first purchase at Thomann and this Harley Benton bass.

I will be honest, I bought this bass on a whim. I had recently bought 2 other Harley Benton basses and was quite impressed by how good they played/sounded. So when I saw this satin black PJ bass I couldn’t say no.

I own 6 fender basses and this bass plays and sounds as good if not better than some of them. Straight out of the box it was ready to go after a quick tuning. No set up needed. The combination of P bass and jazz pickups with individual volumes with a tone knob gives the ability to get any possible tone you desire.

Whether it’s your 1st bass or your 12th you will find this bass is a serious quality instrument. I highly recommend you consider picking one up today.

This is my first bass, I'm a guitar player normally, but I cant put this thing down! It's sooo fun and funky. It looks great, I love the matt finish, the intonation came perfect from the box, the neck is so smooth and no sharp edges anywhere. If you're thinking about it, just buy it man, it's great and cheap (144 € at the time of writing this).

Now for the bad part: the delivery. It took 2 days to get from Germany to my city (by DHL) and then it took another TEN DAYS to deliver the package to me. So it was just sitting in my city for 10 days with no way of getting to it. Thomann should cancel their cooperation with Hrvatska Pošta (Croatian national post office) and just use private companies that deliver to your doorstep within days. There are no words to describe how bad Hrvatska Pošta sucks.

But the bass is great!

After ordering a baritone and receiving it damaged by UPS, I ordered this instead with my store credit.
I have to say, pretty impressed with the quality, if I compare it with my other HB that I have (te-20 HH), which I bought in 2020.
The setup was pretty close on it, just a bit more work on the intonation and its good. The issues I had out the box were:
- the volume pot for the J pickup was not fully tightly screwed. This was not really a problem, as I needed to unscrew the pots anyway, to remove all of the plastic protection they shipped it with.
- the jack was loose as well, just like the pot
- One of the tuner had a loose screw that stuck out about 4 mm, so it was really visible, not really sure how the QC missed that.

I like this, I have a feeling this will remain stock for a while, not like my TE-20 that I had to mod, to fix issues.