Harley Benton PB-20 BK Standard Series

For the price this bass is great. The stock strings sounded surprisingly great (that bright fresh sound), I bought this in July and they still sound pretty bright (but I haven't played it a huge amount).

At first I found that it played pretty well but after a few weeks/months I noticed the action was too high. I need to get it adjusted, it feels hard to play.

I had to get used to the weight of it because I had been using a very light Encore bass in the same price range for like a year before it (it was loaned to me). The Encore also felt much smoother to play but I'm sure after this bass gets a proper setup + new strings it will feel smooth enough.

Mine came with broken saddles and sharp fret ends, but somehow felt good to play. Changed the saddles for brass ones, filed down fret ends and rounded them and fretboard edges slightly, reseated a slightly lifted fret, shielded the electronics, made and installed a half degree 1mm shim, added a string tree that also held down the A string, changed the strings and gave it a setup. It's now a quiet and comfortable bass, that was fun to work on. Budget instruments have really come a long way! I used the strings that came with the bass through all the modifications, and thought they where decent enough.

Toco baixo faz um pouco mais de 14 meses e este foi meu segundo baixo. Foi a minha primeira compra nesta loja e também o primeiro baixo que eu comprei novo.
O meu outro instrumento deu uma pane e eu precisava urgentemente de um segundo instrumento pra tocar enquanto ficava esperando o outro ser consertado.
Pelo preço, imaginei que viria um baixo de qualidade duvidável, que ia durar uns 6 meses na minha mão, mas não foi isso que aconteceu.
Mesmo depois que meu outro baixo chegou do conserto, continuei tocando neste modelo da HB e até cheguei a fazer um recital com ele. Não decepciona e é melhor do que muitos baixos mais caros que eu conheço.
Uma recomendação que eu faço é que logo que ele chegue em suas mãos, troque o encordamento por outro melhor e peça para seu luthier fazer os ajustes básicos nele. Você vai gastar um pouco mais com isso, mas vai valer à pena.
Já coloquei na minha lista de desejos vários outros modelos da HB.
Além disso, o serviço da Thomann foi excelente, o que era um dos meus maiores temores, já que nunca tinha comprado na loja antes.
Então, se você está começando e ainda não sabe que baixo comprar pra iniciar seus estudos, pode ir com fé neste modelo.

I always was a J bass player and wanted to try out a P. At such price it was a no-brainer to get PB-20 and try it out.
Features - it has a P pup, volume and tone controls - what more one can expect.
Sound - It does sound like a P bass, no complaints there. However, not sure if all comes like this or it is just mine, but the pickup is hot - It clips my interface everytime I tried to slap it no matter how soft I did it - I put PB-20 through a compressor which tamed the peaks. Not an issue, just to keep in mind when adjusting the gain.
Quality - for such a price I did expect it to be worse. No sharp edges on frets, neck is set nicely, strings align with pole pieces, bridge is sturdy and is screwed tight. The only issue I had is with a truss rod - Adjusting it was not an easy application and I struggled with it.
If you want to check if P bass is for you this is the one to get!

I ordered the Harley Benton PB-20 as my first bass guitar. The bass guitar plus the amp I ordered came well packaged , after unboxing the guitar , a friend who is an experienced musician looked over the PB-20 and confirmed it was sent fully set up and the action be set and ready for play straight out of the box. As of now 9 months later , I have had no problems but starting to notice the sound of the strings rattling against the fret board , my musician friend will be looking at it and suggested it could be the strings need changing . It could be the action needs to be set or truss rod adjustment, which he said is normal at this 9 month period.