Good to hear you being so honest about your issues with the guitar Cory. I love to hear straight honest reviews like this.

I also a love/hate relationship with the Amarok 7 and I largely agree with your sentiment. It's a very well built guitar for the price, excellent specs, no flaws in the finish (however I find the quilted veneer to lack depth ... but that's a veneer), love the stainless steel frets, the locking tuners and the neck through construction. But I really struggled to find a good setup for it, balancing string gauge, string tension and intonation (in Drop A) has been a real pain. The guitar still goes out of tune pretty frequently. And my main problem with this guitar is the pickups. I really struggle with the insanely high output of the EMG pickups, even with a fairly aggressive noise gate rolling back the volume knob and a fretwrap, the strings ring out super easily and it's extremely hard to keep everything muted correctly when playing. Everything sounds super compressed, clean tones are tricky to balance. Maybe it's a matter of taste, maybe it's a problem of technique on my end ... in any case, I don't enjoy them.

The dealbreaker for me is the 25.5" scale. I really did not expect that. Otherwise this was for sure my next purchase.

Excellent review. No player bonds with every guitar they pick up, we're all built and play differently.

Think I saw someone mention the resistance issue with the pots for the Fusion with EMG’s too. They loose some of their full sound and work passive too when the pots are high impedeance. HB should take note and correct the issue.

Adding a string makes the neck wider. Correcting this makes the strings closer to one another. For a 6-string player, there is no avoiding that feeling of "leaving home".

They should make 7 string in baritone scale. It makes more sense. IDK why they made it in standards scale.

Nice production Cory, excellent review. I guess we don't all fit with all guitars, no problem there really. It does look very well made.

Hey Cory, nice video as always :) I have been watching your videos for a long time and I can say you are probably the one that made me love Harley Benton. Funny fact is I was in the positives reviews you put on the screen... So this time I decided to stop by and explain why I love this guitar. Of course this is just a personnal feeling, my opinion is not better than any other and I want to be as careful as you on this point. About the specs, especially the pickups, I love two things. First one: it's a bit risky but very interesting to put an EMG hot 70 instead of more common setup like the 707 for example. The hot 70 add something to a setup made for metal in my opinion and the amarok has its own personality. For this price this is a great thing. Second point, I find theses pickups very accurate, when it comes to add some distorsion or to make djent stuff, they sound right, but indeed, they are good only with a little distorsion (around 50 on the pot with an Overdrive before in the chain). The clean sound as you said is also very good. About the neck, the shape is just perfect, I played on a friend's Schecter Cygnus and I feel it's too flat. So like you said before, it's a matter of taste and when it comes to pick a 7 string guitar for this price, this guitar deserve to be considered with all the specs in mind :) Thanks for you work and for your time if you read this.

The neck, in my opinion , is the most important thing on a guitar. I play a vintage(the company) v6 strat and i absolutely love the neck- it's a 'soft c' apparently . I needed a humbucker guitar so i got a yamaha pacifica 311h in metallic red and it's a stunning guitar, the neck however is different, feels slightly narrower and maybe deeper(probably just more modern) and for that i play that guitar much less than the strat. The neck on the guitar is hugely important .

I was always worried about the neck profile of this specific guitar. If I want a heavy metal machine, it HAS to have a thin neck.

From The scale length should be 26.5" minimum in my opinion and not 25.5", so you don't have to use thicker strings. Also, I agree with you regarding the neck, it has a 14" radius, it should be 16" or 20" radius, but that is simply my opinion again.

9:26, agreed.

The 500k pots make no difference on tone since these are active pick-ups. The reason 25K are normally used is for better noise immunity.

Are those EMG pickups even the real deal? They lack those 4 small holes and screws on one row of the pickups.

Hi! I have bought a red one, but have 2 issues: 1) Intonation of low B string is impossible without removing the spring. Did you have any problems with intonation? For Drop A it is even worse: no spring and saddle all the way back, still not ideal. Of course, with 59 string B std is ok, but lower tunings need thicker strings => even worse intonation problems. 2) Low B saddle has buzz in it, so string is partly muted, partly sound muffled after 12-15 fret. Before 12 fret it is ok. Apart from that, some visual flaws I don't care, but that buzz and intonation problem is a NO for an instrument :( I wanted a universal guitar to use as B std, E std 6 string and almost Baritone tuning all in one. But seems like 25.5" scale is really not ideal for 7 strings. Wish they made 26.5" Amarok-7 :( I will probably buy Amarok-6 and Amarok-BT for different usecases.

great... 8mins into the video and now i want a 7 string guitar... thanks for giving me some G.A.S.

I have one and the big problem is that the pickups squeals with distortion when you turn up the gain. ( I had this on 2 guitars ). I took it to the luthier and he noticed that the guitar has 500k pots where it should have 25k pots, we changed the pots to 25 k but it didn't change the squealing. Now I'm changing the pickups to Seymour Duncan Alpha & Omega and we'll see if it solves the problem. otherwise I think it's great, I had to lower the strings a lot.

Nice review. Lovely guitar and you got some good tones out of it. I'm not a 7 string guy. I'm sure someone will bond with this green beast. God bless and rock on 👍🎸😎

Is it just me, or is the bridge tilted backwards?

I bought that same color used, here in The US for $280USD, It came with a Set of Seymour Duncan Nazgul/Sentient pickups. I just couldn't get past the color. Im not a fan of Green at all. I liked the guitar though. I put a set of Ibanez pickups I had laying around in it, and Sold it Locally for $400, and I am Putting the SD pickups in another 7 string. I made out great on that deal..!!

So far, only your review is this detailed. I'm currently on the market for a 7 string and I wanted to ask you would you recommend this guitar or an Ibanez rg4721 or ibanez rga742?

I have no idea who Harley Benton is but his hands must be enormous. I loved everything about my amarok except the neck profile. I just can't get comfortable with it.

Would love for your review of the now available again Harley Benton MultiScale-8 QEB and QBB.

I hated the neck on a Harley Benton strat, sold it

I had this guitar. I loved it but the neck was too thick. If I would had the guitar now I would make the neck thinner at the back with sanding paper. That will automatically make the weight of the neck lighter and counter attack the neckdive.

for a low budget guitar, i think keeping the neck the same as the 6 version is an intelligent choice. If you are new to 7 strings this instrument will be way better. If you can afford a better instrument there is no reason at all to buy harley benton, unless you just like to collect guitars for the looks

Superb review and again great playing that suits the guitar style. Which is an important thing, one would not shred on a es335 for example. The amarok is not my sound, although it is a good looking guitar with impressive specs

Check your 6 string version. It also has 500k pots. I have the fusion emg telecaster. Also 500k pots.

Mine cut my finger on a fret edge, had glue on the fingerboard and crackly pickups so it went back, I got an ibanez rga for the same price and won't touch harley again haha

It sounds good your playing is excellent

Very pretty though. Guitars are specific to each player. I have one or two guitars that I keep around hoping I'll gel with them one day

I had a similar experience trying to bond with a PRS guitar, despite all the hype, i just hated trying to play it. I say try, because the neck just didn't suit my small hands, it was way to thick. So it had to go! Don't feel bad about disliking a guitar Cory, anyone who has bought a number of them will always pick up the one that suits them the best. I am wary of any guitar that gets rave reviews, and when i try one, i think what on earth are they talking about? Sell it anf forget about it, Ibanez necks are the best in my opinion.🙂

Great Review! Thanks for sharing your personal opinion! 👍🏻

Its really sad that they didn't do staggered offset dots like in the newer R446...having the dots on the top side in the higher frets is just wrong XD

Thanks for this video! It really helped my because I'm currently looking for a 7-string and a slim neck is a must have... and I was already guessing that the Amarok-7 has a comparably thick neck which won't fit my preferences. Thanks again for the review!

Thank you for honest review. Good video :D

Great review my friend I’m glad you are back again 😎👍✌️

Did you get the chance to try that one Harley Benton Fusion III with the EMG retroactives? I would like to buy a new guitar but i cannot decide between that one and the Amarok, any thoughts on this topic?

I missed you

Does anyone know the "riff" starting at 02:26 ? Sounds familiar but I can't recognize the song. Thanks !

Kinda like me and new foods. If I have to aquire a taste, I'm not eating it.

Tusq nuts are same category of crapness as plastic nuts. Even graftec are on a side if shitness too.

Nice review. Any 7 string alternative you like more?

Your English has become very fluid

10-59 on a 7 string?? I use 10-56 on my 6 string tuned to drop b lol, anything less is a bit too floppy for me. I would probably go with a 62 or 64 for the low string.

im pritty sure its a good guitar.

Would you recommend the Multiscale 7 tpb over this?

Most of the times Is Just about feeling with a Guitar. I tryed many Stratocaster, originals too and i have no feeling with that Guitar. I am very confortable with Gibson style guitars. But this do not mean that the Stratocaster i was try, they aren't good. Just are not good for me. U had same issue with this amarok.

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Hast du schon mal die 432Hz Stimmung probiert?

also in my amarok 6 strings the pots were wrong, so I swapped them for 25k pots and now sound much better

Habe gerade das andere Video gesehen, schön das es dir wieder besser geht. Hört sich nach ketogener Ernährung an, mache ich auch da ich diese kohlenhydrathaltige Ernährung auch nicht sonderlich gut vertragen habe.

Jesus, wrong pots?? That's bad. That's not ok. This is their most expensive guitar. They have massively improved in the past couple of years, so I hope their new Amaroks are better.

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