Cort guitars are absolutely great. I had two of them, never disappointed and best of all, great price! It is so much better than entry level Ibanez and it also have top of the line guitars.
I dnt think they fit entry level. They are high level instruments. The Cort menace blew me off. I’m thinking about getting other models in my collection and this could be next🥰
Nice guitar! I used to be a moderator and administrator for Cort’s discussion forums, maybe 12-14 years ago. I’ve owned three or four over the years. And you probably already have several guitars made by Cort. Lower-cost Ibanez guitars and all Squiers are made by Cort, as well as many other brands. Check the serial numbers; if it starts with “IC” it’s an Indonesian Cort.
@@Brumms_ Hey! I wish I could help you more. Cort has never been very good at getting back. And they don't really have much in the way of information, even when I was a moderator none of use could get information about many Cort guitars. I can tell you that the first three or four digits will tell you when it was made, with the first one or two digits being the year (8 for 98, 7 for 97, 02 for 2002 etc.) and the next two being the month (01 for January, etc.). The rest of the digits indicate where in the line your guitar was made. Cort uses one serial range for all instruments, so if yours is xxxx2437, it was the 2,437th guitar made that month. Around 2000 Cort overhauled their lineup in a sense. They kept making mostly the same guitars, but changed the model names. So what was the S series became the G series, and if I am remembering right the Viva became the X. The electronics are probably Mighty Mite if they don't have any markings (Mighty Mite and Cort are owned by the same parent company). Korea was originally where the high-end Corts were made, with the cheaper guitars coming from Indonesia or China. There are some old catalogs online, but they are locked behind a paywall. I wish I could tell you something more specific, Cort doesn't have very good record keeping.
@@Brumms_ I think your remark about being made for specific regions is correct. I have a 2001 "GB Series" bass, which I don't think was officially sold in the US. But, I found some identical modesls years ago, new, in Germany, sold as a GB-54. One of our moderators lived in Turkey. Apparently Cort is very popular in Turkey because they can keep the price lower than the more well-known brands. If I had unlimited funds, I think it would be fun to track down as many models as possible and build a reference collection for others!
I own both the Cort X700 Duality (Duncan JB & Jazz) and X700 Duality II (Fishman Fluence Classics). Both are awesome. I generally don't like active pickups. The Fluence Classics are active but they don't sound like it. They have all the warmth & dynamics of great passive pickups. Plus they have 3 distinctly different voices: PAF, Hotrod, and Singlecoil.The PAF voicing nails awesome Gibson tones. Hotrod voicing is very similar to Duncan JB & 59, but improved where the neck pickup isn't as scooped and boomy as the 59 neck and the bridge pickup is like a JB with more lows & low mids and no nasty high-mid spike. The singlecoil voicing doesn't sound exactly like any traditional singlecoil I've ever used but it's much closer than you get with any split humbucker. The Duality II with Fishman Classics truly provides the sounds of 3 different great guitars. I still really like the original X700 Duality because it provides 3 tones from the JB & Jazz humbuckers that I enjoy. (The original Duality inside coils & outside coils of the JB & Jazz in positions 2 & 4 are thin and not so useful to me.) Duality II has 8 unique tones and I like them all, even the singlecoil voicings.
@@carlosclaptrixyou're very welcome. I also want to add that the Fluence voicings are much more distinct through a tube amp or higher quality modeler than through the THR used in this video, especially the high gain tones. Also, Cort's higher end models like X700 and G300 offer incredible value, quality, and specs.
Very nice review Rachelf, I bought this guitar 2 years ago and I'm very please with the quality build, the stainless steel frets. It's definitely a well made guitar, Cort is trying to enter the market and this guitar is their top build and quite impressive. I am so envious of your long slender fingers! Well done and your sweet smile makes it even better, thank you!
Always a nice feeling unboxing a guitar. It feels like you are 4 years old again and you open your present for Christmas.😂 Nice guitar and nice playing as always!🤟
In love with that finish, you made a great choice. Here’s hoping you do a “6 or 12 months later” follow up video talking about your long-term experience.
Sounds GREAT, congrats!!! I use to have 2 different Cort guitars back in the late '80's, early 90's( a black Les Paul Custome & a dark brown explorer, with a high figured wood grain finish) both guitars ROCKED, too bad I sold them for another guitar. My friend had a neck-thru strat by a company called Cortez back in the early '80's , wonder if it's the same company? Congrats & you ROCK!!!
I'm thinking about getting the new Matt Heafy Epiphone but one thing I've noticed when it comes to Fishman Fluence pickups is that there doesn't seem to be much of a difference in the voicings when using distortion. This video definitely confirms it. Heard it much more with the cleans.
Yeah it's quite a subtle difference when using heavily distorted tones, although I feel like that's generally the same for most pickups I've tried. The clean tones differences are definitely way more clear. Overall though I really like how they sound both clean and distorted!
As always, I enjoyed your video. Certain features like the block saddle's on the bridge are actually my favorite bridge style. You always have fun and informative video's! Thanks again.
Certainly looks like a beast of a guitar! Sounds as good as it looks :D Also hope that repetitive strain injury isn't bothering you, it's good to see you back making content.
Cort is one of the best budget-friendly brands around, as well as a strong player in the middle/high end model field. I've been saving to get a Cort M200, a PRS-like model that costs way less than the quality delivered, good price in the used market. Really amazing!
Cort is awesome. I have an electric KX300 in raw burst and an acoustic MR500E. I think you get a lot of bang for your buck with them, you are not just paying an overinflated price because of the brand name. The biggest difference for me in Colombia is that you don't have to pay expressive shipping/import fees/customs that get added to the price tag. The music store (Ortizo) I bought mine from sell Fenders and Cort, all of the fenders cost way more than in the US. Today with the exchange rate, the K700 costs 4 375 000 pesos (942 USD) here.
About being a guitar God...Gotta have a stage guitar...That one is cool as hell.it resonates with you...Jam on ....cant wait to see you on stage or tv....
Never heard of Cort guitars. Love your videos and love watching you play. Your smile is infectious. My fellow guitarist friends are on a Kiesel guitar kick. I'm into the EVH guitars and Jacksons.
Congrats for this georgeous guitare!! I think it looks amazing and also the design suits you very well somehow : ) I'm waiting to receive my Harley Benton in 4 days and this video made me even more impatient :' )
I'm also waiting for my new guitar. Very excited to use it for my covers. Got myself a new steelstring acoustic~~ Gotta say though, this Cort brand seems to be producing good stuff.
I've been eyeing some of those new Cort models, they look good and the sound demos I've heard so far have been really encouraging. Was this your first experience of a floating trem equipped guitar? If so, how did you find it?
I had an amazing Cort Strat back in the day and i foolishly let my then best friend borrow it, he left it at some guys house and the guy destroyed the guitar and painted it gold! I had forgotten all about it but now thanks to Rachel im totally pissed off again! If anyone knows my "buddy" Reuben tell him i said "thanks for nothing" lol.
Congrats, Rachelf, that's a great guitar. Personally, I'm still in love with that cool blue one you have, but that's just me. This thing sounds great, and I'm really glad they just sent it to you for free. That's amazing. How do I get a guitar company as a sponsor.....?!?!?!?!
Looks like it has 24 stainless steel frets very nice guitar by the looks of things. The back of the neck looks great also, you could do a comparison with your Ibanez guitars.
I wish you would make more guitar lessons or guitar journey related videos (lesson plan and practice routines for self taught guitarists etc) and less gear related videos. I subscribed after watching your guitar progress video and it was very motivational. It would be nice to have more videos aimed at self taught bedroom guitarists learning and growing together.
Cort guitars are as good as anything one can buy today from Ibanez, PRS or any of higher profile brands, but come with a much user friendlier performance to price ratio. BQ, finish & QC are outstanding as are components and design. I own and play three Cort guitars, and wouldn't hesitate to buy Cort. In their class, the Dualitys are magnificent if they fit the genre and style of playing wanted. Cort's Indonesian QC is superior to Ibanez and Yamaha QC on their guitars from Indonesia IMPE.
Hi Rachel, I am using a 20 years old Cort S-Series with new wiring and treble bleed. Sounds amazing. Have you already check out the Amp1 iridium for metal heads from BluGuitar? It's a 100W metal amp and weight only 2.5 pounds. It sounds killer 🤘🤘🤘 Best regards from Germany
really cool looking guitar I try and stay away from active pic up guitars though not that I do not like the way they sound just not a fan of havng to use a battery to power my pic up I just want to plug in a play and not worry about my battery dying on my pic ups but that is just me.
If you don’t like floating trems, a good compromise is to set it dive only with a 10$ trem blocker from Amazon. You get rid of all the tuning, string break, string change problems and still can dive bomb.
@@RachelfGuitar Or you can replace the tremolo bridge to Sophia 2.22 pro . Much more stable in tune and clarity with big tone because of bigger brass tremolo block and dual stabilizer .
I own a Cort X700 and G300, both with this same tremolo bridge. Neither has any problems staying in tune or breaking strings. It's easy to change strings like with any decent Strat style guitar. If you have any tuning issues then apply some graphite to the nut slots.
@@danz4904 the tuning issue I am talking about is more what happens if you try to tune down without adjusting the springs tensions. Same with the string break, I was not saying that it is more prone to break, I was saying that if you break a string you are in trouble because all the other strings will be out of tune. If you can live with that then you don't have to do anything, but if it is unacceptable then you have compromise that blocking the trem to dive only. The device is inexpensive, invisible and you can always go back to full floating with a few turn of an allen key.
@@martincloutier666 I understand. As you know, it's the case with any floating tremolo: Strats, Floyd Rose, etc. The trem stopper you're talking about makes it similar to how EVH set up his guitars. He had a decked Floyd Rose tremolo (that sat against the body with no cut-out) so he couldn't pull up on it. He set the spring tension higher than necessary so he could go to drop D without any significant tuning changes on the other strings. Personally, I like having a floating tremolo. The Cort tremolo on the X700 is as good or better than any Gotoh or other vintage (non-locking) style tremolo I'm aware of. If a string breaks, it's quick and easy to change thanks to the locking tuners. For alternate tunings I use other guitars. I only need a small excuse to get more guitars, LOL.
I have a Cort KX100 and I have to say I love it, and I would definitely spend money on a higher end Cort. That blue one you have looks sexy af! I have to see about getting one!
First off, that guitar is beautiful looking and has everything you need to play very clean. Also I gotta ask, how did you get these guitar companies to send you there stuff to try out? ( you don't have to answer if it's a private thing, I was just curious.)
Hey Rachel, what's your opinion about the coil split mode ? I have been a little dillemic about buying a guitar with Humbuckers and then splitting the coils, and the other one being just buying a single coiled strat. Is the coil split similar to that of the original Single coils ? Would love to hear what you think about it :D :P Great video!!
If you haven't yet you need to try out some schecter guitars from their medium range to high end range, I got the apocalypse red reign c-7 and the Hellraiser c-7 and think they rock, 6 string versions are cool too, well worth a blast well worth the money only down side on the guitars over £1000 there no hard case with it but got one with my fender elite which was £100 more than one of my schecters, problem now even the low end guitars available are brilliant, a guitarist is spoilt for choice 😁😁😁😁😁🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
@@BlazinLow305 I have schecters, Harley Bentons some mods done on and some no mods a few parts casters I've built, Jackson v, Kramer, charvel a Joe doe telecaster and a 59 epiphone, and sg a couple of kit guitars and recently acquired a Gibson Les Paul and half way through two kit guitars on top of that and in my shed I have some lovely wood I'm going to cut up and make a couple of sc guitars with the spare hardware I have........love em all as they all play lovely and sound different and do different jobs like I said the cheap guitars as of late are just as good as the branded god guitars these days, but I'm still shit at soldering 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
looks like a sweet guitar, might pick it up. Have u seen the b.c. rich Eddie stranger things edition? looks fire. Anyways, gonna finish watching the video lol
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It's always a breath of fresh air to watch your videos. It's an amazing sounding guitar with awesome features
Thanks so much!
Cort is great, they pretty much are the reasons why PRS is known for "perfect" quality control.
What do you mean?
Thanks for playing the clean tones. Very useful, especially with all the different coil options.
For sure! The tonal differences are way more clear with cleans.
Cort guitars are absolutely great. I had two of them, never disappointed and best of all, great price! It is so much better than entry level Ibanez and it also have top of the line guitars.
Glad to hear you've had a great experience with them as well!
Amazing
@@RachelfGuitar your awesome
I dnt think they fit entry level. They are high level instruments. The Cort menace blew me off. I’m thinking about getting other models in my collection and this could be next🥰
Apparently Cort manufactures some guitars for Ibanez
Nice guitar! I used to be a moderator and administrator for Cort’s discussion forums, maybe 12-14 years ago. I’ve owned three or four over the years.
And you probably already have several guitars made by Cort. Lower-cost Ibanez guitars and all Squiers are made by Cort, as well as many other brands. Check the serial numbers; if it starts with “IC” it’s an Indonesian Cort.
Except the Chinese Squiers
@@Brumms_ Hey! I wish I could help you more. Cort has never been very good at getting back. And they don't really have much in the way of information, even when I was a moderator none of use could get information about many Cort guitars. I can tell you that the first three or four digits will tell you when it was made, with the first one or two digits being the year (8 for 98, 7 for 97, 02 for 2002 etc.) and the next two being the month (01 for January, etc.). The rest of the digits indicate where in the line your guitar was made. Cort uses one serial range for all instruments, so if yours is xxxx2437, it was the 2,437th guitar made that month.
Around 2000 Cort overhauled their lineup in a sense. They kept making mostly the same guitars, but changed the model names. So what was the S series became the G series, and if I am remembering right the Viva became the X. The electronics are probably Mighty Mite if they don't have any markings (Mighty Mite and Cort are owned by the same parent company). Korea was originally where the high-end Corts were made, with the cheaper guitars coming from Indonesia or China. There are some old catalogs online, but they are locked behind a paywall. I wish I could tell you something more specific, Cort doesn't have very good record keeping.
Had a prs se 24 made by them which rocked
@@Brumms_ I think your remark about being made for specific regions is correct. I have a 2001 "GB Series" bass, which I don't think was officially sold in the US. But, I found some identical modesls years ago, new, in Germany, sold as a GB-54.
One of our moderators lived in Turkey. Apparently Cort is very popular in Turkey because they can keep the price lower than the more well-known brands. If I had unlimited funds, I think it would be fun to track down as many models as possible and build a reference collection for others!
I own both the Cort X700 Duality (Duncan JB & Jazz) and X700 Duality II (Fishman Fluence Classics). Both are awesome. I generally don't like active pickups. The Fluence Classics are active but they don't sound like it. They have all the warmth & dynamics of great passive pickups. Plus they have 3 distinctly different voices: PAF, Hotrod, and Singlecoil.The PAF voicing nails awesome Gibson tones. Hotrod voicing is very similar to Duncan JB & 59, but improved where the neck pickup isn't as scooped and boomy as the 59 neck and the bridge pickup is like a JB with more lows & low mids and no nasty high-mid spike. The singlecoil voicing doesn't sound exactly like any traditional singlecoil I've ever used but it's much closer than you get with any split humbucker. The Duality II with Fishman Classics truly provides the sounds of 3 different great guitars. I still really like the original X700 Duality because it provides 3 tones from the JB & Jazz humbuckers that I enjoy. (The original Duality inside coils & outside coils of the JB & Jazz in positions 2 & 4 are thin and not so useful to me.) Duality II has 8 unique tones and I like them all, even the singlecoil voicings.
Thanks, very helpful!
@@carlosclaptrixyou're very welcome. I also want to add that the Fluence voicings are much more distinct through a tube amp or higher quality modeler than through the THR used in this video, especially the high gain tones. Also, Cort's higher end models like X700 and G300 offer incredible value, quality, and specs.
Very nice review Rachelf, I bought this guitar 2 years ago and I'm very please with the quality build, the stainless steel frets. It's definitely a well made guitar, Cort is trying to enter the market and this guitar is their top build and quite impressive. I am so envious of your long slender fingers! Well done and your sweet smile makes it even better, thank you!
Wow! I didn't know cort made such a cool guitar like this! I'm kinda proud to the fact that cort is korean guitar company!
Finally new guitar day! It’s been forever! :) I loved the design.
5:06 that colour is nice
Your happiness makes my day brighter! 💚
You and this guitar... is this a beauty contest 😃😍?
Always a nice feeling unboxing a guitar. It feels like you are 4 years old again and you open your present for Christmas.😂
Nice guitar and nice playing as always!🤟
Thank you! 🤟
New Gear Day! always awesome. never heard a bad word from Cort owners. and Wow, that is a great color.
Yeah I was excited when they reached out about working on a video, always heard good things!
In love with that finish, you made a great choice. Here’s hoping you do a “6 or 12 months later” follow up video talking about your long-term experience.
Congrats ! 😀👍 the guitar sounds awesome, ( good playing by the way. )
Thank you! 😁
I still have my first guitar. It's a Cort Acoustic!! this was 1996!!! lol I'm old
I have been using Cort guitars for years. I have 2 Zennox Z42s in left hand configuration, and they’re extremely comfortable to play.
Sounds GREAT, congrats!!! I use to have 2 different Cort guitars back in the late '80's, early 90's( a black Les Paul Custome & a dark brown explorer, with a high figured wood grain finish) both guitars ROCKED, too bad I sold them for another guitar. My friend had a neck-thru strat by a company called Cortez back in the early '80's , wonder if it's the same company? Congrats & you ROCK!!!
Thank you! 🤘🤘
I'm thinking about getting the new Matt Heafy Epiphone but one thing I've noticed when it comes to Fishman Fluence pickups is that there doesn't seem to be much of a difference in the voicings when using distortion. This video definitely confirms it. Heard it much more with the cleans.
Yeah it's quite a subtle difference when using heavily distorted tones, although I feel like that's generally the same for most pickups I've tried. The clean tones differences are definitely way more clear. Overall though I really like how they sound both clean and distorted!
As always, I enjoyed your video. Certain features like the block saddle's on the bridge are actually my favorite bridge style. You always have fun and informative video's! Thanks again.
Thanks so much! :)
Certainly looks like a beast of a guitar! Sounds as good as it looks :D
Also hope that repetitive strain injury isn't bothering you, it's good to see you back making content.
Thanks for asking! It's been doing well so far, but I've still been playing a bit less than I used to out of caution.
New guitar day! Best day ever! Keep rocking Gorgeous Shred Queen! 🤘🏾🔥🎸
Wow! New Cort logo
Hello Rachel, I Love the color of the guitar and how it sounds. Good purchase. Have a great day! 😀😃
Cort Rocks! Love the look of your new AXE, SAWEEET!!
Cort is one of the best budget-friendly brands around, as well as a strong player in the middle/high end model field.
I've been saving to get a Cort M200, a PRS-like model that costs way less than the quality delivered, good price in the used market. Really amazing!
Cort is awesome. I have an electric KX300 in raw burst and an acoustic MR500E. I think you get a lot of bang for your buck with them, you are not just paying an overinflated price because of the brand name.
The biggest difference for me in Colombia is that you don't have to pay expressive shipping/import fees/customs that get added to the price tag. The music store (Ortizo) I bought mine from sell Fenders and Cort, all of the fenders cost way more than in the US. Today with the exchange rate, the K700 costs 4 375 000 pesos (942 USD) here.
Watched this video subscribed straight away great personality great video
Wow it looks good!
I had a Cort B4 bass. Fantastic instrument.
Very, Very nice!!! I'm sure you will put it to great use! Congrats!
Good review! Thank you.
About being a guitar God...Gotta have a stage guitar...That one is cool as hell.it resonates with you...Jam on ....cant wait to see you on stage or tv....
Nice looking guitar and it sounds great, great demo and playing Rachel !
Can you make a video on how to properly set up a guitar for beginners?
Never heard of Cort guitars. Love your videos and love watching you play. Your smile is infectious. My fellow guitarist friends are on a Kiesel guitar kick. I'm into the EVH guitars and Jacksons.
Thank you! I've yet to try out a Kiesel, but would like to someday for sure :). Also haven't tried out EVH or Jacksons yet, lots left to try!
Cort guitars are usually great, and the pricing is very reasonable too.
Heard a lot of good things about them.
The design of that guitar is cool! Sounds great too! 🔥
Missed your vids, keep it up!
Good guitars, I think Hedras Ramos has this model
I would want that in a Darker Red theme 3:) Sith Life 3:)
Heavy, metal the one you played, kiiiilllllleeeeeerrrrrrr😀
Great review as always.
Thank you!
Guess you got lucky. I got the Lava burst finish a few weeks ago and had a badly cut nut, broken/uneven inlays.
😍😍😍😍😍 I've never seen that before
Cort hace muy buenas Guitarras!!! lml
Awesome
Nice!
Congrats for this georgeous guitare!! I think it looks amazing and also the design suits you very well somehow : )
I'm waiting to receive my Harley Benton in 4 days and this video made me even more impatient :' )
Thank you! Hope your guitar arrives sooner than later 😁🎸
That’s super awesome I like the kinda tan stripe running through it
I'm also waiting for my new guitar. Very excited to use it for my covers. Got myself a new steelstring acoustic~~ Gotta say though, this Cort brand seems to be producing good stuff.
Awesome, congrats on the upcoming new guitar!
I've been eyeing some of those new Cort models, they look good and the sound demos I've heard so far have been really encouraging. Was this your first experience of a floating trem equipped guitar? If so, how did you find it?
Wow, it is beautiful! 😍
I had an amazing Cort Strat back in the day and i foolishly let my then best friend borrow it, he left it at some guys house and the guy destroyed the guitar and painted it gold! I had forgotten all about it but now thanks to Rachel im totally pissed off again! If anyone knows my "buddy" Reuben tell him i said "thanks for nothing" lol.
Ok definitely on my list to buy it 🤘
Congrats, Rachelf, that's a great guitar. Personally, I'm still in love with that cool blue one you have, but that's just me. This thing sounds great, and I'm really glad they just sent it to you for free. That's amazing. How do I get a guitar company as a sponsor.....?!?!?!?!
Work hard
The red one is looks really cool to me. hope you are well Rachel
Yeah that one is awesome looking too! Thank you :)
cort makes great guitars. i've never owned one, but i've played few. nice guitars.
Looks like it has 24 stainless steel frets very nice guitar by the looks of things. The back of the neck looks great also, you could do a comparison with your Ibanez guitars.
This guitar looks really rad! Love the Blue Design on it!
I'm always a fan of blue guitars! 😁
@@RachelfGuitar That's awesome! I have left handed Blue Gio Ibanez guitar and it's amazing!
That’s one funky looking guitar 😊.
I wish you would make more guitar lessons or guitar journey related videos (lesson plan and practice routines for self taught guitarists etc) and less gear related videos.
I subscribed after watching your guitar progress video and it was very motivational. It would be nice to have more videos aimed at self taught bedroom guitarists learning and growing together.
i like her voice
Woow! ✌️✌️
Cort guitars are as good as anything one can buy today from Ibanez, PRS or any of higher profile brands, but come with a much user friendlier performance to price ratio. BQ, finish & QC are outstanding as are components and design. I own and play three Cort guitars, and wouldn't hesitate to buy Cort. In their class, the Dualitys are magnificent if they fit the genre and style of playing wanted. Cort's Indonesian QC is superior to Ibanez and Yamaha QC on their guitars from Indonesia IMPE.
Hi Rachel,
I am using a 20 years old Cort S-Series with new wiring and treble bleed. Sounds amazing.
Have you already check out the Amp1 iridium for metal heads from BluGuitar? It's a 100W metal amp and weight only 2.5 pounds. It sounds killer 🤘🤘🤘
Best regards from Germany
beautiful guitar
Beautiful guitar, thanks for the review! What is the dark with red stripe thin guitar between both lights orange ?
really cool looking guitar I try and stay away from active pic up guitars though not that I do not like the way they sound just not a fan of havng to use a battery to power my pic up I just want to plug in a play and not worry about my battery dying on my pic ups but that is just me.
Excellent budget guitar
Very cool guitar! Enjoy
Thank you!
Very nice guitar ! 😊😊
what a great guitar! i still haven't got my first one xD
Hope you can get one soon! 🤟
@@RachelfGuitar i hope it too❤️🤘🎸
the headstock looks like it is a Kiesel but with Ibanez Axiom features
If you don’t like floating trems, a good compromise is to set it dive only with a 10$ trem blocker from Amazon. You get rid of all the tuning, string break, string change problems and still can dive bomb.
Good point, haven't tried doing that before!
@@RachelfGuitar Or you can replace the tremolo bridge to Sophia 2.22 pro . Much more stable in tune and clarity with big tone because of bigger brass tremolo block and dual stabilizer .
I own a Cort X700 and G300, both with this same tremolo bridge. Neither has any problems staying in tune or breaking strings. It's easy to change strings like with any decent Strat style guitar. If you have any tuning issues then apply some graphite to the nut slots.
@@danz4904 the tuning issue I am talking about is more what happens if you try to tune down without adjusting the springs tensions. Same with the string break, I was not saying that it is more prone to break, I was saying that if you break a string you are in trouble because all the other strings will be out of tune. If you can live with that then you don't have to do anything, but if it is unacceptable then you have compromise that blocking the trem to dive only. The device is inexpensive, invisible and you can always go back to full floating with a few turn of an allen key.
@@martincloutier666 I understand. As you know, it's the case with any floating tremolo: Strats, Floyd Rose, etc. The trem stopper you're talking about makes it similar to how EVH set up his guitars. He had a decked Floyd Rose tremolo (that sat against the body with no cut-out) so he couldn't pull up on it. He set the spring tension higher than necessary so he could go to drop D without any significant tuning changes on the other strings. Personally, I like having a floating tremolo. The Cort tremolo on the X700 is as good or better than any Gotoh or other vintage (non-locking) style tremolo I'm aware of. If a string breaks, it's quick and easy to change thanks to the locking tuners. For alternate tunings I use other guitars. I only need a small excuse to get more guitars, LOL.
sweet sounding guitar!
have you considered trying out the sawtooth "hybrid" tele or strat?
I wonder what's your favourite colour.. haha! That's an amazing guitar! But I love my Ibanez RG421AHM though
Definitely hard to guess my favorite color 😄🤘
Nice guitar!
Luuuuuunaaaatic
Looks great, sounds great! Did they send you the blue, or did you request it? 😃
They asked which color I'd prefer 😁, although the red version does look pretty great as well!
Wooooowww
Does it come in pink? What would be the best guitar to learn the guitar?
I have a Cort KX100 and I have to say I love it, and I would definitely spend money on a higher end Cort. That blue one you have looks sexy af! I have to see about getting one!
I would dream of working with them
Also if you ever get Steve Vai's guitars to sponsor you, I think I might cry.
Curious if you have ever done the PLEK Pro-service on any of your guitars?
Rachelf, is it super important to have 24 frets? Should we stay away from 21 fret guitars?
heard good things about them
Great vid! How does the tuning hold up with the tremolo system? Does it go out of tune a lot after you use the whammy bar?
Keep up the good work :0)
Thank you! :)
First off, that guitar is beautiful looking and has everything you need to play very clean. Also I gotta ask, how did you get these guitar companies to send you there stuff to try out? ( you don't have to answer if it's a private thing, I was just curious.)
When you have a you tube channel with hundreds of thousands of followers they are willing to do stuff like that....
Stupendaaaaaa🤩🤩🤩🤩
is the volume knob also a push pull?
Is the neck similar to the ones on the Ibanez guitar? Or is it thicker and less wide? thanks
Hey Rachel, what's your opinion about the coil split mode ? I have been a little dillemic about buying a guitar with Humbuckers and then splitting the coils, and the other one being just buying a single coiled strat. Is the coil split similar to that of the original Single coils ? Would love to hear what you think about it :D :P Great video!!
Dig it👍👍🎸🇦🇺
If you haven't yet you need to try out some schecter guitars from their medium range to high end range, I got the apocalypse red reign c-7 and the Hellraiser c-7 and think they rock, 6 string versions are cool too, well worth a blast well worth the money only down side on the guitars over £1000 there no hard case with it but got one with my fender elite which was £100 more than one of my schecters, problem now even the low end guitars available are brilliant, a guitarist is spoilt for choice 😁😁😁😁😁🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Definitely need to try out a Schecter someday! Those do look like awesome guitars 🤘
My SLS elite is just as good/nice as my 2400 dollar MiJ Jackson at half the price.
@@RachelfGuitar they are and cater for all budgets 🤘🤘🤘🤘
@@BlazinLow305 I have schecters, Harley Bentons some mods done on and some no mods a few parts casters I've built, Jackson v, Kramer, charvel a Joe doe telecaster and a 59 epiphone, and sg a couple of kit guitars and recently acquired a Gibson Les Paul and half way through two kit guitars on top of that and in my shed I have some lovely wood I'm going to cut up and make a couple of sc guitars with the spare hardware I have........love em all as they all play lovely and sound different and do different jobs like I said the cheap guitars as of late are just as good as the branded god guitars these days, but I'm still shit at soldering 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
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looks like a sweet guitar, might pick it up. Have u seen the b.c. rich Eddie stranger things edition? looks fire. Anyways, gonna finish watching the video lol
I hadn't seen it, looks cool! Haven't watched the latest Stranger Things season yet
@@RachelfGuitar it's rly good