Scorpion's Matthias Jabs was the recent Cort ambassador with his signature Garage 1 & 2 guitars. If you know what Cort has to offer, you'd put your name on it. We all love to associate Cort with 'cheap' but that's disrespect to some fine craftsmanship if you look at the upper tier offerings. Every brand name has some affordable range to address the market demand but we tend to equate this with reputation exclusively.
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Its 2-way switch is just...urrggh...out of place for me.
Fitch
Wah, Matthias Jabs downgrade from his famous white with black stripes Floyd Rose Gibson Explorer and Fender Matthias Jabs signature Stratocaster to Cort?!?!?!?! Why oh why?!??!
what's the benefit of having an angled pickup, like those found on old kramers... (and common single bridge pickup on most strats & teles)
the slant- bass side has lesser treble but for a bridge pickup, the placement itself is already treble-inducing.
if we read between the lines, no pro player would abandon their favoured brand too easily. they can afford to own whichever guitars they wish to acquire so doing a side endorsement- why not?
as i've mentioned in the post- is 'Cort' a lesser brand name? should we deem it as such? should 'Fender' & 'Gibson' be 'better'? is this a definitive hierarchy as far as 'good' is concerned?
good guitars are good guitars, regardless of the brand name. upon reflection, those custom, boutique instruments are actually unheard of to begin with, we forgive their obscurity because they prove, in the manifestation of their craft, quality beyond product labeling. Grosh, Collings, Poole... who are these people? but look at what they offer.
So this proves that Cort is in the same league as Fender, Gibson, Grosh, Poole and Collings?
yes. the best corts can definitely match lower end fenders and gibsons.
it proves that every guitar brand name employ competent luthiers to address the market needs accordingly. just because the brand name is associated with budget guitars, it becomes exclusive. in this light, the Peavey brand name comes to mind- they are primarily amplification chaps but they do make quality guitars & have the people to see this through, should the need arises. otherwise, people like Van Halen (once upon a time) won't bother.
best Corts only worthy of such competence? that's rather dismissive. we should evaluate the product accordingly- were Corts ever meant/ conceived for such a market? business philosophy also comes into considerations here.
at the end of the day, it is the player who will define how good the guitar is. [we've heard of this so many times but it's so true]
that's half of it- we can't say it's a good guitar if it's junk. but these days, it's rather difficult to find a dud instrument unless a lemon escaped the QC to taunt the world...
hmmm just to side track abit on the custom boutique guitars topic, but anyone heard of strictly 7 guitars?? not sure if they're dependable considering its only their 1st namm and they're pretty unknown...
It has only one humbukger!!!!!! How you can play with it?????
you mean we need many pickups in a guitar to play? hmm...
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