This Guitar was a Big SURPRISE! - Cort G280 Select!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Have you ever been surprised by a guitar you've played for the first time? Today I look at a surprisingly GREAT guitar!
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1. What exactly is this guitar? 0:46
2. What are the features? 2:12
3. What does it sound like? 5:43
4.One Minute Solo! - 8:11
5. Let's tear it down! 9:28
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Darrell has the best job. He gets free guitars. He plays AWESOME guitars. And he gets paid to do it.
see what practicing gets ya?
You can do it to, his marketing is the nice guy, regular guy you can trust and relate to. It’s no accident it’s all business.
His personality and mindset are beautiful.
We create our own fortune...or not!
@@mikec6733 Oh! you ate all of that self-help/business crap... I am truly sorry.
Not a household name but built many production guitars for many big companies.
Yep sterligs, prs se’s... they are made by cort factory
I want one where can I buy one
There is a Cort I could swear was an Ibanez SZ other than headstock.
For years and years people say that. But they build pretty good guitars under their own name for quite some time now
@Deleting TH-cam isn’t easy. not 100% sure but I think so, they are made in indonesia, most of the “budget” line guitars from big brands come from the indonesian cor-tek factory, I might be wrong on sterlings tho 🤷🏻♂️
Cort has been seriously been stepping up their game. Tried one of their metal style guitars a while back at a guitar store, very awesome!
Which model (I definitely understand if you don’t remember)?! ☯️
@@gregorywilson3318 Have a look at their KX series for the more "metal" lineup. The specs looks great on paper.
@@strumminronin Thanx!!! ☯️
I have a cort source which is their version of Gibson 335. Sounds like I spent thousands of dollars more. The Craftsman ship isn't as top notch as the Gibson, but there's no way I could justify the cost of uograding
This Cort, Tagima, FGN, Yamaha style is really growing on me
You know, I just had my tastes unexpectedly change over the past month, and your comment summarizes it perfectly. I saw a Tagima Stella DW for sale last week, and I decided to buy it... then today I found a Cort X700 Duality for sale, sub $600 and went for it. I'm a sucker for well made guitars and as much as I'd like to have an Ernie Ball JP Majesty, a Suhr, an ESP Horizon or Javier Reyes 6-string (can you tell I'm a sucker for the high horns?) I will never be able to justify spending that much on one guitar. Maybe on one amp, but not when my favorite guitar so far is a Peavey EXP I got for $400.
My first guitar (Sears Silvertone) was basically fiberboard painted black with silver glitter scattered about..ugh!
Today's guitars are works of art. I'm too old to wrap my head around a headless guitar. haha.
You have shown some of the most beautiful instruments, and play them equally as beautiful. Thanks Darrell.
I know the ones your talking about.
If you've ever watched the movie That Thing You Do that's the guitar the lead guitarist played with Silver Tone amp.
I had one of those for my first guitar the the screw holes all started too strip it was not a good guitar at all
I have nothing but praise for Cort. I’ve owned some of their acoustics and they’re fantastic too. The MR710F acoustic stands up to high end acoustics really well. I had a matching pair - the 6 & 12 string variant of that model. Both were great :)
I am impressed. You can not fix fit and finish but you can upgrade the PU's and in most cases leave the electrics until they wear out. I have never personally found a problem with alpha pots but I have had switches go. They cut corners in the right places.Thanx for bringing us all this great alternative stuff!
yes it is easy to replace.. get a Grigsby Oak or fancy one Freeway switch... I heard only good things about Corts..
I agree. It sounds great as it is, and you can always upgrade later. Electronics are always the easiest upgrades.
I bought this guitar having in mind that I'll change the pups. But they are really good! Gonna leave stock ones. They have a lot of low-end sound that is great, but I have to turn down lows on an amp to have more glassy tones.
@@silvansky I buy all my guitars both new and used with the idea that if needed I will spend another $200.00 USD to change or repair whatever is needed. I sometimes get lucky at find a perfect guitar. I got an old Ibanez Jet King painted silver sparkle. When Ibanez first started they were really Guyatone guitars with Ibanez put on the headstock. It looks very, very 50's so most guys never tried it out. It has chrome PU covers that make it look like the original but under them are P90's. These PU's thru my Plexi can remove the backwall of a club. lol It is not your granddads surf guitar, lol. So one can never assume anything about a guitar until you play it.
@@Paul_Lenard_Ewing true.
I've always found them, Cort, to have great looking fit and finish and a high quality appearance.
Wow! What a beautiful top on that guitar! That sounds as good as the Pacifica. The tones were huge.
Cort is really badass. I have their flagships (G300pro and x700 duality) they're insane custom shop level.
Looks like a pacifica with same configuration, a comparison between the two would be interesting.
Cort's are easy to find here in Australia, and they really do make some gold, as teens in the 90's we would play cort's due to them being cheap and reliable.
What part of Aus. Are you in? Heard its getting pretty bad over there lockdown wise? Are any guitar stores even open?
@@wiscostrongman3430 yea I'm on the Sunshine coast Queensland,we just came out of lockdown, all my guitar store are open I just brought one two weeks ago,we are the only major state that's not locked down, due to us shutting our borders down, no Vax jab no entry.
Damn thats sad! Hopefully things get better soon! We’re struggling to keep our freedom here in America too! Stay safe, and stay as free as possible brother!! The government only taketh…and never giveth
@@wiscostrongman3430 hey I hear you, but with us being a continent and our lockdowns harsh, we have very little deaths and infection rates from the beginning compared to the rest of the world. We are a very unified country, if disaster strikes we rally and band together to help strangers. We love Americans and feel you guys are probably the closest country to ours that have the same values 👍
Cort are also super popular in Europe. A lot of budget entry level guitars are coming from Cort.
I have the entire EVL Serie, and it is awesome. I also have a Strat style Cort. They all sound incredible for an extremely affordable price.
I was waiting for this one!! Im slowly turning into a cort fan. Those are great instruments for the cost
I have an 83 Cort single cut and it will never leave....
Great to know, man! Another reason to trust cort
Looks so much like a Yamaha Pacifica 112 with a fancy finish. Still, an excellent guitar.
This one reminds me of the sire s7. I would love to see a video showing off that one! Locking tuners, bone nut. Roasted maple neck. It is worth a deeper dive.
What would you say is better considering the price and features both?
Yeeess! Man, I remember back when I started playing back in 83, Corts were one of the cheapies to stay away from, like the Squiers. They must've realized to stay in the game, they needed to make some quality guitars. Rock On Mr. Darrell!
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John Mitchell from the bands “It Bites, Arena, Frost*, Kino, A, The Urbane and Lonely Robot” primarily uses Cort Guitars - white and black G254s on stage, and for recording, a tobacco G210 and a blue/black G290. He also plays an Alvarez Yairi acoustic guitar in the studio, and a PRS Classic. Mitchell's rack set-up consists of a Marshall JMP1 Preamp with effects being produced by a vintage Korg A3 effects unit. This signal is then amplified by a Marshall Valvestate 80/80 power amp to a 4x12 Marshall cab. So if there good enough for John Mitchell there good enough for me.
I understand that their logo has some history to it, but for those of us that remember them from the 80s, that history doesn't have the best connotation. I'd like to see that logo updated. A veneer for the headstock would really cap off the look too.
Yeah, they really should give the logo a modern update. Wouldn't stop from buying one of their guitars, though.
They have alot of guitars that have matching head stocks and also have etched guitars that look good in picks but really cheap in person .
My first electric was a Cort Pro Custom I got for Christmas in 1999. I didn’t give it enough credit at the time because I was 15 and dumb, but it was a great and reliable guitar. It stayed in tune and played punk great. I finally gave it away in 2010, but it was hard to do.
Cort is a giant in the world arena of guitars manufacturing
Tip for those out there wanting floating Trems.
If your guitars springs are providing too much resistance for it to float, buy springs of lower quality and put them in the back instead. Voila! Floating trem. If you want to make it float better too, sometimes thicker strings like 10s provide higher resistance and help it float better, at the potential sacrifice of harder playing for newer players or those not used to playing with thicker strings
Or, just set the trem springs properly.
@@vorpalblades the springs that came with my guitar put too much tension the block to allow it to float. How did you do it then?
@@Madchris8828 there are 2 or 3 screws that attach the spring claw to the cavity. Adjust them to match the spring tension at the bridge height required.
I have a Cort Bass that was made in conjunction with a boutique German designer.Fantastic.When the drummer and the git guy say uhhh turn it down pease. You know you got a.winner
Not available yet! Wow you are ahead of the curve!
I like what he does but sometimes Darrell is limited by playing a certain sound, a certain style. I would like to hear the guitar run through a variety of styles and genres and a few different effect combos. I think it would give us a better reflection of the versatility of the guitar and perhaps appeal to a broader audience.
Indeed. The guitar isnt put to its full potential. As he makes every guitar sound the same in his style.
But atleast he gives us an idea of what to expect out of the guitar.
if you give him €50.000 he will
Visit my channel, I have a couple of music vids with this guitar. And my review is coming soon...
Well, playing isn't his fortei, but totally worth checking out his reviews because he goes into so much detail not just the tones, but also the design, playability, setups and so on.
Another superb review. Thank you Darryl. I love my Cort X6-SM that I have. I had it recommended to me by the guys in the shop and I've never regretted it.
Yep, the guitar is AWESOME! I bought one just few days before this video was released. Mine came with even better fretjob, but the nut is really bad. Gonna change it for graphtech. Also noticed poor electronics, but I'm gonna mod this guitar so gonna change pots and wires anyway.
The trem is really really smooth and I love it! Best guitar in this price range, alnico 5 singles and alnico 2 humbucker, compound radius, great neck joint, great look!
Beautiful crunchy rocker shape sound
I'm starting to think that an HSS configuration strat might be the best of both worlds for guitars. Decent single coil warmth from the neck position, but sufficient beef from the bridge humbucker.
Cort do make great guitars. I've got a Mansons Guitar Matt Bellamy Signature and that's a lovely instrument made with Cort. The neck feels especially lovely.
The quality of the electronics are going to be reflected in the cost I'm sure. If you want a guitar at a that low price point, then compromises have to come somewhere, and the person that's in the market for that sort of guitar probably doesn't care too much about lower end electronics.
I own a couple of Corts and I didn't even know it. Maybe more. I wonder if they make LTDs too.
Recently bought a Cort G200DX-NAT through Guitar Center, brand new in a box. The neck joint had a 1.5 mm gap due to shavings and sawdust. Reluctantly took off the neck, cleaned out the pocket, lightly sanded for a better fit & fixed it. How it passed QC like that blows my mind. Anyway, it was under $300, so it's my hot-rod-able Stratocaster-style solid body guitar. Better pickups are planned for it. With a swamp ash body & hard maple neck, it's a beauty to look at & plays quite well.
I purchased a Cort G110 four days ago and I have 0% regrets, it was affordable, it is reliable and impressive. 🎸🤤
Nice guitar and great guitarist. Thanks Darrell.
I used a Cort Matt Murphy to tour and play heavy rock whilst at University. It was great!
I don't even care about the different guitars he plays. I just like hearing his playing
6:24 sounds great here
I remember being really surprised at a Cort amp I played about 15 years ago!
It looks like a Micheal Kelly. I was looking at some MK's@ Sam Ash and I must say played great. I was impressed.
One of the best single cut L. P. type guitars I've owned was a Cort. Really muddy, saw wrong pot value in control cavity. With the right value it really opened up. Wish now I'd kept it.
Bro, I love your playing. Mesmerizes me. Do you have any recordings? You should do an album. Cheers man..👍
The Cort brand has been making some nice instruments for years.
Cort is a serious contender in modern electric guitats
They can compete with modern guitars as well!lol I had to bust your balls.😝
Hello bro , do you know if it’s Korean , Chinese. , Japanese or what country manufacture this guitars?
Thanks in advance .
@@olaby_ola6707 cort is as far as i know, a Korean brand, but they mainly produce in Indonesia
my kind of guitar, versatile, comfortable, great neck joint, not too expensive, i wouild sand off the name on the headstock and have everyone wondering what it is
my first ever guitar was a cort z-22. second hand. don’t care if it isn’t name brand or the best of the best bc i still hold it dear to me regardless
Cort are massive here in NZ and also over in Australia! My acoustic guitar is a Cort, too! 🙂
My first guitar was a cort and I’ve loved them since
Beautiful guitar thanks for the review. I love learning about new guitars and the history. I’ve never heard of Cort
I don’t know why these companies cheese on the electronics...just put the good stuff in there and charge an extra 20 bucks...but hey, I don’t run a guitar conglomeration!!!
Exactly !
You might pay 200 dollars but the actual guitar is made for like 10% of the cost. There isn't much margin on these guitars. Everyone has to make some money until it reaches you and thats how it gets to 200.
@@KS-oi9ym Except this is a $550 guitar, not $200. If the switch, pots or pickups feel cheap, the first thing I ask myself is where else did they cut corners and then I put the guitar back very quickly. Granted, I am not young or looking for a $200/$500 guitar, but even 30 years ago when I was, I would ask myself how this guitar was better than a much cheaper Squier. After you upgrade all that stuff you might as well have bought a good $800 and spent your time playing. This video felt like an ad to me.
My chinese ibanez RG was made by cort in 1999... probably older than most viewers of this channel. Its a great guitar... swapped the floyd with an original from about 1987, tone zone and a paf neck... great setup.
The shape of the body and burst are directly from the Pacifica!
Just pulled the trigger on the Amber finish. This video (and a 50% discount!) swung it over an Ibanez or PRS.
I've owned PRS and Brian May guitars and this is right up there with them.
Cort is King. G series are sweet. Can't ask for a better guitar for this price. I own 2 Corts. Very happy w there craftsmanship
This sounds like it would be a perfect second guitar, as in a really good upgrade from that Squire Affinity series Strat that you get when you start playing guitar. A nice mix of quality upgrades and value for money.
my local music store currently has 2 of these, i’m glad darrel made a video on this so now i can refer to a second opinion.
I knew exactly who he was talking about before I saw the name. Cort makes guitars for some many manufacturers and they're fine instruments for sure.
Love this channel!!
This is a killer looking guitar. I'm going to say it. It's beautiful
Looks like a Suhr
Thanks Darrell. Your videos are always informative and entertaining. Hope you’re having a nice day too.
Cort is my favourite brand for value for money guitars ..I have started with x6 ws ..then cr 250 then x300 and now x700 duality...
Just found this beauty in a store near my house for $549. Thats absolutely insane(In a good way) for what I’m hearing!!
The world crumbling around us but gear is better than ever ?
CORT! One of my basses (I have 9... I know... too many) is a Cort and it's fantastic.
This video makes me wonder if Cort also makes Michael Kelly's electric lineup. Before you revealed the headstock, just from seeing the body of the guitar, I thought it was one of MK's 60's models.
Darrell, usually I don’t like your solos but the one today was fantastic! I loved how you showcased the trem system and the fact that it’s a floating trem. I really love your videos!
I don’t know how much a surprise is it that possibly the biggest guitar maker in the world makes a good guitar under their own name. They have always had done nice models at varying prices. The only reason the are not a household name for guitarists is because they have dedicated their resources and time to making guitars for other brands. Just a few of the brands they make Ibanez, Fender/Squier (includes amps), G&L, Gretsch, Laguna, Avalon/Lowden, Music Man, Schecter, Lakland, Strandberg, EVH, Chapman and Jackson
I have initially replaced mini Alpha pots on my Cort CR250 with CTS pots but recently switched back. One of CTS pots became noisy/cracky and other one had different feel when rotating. I also found that the taper on Alpha pots ("B" for volume and "D" for tone) works better compared to single "audio" taper of CTS pots.
May the Lord bless you!!! Great video as always.
I used Cort around 2007
They were awesome values
Mighty Mite Hardware and pickups
Very impressive tones - Nice!
What a gorgeous guitar, I remember cort brand from the 80s, they made a purple star guitar that I wished I could have back in those days but didn't have the funds it was about $500 from some mom and pop record store, this new cort looks awesome and I'm really looking into getting it, sure I'll upgrade the electronics, no prob, cort is awesome, thanks for the review, very honest, professional and full review, great job man.
Bought my first Cort 20yr ago- right after my first Washburn - both strats
Would you please review a Dean Zelinsky Guitars Z-Glide
Hi!
I'll add it to my list!
Must be Cort! They can build whatever. I'm sure they can build better guitars then some well known top brands...
they do build well known top brands.
@@coaldoubt2879 I know. I'm pretty sure my G&L Tribute L-2000 bass, as well as my Ibanez bass, are from the Cort factories.
@@ThunderBassistJay what’s the difference between a bass and a vacuum cleaner?
@@coaldoubt2879 A vacuum cleaner only sucks when it's plugged in. 🤣
@@ThunderBassistJay boom
Nice looking guitar. It sounds good too.I admit, the cheaper guitars of the name brands always need parts replaced. The switches always take a dump. The output jacks always need replaced. Ridiculous.
Corts are somewhat popular in India as well, there are good ones available in the $150 range.
Also, Alip Ba Ta uses a Cort acoustic.
This cheap-looking switch works more reliably and with less buzzing than the classic expensive Fender ones. Tested 15 years ago. Btw, the megaswitches offered by Stewmac have exactly the same design today!
Agreed and small Alpha pots are good pots, way better than some large sized 'no brand' ones. Lets be honest all guitar manufacturers use 'cheap' pots, none of them are using £12 Allen Bradly pots or anything super crazy. CTS are bog standard pots, nothing more. Gibson have made them mythical but they are just pots. In an inexpensive guitar Alpha's should be really be seen as a bonus free upgrade.
I have a Cor-tek built Indonesian Squire Standard Telecaster which kills every affinity I've played. They make great guitars.
I LOVE THE WAY YOU PLAY GUITAR MAN 🎸 !!!!!!!
I wish we could easily find Cort guitar in Canada. Cort always produces the best guitar for your money.
Besides upgrading the switch and pots, maybe changing out the tuners/machine heads for locking might help tuning,along with Graphtech saddles, string nut,and maybe string tree.Then A/B the difference in tuning stability?
I gotta stop watching these they keep getting cooler and cooler. Thanks Darrel!
They Are Cool! I’m Loving it.
Looks like yamaha 612
One of these at my local music store, I'm waiting for payday to make it mine.
Really helpful review, thanks!
Very nice guitar! Great solo Darrell!
Thanks Brian!
Cort was the guitar brand in sears catalogs back in the day
Darrell, pls review “Bacchus” guitar. I’d love to hear your opinions on it!
truss rod adjustmentt in neck heel is so awesome just a pain in the ass when its in the head and your allen wrench keeps getting stuck.
Omg man. 200% agreed.
greetings from Paraguay
Hellz yeah. What's up dude?
@@clintwilson6380 a lot. i'm sad.
Cool DBG I'd love to see the cort cr 300 series now your kinda establishing a relationship with cort.i had an accoustic 20 years ago from cort that was super sonic and resonate man I lived it but I look and idk bud the demos of the cr series def needs to be done by you DBG .thanks for another great vid .Tim from up the 401 in london.
They make some really nice guitars excellent video mate nice playing
The late Hiram Bullock was known for playin' a Cort guitar. In fact, Cort made a Hiram Bullock signature model. Perhaps they should bring that one back. In case you ain't familiar, Hiram Bullock was best known for his work with saxophonist David Sanborn.
And David Letterman’s house band
Have you made a video comparing small and big pots? Is there really a difference?
Darrell, you've pointed out small pots in a number of videos now; but I haven't seen an explanation of why bigger pots are better. Is it a matter of finer resolution or less sensitivity? Appreciating the channel much. Thanks, Joe
Small pots only have very slim carbon tracks that wear out very quickly
and don't provide the same contact area and feel that you get with high
quality pots from CTS etc, they are cheap to make, but are no good for
regular use.
@@Barbarapape Thanks, Allan.
Plus, if I may add, the bigger the pot, the more gradual the taper
I have just one guitar with big Alpha pots, and will swap them with small chinese ones. With all the small ones I never had a problem, no matter wich value or linear or log.
But the big Alpha pots do jump from 10 to 8 in volume just by turning to 9.5. The sudden volume drop almost to 6 happens the more the tone pot is engaged.
Duno if it’s the wiring…
That YEESSSSSS on the Intro was funny to me 😄😄
I love their Cort G260CS
I have a Cort CR250 and I really feel I got the best bang from by buck there.
They really know their stuff.
There's nothing new or surprising about Cort... except for a Fender-Gibson-Gretsch isolationist :D
Very impressive … some great tones! 😲
Cort is a great guitar. I have the MJ garage 2 model. Its an awsome guitar.!
cort and yamaha are underated brand....
they make really good and affordable musical instrument