Would you guys rock a guitar like this? Let me know!

@ChrisRash

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I'd get the walnut version

@jeffcampbell6898

Жыл бұрын

As usual, another rGuitar Company that hates left-handed people.

@KainzMusic

Жыл бұрын

I'd get a hardtail, but with the world going back to non locking trems it may not be available.

@angellesambre1

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So let me ask you this Darrell... which is the better guitar since they are close in price... This, or the Shijie SuperStrat you reviewed a few months ago? They both seem stellar but budgets * and space in the mancave!) being what they are...

@martel8626

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@@ChrisRash Seconded. Nice specs on this, but to be honest of the 5 G300 finishes on their site, this is the least appealing for me. Edit: Thinking about it some more, I think I used to prefer the old Cort G design from nearly 20 years ago.

Love your channel, Darrell and I am a bass player. Your information density/efficiency (amount of usable and worthwhile info packed into the least time) is always off the charts. And you're a hell of a player to boot.

Darrell's reviews are always spectacular and he is a MONSTA player so every guitar sounds like a million bucks. Great channel!

This is a seriously good guitar and filtering down to the more affordable tiers...the look, features and styling...Cort has knocked this out the park.

Always a pleasure to watch any of your videos mate; they’re so informative and helpful. All the best pal…

This is an awesome guitar Darrell! Thank you for your info. Beautiful blue 🔵!

Phil McKnight has said MANY times that there’s nothing wrong with using dime sized pots. You could have larger pots that are plenty crappy too. It’s not the size that matters- it’s the quality. Now I would definitely prefer larger CTS pots . . . but plenty of high end guitars use dimes and there’s really nothing wrong with that if they’re built to last.

@shanewalton8888

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Just because Phil says it doesn't make it true.

@garyt.8745

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Fully agree. Now if someone said "I don't like the feel" of dime sized pots, fair enough - as they do generally present less resistance to adjustment than larger sized pots, but quality is down to design, materiales and QA control. Size can't possibly be an issue there.

@vanshankguitars

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​@@shanewalton8888 Phil is a god among men... Take that back! LOL

@montauta

Жыл бұрын

@@shanewalton8888 He is an absolute specialist so STFU

@shanewalton8888

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@@vanshankguitars The only Gods I recognize are Jimmy and Yngwie. Lol I’ll give Phil his due if he goes an episode ignoring GrumpyMikeGuitar and Imnotoldimvintage and actually answers one of my questions.

No seriously though, I love this channel. Great speaker. Great content!

@DarrellBraunGuitar

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it!

Wow ...that is one beautiful guitar and if you love it ...I know I would. Thanks Darrell for another great review and for having such a wonderful YT channel :)

I remember when I could get a Cort guitar for less than $400, sometimes under $300 if I walked into a store with cash. Glad to see they're still around, and that they've raised the specs on their products.

My first guitar was a Cort double cutaway with cream colored humbucking pickups. Rosewood fingerboard. Glad to see that they're still in business.

Perfect specs right there!

I’m gonna learn guitar and buy this one dude. This channels an inspiration bro thanks

I've had a Cort X-700 for over a year, a very similarly spec'd guitar and I can't praise it enough. Impeccable guitar by every aspect, plays like butter and sounds great in all 5 positions.

@thomask9577

Жыл бұрын

I got one two and it must have been a bad one. The bridge was not lined up properly so the high E string is barely over the fretboard. Hopefully Cort customer service can help out!

@aldersmoke1

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Yeah the specs really are identical.

I absolutely love my Cort Duality V1. It’s a screaming value and has become one of my main players. It’s so effortless to play

I love Cort...I bought my first one back in 1995 and LOTS of them ( different models ) ever since... I'm originally from France and Cort is a real household name there, probably because of their low prices and the fact quality has always been excellent, and they're not just straight copies of such and such... Interestingly they're not as big in the US but Cort also works for other companies so it works for them... This is a beautiful model and I might be interested 🙂🙂🙂 Thanks for the excellent video, as ever...

The competition at the $850.00 price point for a new electric is fierce.

I've seen a couple corts recently online that look good for under 300$ think I'll look at the specs on those entry level models.thanks for making these great videos Darrel.👍

Cool and very impressive. Fujigen also made their own range and very affordable and it's MiJ. Hope you can review one of these on day

Yeah. Brands are a thing in more ways than one. Thanks for the video.

I play cort for so many years. Currently i play Cort CR300. The Les Paul of Cort. With maple top, mahogany body, and EMG Retro FAT55 pickups. The best LP Style guitar for sure. And i think, it way better than most epiphone on the price range. $400 for a Maple top and active EMG pickup is a wonderful bargain!

Good evening from the UK! 🎸👊

I bought a Cort X Series as a present for my nephew, it's an entry level guitar. Being honest it surprised to me, very solid construction, stable tuning, comfortable neck profile. I jus had to polish the frets a little bit and adjust the strings height. It's amazing for an entry level... Cort is doing a great job.

Really nice guitar. They make a really nice bass too.

Cort has made some really good guitars under their own label for quite awhile. The X-6 and X-11 first caught my attention a few years back. Hard to go wrong with a Cort.

@piotrlesiakowski7794

Жыл бұрын

I still remember the days I was salivating to the guitars you mentioned. And also Katanas...

They do have some great colors in a Guitar World article I read. I just got my first Ibanez (RG42) today and I've been looking at Cort for a minute now. Even at their lower price points they are very good value for your money...I'm not afraid of B-stock either. 😎🎸😎🎸

I appreciate 24 frets but I do love the dynamic tonal shift of a neck pickup placement closer to the nut in a 21 or 22 fret guitar.

@msh6865

Жыл бұрын

Amen to that.

Good evening from Detroit Rock City. I love the color of that guitar.

Nice review.

It would be really awesome if you could share your signal chain to get these tones! (amp/pedal/et) Nice tone!

I own a Cort G250 from 2011, Tobacco Burst finish and with original Wilkinson bridge for 200$, I still can't believe that all these years after. Amazing guitars.

Wow, amazing

I recently bought a Burgundy G300 Pro. I absolutely love it! It plays and performs better than the Ibanez AZ (which I wanted to buy). The trem is awesome and WILL NOT go out of tune. Now they have a chambered version, which is like a budget Guthrie sig. Don’t sleep on this!

@fotowue

Жыл бұрын

Hi! I want to buy the g300 pro too. Whats the (main) differences to the GLAM?

@michael1

Ай бұрын

@@fotowue The only differences are the finish. The wood is different between the G300 pro / raw / glam etc but that won't make any difference to the way it sounds.

@fotowue

Ай бұрын

@@michael1 Thanks. But i bought meanwhile a fender player plus HSS and i‘m really, really satisfied with this. But thanks for the reply.👍

There are a couple of inaccuracies in this review. The Cort G300 Pro also has a quarter inch maple top, it's not a veneer. The G300 Pro also has the exact same Duncan pickups, the JB and the Jazz. The main differences between the glam and the pro is the material. The Pro has a solid basswood body with maple neck and fretboard, the Glam has a chambered mahogany body with a mahogany neck and ebony fretboard. These are the differences between these models

I mean Cort (Cor-Tek) does build guitars for almost everyone these days (they are the worlds biggest guitar manufacturer after all), so they’ve got the skills to make their own guitars as excellent as possible at a competitive price.

The color is really growing on me. Love the two tone blue in frony and red at the back. Think I just may have to pick this up over the g300 pros

Could you do a review/look into the "Dusenberg Les Trem II"? Your opinions and insights are always a great help when considering purchasing a product, and I think it could be an interesting video idea.

Joe Walsh is calling from the 70's, and he wants his guitar back

Cort have always made the best value guitars and basses. My main player is an old 90s cort artisan 5 string that would easily give a warwick corvette a run for its money, the wood is top tier, wenge neck and ash body. It's electronics and tuners where corners were cut, but with a full emg set-up and hipshot tuners, it easily keeps up with basses costing 5 times as much. I can only imagine the guitars are just as good in this regard, and the spec today would be way better then in 1991.

Well thats my next guitar , holy moly that thing absolutely screams in every way.

That's a sweet looking and sounding guitar. The specs are fantastic. Great demo. I do find it amazing that people ignore Cort, then rave and buy Squiers, import PRS, Ibanez and other made by Cort.

Darrell, Thanks for all you do! Do you or anyone out there have a real world experience with that M Musi Virgo Fusion?

Hey Darrell, yes I would buy that guitar. I have a Cort X700 Duality and it's a wonderful guitar, so well made and plays beautifully, well, as good as I'm able to play, I kind of suck but I'm working on it, my buddies who play much better than I say it's plays and sounds great. Great video, great, another guitar to buy! Why not, another child for my family of guitars!

I love it !

Best pickups set ever made. Seymour duncan Jazz - JB killer combination.

Cort has been building great guitars for decades. I had a early 80 s Cort V. I sadly traded it in towards a SG . In about a week i realized how much i hated the SG and went to try to teade it back, but the V was sold..

After watching again (under nine minutes, I LIKE you covering everything in a shorter video!), I could not only rewire for single-coil sound, if the cheap pots bothered me, they're easy enough to replace, and maybe with push-pull "Single Coil Option" switches on the pots so everything still looks stock.

Love your reviews. Please could you review the new Ibanez TOD10 Tim Henson Signature guitar..

pretty guitar brother.

This looks to be an amazing guitar with high end specs especially at the price point, I was impressed with the finish. Having just seen a demo of a Fender Tele on another channel, Fender should be running scared of the competition. Sadly people still buy “the logo” and not the spec. Thanks for the great channel Darrell.

@johnnorris1983

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My g300 pro is great.. recommend.. you won’t regret this as a forever axe

@donwilson7783

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnorris1983 Thanks John, Im going to check one out.

the previous cort g300 pro had seymour duncans as well. only upgrade here is paint, and swapping the wood to mahogany and ebony fingerboard vs basswood body, the neck on the old one was Roasted Maple Neck & Fingerboard. either way both this and old version are great value for money.

Nice 🔥

I have the G300 Pro (similar spec except for the wood, also a 6mm maple top and same pickups for massive tone). What a guitar. Punches well above its price tag. It competes with guitars in the £1,500/1,700 price range. One point about the pots... they work fine, no need to fiddle but they are an inexpensive change. In any case, you'll struggle to fit others into that small cavity with all the wiring. Two drawbacks: coil splits in positions 2 and 4 are NOT hum-cancelling and I wish the frets were jumbo. 95% perfect, though! I'd buy it again.

I own 3 older Cort (branded) Guitars (One is a basic bass...) and I love them. I went with the L.P. style "CL" models. The regular CL1000 and then I picked up a Hollowbody CL1500 with the vine neck inlay (someone swapped out the pickups on that one... I believe they are Guitar Fetish GFS Gold Foil Humbuckers...and sound fine) that looks like it had never been used! Unbelievably clean condition and these are my choice on L.P. Style guitars...especially that CL1000. Better feel, same kind of tone....and much more comfortable with much nicer heel going and fret access & comfort cuts. Cort Guitars are winners! As for the Super Strat category.. I don't live there. I used to have a fantastic Hamer Californian. Floyd equipped. Discovered I really wasn't into that style of guitar.

Very nice.

That's a nice looking Ibanez

Eart really started a revolution all their specs are now common standard in every new guitar regardless of brand, this is really the age of guitar.

@NoJobRob

Жыл бұрын

Harley Benton deserve a lot of credit too...and to an extent Firefly -- even though they're not AS spec'd-out, for under $200 they are.

@msh6865

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Cort has been offering feature rich guitars for quite awhile now. They make a large % of all guitars anyway so, why wouldn't their own stuff be great?

@N3RFTHIS

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Nothing to do with Eart. Cort has been offering high end specs at a great price for a long time. And to be fair, the Eart QC is awful. I bought an explorer and it's great looking but the frets aren't level at all.

@FenderMarko47

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Think that was Chapman to be fair and Harley Benton have upped their game recently although I still wouldn't buy one

@N3RFTHIS

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@@FenderMarko47 I've had a Chapman that cost 300 aud more than the Harley Benton t style I had and honestly, there was no difference except the Benton had better frets. Cheap guitars are cheap guitars. They are getting better tho.

Great video! Just one question..Would pickup positions 2 & 4 hum?

The Cort G300 Glam came out not long ago and isn't available everywhere so more than underrated I would say that it is actually a rather unknown guitar. They also released another variant this year, the G300 Raw that has a transparent natural finish.

@pepeowen

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But Cort guitars are underrated, even if this one has just come out.

I own a signature Cort strat.. The M.J. garage 2. Its a great guitar. It's the Matthias Jabs from the Scorpions one of his affordable guitars.

Are there any notable differences compared to the burgundy one you previously tested? Spec wise there's not many upgrades, other than the maple cap and chambered body (the pickups are the same, actually).

It would be cool to see you do some woodwork on guitars

A nice guitar but I would check out the just released today Harley Benton Max Fusion Signature. Gorgeous fit and finish with a flamed maple top and set up to play from the box. Roasted maple neck with stainless steel frets, respectable hardware and PU's . __The closer is it comes with an authentic Floyd Rose 1000 whammy. The same one you buy direct from the Floyd Rose store for $346.00 USD. The price of this guitar is only $444.00 USD. No that is not a typo ...$444.00 USD !!!

@tomaslopez2940

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! Also, Max knows what really counts as a superstrat since his guitars come with Floyd Roses! This guitar is only an S-type since it has a plain, non-locking trem

@manymul

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Hardly Benton frets are soft stainless, I have one and 2 years playing in the bedroom made a ware on the frets

Well to be fair you can't call a brand new model underrated. SD pickups in corts aren't new but this is a brand new model so yes technically it's the first time the G300 has had them lol These things look amazing. Can't wait to get one.

Reasonably Priced! Impressed. I pegged it at $400 more. have found it list at $825 at thomann music. It might be a placeholder price as they say In stock within 9-12 weeks.

if you were to play Johnny and Santos version of Sleepwalk which guitar in Your Arsenal which one would you select to do slide on? It was one my wife's favorite songs and I would like to learn to play it in her memory.

Had a G300 pro in 2021. Nice feature set and it was a rock machine. But the neck was chunky and wasn’t aligned well with the bridge. Resale value was not good. If you get one without the QC problem I had just enjoy it.

did you not do a review on this guitar before?

Hi dude! I am a drummer and I got some Donner guitars just to check out some VST amps ... long story. But .... so you a the first KZread guitar guy with comparable (short) fat fingers that me. :-) Sorry! And your playing is awsome. Is there a video on this topic? I mean all the other guys have large thin spider-like fingers, so - no problem to get a Am9 chord in place. So, that gives me some hope, that I could play some time at least some easy chords.

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How does that stack up against something like the schecter nick johnston or sire s7? Possible cort makes those as well tho!

I would expect a more 80s vibe on distortion! Something like Steve Vai or Satriani.

Any chance to review Epiphone Les Paul Classic - T with Min-Etune where the guitar can tune all 6 strings automatically by itself. Amazing. Cheers from Indonesia.

What’s the down side of smaller pots? Do they sound worse? Feel worse? Are they less durable? Something else? Genuine question, all the guitars I have owned have (I expect) full sized pots.

Do you think these or the Sire super strats arebetter?

You should review Hagström Phantomen. Its an interesting guitar. Very afforadble me thinks. And got to be honest there must be something about since Ghost have been using them for years. The sunburst colour looks like a sweetest dream. Check it out and lets us mere mortals know what you think.

I prefer the raw version, but these are very good too.

I’ve heard some comments about the QC of Cort guitars. I realize that pretty much every guitar that comes out of Indonesia is built by Cort, but I’ve been told that it really comes down to QC checks and what flaws are allowed vs rejected that contributes greatly to end cost of the instrument. It is my understanding from talking to a local tech that the Cort branded guitars tend to allow more construction flaws than a brand like Ibanez, for example, which has a stricter QC standard. Any thoughts on that? Is there any truth to that? That said, I’m going to find it difficult to resist the G300 Raw…

can you explain more the issue with the pots? were they at least 500k pots?

Hey Darrell, I've had a heck of a time looking for a seller for this guitar, any suggestions my friend?

Are there any noise by using the splitted humbuckers?

Darrell, please tell me what it's called, when their is rod adjustment near the neck pickup.

I've got an X-700. Basically identical specs. I'd certainly put it up against any super Strat I've ever played.

cute guitar

Lol spected out to the moon while the moon is really spected out right now lol

These are pretty much off branded Ibanez AZ Premiums since they are actually the ones who build them for Ibanez.

Does it come in black?

anyone know where the riff at 4:25 is from?

Only thing missing is graphtech string saver saddles.

What exactly is a mahawgony bawdy ?

hello Darrell, Why x700 Duality ii much more expensive than this model? The reason is only design? because spec wise they are almost same or even thıs ıs better

Cort has made a lot of guitars but I think they just never had big names to endorse the products. I personally hate that the volume knob has been so close to the bridge pickup on strats...so I avoid them but like their sound/tone.

I saw a G300 pro in person wanting to buy one but it didn’t blow me away. I came in thinking I’m getting a $3000 guitar for half price (Canadian) but really it’s just a $1500 guitar, nothing more. Personally I’d rather go for a Charvel in this price range, the only thing this got going for it is the stainless steel frets. But if you wanna talk bang for the buck then you gotta look at Squier contemporary HH Floyd Rose it’s less than half of this Cort and I liked it way more

Dear Sir, there is some fan's of your 1 min guitar solo. So please don't forget to play it from next video. ❤️

Eart next ?)))

I'm just waiting for new KX-series models :(

Not sure if you mentioned it, but is the neck a roasted wood?

@andrewbecker3700

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Just mahogany, and that's why it needs graphite rods for support. Being a bolt on with no heel plate at the screws is a piss poor design.

@DarioRubilovic

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@@andrewbecker3700 You do realize that this type of neck joint is being used for 40 years? And that there are ferrules there, screw isn't just pushed into the wood. Nothing wrong with this design and certainly a million times better than a ginormous block of wood with steel plate added on top of it, like Fender does to this day. Now that is a piss poor design!

Indonesian factories are killing it.

The g300 is a workhorse standard that is hard to beat… I’ve enjoyed the privilege for the last 8 months… give this axe 40 years and more tone flow than squire /fender /Gibson . Then PRS and cort will be there above museum pieces..

Cort site says it's currently unavailable. LOL!