New Cort shortscale bass!

[BassApprentice]

So dealers have started updating their websites - £299.

 

How does that sit given specs and what you might choose as an alternative?

 

https://www.jimmyegypt.com/cort-gb-short-scale-bass-forest-green?srsltid=AfmBOorp25-uBNzH-_YfNTakUjqyTxZiaXJrDePoxu79ZXU44aVtLCO7

[AlexDelores]

3 minutes ago, BassApprentice said:

So dealers have started updating their websites - £299.

 

How does that sit given specs and what you might choose as an alternative?

 

https://www.jimmyegypt.com/cort-gb-short-scale-bass-forest-green?srsltid=AfmBOorp25-uBNzH-_YfNTakUjqyTxZiaXJrDePoxu79ZXU44aVtLCO7

It’s very similar spec wise to the Ashdown Capri but with an active preamp for £50 more. So, that’s not bad really.

[Bassassin]

Finally - a new bass I can (almost) justify buying! I've been shortscale-curious for years but so far nothing's been pink enough well specced & affordable enough for me to justify it.

 

In the wildly unlikely event that the UK market gets anything other than the drab green one, I'm in. 😎

[loudspeaker]

Well I'm in, it seems interesting enough for a punt. I flirt with short scale every now & then, I got a forest green (drab green) one from Jimmy Egypt, they promise a set up before delivery which should be tomorrow.

 

I'll give it a try for Saturday's gig and let you know my thoughts

[BassApprentice]

Well - there goes my weekend plans! I was going to swing by Jimmy's and try it 😂

 

 

[Obrienp]

1 hour ago, loudspeaker said:

Well I'm in, it seems interesting enough for a punt. I flirt with short scale every now & then, I got a forest green (drab green) one from Jimmy Egypt, they promise a set up before delivery which should be tomorrow.

 

I'll give it a try for Saturday's gig and let you know my thoughts

Any thoughts after gigging it?

[loudspeaker]

Well the Cort GB Short scale bass arrived, I bought it from Jimmy Eagle in Glasgow last Monday and they set it up and posted it Tuesday, express 24, due to the ineptitude of Parcelforce it was delivered on Friday afternoon.

I didn't get a chance to look at it Friday evening so not much time with it before our gig Sat, initial impressions were very good, the fit and finsh is perfect, fret ends smooth & lovely feeling roasted neck. The controls feel solid and have centre detent's for the eq knobs. bbot bridge is adequate and nut slots filed well. Tuners are smooth and do the job well. It was set up before delivery so just needed a few minor teaks to get it perfect for me, the truss rod adjustment wheel at the heel of the neck is a joy and it was easy to get the action low with no fret buzz.

 

The bass weighs exactly 7.5lbs and balances perfectly on the strap, it feels solid and the neck is comfotable, I did roll the fretboard edges as it is a fairly flat board with 15"radius which helps with the feel. The stock strings are not great so I changed them for a set of D'addario nickel round wounds.

 

I used it for the whole gig, the Markbass preamp is great and the humbucker is like a small musicman pickup, positioned a little more forward from the bridge than a Ray. It has a 3 way switch for series, split and parallel, series is a big fat slightly edgey tone great for the rock covers we do, the split coil uses the rear coil of the humbucker and has a similar tone just a bit cleaner and brighter, the parallel is a clean tone with less mids. With the 3 band eq a lot of tweaking is available, I played throuh a Trace Elliot motion b preamp set flat into an Ashdown ABM600 again everything pretty much flat using the series setting on the bass and the preamp for minor adjustments for different songs the cab was a Laney 4x10 with Celestion Neo drivers.

 

I was very pleased with sound I was getting, it was fat, powerful and smooth and sat well in the music and was easy to make small adjustments on the go. The black side dots are difficult to see on a dark stage so I will fit some luminlays

 

For a bass that cost £299 the quality and spec are really quite amazing, I will use this bass a lot, it is an equal to my more expensive basses and the short scale is great for playability and the smaller pubs we play in.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by loudspeaker

[BassApprentice]

Sounds like a solid buy with very few downsides for a £300 single pickup bass.

 

Probably enough space to add another pickup if you fancied but doesn't sound like it needs it. 

 

Will be an absolute steal second hand if/when they come around!

Edited 26 minutes ago by BassApprentice