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Cort G290 FAT II - Electric Guitar Demo
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9 months ago
“Once you pick it up, you’ll know right away that this is a serious and worthy electric that should be on your radar,” Guitar World Tech Editor Paul Riario says in this Cort G290 FAT II demo.
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Paul here from Guitar World, and today we're going to be checking out a standout
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electric from Cort Guitars, the Cort G290FAT2.
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Let's check it out.
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Whether you know it or not, Cort has made countless guitars for other manufacturers,
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yet their namesake instruments have largely been overlooked.
00:37
Not anymore.
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Tapping into key features and ergonomic designs, Cort seems intent on overshadowing its competitors
00:44
with its own models that are more than just a sum of their parts.
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Once you pick up this Cort G290FAT2, you'll know right away this is a serious and worthy
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electric that should be on your radar.
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What's cool is the offset body feels snug, pressed against you, with a generous belly
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carve and soft forearm contour that provides hours of playing comfort.
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But it's impossible not to notice the top-notch componentry and woods on this guitar.
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Everything about the Cort G290FAT2 appears elevated.
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This guitar features an older body with a gorgeous flame maple top, in trans-black burst,
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what you see here.
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There's also antique violin burst and bright blue burst, and it also has a one-ply white
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bonding.
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It also comes with a roasted maple neck and fretboard.
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Though it sounds like a misnomer, the Ergo V neck profile is not a V-shaped neck, but
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rather a palm-filling profile that's closer to a fuller 60C shape with a soft satin finish
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on the back of the neck.
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The neck also sports glow-in-the-dark Lumen-Lay side dots and easy-to-burn-on 12 to 15 ¾ inch
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compound radius fretboard with 22 immaculately dressed frets.
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There's also a Graf-Tek Black Tusk nut, Cort Staggered locking tuners, and an accessible
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Spokenut Hot Rod truss rod wheel.
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The G290FAT2's articulate and detailed tones come courtesy of the Voice Tone VTH-77 direct
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mount pickups in brushed nickel that are merged with a custom pickup wiring to the 5-way switch
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that offers single-coil sparkle in the 2nd and 4th positions and full-body humbucker
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roar in the other positions.
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And rounding out the guitar is Cort's smooth-traveling and floating stainless steel CFA-3 tremolo
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bridge mounted over a recessed cavity.
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Let's start with the clean channel.
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I'll move over to crunchier channels and lead channels as well, but what I love about the
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guitar is that it cleans up and it retains its clarity even when I roll down the volume,
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and you'll hear it between the notch positions and even the full humbucker positions.
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Let's take a listen.
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The Cort G290FAT2 comes complete with all the necessary upgrades that many players desire
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and at a price that fits within most working musicians' budgets.
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But let's not forget, the Cort G290FAT2 is an undeniably versatile and pro-level instrument
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with studio-quality tones and playability that far exceeds its competition.
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Definitely check it out.
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