It is like looking underwater at the frets. Scary for finger alignment, if imaginary still psychological. The multiscale is still weird enough to absorb. Now this. Frets were straight across for how many centuries? Isn't this advent a product of modern competition? Ancient alien theorists say... sorry wrong channel!😆
I've watched several of your guitar reviews Andre. I especially like your extended play tests. You may have the most comprehensive, detail-oriented and contextualized guitar reviews on YT. I've seen enough of your videos to ascertain that you are honest and unbiased. That's a rarity on this platform with the constant link-hawking. Your academic background adds rare perspective to your guitar reviews, and your opinion is now my go-to for future guitar purchases. Thank you man, I appreciate your work.
I'm happy to see Cort on your channel, Andre! These guys are responsible for producing the PRS SE, they truly know about making good quality gear. I have a G300 Pro and it is mindblowing for the price charged. I'm from Brazil, and any guitar with those specs from other brands would cost A LOT more. The KX700 is already a beast of its own, this true tempered version is probably the pinnacle of Cort's tradition of making awesome guitars.
Yeah, the company is actually called Cortek. It started its production in South Korea back in the 90s if I'm not wrong. Nowadays they moved their production lines to Indonesia. Cortek has already produced guitars for basically all major guitar brands, including PRS, ESP, Ibanez... They are actually the largest guitar company in the world, as you said. Their guitars are absolutely incredible, it doesn't matter the price range.
Definitely my favourite manufacturer, they have the best price/quality ratio. I have quite a few of their instruments (the M600 being my go-to guitar, the A4 bass being my best instrument -Mohini Dey used to play the A5 before she got a deal with Mayones), and a few others made for other companies (Washburn, Ibanez, and I believe an older Fender Stratocaster). There are at least 3 big guitar factories in Indonesia originally from Korea: Cortek, Samick and another one I forgot its name (but I know the guy who programmed their CNC). All of them making good stuff these days. Anyone who started playing in the 1990s can probably remember how much Korean guitars used to suck, the same like Japanese guitars in the 1970s, but they got it right.
@@riangarianga I'm about to get a secondhand M600, an amazing guitar! The G300 is unbelievable. I've never had a guitar as comfortable as this. The "ergo-V" neck and stainless steel frets play like nothing I've tried before. Here in Brazil, some people consider them the authentic "poor's man Suhr."
Andre,I just ordered a Temperered Tuning neck from Sweden.Not 12 hours ago.But it's going on a guitar body I've used for the last 18 years,with everything I want on it.Fishmans & a Graphtech Ghost system with MIDI option.Had a TT neck guitar before ,but sold it.Been subbed since the beginning.Great reveiw.Cort makes some fine guitars.Strandburgs are made in their factory.The 1 you reveiwed sounded great on my studio monitors.A-B test was Obvious B was the TT. Personally I prefer Straight frets over multiscale..Liked your song at the end.Your video production keeps getting better. 👍👍
TT frets aren't entirely true temperament, so the name is a bit hype, but they really do shift each note more towards being compatible with the others.
Tru tempa!!!! Now I wanna do a parody of Otep’s special pets , special frets I need new voices in my head to saturate my evil riffs I need new levels in my neck to be my freinds and special frets Its so contagious
Oh wow! I've been looking for a new guitar and I'm trying to Branch out from just getting Ormsby. I love them very much but I need to have some other guitars as well for a bit more variety and I've wanted a true temperament guitar but there's so much I think this will be my next guitar. Also Dr. Flood, I'm very sorry you were going to sell me the the rusty Cooley 6 originally but I had a lot of stuff come up family wise
How do the true temperament frets deal with non standard tunings and custom string gauges? Would they require a different shape of frets for each pair of tuning and string gauges?
Nice to see you're trying true temperament! Random fun fact: Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater fame started to pick up guitar a few years ago and sharing on instagram. Now besides some of the crazy ambidexterity he's already accomplished the other thing to note is that he is A) A Piano/Keyboard player primarily B) Very quickly got himself a true temperament guitar This is because he also famously has perfect pitch and more over, is *very used* to a life time of playing in perfect pitch on a keyboard so as a non-guitar player it sounded horribly out of tune to him and that's because he isn't a guitar player. Point is that true temperament is probably not for most guitar players precisely a huge part of guitar and it's style is guitar players mostly learning to play around the limitations and tuning (Or in this case, lack thereof) eccentricities as a key part of the instrument and why so many players end up gravitating towards very similar styles: it might not *just* be influential guitar musicians and an instrument with a relatively short history (Less than 200 years vs many centuries for many other instruments) but the tuning, the chords and harmony guitar players favor might all be due to not having true temperament and most people not being highly trained classical guitar players with super specific technique to play really obnoxious chord voicings and such. It's also why so many guitar players immediately experiment with other tunings if you think about it, it's interesting to think how far down this rabbit hole goes.
Biggest problem I see here is, 1) once you play this guitar, all your other guitars are obsolete, 2) a refret would be expensive, I don’t know the spec, but it sounds so warm, SS frets seem unlikely, although the PU’s might influence that
When Anders Thidell proposed the idea of true temperament, he made a prototype guitar to demonstrate the efforts it would take to make a guitar where all notes were justly tuned. His demo guitar had 54 frets and some of those frets only existe to make one note of one string justly tuned. And yes, fretless is the solution. The sustain and timbre differences have been mitigated by Vigier with their Surfretter, which has a metal alloy fingerboard instead of wood or some composite material. You can play complex chords on fretless as well. Just watch Bumblefoot or Guthrie Govan. Fretless also allows you to change the tuning of the notes depending on intention or to match vocals or other instruments as well. True Temperament is in many cases an expensive solution for a problem which cannot be solved, as the Well Tempered system we use for notes has notes not in tune as well as an acceptable compromise in order to reduce instrument making complexity. Also consider the nightmare that is to dress and refret that neck. No luthier will want to touch it. You're gonna have to send the neck to True Temperament for them to do it for you and that's gonna be very expensive.
True Temperament went with stainless steel quite a while ago. They don't use those butter-made frets any more. A couple of years ago I saw they also sold specific tools to carry out a refretting job.
Also curious to know: are the natural harmonics found closer to the temperament "crooked" frets, are you still playing it where a normal straight fret would be or none of the above and you just have to feel for them differently altogether? Intuitively I would assume if the frets are more closely aligned with the harmonic resonance then the natural harmonics would also align this way but I can't really tell by just looking at your playing alone.
I totally didn't expect to guess right in AB test, I thought my ears are used to hear regular frets and it would condition my ears. Apparently, it's not that simple
It sounded very good. What happens if you put a Capo on, then play with typical Cowboy chord forms in what "looks" like the Keys of E, C, F, and G? Does everything stay equally in tune due to the True Temperament Frets? How about Drop D, Alternate Tunings, Low Tunings, etc.? Are there Tunings that everything goes off the rails, or is it consistently "in tune" across all keys? Thanks
Aside from being out of my price range..... but then, I don't know that I could replace the cheap guitar I have now either, There are some things I am not thrilled with. Active pickups may sound nice but are probably wasted on stage while being one more point of failure (actually a number more failure points) This despite my bass with Piezo PUs. ;) Even my acoustic guitars get magnetic PU which sound quite good, well, like an acoustic anyway. If in the studio... use a mic. Likewise, with an electric guitar, in the studio, an external preamp can do mostly what an active PU can. SO someone with the cash to buy one of these, probably doesn't care about "versatility" because they bring (have someone bring for them) a stable of guitars from which they choose one for each tune. Those who use one guitar on stage most often have one "sound' that is their signature anyway. People do not go to live concerts for perfect tuning and tone, recognizable yes but not perfect. The SPL is generally much louder than at home already and really they come to _see_ the artist and to interact with them. This is really what makes live concerts worth attending, the interaction between the crowd and the players. In most cases the interaction between the players is different even because the recording has probably been quantized,used extra effects, used lots of extra musicians and substitute musicians and a producer and the list goes on. The live show has life (provided the band does not use backing tracks.... rip off). Anyway, this guitar is something I would be delighted with should I come to have possession of such an instrument but not something I would look to buy on my own resources :) Thank you for the review.
The TT guitar definitely sounds nicer to my ears. However, I think it would be quite educational to compare a properly set up guitar, standard equal temperament in design but with a compensated nut tuned for a set tuning, action and string set. Kinda like what this guy does: youtube.com/@stringtechworkstations?si=7Y2JHKUD2GrHJMNW I feel most guitars are 'out of tune' enough that it almost downplays the difference between the two tuning systems. I actually really like true temperament, and I feel that the 'in tune' sound many would recognise may actually be an equal temperament, akin to a piano, despite it being 'flawed'. I'm aware some guitars come from factory with compensated nuts, but there'll be compromises. I'm sure you're familiar with all this already however.
I personally have a metric ton of respect for cort and kx series in particular. By no means are these guiatrs beautiful, I have seen them in person and they have a lot of visual defects sometimes, they look sloppy, but they are work machines, becutifully build and spec'd. Im also sure this guitar is going to be prised favourably, as all of the kx's are. I also hope for a different finish, then i'll buy it emediately.
Cort are very good guitars, specially for third world countries, acceptable price, well built, great features and good hardware. Have a couple of them. Meanwhile Fenders American ultra are sold for 20 months of full minimum wage pays round here 😅
It is like looking underwater at the frets. Scary for finger alignment, if imaginary still psychological.
The multiscale is still weird enough to absorb. Now this. Frets were straight across for how many centuries? Isn't this advent a product of modern competition? Ancient alien theorists say... sorry wrong channel!😆
You don’t really notice the frets. I find multiscales far more weird feeling. But maybe that’s just me!
I've watched several of your guitar reviews Andre. I especially like your extended play tests. You may have the most comprehensive, detail-oriented and contextualized guitar reviews on YT. I've seen enough of your videos to ascertain that you are honest and unbiased. That's a rarity on this platform with the constant link-hawking. Your academic background adds rare perspective to your guitar reviews, and your opinion is now my go-to for future guitar purchases. Thank you man, I appreciate your work.
Fantastic review. Sadly now I wish there were reviewers like Andre that focused on guitar companies that make left handed models.
I'm happy to see Cort on your channel, Andre!
These guys are responsible for producing the PRS SE, they truly know about making good quality gear.
I have a G300 Pro and it is mindblowing for the price charged. I'm from Brazil, and any guitar with those specs from other brands would cost A LOT more. The KX700 is already a beast of its own, this true tempered version is probably the pinnacle of Cort's tradition of making awesome guitars.
I think they do spectors too
Cort is the largest guitar manufacturer in the world. They have been for over 30 years.
Yeah, the company is actually called Cortek. It started its production in South Korea back in the 90s if I'm not wrong. Nowadays they moved their production lines to Indonesia. Cortek has already produced guitars for basically all major guitar brands, including PRS, ESP, Ibanez... They are actually the largest guitar company in the world, as you said. Their guitars are absolutely incredible, it doesn't matter the price range.
Definitely my favourite manufacturer, they have the best price/quality ratio.
I have quite a few of their instruments (the M600 being my go-to guitar, the A4 bass being my best instrument -Mohini Dey used to play the A5 before she got a deal with Mayones), and a few others made for other companies (Washburn, Ibanez, and I believe an older Fender Stratocaster).
There are at least 3 big guitar factories in Indonesia originally from Korea: Cortek, Samick and another one I forgot its name (but I know the guy who programmed their CNC). All of them making good stuff these days. Anyone who started playing in the 1990s can probably remember how much Korean guitars used to suck, the same like Japanese guitars in the 1970s, but they got it right.
@@riangarianga I'm about to get a secondhand M600, an amazing guitar! The G300 is unbelievable. I've never had a guitar as comfortable as this. The "ergo-V" neck and stainless steel frets play like nothing I've tried before. Here in Brazil, some people consider them the authentic "poor's man Suhr."
The sustain. Holy crap, the sustain. That thing sounds unbelievable. The price is steep, but reasonable given the features.
wow that AB test is night and day. The true temperament stuff sounds WAY better, theres a lot less beating on the frequencies.
You get better every video! Always a must see regardless of the topic. Thanks!!
I loved everything about this video! Thanks!!
My god, that sustain. 😍
knew it was gonna be a good one as soon as I saw you holding a guitar with those frets
Andre,I just ordered a Temperered Tuning neck from Sweden.Not 12 hours ago.But it's going on a guitar body I've used for the last 18 years,with everything I want on it.Fishmans & a Graphtech Ghost system with MIDI option.Had a TT neck guitar before ,but sold it.Been subbed since the beginning.Great reveiw.Cort makes some fine guitars.Strandburgs are made in their factory.The 1 you reveiwed sounded great on my studio monitors.A-B test was Obvious B was the TT. Personally I prefer Straight frets over multiscale..Liked your song at the end.Your video production keeps getting better. 👍👍
Finally notes which doesn't hurt my ears
Something about the frets makes my brain expect micro tonal music to come out, but it's so clean and straight. Really trippy
Wonderful guitar. Wonderful features. Definitely not cheap. Maybe someday. 🤔
TT frets aren't entirely true temperament, so the name is a bit hype, but they really do shift each note more towards being compatible with the others.
Tru tempa!!!! Now I wanna do a parody of Otep’s special pets , special frets
I need new voices in my head to saturate my evil riffs
I need new levels in my neck to be my freinds and special frets
Its so contagious
Sweet axe yo!
Oh wow! I've been looking for a new guitar and I'm trying to Branch out from just getting Ormsby. I love them very much but I need to have some other guitars as well for a bit more variety and I've wanted a true temperament guitar but there's so much I think this will be my next guitar. Also Dr. Flood, I'm very sorry you were going to sell me the the rusty Cooley 6 originally but I had a lot of stuff come up family wise
Out of the handful of guitars and basses I own my favorite ones were built in SK.
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza for the wiiiiiin
How do the true temperament frets deal with non standard tunings and custom string gauges? Would they require a different shape of frets for each pair of tuning and string gauges?
Nice to see you're trying true temperament!
Random fun fact: Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater fame started to pick up guitar a few years ago and sharing on instagram. Now besides some of the crazy ambidexterity he's already accomplished the other thing to note is that he is
A) A Piano/Keyboard player primarily
B) Very quickly got himself a true temperament guitar
This is because he also famously has perfect pitch and more over, is *very used* to a life time of playing in perfect pitch on a keyboard so as a non-guitar player it sounded horribly out of tune to him and that's because he isn't a guitar player.
Point is that true temperament is probably not for most guitar players precisely a huge part of guitar and it's style is guitar players mostly learning to play around the limitations and tuning (Or in this case, lack thereof) eccentricities as a key part of the instrument and why so many players end up gravitating towards very similar styles: it might not *just* be influential guitar musicians and an instrument with a relatively short history (Less than 200 years vs many centuries for many other instruments) but the tuning, the chords and harmony guitar players favor might all be due to not having true temperament and most people not being highly trained classical guitar players with super specific technique to play really obnoxious chord voicings and such.
It's also why so many guitar players immediately experiment with other tunings if you think about it, it's interesting to think how far down this rabbit hole goes.
he once tried a TT Strandberg.
@@fabioragone22 Forgot about that but still nice to revisit.
He's been playing with a guitarist for 30 years, why would it bother him when he plays?
I would love to try one. Remember back in the day with Fretwave? Frank Gamble had a signature model with it.
I really wanna get into true temperament, have for ages, shame no ‘cheaper’ guitars have them. Strandbergs are insane money too
B, apart from the last chord, the G major
Yeah why did the g chord sound worse on the TT?
Biggest problem I see here is, 1) once you play this guitar, all your other guitars are obsolete, 2) a refret would be expensive, I don’t know the spec, but it sounds so warm, SS frets seem unlikely, although the PU’s might influence that
They’re made out of stainless steel via C&C
When Anders Thidell proposed the idea of true temperament, he made a prototype guitar to demonstrate the efforts it would take to make a guitar where all notes were justly tuned. His demo guitar had 54 frets and some of those frets only existe to make one note of one string justly tuned. And yes, fretless is the solution. The sustain and timbre differences have been mitigated by Vigier with their Surfretter, which has a metal alloy fingerboard instead of wood or some composite material. You can play complex chords on fretless as well. Just watch Bumblefoot or Guthrie Govan. Fretless also allows you to change the tuning of the notes depending on intention or to match vocals or other instruments as well. True Temperament is in many cases an expensive solution for a problem which cannot be solved, as the Well Tempered system we use for notes has notes not in tune as well as an acceptable compromise in order to reduce instrument making complexity. Also consider the nightmare that is to dress and refret that neck. No luthier will want to touch it. You're gonna have to send the neck to True Temperament for them to do it for you and that's gonna be very expensive.
True Temperament went with stainless steel quite a while ago. They don't use those butter-made frets any more. A couple of years ago I saw they also sold specific tools to carry out a refretting job.
Also curious to know: are the natural harmonics found closer to the temperament "crooked" frets, are you still playing it where a normal straight fret would be or none of the above and you just have to feel for them differently altogether?
Intuitively I would assume if the frets are more closely aligned with the harmonic resonance then the natural harmonics would also align this way but I can't really tell by just looking at your playing alone.
Nice, now make a headless version.
I remember Strandberg had a TT model.
I totally didn't expect to guess right in AB test, I thought my ears are used to hear regular frets and it would condition my ears. Apparently, it's not that simple
Lol, feel the same about Hot Space.
Thats one nice guitar.
It sounded very good. What happens if you put a Capo on, then play with typical Cowboy chord forms in what "looks" like the Keys of E, C, F, and G? Does everything stay equally in tune due to the True Temperament Frets? How about Drop D, Alternate Tunings, Low Tunings, etc.? Are there Tunings that everything goes off the rails, or is it consistently "in tune" across all keys? Thanks
All this info on the TT website 😊
@@gabrielfrison Will have to check that out. Thanks
Man I want this guitar but it's super expensive
literally can't even buy it, its not for sale anywhere
👀 Hannes bridge... I thought that's evertune😂
This is now asking for a full scallop... just saying. DIG DEEP!
Aside from being out of my price range..... but then, I don't know that I could replace the cheap guitar I have now either, There are some things I am not thrilled with. Active pickups may sound nice but are probably wasted on stage while being one more point of failure (actually a number more failure points) This despite my bass with Piezo PUs. ;) Even my acoustic guitars get magnetic PU which sound quite good, well, like an acoustic anyway. If in the studio... use a mic. Likewise, with an electric guitar, in the studio, an external preamp can do mostly what an active PU can. SO someone with the cash to buy one of these, probably doesn't care about "versatility" because they bring (have someone bring for them) a stable of guitars from which they choose one for each tune. Those who use one guitar on stage most often have one "sound' that is their signature anyway. People do not go to live concerts for perfect tuning and tone, recognizable yes but not perfect. The SPL is generally much louder than at home already and really they come to _see_ the artist and to interact with them. This is really what makes live concerts worth attending, the interaction between the crowd and the players. In most cases the interaction between the players is different even because the recording has probably been quantized,used extra effects, used lots of extra musicians and substitute musicians and a producer and the list goes on. The live show has life (provided the band does not use backing tracks.... rip off). Anyway, this guitar is something I would be delighted with should I come to have possession of such an instrument but not something I would look to buy on my own resources :) Thank you for the review.
The TT guitar definitely sounds nicer to my ears. However, I think it would be quite educational to compare a properly set up guitar, standard equal temperament in design but with a compensated nut tuned for a set tuning, action and string set. Kinda like what this guy does:
youtube.com/@stringtechworkstations?si=7Y2JHKUD2GrHJMNW
I feel most guitars are 'out of tune' enough that it almost downplays the difference between the two tuning systems.
I actually really like true temperament, and I feel that the 'in tune' sound many would recognise may actually be an equal temperament, akin to a piano, despite it being 'flawed'.
I'm aware some guitars come from factory with compensated nuts, but there'll be compromises.
I'm sure you're familiar with all this already however.
Couldn't find this guitar available and the price .. where can you get one ?
$2500 at Guitar Center
I personally have a metric ton of respect for cort and kx series in particular. By no means are these guiatrs beautiful, I have seen them in person and they have a lot of visual defects sometimes, they look sloppy, but they are work machines, becutifully build and spec'd. Im also sure this guitar is going to be prised favourably, as all of the kx's are. I also hope for a different finish, then i'll buy it emediately.
What kind of defects? Even my Cort X-1 (sub 200€) didn't have any visual defects, only the frets needed some work.
(Edit: I wrongly wrote K-1).
@@riangarianga paint is messy on the bewel and owerall looks kinda cheap, but plays wonderfully
One question I have is. Doesn't it make you out of tune versus your band members that also use fretted instruments? 😅
Check the other video I did
@@andrefludd thanks just found the other video. Incredible, almost like video thesis over the subject
B all the way… did I get it right?
Cort are very good guitars, specially for third world countries, acceptable price, well built, great features and good hardware. Have a couple of them. Meanwhile Fenders American ultra are sold for 20 months of full minimum wage pays round here 😅
not for me
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