Cort KX500MS review

Cort courts djent players with a multi-scale seven-string, with totally brutal tone and a cool poplar burst finish

Cort KX500MS review
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Guitar World Verdict

The KX500MS is an aggressively priced, aggressively spec'd seven-string that is great fun to play and offers solid low-end hi-jinks.

Pros

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    Very competitively priced.

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    Solid hardware, solid build.

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    Active EMG 707 humbuckers deliver the goods.

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    Very playable.

Cons

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    Multi-scale might not be to everyone's liking.

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    Not much middle ground between clean and high-gain tones.

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Occasionally you pick up a guitar and you’ll be a little unsure as to what you are going to get when you switch on the amplifier. But usually there are some subtle (and not-so-subtle) tells. 

Take the KX500MS. You might call Cort’s flagship seven-string guitar a multi-scale extended-range exercise in not-so-subtle tells. 

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Jonathan Horsley

Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars since 2005, playing them since 1990, and regularly contributes to publications including Guitar World, MusicRadar and Total Guitar. He uses Jazz III nylon picks, 10s during the week, 9s at the weekend, and shamefully still struggles with rhythm figure one of Van Halen’s Panama.