CORT KX500MS
Total Guitar|March 2020
Seven strings, totally brutal tone, multi-scale... This is gonna be poplar
Jonathan Horsley
CORT KX500MS

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 a multi-scale extended-range exercise in not-so-subtle tells. It has fanned frets for enhanced intonation and feel, and, complementing those, you’ll also find an angled nut and an ingenious hardtail of six independent saddles arranged in a similar fashion to Ibanez’s Monorail bridge design – adding yet another angle into a souped-up S-style that is all angles. With two active EMG-707 humbuckers in the neck and bridge, there’s probably a little too much fire for the open-mic folk night. Indeed, the KX500MS might have too much firepower for all but the most extreme styles – chug-heavy contemporary metal, death metal, djent, that kind of thing – but, hey, that’s what Cort built it for. That they built this and put it on the market for 700 bucks is really the big story here.

This story is from the March 2020 edition of Total Guitar.

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