Cort Effector Strat Copy

it has a good solid body and neck the hard ware is all right tuners not so great, i $30 and it had a bad pickup so i ripped all the electonics out and redid them prity much like any other explorer, the fret bord was also cracked when i got it so i torw it off as well and redid the bord and the frets and also the finich on the neck i perfer the wood look but thats just me i also reshaped the neck a little bit. i also repaced the tuners and bridge(grover tunners and a fender trimolo)

it sounds great and it even sounded all right befor all the moding exept for the bad pickup

well i changed all that lol but its good now.

its never let me donw i play it every day and i use it when we play out and it is one of the most reliable guitars i own.

its a great guitar if your willing to but the time and efert into it but stock it would be a great guitar for beginers

This was a Christmas gift back in 1986. I've had it since new.
While the build itself is not the greatest and it could use some brand name items, like some Grover tuners and EMG pick ups, it was a really great beginner guitar for the price. I've had it since new and still have the original box! Let's not forget the money saved from having all the effects built in.
I will never get rid of it.

This guitar can sound great, but you really need to know what you are doing. I've got over 20 years and still don't have it all figured out. Like I said, it is a good beginner. I still use the original pick ups, but use D'ardarrio strings. I still have good tone up to the 12th fret, but it starts going flat anything past that.

I was a novice back then, so I honestly can't say how it was out of the box since the memory isn't as good anymore. After all these years, she still looks damn good and plays quite fast.

Once again, I think it is a great player for the beginner or just jamming around the house with friends. I reall don't know if I'd go on live. That's why I paid for the Fenders.

It has been a good guitar and has yet to break down on me. Just not happy with the tuners.

Can't say too much on the repair or warranty. The thing has never broke down!

Overall, I have been happy with it and still play it occaisionally today. If you have the time and money and find a decent used one, a good shop can set it up with a good set of EMG-81s an it will definitely shred. I was tickled pick with it when I was 15 and am still happy with it at 37.

Nice Thick Satin Finish.

I play a southern rock blended with delta slide blues.

Gets good head with the phaser on for rock, even better with it off or on for blues.

Don't know about the original setup, got it at a yard sale for 20 FRNs (that's dollars for you FR socialists out there LoL).

This guitar does withstand live playing, and it withstands it in the Muscle Shoals area even better haha.

Hardware has lasted for a while now, especially coming from a yard sale.

I depend on it solely nowadays, it fits virtually every scene I play at. Though I do run an acoustic Gibson when the need arises.

Guitar snobs won't like this instrument, too quirky for the "I'm such a pro" ego. But I'm a pro as well, many years of experience in studio, arena, local live, playing in the park, to seedy run down "bunker" type bars in Alabama and Mississippi on up to NYC and out to L.A. It does fine, you might just have to work on it some to get what you want out of it is all.

Well, they guy at the yard sale threw in 2 used 9 volt batteries when I bought it so I'd say good. :P

It does have it's quirks, but if you know anything about guitars you can make the proper adjustments. I played a show once upon a time with a guy, real 70's one hit wonder. He opened the show for Steppenwolf with an old 1960's Silvertone acoustic that had been through the ringer at Haight/Ashbury, Carnegie Hall and American Bandstand.

If you've got talent you can make a kiddie guitar sound great, same with this joker. Ah, and it plays slide nicely.

The explorer-style body is thick, heavy, and plywood, coated over with the thickest off-white finish I've ever seen, to the point it looks and feels like plastic (very very heavy plastic). The neck is very thick and round, and the tuners are crap, the frets are worse, and the bridge is a tremolo similar to a cheap strat with the well for the bar stripped out, so I could never whammy with it.
Two orange-colored humbuckers with no position switching, so I suppose it's locked in middle position. Three knobs, volume tone and speed for effects. Several buttons by the knobs...phase reverse, distortion, chorus/phaser, delay/vibrato, dual effect selector switch.
Interesting...

The pickups are harsh and icy. The effects are mixed: the phase-reverse is a phase reverse and reverses phase with the best of them; the distortion was nice and seething fuzzy thickness, and would have been very nice if the pickups didn't suck; the others all sound the same, with the delay actually being a sine wave with the bottom parts of the wave dropping out sonically. In other words, they all sound like the same uninspidered warbling wave.
One interesting feature--with both the phase reverse and distortion on at the same time, I could get a decent reverse-swell effect which was kinda neat. If the electronics were transplanted into a real guitar, this might have had some promise.

Worse than terrible. None of the frets were even in key with the rest of the fretboard on the same string! And the tuners sucked, and what bad materials and bad pickups didn't suck away from the tone, the ultra-thick finish killed handily. The neck needed adjustings too--the action was too high, and when I lowered it, the strings were sitting on the high frets.

???? I had it for a month before I sold it.

Did't know until yesterday who even manufactured it--they "forgot" to put their company logo on the headstock.

Man, I wish I had played it for more than 5 minutes before paying. It was the novelty of it, and that I'd been playing for only a year.
Looking back all these years later, I regret it.
I traded that and a Mexican '96 Fender strat (my first guitar) for a beat up Gibson. I miss the strat!!!! Yeah, I'd buy another Effector another for $40-60 just to beat up and play with.

Not sure what year it was made in, ( I think early to mid 80's ) in the US. 22 fret. volume speed tone . two double humbukkers.
ebony neck. a really solid body, i'm actually not quite sure what it's made of but i've given that guitar quite a beating on stage. the body style is definetely Les Paul Original styl. Tuners are the original Corts that came with it. A nice thin neck, average width frets.
I sometimes dont trust the strap buttons after an incedint, but thats neither here nor there.

This guitar is excellent for a low beat death metal.
Just using an 1500W amp I picked up at my local music shop (Central Music, Welland Ontario).
Some of the effects are good the dist is great, aswell as the vibrato.The phase has its perks and the rest kinda suck. My guitar produces a rather thick almost liquid sound depending on the effects but with nothing its a clean excellent sound.

As a matter of fact there was absolutely not one problem with this guitar in this section. It was set-up right, everything aligned, pickups are beautiful.

It does and has withstood live playing for almost 2 years in a violent death metal band so never underestimate the durabillity of Cort.
All of the parts (save the strings) have lasted me my whole life of guitar playing, being almost 12 years.
I have put this guitar through hell and back again repeatedly and there may be a very small amount of damage to the body or neck , but other than that it has remained sweet.

nope

I also have a Fender Strat and an Ibanez RG-701.
Where did you get this??? I want another one.
I would definetly try to find another guitar like this.
I love its diversity for all kinds of music with out having to screw with it alot.
I couldn't I was 5. ( And yes it was friggin HUGE when I got it! )
This guitar is incredible and every guitar player who plays alot of different kinds of music should take a look at one of these guitars.

No clue where it was made, made sometime in the eighties. 22 frets, ebony fretboard, what feels like a maple bolt-on neck and a plywood body.
Volume, tone, and speed controls, the speed control being for the built-in chorus and delay effects.
there's a really crappy tremelo on it, kind of like half a floyd rose..without the bar, and without the locking nut.. also, you don't decapitate your ball ends, you just feed them through the back of the bridge. Kind of like the Ibanez lo-pro, except mine didn't have enough spring tension and would eventually end up with the strings going over the saddle rollers.
black finish, thicker than all get-out. i bought this guitar for $60 used in a pawn shop, and it STILL looked pretty sweet.. unfortunately, i had no clue what i was doing when i looked at it and pronounced it fit for playing
The tuners are standard Cort pieces of crap... replaced 'em with sperzels.
Two humbuckers, neck/bridge.. you can really drag some interesting sounds out of it if you give it some effort..
included accessories?.. a 9v battery to power the effects.

it suited my tastes, sound-wise.. which range all over the place.. fro m metal to classical, it's all in there.. the pots scratched like cats without scratching posts, and it was constantly feeding back, even at low volumes.

the guitar setup was abominable. the fret intonation was alright until about the 6th fret, and then it went haywire. the 16th fret likes to take a little chunk of skin as a memento of your hand's passing whenever you move your hand up it.. the routing was all neatly done, but that's about all this guitar had going for it. tuners were abominable, as i stated before.

S-?withstand live playing, although the hardware seems to be solid, still. the finish is thicker than hell, and the strap buttons seem okay. i can't depend on it, which is why i bought my jackson soloist. i'd use it AS a backup, but not without one.

never tried to talk to the guys at cort, my guitar's too old anyways.

i've been playing 3 years, i own a jackson soloist reverse, i wish i'd asked 'is it any good'.. i love the neck, scarily enough. the neck is wide, fat, and it has that ebony fretboard i love. i wish it had a floyd, and i wish it had a set of PAFs, or maybe some EMGs.