The Cort A5 Plus SC Artisan series 5-string bass guitar is an amazing single cutaway bass with a 5 piece neck, swamp ash body and ground shaking Bartolini Mk-1 pickups and preamp.
Single Cutaway Bass Improves the body-neck balance for added comfort while still providing unfettered access to the high frets.
Poplar Burl Top on Swamp Ash Body Produces a warm yet punchy high-midrange sound that will cut through the mix with authority.
Bartolini MK-1 Pickups Delivers plenty of punchy and warm mids along with transparent and brilliant highs for a superbly balanced sound.
Bartolini MK-1 EQ Provides powerful yet transparent boost along with its trademark crisp high-end. The MK-1 transfers the natural liveliness of the bass through a flexible 3-band equalizer for a variety of applications ranging from studio recording to large concert halls. It also provides a switchable active/passive mode for a powerful modern active sound or an organic traditional passive sound.
Hipshot TransTone Bridge The string-thru-body and top-load construction facilitates greater tonal range while adding punch and enhancing sustain, perfectly complementing the longer 34” scale’s tighter string tension and focused sound.
5pcs Maple & Panga Panga Neck Results in superb playability, feel and tonal definition.
Neck-Thru Body Construction The strings vibrate across the body and neck in coherent and linear manner, maximizing the tightness of the low-end with rich mids and singing highs.
Hipshot Ultralite Machine Heads Classic 20:1 tuning ratio, made of cast zinc with aluminum strings posts and mounting nuts, resulting in 30% weight reduction over other regular tuners and which results in improved balance and tuning accuracy.
Panga Panga Fingerboard Produces a tight and coherent sound that mates extremely well with the instrument’s multi-laminate neck-thru-body construction.
Cort A5 Plus SC Artisan 5-String Bass Features:
Construction Neck-thru Body Swamp Ash Top Poplar Burl Neck 5pcs Maple & Panga Panga Fretboard Panga Panga Radius: 15.75" (400mm) Frets 24 Scale 34"( 864mm) Tuners Hipshot Ultralite Machine heads Bridge Hipshot Transtone Bridge Pickups Bartolini Mk-1 Electronics Bartolini Mk-1 Hardware Black Strings D'addario Yb-xl 170