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1bassleft
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Good idea, Mike. The Cort Action V is still available for sale, although the current model has some differences to mine. Here's a pic of the current model:
and the company's product info (typing "cort action" into Google gets you a lot of lawyer sites - presumably spelling isn't a requirement for an attorney) is here:
http://www.cort.co.kr/english/products/common/view.asp?product_id=88
I'll get my camera running, but mine is similar. Instead of a "walnut" stain, the agathis body on mine is a putrid "natural". Also, that body up there looks very Jazz-like but mine has much more rounded horns in a Warwick style. The Jazz-type pups, and that odd slant, are present. According to the manuf's site, those are own-brand "Powersound" pups but I'd read somewhere that they're just MightyMites.
As a minimum, the Fender-style bridge will be replaced with the piezo bridge (temp pic):
and I'll use the Fishman Powerchip to blend the mag/piezo signals and provide the piezo vol control. I also have lying around the EMG BTC control to give the mags an active EQ so it would make sense to control the two mag pups' volume using a stacked vol/vol pot. That'd negate the need for any hole drilling.
HST, I haven't ruled out replacing the pups. They're OK (and the spacing allows for decent tone change from neck to bridge) but they're not great. Standard Fender Jazz-bridge size pups would be easy, but I have some nice options in my spares bag if I could stomach some routing. |
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Michael
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| 1bassleft wrote: | and the company's product info (typing "cort action" into Google gets you a lot of lawyer sites - presumably spelling isn't a requirement for an attorney) is here:
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hahaha
Looking forward to seeing this project. You should start a new thread for it so new comers can look in.
Corts always look nicest in cherry red / walnut finishes. |
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1bassleft
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, I'll start a new thread on the remake of it. |
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1bassleft
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Just another thing. I had to grab a Fenix Jazz bass (a 1990, when they had the Squier production job - I've written before on them) that's been defretted. It went for £50 and was a driveable distance from me.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190069549596&rd=1&rd=1
It had occurred to me that this could be kitted out with the Graphtech Ghost piezo system I have. Although the Cort would be a fretted roundwound and the Fenix a fretless flatwound, I might be able to compare the two piezo systems.
The trouble is that the control cavity in a Jazz is tiny (the Ghost preamp and battery would take a lot of space) and I found another problem. I started taking the bridge off and only one screw undid. Two of the others, the head turned round and round and came off. Leaving the entire threaded shank still in the bass wood. Anybody fancy a pair of crosshead earstuds? What a pain. |
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