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Cort Essence
The Essence series from Cort offers an unadulterated acoustic guitar experience with timeless looks and vintage charm. By focusing on the core elements of the best possible tone and playability, Cort has created a guitar that delivers exceptional sound and effortless performance.
All Cort Essence acoustic guitars at a glance:
The Cort Essence Series in detail
What makes the Cort Essence Series special
The Essence series offers an acoustic guitar experience you wouldn't expect from an instrument in this price range. By concentrating on core elements, a guitar has been created that delivers exceptional tone and playability at an affordable price. The solid torrefied Sitka spruce top produces a rich, warm tone perfectly balanced by the mahogany back and sides. The elaborate herringbone rosette and purfling provide an attractive appearance, while the Fishman preamp system ensures your sound stays clear and alive on stage. The Essence series offers the perfect mix of value and performance to suit your style.
Its understated elegance and classic design make it an ideal choice for players seeking authenticity and style at an affordable price.
Grand Auditorium or Orchestra model?
With a body depth of 4 5/8″ (117 mm), an upper bout width of 11 1/2″ (292 mm) and a lower bout width of 16″ (405mm), the Grand Auditorium body size (shown here in Natural) sits perfectly between the larger Dreadnought and the smaller Grand Concert. This makes the Auditorium body ideal for strumming/flatpicking and fingerstyle playing, suitable for versatile acoustic players who prefer a guitar that covers a wide range of tones and playing styles.
The compact size of the Orchestra, also known as OM (shown here in Black), is perfect for players with a smaller frame or for those seeking comfortable playability. With its bright and strong emphasis on the upper mids it is more suited to fingerpicking than strumming, which often requires more low end. The Venetian cutaway on this model allows easy access to the high frets.
Expert knowledge: Aged to Vintage Top and Bracing
Using a special process called ATV (Aged To Vintage), the luthiers treat the solid Sitka spruce top and the bracing to achieve the big, open tone of a highly sought-after acoustic guitar decades old. This torrefaction is a process where spruce tops (before being assembled into the guitar body) are roasted in ovens normally used for drying wood so it can be worked. The roasting gives the wood a slightly darker colour and subtly alters its structure, imparting new tonal characteristics. In particular, torrefied spruce tops tend to sound warmer and sweeter, giving them a broken-in quality you would expect from much older wood. Torrefaction cannot fully replicate the effects of decades of age and playing, but it provides added sonic depth without sacrificing the typical clarity, articulation or volume of spruce.
The wood combination
Spruce provides an ideal balance of strength and flexibility and is therefore the most popular choice for acoustic guitar tops. As a guitar top, Sitka spruce is the modern standard tonewood. The combination of stiffness and elasticity results in a wide dynamic range, allowing clear articulation and making it suitable for everything from aggressive strumming and flatpicking to fingerpicking.
Bright yet natural, with a strong and warm midrange, beloved mahogany has been a standard for acoustic guitar backs and sides for many decades. Mahogany is known for its robust midrange character, featuring a strong fundamental tone often described as "punchy", "woody" or "dry" because it doesn't produce many ringing overtones. Mahogany's earthy voice has been heard on many roots music recordings for years. Blues and other roots players tend to respond well to mahogany's midrange character. The mahogany guitars in the Essence series with smaller bodies typically appeal to fingerstyle players. When it comes to versatility, a mahogany Grand Auditorium is a good choice.
All key features of the Cort Essence guitars at a glance:
- available as OM and Grand Auditorium
- Cutaway
- Spruce top (torrefied with Aged To Vintage process)
- Advanced Scalloped X-Bracing
- Back and sides in mahogany
- Rosewood fretboard
- Bone nut and saddle
- Fishman Presys pickup
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