Jeff Berlin and Cort Announce Signature RITHIMIC Bass
Jeff Berlin has teamed up with Cort for a new signature bass for 2014. Dubbed the RITHIMIC, the model features an alder body with a striking padouk and spalted maple top with a matching spalted headstock. Its hard rock maple neck is topped with a rosewood fingerboard. The bass is set up to Berlin’s liking with low action and a set of DR Strings Custom DDT strings.
The RITHIMIC is fitted with a pair of Bartolini Jeff Berlin custom soapbar pickups and passive electronics. Controls include Volume, Tone and Balance knobs. Finally, the bass is rounded out with Hipshot Ultralight tuners and a Babicz FCH4 bridge.
The Cort Jeff Berlin Signature RITHIMIC Bass will debut at NAMM next week will begin shipping in February with a MSRP of $1,400. For more info, check out the Cort Guitars website.
Cort Jeff Berlin Signature RITHIMIC Bass Details:
- Body: Alder
- Top: Padouk and Spalted Maple
- Headstock: Spalted Maple
- Neck: Hard Rock Maple
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Pickups: Bartolini Jeff Berlin Custom Soapbars
- Electronics: Passive
- Bridge: Babicz FCH4
- Tuners: Hipshot Ultralight
Can’t see it on the Cort website?
$1400.00 Cort?
Jeff Berlin is reporting on Facebook that the airline has lost the prototype! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=692126197493631&set=a.115197781853145.6770.100000887705597&type=1&theater
Cannot believe They expect people to play a passive Cort and spend $1400 I dint care whose name is on it.
Beautiful….but $$$
built-in metronome? naaah
If Cort was going to rip off Conklin’s ‘Melted Tops’ you’d think they’d put a little more effort into it.
Not sure why everybody’s complaining about this $800 bass? The hardware alone: (Babicz, $120; Hipshots, $85-90; Barts, ~$200; DR’s, ~$35…) That’s ~$450 conservatively, before body, neck, knobs, construction, etc.!?
Hopefully this is as good as the Dean model. I have owned and played one for several years and has been a great bass.