Cort Essence GA4 Natural

This guitar honestly sounds too good for the price.

Bright and responsive.

There was a bit of a bow on the neck, tightening the truss rod sorted it and it was ready to play!

Quite surprised I didn't need to lower the saddle height or file the nut slots.

The string action at the 12th fret on the low e is 2.25mm and on the high e is 1.75mm perfect as that is what i set my guitars to. I play a lot of percussive fingerstyle, no buzzing!

There was a good amount of saddle meaning you could still lower the string action without compromising too much of the break angle of the strings.

The pickup system is your typical under saddle piezo, nothing too fancy. As dar as features, this guitar is quite plain.

If you are looking for a solid guitar or in my case, a guitar where you don't have to be too precious about, this is a solid no brainer. 11/10

As a beginner guitarist, I couldn't be happier with this guitar. The build quality is great, with nice elixir strings and tuners that hold tune for days. The torrefied spruce gives the guitar a beautiful rustic colour along with the mahogany back/sides. The action was also perfect for me right out of the box at around 2.5mm on the low e string. The guitar's sound is articulate, balanced and warm with a lot of sustain, it really just draws me in to play more and more. Haven't had a chance to try the fishman pickup so cant speak on that. Highly reccomend to any other beginners looking for a quality acoustic that plays great out of the box and punches way above its entry level price.