Great review, mine arrives on Wednesday and I cannot wait

Interesting review; thanks. Re: Bartolini, it's potentially worth noting that the "Bartolini" pickups that Cort use are made by Cort under license. My first bass was a Cort C4+, which was a good platform to learn on. After a year or so, I got frustrated with some of the tones and bought a set of "real" Bartolini pickups (MK4 CBC, about half the price of the original bass) and they transformed the sound. Now, when I play it I get frustrated with the imperfections in the neck, but that's progress. ;)

Been loving your podcast. I just listened to the episode when you discussed this bass. I quickly jumped on KZfaq, praying you had a video playing this beauty. Awesome bass, awesome review, awesome hair 😉 . Cheers ❤!

I love headless basses, had a few, had Status in the 80s & a custom built fretless. At the time i thought that all basses in the future would be headless. Tuning is much easier, the heavy stuff is down the right end. This bass looks nice but sounds a bit anaemic, especially the B string.

This is finally the review that convinced me …. I NEED THIS!

Normally I'm not a fan of the MK-1 pups. However, they sound really good with Markbass Preamp. This Space bass seems like a slick package. I think a triple jazz bucker combo with 5 way switch would make slightly more slick and suite the name sake.

thank you a lot for all the time and efforts you put in this review !

Looks great and has some nice sounds.

People complain about the mk1s. I've had multiple basses with these pickups and I fail to see the problem. They sound great and respond well to eq and effects.

Really great video, thank you

I was lucky to get my hands on a early version and it was so good I bought another one. These are now my main gigging basses. I have one in each colour.... waiting for the inevitable Multiscale version.

I've really wanted the black Ibanez EHB since its release, but the rising pricetag and reviews on the craftsmanship stopped me--I'm glad, the Space 5 looks even better to me. Great review! Mine ships next week!

How do you know its a Markbass amp? Isn't it a Bartolini MK-1 preamp?

Great review

Your B-roll is getting even better with each video, Jonny. And that sounds like an awesome bass, I'm a fan of headless basses.

Hey Johnny, first off I just wanted to say that I love what you do for the bass community. Love all the efforts you put in to make such good contents for us . And thank you so much as I got my ehx “bass soul food” after I watched your video about it . And I’m in love with it . Now coming back to this video. I’m a four string Active bass player. Will I find any kind of difficulty, or any sort of challenges if I plan to go for this bass ? What’s your opinion regarding it ?

Multiscale and better pickups and it'll eat the modern market. This must be to test the waters.

Great review as always, I think Cort have quite some business packing great spec'd instruments at reasonable prices, and this one's no exception. Would LOVE to see you review an ATK from Ibanez (or if you have experiences with them, maybe share your thoughts?)

Seems like a darn good bass for the money. I like the light weight of it. Long time bad back sufferer it could be ideal

Thanks for review! It's interesting that a couple of years ago when you published your review of the Gretsch short scale bass I had already ordered that bass and was waiting for delivery, and now I have the same situation - I ordered a Cort Space 5 and am also waiting for delivery :)

My only problem is I can't find one in U.S.!

The problem of this bass and a lot of modern basses is their double soapbar pickups at the place of two single coil (Jazz) or one split coil (P)… Soapbars sound so anonymous, flat, “plastic” and without character in comparison to other pickups…in fact usually only metal/hard rock players like them because they usually play dirty/distorced, so they cannot appreciate the vintage/biting/woody sound of P or Jazz basses that you can listen to when you play mostly clean

The only gripe are those Cortolini MK-1. Not a fan of double split coil pickup combination. And you have them in every midrange Cort/Ibanez bass - kinda boring. This bass would be much cooler with JJ or PJ config. Coming back to electronics - I beleive Cort C5 has the same stuff. So you get upper range body with mid range electronics.

What did you think of the B string? I'm always a bit concerned about 34" scale B strings, so the multi scale EHB interests; but this is much more wallet friendly.

12:42 ish, clipping some?

I’m not a fan of the headless basses , but from the moment I heard you play this at the guitar show I said “that’s the one!!” I’m glad you got it! Sometimes there’s just that bass that you HAVE TO own, I love the tones, I got some very nice basses I’d say, and I’d add this to the collection as my first headless bass especially for the price, unless stingray releases a headless lol

My thoughts about this bass (based on your review): it looks better, than it sounds, the pickups MUST be changed. Similar Ibanez EHB-series has the same problem with sound, but Bartolini of Ibanez sound much worse, than Bartolini of Cort. It is worth noting that cheapest 5 string Ibanez EHB is significantly more (about 25%) expensive than Cort, but if we compare the similarly nice looking Burl Top modification of EHB and Space 5 with additional really good pickups (about £250/€/$) then first one is cost about 50% more. So Cort is the absolute winner in the headless bass market battle right now.

I do wish cort made a 4 string version as well. Overall though. Amazing bass

Yup but still not in America😢

i would love to hear that bass with a darkglass instead of obsidian 7000 but for me , you just convaince to me to buy that bass ! sounds pretty good for 34' scale

Is it only me or do the strings sound really floppy? Especially the B-string. Makes me wonder why anyone would prefer this over the B5 element? Which has the roasted maple fingerboard and in natural finish probably looks better. Also has Hipshot tuners. Because if the electronics are the same and not that convincing and you get the other one a lot cheaper... Yeah they should've gone with Fishmans or Nordstrands on this. Just like with with the Ibanez EHB's, this aint it. The price is above midrange price and the electronics doesn't justify it. I mean they have these electronics on their C-level instruments as well. Also, not do they only put those barts on their mid- and low range basses every time, why the hell do they always go with black bridge and tuners nowadays? I mean the B5 element in the natural finish would look a whole lot better with chrome than black. The same for Ibanez midrange basses. A lot of basses look better with either chrome or gold depending on wood and color. Imho chrome will always look the cleanest and gold can add a bit of warmth to the look. Black, why? Well, well, thank you for the review Jon.

How do you change the pickup from neck, bridge, and both?

If they came out with some solid colors (shell pink please) I'd have a hard time not buying one.

Augh! What happened to its head? 😱😂 jk. Joking aside, this is an awesome review, Jonny. 😎🤘🏻🎸 even though I’m not a big fan of headless instruments, this bass sounds nice. Also thanks for explaining how the strings are placed on headless basses. I never understood it until now. Also this bass sounds phenomenal with the amp simulator. And sounds beautiful with chorus.

a headless bass just looks "wrong" to me ... just a subjective thing. Cort make phantastic instruments, underrated as f*ck

It would be an even better bass with fishman or Nordstrand pickups put in.