Ocean bass club

[Sequimite]

Since Cort only made the Ocean basses for Guitar Center for less than two years I figured I'd join the Cort Club. However, I was ridden out on a rail by several members who insisted the the Ocean TB70 was completely different from the Cort Artisan A4 because the Artisan body had hand sanded curves.

Anyway I love this thing and would like to hear from others who have Ocean basses.

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[Sequimite]

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[Sequimite]

Wow, this was a hot topic two years ago. Do any of you still play an Ocean bass?

If you got rid of yours, why so?

 

[Sequimite]

I'll bump a couple of times before letting this slide.

 

[bcouper]

I have a natural wood Ocean TB70 - great bass. Very underrated, but I guess marketing/distribution for these never turned the corner. I see Laguna is making a similar version now under their core brand.

 

[Sequimite]

Thanks for rescuing this thread from oblivion.

Any other Ocean bass owners out there? The price of used Oceans has been going up at Guitar Center so I know word of mouth is going strong outside of this forum.

 

[Marcury]

I almost bought one of their fretless models, it's one of the ones that got away!

 

[bearpond music]

I just picked up a fretless model that had a bowed neck. It turns out the truss rod had snapped. I removed the fingerboard, replaced the rod and re-glued the board back on and now have a really nice bass for way less than $200, plus 2 hours of my time. The question I have is how do all the controls work? Can someone help?

 

[123Fo]

Since Cort only made the Ocean basses for Guitar Center for less than two years I figured I'd join the Cort Club. However, I was ridden out on a rail by several members who insisted the the Ocean TB70 was completely different from the Cort Artisan A4 because the Artisan body had hand sanded curves.

Anyway I love this thing and would like to hear from others who have Ocean basses.

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I own a TB70 and think it's awesome. It stays in tune, has nice, low action with zero fret buzz and sounds great. I bought it from a pawn shop(pretty much where I buy all my basses) 2 years ago for 225$ with a hard case. No issues with it. They really are very much underrated.

 

[123Fo]

I just picked up a fretless model that had a bowed neck. It turns out the truss rod had snapped. I removed the fingerboard, replaced the rod and re-glued the board back on and now have a really nice bass for way less than $200, plus 2 hours of my time. The question I have is how do all the controls work? Can someone help?

The knobs are volume, blend and three band eq. The toggle just turns the preamp on and off.

 

[cimchazz1]

I have one, too. Just picked it up for a very good price because 2 strings were missing and someone had soldered the wires to the wrong terminals on the output jack, so it buzzed. I thought the construction was beautiful. I'm looking for a truss rod cover and my battery box cover hinge has a broken pin, so I need a cover for that too. I put strings on it and plugged it in and it feels great, but I noticed that when I rub against the plastic cover over the electronics cavity, it makes static electricity noises. Anyone else experience this? Is this cover supposed to be grounded somehow to the electronics or what?? It looks like someone has added a diode to the back of the preamp board for some reason, unless it is supposed to be there? Just looked like an amateur solder job.
Any ideas on these issues?
I read a long posting about how Cort owners aren't headstock name snobs, interesting about the post above regarding the Cort Club.
How different is this Ocean from the Cort, outside of the non-hand sanded edges?

 

[cimchazz1]

Actually, the back cover was missing 3 of the 4 screws. After I screwed it down properly, the static noise went away and so did the selector switch popping issue, it's perfect now, i guess that grounded the cover. I called Laguna for tech support and they want to pretend this bass never existed, no schematics, no info, said it was made too long ago and discontinued and no info is available. I askedthe guy if it was the same as a Cort A4 or built in the same factory,and he told me it has absolutely no relation to a Cort, was just a copy made somewhere else. Very odd, it's almost exactly the same! So i guess it just an odd coincidence thatthe specs, wood, construction, and hardware match so closely, and why copy a Cort anyhow? I'm wondering if Cort threatened to sue Laguna for copying the A4? Oh well, I'm keepin it and playin it and to me it's an A4 that says Ocean on the headstock.

 

[bcouper]

Old thread, I know. I still have my TB70 (4 string) - made the call this year to replace the Bart MK1's with Aguilar DCB's and new preamp. Way better. The tone is awesome, better high end, and the range on the preamp is a huge difference.