Steinberger Guitars Gt-Pro Deluxe WH

De Steinberger gitaar speelt prima. De gitaar is prima draagbaar en kan ook mooi mee op reis en in een vliegtuig heb je geen problemen. Stemmen vond ik lastig vanwege de kleine stelschroeven en de tremolo kreeg ik niet onder controle. De gitaar bleef gevoelig voor ontstemmen ook na een aantal malen afstellen via de speciale schroef. Geluid zonder versterking was luider dan verwacht. Geluid met versterking vond ik niet echt super, maar dat is denk ik smaak.
Al met al een prima instrument om mee te nemen op reis en onderweg je vingervaardigheid te onderhouden. Best te gebruiken zonder tremolo.

I bought this guitar a few months ago, as a guitar for trips, rehearsals after work, practice everywhere. I will try to describe most of the pros and cons of this tool.
So, the pros:
It is compact-Yes, this is why you buy spirit, it is not necessary to take it in the Luggage of the plane – it is allowed into the cabin, it is comfortable to move on public transport or a Bicycle / scooter.
Bridge-lock machine - well holds build, after 2-3 hours in road and differential temperatures (have us now winter of until-15C), almost not needs in adjustment. Very competent system.
Supporting stand-it seems to be an extremely simple thing, but it is very convenient.
Good frets, good wood, good hardware. – this is one more plus in the piggy Bank
Bag included – a little plus more
Let's move on to the cons, maybe they will be my quibbles or unfulfilled expectations from the travel-guitar.
Weight-for all its dimensions, it has a tangible weight in combat condition (in bag, etc.), about 4.5 kg, because of the many unnecessary details, but more on that.
Set H-S-H and 5-pos switch –f or travel guitar does not require so many pickups, most often you play in the headphones through the micro-amp or without it. Humbucker at bridge and neck is enough for rehearsal. Because of this, several points suffer at once – this is the weight of the instrument and the quality of the pickups themselves. The bridge humbucker has a rather weak output signal, which does not always give the desired sound on the shred / solo, in addition, the guitar body itself is small and gives little resonance. The ideal solution would be to have a powerful humbucker in the bridge (SD Sh-4 and above for ex.) and a hot rail in the neck tied to a mini 3-position switch.
Tone and volume - not a good location of the volume knob, if you have big hands - you will always touch it. After about 2 months I was able to get used to it. This is a consequence of the problem H-S-H scheme described above, all the controls in this form could fit under the bridge (where there is a tone knob) thereby adding comfort to the right hand.
Lever tremolo - Yes this function here there is, but she always is in blocked able, for guitar minute willingness (get and play) not grinding halt after function, affecting weight tool.
The quality of gig- running is Weak, narrow belt and plastic carabiner. I already replaced it with a metal one, but the belt attachment is not secure. In addition, the zipper on the pocket opens in the wrong direction. For example, if you have guitar stands upright and you open the zipper - all the change will fall out. I will order a cover in the workshop according to my parameters.
Strings double-ball-in goes not goes adapter on single-coil strings, and either you buy expensive double-coil kits, either spend still 20 the Euro on adapter. It is very strange why it is not included with the guitar.

Summary: Like any guitar in the spirit has its pluses and minuses, in many respects, each guitarist will decide for himself that he is important in this guitar. But my choice fell on spirit, and I, in a whole, exasperated their choice.

This is my 4th electric guitar and 9th guitar overall and it is the best one I've ever owned. I am a jazz musician and I love everything about this guitar, despite it is the most affordable instrument I own. The set up of the guitar out of the box was very very good, I don't know if it's Thomann's work or the factory setup but it is very good.

The design is perfect, super lightweight (mine is about 2.1 kgs) and very easy to set up and tune. Guitar doesn't feel weird at all, in fact, it feels a lot like my (now previous) main guitar Epiphone Sheraton.
Holds the tune sooo good. I tune it every 3-4 days and that's it, and I've been playing it over 10 hours a day since it arrived.
Thanks to its wood choice and neck-thru construction, the guitar is very resonant and surprisingly quite loud unplugged. I like the feel and sound of the fingerboard, whatever if it is.
In every review I've read/seen of this guitar they dislike the pickups but I like them. I don't like the middle pickup and will eventually remove it and use it as HH.
Very easy to travel with, very very light and comes with a great gig bag. I've flown with the guitar and they accept it as overhead luggage without any problem.
The guitar is super affordable, as you can see, and it's worth every penny.
Only issue about MY guitar is, the pickup selector is very poor quality, it doesn't click and doesn't stay where it is but it is a pretty cheap change.

Since it arrived, I've been practicing everywhere. On the bus, taxi, metro, plane, ferry, beach, school, park... It really liberated me and I think every guitar player should get one (except maybe complete beginners, since it might be a little harder for them to learn how to hold a guitar with this than a regular guitar).

The design of the string adapter isn't the best, it works fine but is a little hard to use but that's optional and there are 3rd party solutions.

Thomann did very good job packing it, it safely arrived in a very short time.