Steinberger Guitars Gt-Pro Deluxe WH

Sturdy build

I'm a new guitar player talking my first learning steps, so this review might need to be edited in the future as I gain more experience. This review is based on the guitar knowledge I have so far.

This is my first electric guitar, which I bought to keep practicing away from home.

The build quality seems very good and sturdy. The guitar is quite heavier compared to my classical guitar.

I can't say much about the sound quality of the pickups, because I'm so new to electric guitars, but what I can say is that everything seems to be working fine.

I like the aesthetics and the engineering thinking behind the headless design and the tuning system. I also like it has three pickups and a tremolo. Not many travel guitars offer all these features.

I'm hoping this guitar will serve me for many years.

Good enough for traveling

For a long time, I dream about travel guitar. First time I thought about it when I went to the Czech with my family 2 years ago. And this year I decided to buy a travel guitar as a birthday gift for myself :) I read tons of reviews and watched hours of videos about travel guitars. As a result, I choose Steinberger Deluxe. It has 3 pickups in my favorite combination HSH. It's really small and lightweight.

When guitar came I found the issue with a single pickup. it doesn't work properly. After some discussion with support and investigation with a multimeter, the issue was found and fixed. Now I'm super happy with the guitar.

Disappointing.

At this price point I expected quality comparable to a new Epiphone. This falls short.

1. The locking trem doesn't stay locked, it keeps slipping out of lock.

2. The middle pickup is useless - poor sound, and too low output to use with the humbuckers, even after adjusting pickup heights.

3. The worst set-up out of the box of any new guitar I've bought in over 40 years. Weeks after purchase I'm still struggling to get a reasonable action without horribly rattling E and A strings. Every time I come back to it after a few days the neck has moved again.

I don't put the allan keys away now, I leave them next to the guitar.

Not a Keeper.

Good quality great for traveling!!! Neck is easy to play. I thinking about changing the pickups a specially single coil.

Very good value for the money

I work offshore, for which I fly around the world at least 6 times per year and I love playing guitar. Not always the easiest combination in the past... until I bought this guitar. This one fits nicely in my suitcase, is a sturdy build and a good quality instrument. I plug my guitar into a cheap small pre-amp/fx processor Nux PG-1 and then play through my headphones or hook it up via aux cable to a bluetooth speaker. For travelling this is a very simple easy setup that allows me to play and practice. But the guitar is also good enough to hold its own at home hooked up to a guitar amp. and I wouldn't mind performing with it either. It is definitely good enough for it. Only the middle pickup output is very weak so I don't really use it, but the neck and bridge pickups are quite good, so that is not a big issue. Very happy with this purchase. I have been using it for about 6 months now.

Spirit: pros and cons, in detail

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.

Travel Guitar

A lot of the gigs I go to on my motorbike so it's easy to transport. I've been pleasantly surprised by it's sound. There's a great combination of Gibson and Fender sound using different pickup settings. The front is a nice fat Gibson sound, the front/middle gives a Strat sound. I think the front humbucker switches to single coil. Very convincing. The middle single coil gives a great strum sound. Middle back, again strat equivalent and back humbucker pretty strong output for overdrive solos. The build quality is good. It's been bashed about a bit and even been rained apon on the way home from a gig. It stays in tune well and the wammy bar works a treat. Very impressive. There is a conversion you can buy for the nut string attachments which then allows you to use any string and not be restricted to the double ball end type. A pity it's not included. However the S946 strings suite me so no problem! Last thing, the feel of the neck is a bit weird at first because it's longer than usual so initially I would grab an A barre chord instead of a G. You get used to it! Fun guitar.