Steinberger Spirit GT Pro – Demo and Review – And A String Break!!!
In this video we take a closer look at the Steinberger Spirit GT Pro. This is a cool headless guitar on a budget! The Steinberger pickups sound great and it plays super smooth. I am quite impressed with this little guy! I hope you enjoy the video!
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Originally posted by UC4WLeWSJ3BOb8fya4Ps4zeg at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJykuSp-EnI
I want that exact guitar. SO hard to find the blue..
Lou Reed played one, and that's good enough for me
Great demo, and killer tone. Are you recording direct with modeling software or the amp in the room?
You are an 80s rockstar!!????????
Which top lock should we get?
Greatvdemo.. Trem seems tonwork great? Does the arm stays tight for flutter effect.. It can be tightened i believe? Had one of these long ago but arm was not original so never tried ita true potential.. Main thing is to keep this high on your strap.. It gives unprecended reach to your left hand
It sounds pretty good! I like the look! Also perfect as a travalling guitar!???? Even the bar works pretty good, also it is not the Trans-Trem!
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Great review! Just a question, on 6:45 Where did you buy the replacement nut you mention, in order to use standard strings? There are several models on Ebay but not sure which one to use, considering the dimentions. Kind regards from Mexico!????
i have one of these but the pickups are terrible
$15 strings aren’t bad, under $10 you get what you pay for.
Wow. I was looking for a travel guitar just to noodle at work on lunch break but I'm so impressed with the tone I just ordered one! Love the concept of this
Can dimebag squeals be done on this trem ?
What’s a trans trem?
They’re great little guitars! I’ve got 2! Great playability and comfort! Change the pickups! You won’t regret it!
Its just so ugly thought. Guitars are art to me. The looks are as important to me as the sound. If the guitar is ugly, i wont want to play it
What nut exactly did you buy to replace the original? Is it a drop-in replacement? Did you have to drill or modify anything?
Be careful with double ball jokes, this is YouTube and it can be very dumb and not understanding the context of whats said. It's sort of weird how these 80's guitars are now seen as 'travel guitars' when I looked into where they are made it did make me sad.
Test drove one of these several years ago. The tremolo was barely usable. Doesn't return to pitch…definitely no divebombing. The strings slide and scratch across the zero fret (acts as the nut on steinbergers) when you bend strings, which also means that they don't always return to their original positions resting on the zero fret (change in tension =change in tuning pitch)
I have one of these, and it's a great little guitar, EXCEPT! Put a headstock on it. The double ball string system is an absolute pain in the arse. The products they sell to use to use single ball string s do not work (the B and E strings just slip through the locking nut and a horror show to put the adapter on the neck as it is not secured and only held by string tension. If I knew I had all the hassle, not to mention the outrageous price of double ball strings, I don't think I would have bothered.
It's great to see the Steinberger back. The original did sound a little better but this model is good. Ned was a true visionary!
I would kill for your tone!! Great playing!
The main thing you have to do with all these – is add a strap extender.
They are not comfortable to play
Standing up without it.
Sitting down its comfortable to play.
Great design. 80’s retro.
Got one of these and broke the high e string right away ????. Trying it once more tuned half a step down. Wish me luck.
Call me a fool but….if I had one of those I would build a fake broken headstock and attach it with magnets. Every April first I would arrange for someone to accidentally "break my damned guitar!!!!"
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Of course, I would make a big deal out of picking up my "broken guitar" and ripping into "busted"! ????
The guitar itself is wonderful, I'm playing it since years, also the bridge has no sharp screws or any other "problem" zones and if from time to time cleaned, the strings last very long, plus the guitar keeps – if properly adjusted – and at least with double ball end strings perfectly well the tune.
Also had a string adapter, but soon removed it again. Double ball end strings hardly are more expensive meanwhile, but do a much better job and last almost forever (I usually replace them after 2 or 3 years, which hardly worked with any other guitar and this only, because I want to clean the fretboard.)
Despite of the longer (Fender) scale I would define the sound as some nice mix between an SG and a Les Paul, not as thin sounding as the SG, but also with a little more bite and freshness than a Les Paul, at least with PAF's or comparable pickups and with more than enough sustain, but still a good, vivid dynamic reaction to attack. Also had a Hohner headless once, but this one disappointed me completely, as it did not react to attack in any way. The Spirit – at least mine – reacts like a Porsche, the Hohner did like an oversized, overweighted truck, so to say. Nothing for me.
One weak point for me are the – for my ears – lousy ceramic pickups. Especially the neck pickup sounds too loud in comparison with the bridge pickup. So I replaced them with a pair of alnico PAF's, covered the single coil hole – never been a HSH fan and regular single coils do not match without any additional routing work, only an EMG, OBL or Ultrasonic would match, but they sonically are not really, what I am looking for – and replaced the 5-way switch with a 3-way one.
Also added an adjustable bass-cut for the neck pickup with a trimmer inside, which improved the neck pickup sound a lot but also the combined neck-bridge pickup sound, which sounds more transparent and fresher and with 3 good sounds, which work for everything between clean and high-gain I have all I need, although I anyway mostly am only using the bridge pickup. Also added a Styroflex capacitor to the Tone control instead of the awful Greenie.
In my opinion still much better working than all these modern Chinese Strandberg – or whatever else – copies, also intonation is perfectly well adjustable. I mostly use it sitting in front of my computer, but never ever needed the leg rest. (Of course a real Strandberg might be a different game but also a different price level.)
I still have the old all maple version, but slowly I need a new one, or I at least have to refret my old one, so I am curious, how much the newer ones with the basswood wings will differ.
I also have a two-piece ash-body Tele with alnico III pickups and a semi-solid Les Paul, also with PAF's and bass-cut for the neck pickup, but these I hardly use, although they sound really good.
But for me my Steinberger gives me exactly the sounds, I am looking for and it feels and plays well with almost no weight. So my band washers also are happy! (I'm not the youngest guy anmore…)
Replaced the bridge pickup with a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB much hotter pickup than the stock Steinberger. I play this guitar constantly now, take it with me everywhere.
Demo at 9:30
Where do you get that thing for regular strings??
I have the guitar,4 string band 5 string bass… great for travel travel… except when I took it to the Dominican Republic on a surf trip, they thought it was a gun!!! Security pulled me over and searched it thoroughly for drugs and bullets.
Cool thing – but I haven't seen such a MASSIVE promotion campaign in the entire history of guitars ???? Whoever owns the brand (Gibson?) must have a deep marketing budget ???? YouTube is flooded with samples, promos, 'independent' reviews and even Ned Steinberger himself doing an 'unbiased' review.
Hats off for the original idea (of decades ago) but now this comes somewhat over-the top…
you mean to tell me that by this time next year i’ll be this good???? My journey begins tomorrow, wish me luck????????????????
I have a question….can the guitar be tuned down a half step to be able to play in E flat? I play a lot in E flat and just want know if the guitar is capable of doing this…please let me know….thanks
I just got a hot red spirit, two things that are driving me nuts is the position of the volume knob and that middle pick up, it’s set too high and gets in the way of my picking.
That Trem bar looks like over a bit of time will just fall out… what keeps it in?
I don't play it too much but it's pretty cool… What?
I have two. I keep one in my car with a small, battery powered multi effects amp. Whenever I end up at a party or open jam location, I’m ready to jam. They are bulletproof, travel well. They fit in overhead airline compartments, so little chance savage baggage handlers will be flinging your guitar into the baggage bay. Camping, backpacking, hiking, road-trip, you always have a inexpensive on-the-go simple rig. Love ‘em. Before I retired, I would smuggle it into the office at work, keep it stored under my desk, so I could practice during “slow” ???? days
Man, that tone sounds so inescapably 80s.