The Original Headless Guitar... And Probably the Cheapest Too!
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I mean, any Gibson is gonna end up being headless eventually; might as well get it that way from the factory.
Point. Game. Win.
Burn
Was just what I was thinking. The original headless guitar was the Gibson that stacked it.
LOL!!!!
Mic Drop. 🎤🎤.
That is exactly what I was going to say about my Epiphone BB King special. It was cheap to begin with so just smooth out the neck router out the body for the new hardware and make it a cheaper looking headless. Played Like crap - or maybe it way me.
Pros:
Small
Lightweight
Sounds good
Plays good
Easy to maintain
Stays in tune
Smart and usefull features
Versatile
Cheap
Cons:
It looks a bit silly
Munch, munch, delicious crunch Aye!!
very 80s haha
@@oyc7946 Seriously. Was my main axe when I played shows. Sounds great and is an amazing guitar. Great value. Wish they'd do an in depth serious review and give it the credit it deserves
Looks very silly
you know....when Telecasters came out, many guitar players said it looked too plain and silly....so I really dont see the problem in thinking Steinberger looking silly
They hate these guitars, but look... it is the same shape as the andertons logo.
good catch. vote this man up so they have to see it.
Haha. It does.
*insert ‘mind blown’ gif here*
I love these guitars. They're inventively engineered.
If I want a guitar to sound like a strat, I'll play my strat.
But sometimes I don't want a strat sound. Steinbergers, like the strat, have their own character.
I have one. Bought it last year. It feels like a dream. It could use better pickups, but it’s a well-built guitar. I picked this over a Chapman.
Jack Robb guarantee you have never tried one
I played a Chapman. Bought a Korean ESP instead. Could even be the same factory, I dont know. But the ESP was of substantially higher build quality.
S2000 squad why don’t you read his reply? You are going around accusing people you don’t know of never having a $2,000 guitar. Read his response. So many jerks on here. The channel is so bad these days. A bunch of us are leaving. Between Rob and Lee and some of your rob followers it’s impossible to take this channel serious.
I preordered a 2018 and had to send two back due to workmanship issues, but the third they sent me was great. I travel with work and this is my biz travel practice guitar. A month ago the wammy started playing up and the bridge was running into the body toward the fretboard. I found a vid showing how to remove the bridge and file it down, which worked a treat. I colored the exposed metal with a black Sharpie and you'd never know. I also found a $49 hybrid SKB case for a breakdown shotgun online that is easily modified for a snug fit. I love mine but only play it on the road. I play minimum 15 minutes every day, and it makes a huge difference.
Pop in some passive EMG's or if you can find space for the 9V put in ACTIVES.
As far as I can see, these guitars solve every other guitar problem ever. Ambidextrous, no need for nut slotting, easy truss rod adjustment, light, transportable, trem system with an ability to lock it, easy trem adjustment, minimal tuning issues. Pretty robust with great tone. You could probably mod it to look somewhat better, but I really like them. They look cyberpunk enough. :D
Can you play this comfortably without using the folding leg?
@@ColtraneTaylor Not really. It can be done in casual position, but you have to grip it with your body and fretting hand and it will slide off your leg very easily. The folding leg helps, but the guitar still sits low compared to any other. I usually rest it on the higher of my two crossed legs for a little more height.
It can be played in classical position by resting the little foot nub on your leg, but it's a tiny point of contact near the strap button. Without jeans, it's uncomfortable after even a short period. It's not terrible ergonomics, but worse than my other guitars. The Spirit plays much better standing up, in my hands, although rhythm guitar will never be as easy without a solid spot to rest your elbow.
Funny quirk, the metal folding leg gets COLD and the guitar isn't fun to set down on your bare leg haha
@@synthesighs Thanks, that helps! The reason I asked is partly that I ordered a Chinese replica without a leg. I suppose I'll have to see how I can manage.
They should improve upon that leg, coldness and all methinks. I didn't think it looked that practical from the images.
The fact Rob doesn't like it makes me like it 10 times more.
Hell Yeah....🤣
Still rings true today.
6:10 best quote from Monsieur Lee Anderton "It sounds like a guitar"
Those are the bounds of Monsieur Lee's intelligence in videos where he is unfamiliar with the gear.
It takes many, many years of experience to come up with such incisive observations.
Well you see some guitars don't actually sound like a guitar.
@@gerryjamesedwards1227 One would think so. Danish Pete is a subliminal wholetone-feel-idea machine. His jams with Bea are *spectacular* .
Look up EVH playing "summer nights" live 1986. If Eddie taking a drag off his cig stuck on top of his 'Berger's neck, mid-riff, doesn't make you see them as "cool," nothing will.
Live: Without A Net is a great video!
Nothing from the Hagar era was cool!
Simply King Edward holding a Steinberger is enough to make these axes look cool.
I bought one of these bad boys in 2011. I've brought it with me on three deployments on a Navy ship. Perfect size and fits in a locker.
km5658 • Too funny. I had a Steinberger bass I’d shove in the overhead during my deployments. This was in 1988. 😎
I worked for a blues band and the bass player played a Steinberger. He got more attention for that thing, and I have to say it held tuning extremely well. Didn't stop us from making fun of him but he toured and recorded with that thing and it always sounded great.
Chapman's smarmy disdain for these is making me want one.
Not Lee’s?
He's pissed cause it foils his tonewood theory....no frickin body and it sounds great.
Really, they just need a pickup swap to be very viable axes.
@@brickbreaker8148 ...Quite frankly, it sounds thin.
Ger Bear He’s always been egotistical. Giant ego.
As product reviews go this is a poor effort guys. No information on neck shape and feel. No details on the pickups or how it sounds. Some people might see beyond it’s appearance and appreciate the genius design of the product (especially as a travel friendly guitar) and would like to know more about how it sounds and plays.
Totally agree. I want to buy one and have no relevant information in this video.
I had an original TransTrem Steinberger and had also a Hohner copy made of wood like the Spirits. Great guitars in every way. Seems like the Spirits are so good that made these guys embarassed to admit it.
The point is that most of the guitarists are more worried about their looks than their playing.
Well said Martin. It is exactly what I was thinking throughout the nonsense of them laughing.
Amen
First time you guys have legit pissed me off. For $350 bucks, these are genius practice, travel, cramped quarters guitars. Grow up.
And they said that? Why are you pissed off that they gave an honest opinion about their personal tastes? It's not like they said they are terrible guitars... Lee even specifically pointed out how great they would be for travel. Maybe you should grow up?
Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?
Whatever. Calling the first revolutionary form factor design stupid IS stupid.
I unsubscribed from here and Rob's channel. They should get a real guitar player like Greg Koch to demo their gear; he shuts up and plays the damned thing when he doesn't particularly like it.
This was a hostile and offensive video. There are tons of other guitar store channels that aren't going to laugh in your face because they think they are selling you a piece of shit.
I won’t drop because of it, but this is the first time I thought it was incredibly childish, not in a fun way, and irresponsible. The opening thing, play cricket or whatever the hell.
Ned Steinberger is a genius. Opinions are fine but the “tone” of this one was shitty. I’ve owned several Steinberger’s, and they ARE polarizing, but they are also groundbreaking, forward thinking and super practical in a lot of cases.
I just remember David Gilmour playing one of these on a live version of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill. If Gilmour says they're good enough for him, I think they're good enough for me.
@Lynn Collett you think he'd take one to a live show if he thought it was rubbish?
@Lynn Collett Sure thought they were good when he recorded A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Keep in mind that Gilmour is playing an original Newburgh Steinberger and these are current Gibson Steinbergers.
The old ones were composite from head(less) to toe. These new ones are wood.
@@danrozful It would be interesting to compare the tonal characteristics of the old composite vs the new wood. I am quite pleased with the tone of my Parker composites though.
How can you not remember EVH or Johnny Winters using these? One of my guitar teachers had a Steinberger Demon which was pretty cool. Long scale with as sliding capo. Surprisingly awesome. He used it for Jazz gigs lol.
Johnny Winter played an Erlewine Lazer guitar, not this...
Leslie west used a headless guitar also
David Gilmour and Geddy Lee (Bass) used Steinbergers as well.
EVH used a GL2T completely different guitar
David Gilmour used to use a Steinberger in late 80s, mainly in Rock Aid Armenia Video...
You guys absolutely missed the entire selling point of this guitar in the 80s which is what attracted Eddie Van Halen to playing it. It was the only guitar that had a tremolo system that when you did a dive all strings remained in tune when your chord was in a dive position it was still in tune all of the other tremolo systems would go out of tune.
I mean... There's always the floyd...?... I hear you though. They're surprisingly freaking solid guitars.
Yeah these guys seem surprisingly ignorant, Eddie Van Halen utilized this guitar to its maximum extent on 5150, now I very much doubt that these new cheap models have the same system as the 80s ones, you will spend thousands to get one today
@@5150Electronics The new stein's definitely are not built as solid as the old one's. The old ones will cost you an arm and a leg.
@@5150Electronics I think Trans-Trem isnt available today, those are probably just some stock, locking system or something
That's only on the transtrem, which isn't available any more. On a transtrem you can bend an entire chord with the trem and it stays in tune. You can hear it on the intro to "Get Up" on Van Halen's 5150 album.
This guitar has an R-Trem, which stays in tune as well as a Floyd but takes literally 20% of the time and effort to change strings, can be locked in tune mid-song if you break a string, and doesn't have any little clamps or bolts to lose.
If they were good enough for Allan Holdsworth. Then they should be good enough for anyone.
Damn right
And EVH
And bill and ted
@@krowley1986 Obviously known for their tone.
Facts
I've owned one of these since the late 80s, and still have one I wouldn't do without. Besides all the excellent points already mentioned about these: The staying in tune, fantastic playing action etc... My favorite use for it is playing while sitting in a chair at the computer. No body to snag even if the chair has arms, no headstock to crash into the monitor screen, easy to reach around and get to your PC or MIDI keyboard while tracking on your DAW. Sounds great, plays great, and is just a downright useful tool in the right setting. But then I don't count on my guitar to make me look cool. If all that stands between you looking cool or not is the style of your guitar, that battle is already lost.
how do you sit at a computer scress with a bass guitar and jerk off? I mean thats why youre in front of the screen obviously
Rob is pissed of because Steinberger makes him question his tonewood arguments
it is made of wood!
@@DinosaurJuiceCars Not a lot of it though!
fatso chapman still believes a bigger guitar body resonating makes magnetic pickups sound better.. LOL
Dude McGuybro stop being so reasonable!! 🙂
@@DudeMcGuybro one more time: what you and i perceive as "resonant" has little effect on what the magnetic pickups actually get from the strings. Wood has little effect on the magnetic pickups / strings combo, even if you perceive the body to be more "resonant' this has little effect on the electric sound of the guitar. Now, if you had piezo pickups.. that is a different story. As a matter of fact, you theory is disproven by Craig Anderton when he wrote about. guitar pickup distance from the strings being important on sustain.. obviously far more important than "tonewood" . www.sweetwater.com/insync/secrets-sustain-pickup-position-matters/
I'd buy one just because Rob doesn't like it.
I wanted one in the 80's, so if I had the spare cash I'd get one just to make my teenage self happy.
Right? Like back then these were the COOLEST guitars that existed....
The originals were made of composites not wood and the trans trem system was so amazing. It stayed in tune using the trem so you could dive bomb entire chords in tune.
It kinda shows how dumb guitar players are. "It's easier to string. It's easier to adjust the truss road. The tuning ratio is better. You can block the trem by flipping a switch. Sounds great, looks dumb, don't want it."
That is exactly why I bought a BOSS GT-3 on ebay.
@@ScutMonkey THIS.... That said, I still have my GR4R
@@ScutMonkey weren't they originally made of Graphite ? I remember Geddy Lee raving about his bass. (I'm prob wrong)
Andertons: Laughs at one of the most innovative guitar designs of the century for 20 minutes.
Me: Ok boomers.
The fact that they didn't know Eddie regularly played one at shows says a lot about their opinion of the guitar.
These aren't the genuine ones...
Miles away from the synthetic 80's gems.
Yes. They are wood. But, having owned an original Steinberger 80s hybrid (wood body w/ carbon graphite neck) I suspect these are a bit warmer sounding. Probably still provide a great blues sound!
They're way too young to be boomers. Try harder.
You: Don´t seam to realize that the only ones playing these guitars when they first came out where the so called boomers..
Me: Ok millennial.
You guys need to let Pete review them. Y’all just don’t get it.
Agreed, more Pete reviews! Sadly I feel Rob is getting more and more out of touch with people who just play at home, jam occasionally, and maybe play in a pub band. Ironically it's the guy who's played stadiums who seems most in touch with home players.
Chappers is pissed cause these destroy his tonewood theory all to hell since there's no body and they sound like any other guitar. HA
rocknrollmouse you are right. The actual pro guitar player isn’t as egotistical as the utube guitar player with the giant ego and a store owner with mom jeans.
Robert Wellington ha, wearin mom jeans in Daddy's store.
rocknrollmouse most people are home guitarists. He’s forgetting that and so is Lee. And right away we’ll be called jealous. No i don’t want to be a performer. At 7 I fell in love with guitar for me. I play for me. I love playing and I’ve been playing longer than either of them. I really just love playing. Not jealous. I get nervous in front of a crowd and truly don’t enjoy that feeling. Right away it’s ur jealous. Nope. And I have all the gear I want. I’m just calling it like I see it.
You guys really need to read the manual on these guitars before making a video about it.
This would be a very different video with Bea and Matt. Just sayin'.
Or Pete and anyone else other than these two!
Sounds good + plays well = it is good. Interesting that Rob said "there's nothing here to resonate," yet it sounds good; so that once again brings in to question the amount of wood used to make a guitar sounds good. And originally, they were made of carbon fibre and still sounded great, so does that make the notion of tonewood redundant? Just sayin.'
Tone woods seem to only matter in acoustics
Body doesn’t matter on electric. It’s horseshit.
@@L1VE3V1L This is true. The body needs to *not* absorb the vibration. If the body resonates, it is sucking the vibration out of the strings and the signal can't be created as well through the strings/pickups. If the body vibrates on an electric guitar, sustain goes down the chubes as well.
I'm an owner of this guitar. I've had it for a couple months. As a main guitar (even for the money) you could do better.... but as a travel guitar, you cannot beat it. It feels and plays like a solid epiphone, not a good epi, but a solid one. I take it as a carry on on all my flights. The guitar is resonant, stays in tune, and has decent fretwork. You can't find a travel guitar that can match it, let alone for the money.
John Hooten what is your preferred main guitar
Also considering money
Is the trem sistem reliable? Does it stay in tune when you use it/bend strings?
@@catapl93 It's stable but quirky. If you are used to floyd bridges you can figure out this one. It has a universal spring adjustment knob (kind of like some ibanez floating bridges have). It also has a great deal of adjustability on each saddle much like a hipshot contour bridge and a trem lock as well that makes it function like a hardtail.
All of these features make it imperative that you are comfortable with setup requirements of many different kinds of bridges.
Hope this helps.
Well said. I take mine everywhere being so small and portable. I play waaaaay more because of this little sidekick. Worth it's weight in gold as far as playing more. I take mine everywhere.
One of those and a katana mini and you have an awesome lightweight travel jam setup
I just did that and it works great.
That is my exact travel rig. Works great for me.
One of my favorite 80s guitarists used one. Vito Bratta of White Lion!
Smaller body of work but I loved that he took EVH technique and to my ears was a lot more melodic with it... kind of out EVHed EVH...
He's the first guy that came to my mind.
This!!!!!
Can't believe it didn't come straight into their mind.
You told us NOTHING about the guitar. Pickups? Sounds? Features? Nada. Zip. Zero. The Pros and Cons of the body shape/no headstock? No.
Come on, you're better than concentrating on just the shape.
As the man said himself, "this is a review, not a demonstration".
just look it up?
It's a 350 buck import guitar. It is gonna sound, play, and feel like every other guitar in that price range. They are all made in the same factories. 99% chance it's made by Cort. What's there to say about it?
I recommend a quilt top. You can buy string adapters, the steel.or brass one, the plastic one lowers tone quality because you need to unscrew the part on top and replace that plastic piece with another.
If you don't want a quilt top, then just buy a black, its paint quality is superior. It's comfortable as hell. It feels like the guitar is 2 lbs and the neck is great for fast action, great for shredding like holdsworth to vai.
Personally I am using a roland gr55 with a synth pick up. As Steve Howe said, " Most guitars sound can sound alike being run through processors." He is right. Steve owns a double neck, many great artists love Steinbergers or headless guitars. So if you are going to use a gr55 or gp10, just get the one without a quilt top.
The cons: having to adjust the strings low and setting up the tremolo.
And the pick ups.
Again. These guitars are beautiful, fast, light and easy to clean and maintain.
Go to headlessusa.com buy a converter or if you choose not to, you can buy their custom transtremolo double ball end strings. They have em thinner, at 8 gauges, than Slinky Colbats!
If I were Steinberger I'd feel you ridiculed the guitars.
Gibson owns this brand. Now Gibson owns a guitar owns a brand, the Les Paul, that breaks its head stock by just looking at it and a brand that has no head stock. I wonder if one could mod a Les Paul with a broken head stock into one of these types of guitars.
@@joebryant8500 lol.
@@orlock20 and... you could then put a foam rubber fake gibson les paul headstock on that would bend instead of break when given a harsh look and NO ONE WOULD EVER NEED TO KNOW
@@joebryant8500 I don't know, I heard some unsettling cracking noises when I gave my LP Special a harsh look once....
I think he's well used to it by now after almost 40 years... and the fact that at some point he went "meh, that's Gibson's problem now"
Please please please, Can Pete do a video on this guitar!!!!!!!
Gibson needs to revive Valley Arts to compete with Suhr and all these boutique companies it'll be cool
Get this comment known.
Dude I agree
Although with that said I am aware of John McGuire guitars that keep the valley arts "spirit" alive and well.
What is valley arts (if you don't mind sharing)?
@@guitarlover8833 Valley Arts was this small kind of boutique guitar shop/manufacturer run by Mike McGuire and thier guitars were used by number of great LA session players like Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather, etc. Valley Arts' guitars are kind of an interesting fusion of Gibson and Fender, and they always used EMGs because that used to be the hot gear back then
One of the best guitar players of all-time, Allan Holdsworth used to use Steinbergers to record and play live. He even used to use them, after he had his own Carvin models..
Yep! Him playing it in the late 80s and early 90s is absolutely insane. I think he moved to DeLap for a bit , but brought the Steinberger back in the late 2000s while also using the Carvin models 😁
pfft, Bill & Ted look awesome with their steinbergers.
Rufus too :)
Absolutely!
I was disappointed when they left Wyld Stallyns (Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and "Ted" Theodore Logan) out of the "Notable players" list
yes!! came to my thought too! EXCELLENT!
I have one of these from early 2000’s gigged with it and no one could believe how I got such a huge tone from it. Awesome guitar easy on the back, great in confined studios or bedrooms.
Same bruv, was my main guitar throughout all of the bands I was in, and I always got tons of attention and questions from the crowd and stuff but I always loved when other guitar players would approach me and check out the guitar. They were always impressed with the tone and how you could get massive tones out of it or heavy chugs, beautiful warm bluesy tones, crystal clear twangy tones, it does it all.
FYI, headless electric guitars have been around almost as long as there have been electric guitars. One of Les Paul's original prototype electrics was headless (he sited better intonation with the tuners at the other end) but his employer, Fred Waring, made him put a fake headstock on it to make it look more like a "real" guitar.
I feel like the main point was missed, the travel utility. For something smaller and inexpensive, isn't it ideal for practice on the road? (For a non-professional.)
Haha I'm seeing Van Halen back in the late 80s, live without a net flash through my eyes. I don't like headless guitars either tbh. But I have to admit they are super smart in their design.
Summer nights, and my raaaadio!
that's all we need baby, don't ya know!
If it's good enough for Eddie, who are we to say it's no good?
+Ajay Kumar Goel
You might like the Steinberger Sceptre, a short lived attempt by Steinberger to capture the european market by introducing a headstock, full body and gearless tuners.
I've owned a Honer G3T which was a licensed copy of the steinberger, for over 20 years now, and to put it quite simply, these are the best travel electric guitars period. Ive travelled for my work all my life and tried and owned several other electric travel guitars but the Steinberger design is the tops. My G3T has been all over the world, in and out of aeroplanes, helicopters and thrown in the back of pickups, driven across deserts, through jungles and flown to off-shore installations. It's been through the wars, but still plays great, and has survived 50 Celsius temperatures to several below zero. They are incredibly robust. its the only guitar I've ever needed re-fretting as it's been played so much I simply wore the frets out. Mine is a genuine relict now. What other guitar could you sneak onto a family holiday, what other guitar can you hand carry onto a plane without causing a fuss or taking up your baggage allowance or annoying you significant other? It may not look like a traditional guitar, but these are an a little design wonder. Get over your guitar snobbery guys and travel with one for a while. Only then will you realise just how amazing they are.
Rob, you're wrong. Ahh, these are great guitars and you have done a disservice to humanity.
LOL, wonder where you got that from?
h8ers man. I LOVE this guitar. It was my main, not just a travel guitar. Great sustain, great clarity, tone versatility. Lightweight and great for gigging. Great ergonomics. Again, TONE and the versatility. Such a crisp and clear natural tonality that you modify with your EQ and effects like reverb and etc. Don't take their word for it. Go somewhere and pick it up and play it. Looks aren't everything but I'm one of the few who actually did love the aesthetic. It's different and unique. The best part - it sounds amazing and stays in tune and you set it up once and it's good. Seriously, irks me that they let the aesthetic completely dictate their review of the guitar. Wish they'd talk more about the sound quality and smooth playability. Shame on ya chappers
"Google headless guitar player" -Lee Anderton
Roland was a headless Thompson gunner, maybe he played guitar as well.
I've heard of the headless horseman, but never a headless guitar player.
@@megan_alnico 🤣🎸🤣
This channel has exposed itself for what it is. More a fashion channel than a music channel. I have several guitars myself and take whatever is appropriate or convenient any moment not what is visually appealing at any moment.
Almost every artist in the 80's did a video if boot tour with a headless....
ZZ Top, Missing Persons, Powerstation. .. and on...
Geddy Lee used the bass
Yeah I remember Steinberger was huge back in the day, I wanted one, they were super expensive.
I bought one because it was small, sounded good and then neck felt good. It’s ideal for when we go away for weekends etc
Personally, this is on my shortlist for my next 6-string purchase.
One word Mr winter ,when you play the blues like him then comment, blessed be
Cool looking headless guitar players: Sarah Longfield
And Plini
Lee Mckinney
I saw Lou Reed using a Status (by Steinberger) on his Magic and Loss tour. I know he's not really a 'guitar god' but I have to say it sounded absolutely astounding.
I was waiting for this review since Cap posted a photo on Instagram.. but why did you pass 90% of the video reviewing the shape (which is supercool, in my opinion)?!?
You said nothing about the sound, the quality of the pickups and of the vibrato arm 😭 (which is what I was waiting to know more about..)
They commented on all of that. It's exactly what you'd expect from a guitar at the price point, it works good, sounds good. They just don't like the shape. If you like the shape and are in the market for 350 pound guitar, this is for you.
They are entitled to their opinions, but Andertons aren't going to be selling many Steinbergers off the back of this video. If I were at Steinberger I would not be happy!
Thankfully these are Spirits, not Steinbergers, spirit is the Squire like overseas brand
@@bryand.5240 It's called a Steinberger Spirit?
SUMMER NIGHTSSSSS AND MY RADIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, those that know.. KNOW
Hot summer nights !!! Eddie played it that's all that matters !!
He could never have done Get Up without the Steinberger's InTune Trem system. They didn't even mention if that's still part of the guitar. The tremolo would be the only reason I'd buy one of these.
zaraak323i Unfortunately, the trem on these isn’t the same as the ones on the high-end Steinbergers of the past (like Eddie’s). That’s called a TransTrem.
Vito Bratta..... one of the best guitarists I've ever seen, iconically using a headless guitar. Right now Thomas McLaughlin making Keisel guitars sing!
18:17 Pete Laughing from his cage
David Bowie made these guitars look cool in the “20th Century Boy” video.
For £350 that looks like a lot of guitar. I’m a traditionalist, but it sounds good and the tech on the bridge is impressive.
Does this model not feature the ability to change the entire tuning of the guitar by pulling / pushing the trem and locking it in a new position? Or did they just not mention it? That's how Eddie Van Halen played Summer Nights, as it's in 2 different tunings mid song.
No it doesn't have the trans trem, just a standard type trem
My question exactly. Why would they take out that tremolo? It was the coolest feature.
I'm kinda disappointed that you didn't do more research on the original guitars (pre Gibson). The composite ones with active (EMG) pickups and Ned's absolutely amazing Trans-Trem (a tremelo that stayed in tune while using it) were a revelation. The Spirit series was always the "economy version". I'd love to see Gibson actually start making the original composite ones again. Also you could get the M series that had a strat style body if you wanted a more traditional look (still headless though).
As for the notable players, most of them used Steinbergers preciously because of the trans-trem. There's a few things done by Holdsworth that are impossible to play on a guitar not equipped with one.
That said, from a guitar tech standpoint, setting up a Trans-trem is borderline suicide inducing. Seriously would be easier to set up a Floyd Rose while wearing mittens ... and drunk.
Yeah, I remember seeing clips of Holdsworth in the early 90s using one to bend in and out of chords without going out of tune. I think Allan Holdsworth’s most incredible period of his career was that late 80s to mid 90s era where he was using the Steinberger and the DeLap guitars. Just some unreal recordings from that era
I have one Steinberger, and I am happy
I have syphilis too and still happy, so my comment is not relevant
I kept one of these in the back of my SUV for 3+ years, used it to noodle on during my lunch breaks or the beach. still works great, stays in tune, intonation still good.
Oh and btw, I don't get that Rob loved the Höfner Shorty (see his vid on that from years ago) and just destroyed the Steinberger. The Shorty was basically this + a headstock.
And shit single HB pickup, headstock heavy and way longer than the SB
I'm pretty sure Van Halen released an entire VHS video in about 1986 called Live Without A Net in which Eddie was playing a Steinberger. Amazing that people aren't aware of it.
I bought one about a month ago and I was blown away by it. It plays great. I didn't expect the quality of the guitar for that kind of money. The pickups are usable, I'll probably replace them in the future. But for the rest it's a great guitar.
Marcel Kerkveld I also bought the same and planning replace pickups to emg
@@Alex79084 hey , did you replace pickups ? How did it go ?
@@monarakudumbiya957 No, finally I sold guitar
I'm going to buy one. I'm a traditionalist, but the design seems to be superior in many areas. Minimalism in the guitar realm is something that is needed. I think they sound amazing as well.
EVH, Rutherford and the names you mentioned played a Steinberger, with (like the basses that came first) a carbon fiber body. And also the TransTrem, a revolutionary trem system that raised (or lowered) all the strings equally in pitch. That wasn’t slide playing on the 5150 album.
The Spirit line came a bit later, I can’t remember if any model had the TransTrem, but they were made of wood like these are.
--- [1] I have two Steinberger Spirit GT-Pro Deluxes (HSM), one black & one white, purchased in 2016 for about $375US. I also have a black Hohner G3T (HSS), but with Seymour replacement pickups, which were necessary changes (purchased 1992, $350US; pickup change $300US, 2018). I love these three guitars. They sound great. Except for not being able to get a Telecaster super-thin sound, these can do anything which humbucker or single-coil pickups can do.
--- [2] These three are the essence of guitar, with no extra size or weight. Indeed, at least 90% of an electric guitar's sound comes from the pickups. Despite loving my 1968 Les Paul Custom, why carry around a big heavy Les Paul dining room table weight?
--- [3] Go light & small, & get the same sound. Get a Line 6 Helix (or some similar guitar processor), get a light FRFR guitar monitor, & get Steinberger headless Spirit guitars. Save back surgeries. These are the best thing since sliced bread. Just me. Richard :)
I have one of those. You have to take them for what they are : Traveler's best friend and all-around jam instruments. I've changed the pickups on mine for a Seymour Duncan p rail (4 pickups in one) in the bridge and quarter pounder in the neck, got rid of the middle one and changed the pots. It's not a beauty but can faithfully follow you everywhere. A four wheel drive guitar..... 😉
I have one. This guitar and a battery powered Roland Micro Cube amp, and you have a fun, portable rig to take anywhere. Especially fun camping or backpacking. Fits in an airline overhead. Durable. Holds tune. I’ve beaten mine up for years and it’s still plays great.
Ned Steinberger was a man with great spirit. Gibson bought him with ''promises'' and finally basterized the work of his life. Gibson is a business killer... The big thing missing from these new models is the vibrato system that kept the guitar in tune wathever you would do with it. That was THE invention of the end of the 20th century in guitar ! F*ck Gibson.
PS. I don't care if the guitar is small and can be travelled with. That's not the point !
I recently got this guitar after a few years of wanting one, and I do not regret it. Now I don’t want to play a conventional guitar anymore. It’s so light, practical and well-balanced. I love the R-Trem as well. A Floyd is untouchable for tuning stability but higher maintenance than a Kardashian.
Hello. Does it have a thin neck. ??
I'm usually pretty traditional, but actually I DO think you both look cool playing them.
@@Utube-g3g yeah, for real : ) It's one of those mind flip things though, like the spinning dancer en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Dancer where you have to focus on it in a particular way to make it work
Might have helped if they'd played standing … They also might have appreciated the low weight more then as well ...
EvH played a lot with his steinberger
I think the intro jam appropriately fits what these kind of guitars, design-wise, were truly meant for, and those little jokes like the pan flipping definitely shows out on its unique design! I am quite surprised at that price, as I thought that the originals would be WAY expensive, so hearing of it's price is really refreshing.
For someone like me, quite a young player with just a LP like guitar, that also likes weird guitars, it's awesome to see that low price :)
@@SwainixFPV Ahh same my man. I tried a headless bass, and I absolutely fell in love with these kind of guitars.
Spirits have always been the cheapest. What I really wish they'd do is to revive the synapse line which was a bit more expensive but also considerably better.
@@DanRelayer_Ukraine Ahh that could be potential. Higher quality = Higher price
I have taken my Steinberger Synapse all over the world on 50 + international work trips and those things hold their tune like nothing else. Chuck it in your suitcase and go - I never even bother with taking it with me in the cabin. Just a solid, bullet proof travel guitar with proper scale length and great tone. There's a video clip of Ned standing on his synapse laid out between 2 chairs & it held it's tune. That sold me right there. I'm way happy with mine for what it does well - brilliant travel guitar.
Yep, I love my Synapse. Never needs tuning! I wish they'd have put a trem on it, which is why I plan to get a Spirit too
Johnny Winter played an Erlewins Laser
I bought my daughter a Spirit and a Katana mini. She lives in a big city and either walks or takes public transportation wherever she goes. She can easily take it anywhere. I bought myself one, too. The middle single-coil pickup seems to be noiseless, as there's no hum that comes out of it like my strat and tele hum machines. I did raise the middle pickup up to make the volume more even when switching to and from it. Once set up and balanced, the bridge is great. Overall a fine playing and sounding guitar for not a ton of dough.
i think the 80s Steinbergers had a trem system where all the strings changed pitch the same amount, so you could move chords up and down and the intervals would stay in parallel. They had one version where you could lock the trem down a semitone or two, instantly giving you Eb tuning or D tuning. Maybe Van Halen used one just for these reasons?
I love my 3 SB GT-Pro-Deluxes (HSH; changed out PUs, below) & one Hohner G3T (HSS; changed out PUs with Seymours). The original EMG PUs on both types of guitars are "wanting" so say the least, especially compared to the Seymours described below.
--- On one of the GT-Pros, I changed out the pickups with Seymour Duncans: Custom Custom Hum, Br; Vintage Rails single-coil, Mid; & P-Rail Hum Neck. Both humbuckers (Br & Neck) have Seymour Triple-Shots, which allow four combinations for each humbucker: both coils together in [1] parallel or [2] series, or each coil individually [3 & 4]. These PUs with the Triple-Shots are great. Thanks, Richard
I have a Spirit and for a travel guitar it is pretty decent. With the provided soft case it fits in the overhead of even commuter planes and since I picked it up used I don't worry about something happening to it. I think new pickups would do it some justice. I have also played the Traveller guitar and much prefer the Steinberger.
The originals were regarded as revolutionary and a major leap forward in guitar building. Not because of the shape, but because they were incredibly reliable and incredibly well playing. Carbon fibre allowed necks that wouldn't bow and that could easily cope with very low action - for those who didn't like the shape, Status and other companies adopted the core technology and added 'wings'.
Making these purely out of wood, completely removes the whole concept.
^ This
To be fair, this video is a disgrace for the original Steinberger guitar. I expected a little more knowledge on the subject before you do a review of a modern knock-off. I never liked the Steinberger guitar, but if you followed the music/guitar industry in the 80s/90s, you would've known the Steinberger was used by many many artists. Knopfler, Van Halen, Genesis, djeez... any Peter Gabriel concert from that era and you could spot the guitar...
Ief Cooreman what is your preferred guitar
These are not the original i have a authentic steinderger from 1982. I hab mine 16 years has a heck of a tone heave awkward feel but good guitars shese knockffs are crybabby g tars
Originals were vastly different in terms of construction. Also originals used custom strings with balls at each end. A fun review but a bit of research would’ve been nice.
David Gilmour's Steinbergers sold for $84,250 and $125,000 at the auction.
Seeing as the problem is simply Rob and Lee disliking the looks it’s nice to see they’re complimentary of the functionality. It’d be great to have Pete do a little video on them too
Personally I got bored with strats, tales, les Paul’s and SG’s so it’s nice to have something different that’s still a reasonable instrument.
I'm bored with all those "classic" guitars too... they seem bloated and pretentious compared with the Steiny.
You should do at least a bit of research, before shooting a video. David Gilmour used it, for the Smoke on the Water recording with Brian May - which is a quiet well known documentary - also on UA-cam.... chappers comments are just childish, I rather watch Peter for a real serious and funny guitar demonstration. But that is just my personal opinion.... 😉
That's because Pete is a professional. These two.... not so much.
They did mention Gilmour, tho.
You didn't watch the whole video.
Rob Chapman is increasingly irritating
Eh? Why? Genuinely asking...
Rob’s always been irritating - that’s why he’s worth watching. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s always entertaining.
I still have an original GR4, its is probably the heaviest guitar I own, I don't think weight was their target (at least with that model). But the composite neck is virtually indestructible and the guitar is just ALWAYS in tune no matter how long it sits. I frequently debate selling it then can't seem to let it go.
Got a GR4 too, it's my go-to player even though I've got other good guitars including a GM. I don't worry about it being left in the car (other than being stolen) or lugging it around in travels and jam sessions. They're steadily increasing in value so quite understandable if one were to sell lol but then again they would be hard to acquire again..the neck in particular is hot in demand!
I read an interview of Ned Steinberger which took place after the release of the original Steinberger bass but during the development of the original Steinberger guitar in which the interviewer asks whether the instrument is as light as the minimal looks might make it seem. Ned replied that, in the case of this instrument, it needs to weigh something in order to make a good sound haha
Steve Rothery has a 6/12 double neck Steinberger.
The original Steinberger was very expensive, because it was not made of wood, but of some composite material.
Found it (was not easy): they were 1800 dollars.
if you need a travel guitar it is a good solution.
@Mark Seymour A katana mini fits in a suitcase, And you can use your phone and headphones
@Mark Seymour You can get your live tone out of a single pedal like HX Stomp or similarly sized pedals or even a laptop with a plugin if you really want to.
@Mark Seymour you need an audio interface like a Scarlett 2i2 and a laptop that has lots of ram. If you don't have that a pedal sized modelling amp is probably a better fly rig
I now have this thing, whenever I see Rob Chapman in an Andertons video, I skip it to one that doesn't have Rob Chapman in it.
Haha glad I'm not the only one who can't stand him.
I get you don't like them but a bit more of a demo would have been nice!
Joe Bryant yea I’m out.
I know someone who plays the Steinberger cello. It's so light and clean in design she can run around the stage with it.
I am becoming totally disinterested in watching Andertons videos - particularly when Rob Chapman is in them. This particular video is a sad joke, as obviously no one has properly researched Steinberger guitars and basses. I've been playing Steinbergers for over 25 years now, and I've been endorsed by them and Gibson and various other guitar companies over the years, and I've never played any guitar that stays in tune as well as a Steinberger, or gives you the variety of tonal options. The "Spirit" was designed as a low budget version of the original Steinbergers, and for what it is it's a very playable and good sounding instrument. Do your homework Lee, and keep Rob away from the videos!
Is this Sean or Ben?
lmao ur a nobody. lying
Rob is completely unrelatable now. He suggests that rather than this Steinberger for $400 as a travel guitar lee should buy a $4000 ESP custom shop travel guitar. Lee says "I wouldn't spend $4000 on a travel guitar" and instead of realizing how snobby he is sounding, Rob just replies "Yes you would". It's something different every Rob video that just rubs you the wrong way.
The early videos of rob were relatable and even endearing as he operated in the realm of a normal everyday guitarist. Now he seems to flex on us and alienate his viewers. He could use some humble pie.
Rob is probably the most talented guitarist on Andertons videos (especially since Joss left) but he's just on a different planet than his target audience.
Agree. Lack of product knowledge. Not enough focus on what we would like to see and hear. Too much messing about and negativity. Video editing is over the top far too many gimmicks. I could actually edit this video down to ONE MINUTE and it would be more interesting.
@@jamesstandish7716 I'm Sean. So that must be Ben. Or an imposter.
Love this site but you missed/blew over some key points; I have an old Hohner G3T; pretty much the same guitar and have had it for about 24 years. I used it as a travel guitar when I'm traveling with work; it came in a hard case that housed cables and my little Zoom multi-effects box. Better than watching crummy hotel room TV. The lockable bridge means that when jamming along to something, when a slight change in tuning is required, you lock the bridge, tune the guitar and then screw the spring tension screw in or out until the bridge lock just comes loose, then the whammy is available. It's the only guitar I have with a with a trem system that can do this.
The old Steinbergers had a Trans-Trem tremolo, it allowed the player to transpose up or down in half steps in tune or strum a chord and have it stay in tune while raising or lowering the pitch. Eddie Van Halen used it on Summer Nights and Get Up off of 5150.
So can you bend up & dive-bomb down on the Steinberger GT-PRO Deluxe with that tremolo?
@@koolkutz7 The new ones can still dive bomb, but they aren't calibrated to keep all the string in tune while up or down. The original TransTrem could lock in multiple places letting you transpose the whole guitar up or down without a capo. It required calibrated length strings, too.
Thanks for the info @@JeffHendricks
For the money, these are a steal. So small & portable, I find I take it with me all the time everywhere just to noodle. Bought a blemished black model in bag for $340, and it helps me play waaaaay more. Worth it's weight in gold!
Vito Bratta used one..miss him 😔
I bought one just over a year ago. I was doing a lot traveling and didn't like any of the travel guitars....... this thing works out great, paired it up with the Blackstar fly amp
Eddie Van Halen also had both a Les Paul and Peavey Wolfgang guitars with a TransTrem tremelo from Steinberger.
I couldn't remember the name of the trem system (I do now, thanks!), but just knew it was what made the instant (open string) key change in "Summer Nights" possible. Now I'll be singing that all day. ;-)
@@philipwpartain Haha, I actually own an original Steinberger GLT4, this is the HSS pickup model with a TransTrem. Summer Nights, Get Up, Me Wise Magic, Fire in the Hole
all fun to play on it.