Steinberger Zt-3, Possibly my next guitar Options

[Kristofer Dahl]

Hi guys,

I have been looking for a humbucker guitar with the possibilities of "splitting" into single coils. I think I may have found what could be my next guitar - would be interesting to hear what you guys think:

http://www.steinberger.com/ZT3.html

Pros:

* graphite fretboard and stainless steel frets - this is what makes my Parker so incredibly easy to play

* transtrem - be able to change tunings instantenoulsy or use the whammy bar to transpose your chords. No other tremolo does this. It means you can instantly downtune to D, play all your Am pentatonic licks at the 7th position while bending (etc) has become incredibly easy. It also means that if you are playing in a power trio you could do heavy riffing in D and then instantaneously go back to standard tuning to play melodies/solos.

* double ball strings for extremely stable tuning and ease of changing strings

* headless design - I had a steinberger Spirit GT-pro and this does wonder to the sound and balance of the guitar.

* Price - 1500usd doesn't seem that much considering it's a top of the line guitar.

Cons:

* I would have liked a middle pick up. But who knows maybe it's not necessary with this configuration, I haven't tried it.

* I would have liked neck through instead of bolt on for good access to the high frets, but I understand there are some sound advantages with bolt on (not sure exactly why though).

* Hard to find in Sweden...probably!

For those of you who don't know, Steinberger was about to conquer the world (they had guitarists like Mark Knopfler, Eddie Van halen and Allan Holdsworth)

I'd love to get an opinion from all GMC gear heads on this guitar!

Demo of transtrem.
Playing example

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