These Gibson-owned Steinberger's are made in China these days from Wood, not resin but certainly look the part painted up in these strong colours. Out of the box the set up is not bad but I made some adjustment to the bridge saddles and truss rod to get a slightly lower action. The Humbucker pickups have enough power and the Bass overall has a Trebly Piano-like tone. I also fitted an active circuit from Thomann with no routing needed for some extra tonal variation and punch but its personal taste. I ordered the 'drop D ' bridge version but this design doesn't work too well for me due to the D tune retainer screw rotates while playing, therefore does not hold its tuning and if you lock the clamp screw you can't adjust it mid-gig. Go for the regular bridges version and you have a good travel Bass. The Bass is about 1m in length so a short scale version from Gibson would be a perfect travel Bass but this is better than other travel designs on the market in my opinion.
After a couple of years by Bass has developed a vibration from within the truss-rod neck cavity which is very annoying even if it isn't audible when plugged. Quality issues.
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