How to adjust your Steinberger trem (action/intonation)

Video tutorial for how to adjust you Steinberger trem, useful for both action and intonation.
Very easy to do, just follow the instructions, but if you have any doubts, do not hesitate, just contact me :)
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[@alanling1885]

Thank you for your videos. I bought a trans trem from you on ebay and it was perfect. All the best.

[@OlettaLiano]

Thanks. There are still not many videos on working on Steinberger instruments. So, I appreciate this video. Now that understand how the bridge parts work, I should be able to get my bass in good shape. 👍😘

[@simonkormendy849]

Here's a couple more tips, buy a chapstix lip-balm (the ordinary one used for treating cracked and dried lips) and use it to lubricate the notches in the string saddles where the string sits, do the same for the notches in the two bridge pivot-posts where the two knife-edges of the bridge sit, doing this should improve the return-to-pitch ability of the bridge, if you find that each of the six tuners seem a bit stiff you can use the chapstix to lubricate the threads of the tuner screws.....hope that helps too.

[@SideshowJosiah]

Yo thanks bro. I just redid the action on my friends steinberger and now the notes that didn't ring out in the high frets are ringing again! Plays like butter like when I first tried it out. Great vid!

[@GUITARKITWORLD]

Awesome video! going to use this as my resource. Very helpful video Alessandro

[@simonkormendy849]

A 300mm steel ruler with an imperial (inches) scale on it marked in either 1/64ths, or 1/16th inch is ideal for setting the action of the two E-strings first, use the ruler to measure the action at the 17th fret, a good spec to use for setting the 17th fret action is 4/64ths, or 1/16th (Fender's spec for Fender Stratocasters that use the Fender 25.5 inch scale length), once the two E-string 17th fret actions have been set, use your Stewmac radius gauges to set the actions of the A,D,G, and B-strings.

[@gerrycoogan6544]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@simonkormendy849]

Here's a tip to make setting the intonation on these Steinberger guitars a bit easier, you need a 600mm steel ruler, a roll of low-tack painter's tape, and a sharpie permanent pen, first of all lay the 600mm ruler on the neck roughly about where the center line would be, make sure that the zero end of the ruler lines up with the very center of the zero-fret, next mark where the center of the 12th fret lines up on the ruler using the sharpie pen this defines half the scale length on the ruler, next, put some painter's tape on the bridge on each side of the saddles, next position the ruler so that the ruler's zero mark is near the saddles and line-up the 12th fret mark on the ruler with the center of the 12th fret, next use the sharpie pen to mark on the painter's tape where the zero-mark of the ruler ends up, the marks will define where the neck scale-length is, next thing to do is use the marks on the painter's tape to "Rough-In" the string intonation, to do this position the high e-string saddle so that the center of it is about 1.6mm away from it so that the scale-length is longer by 1.6mm, do the same for the D-String saddle, next position the B-String saddle so that it increases the scale-length by about 2.5mm, do the same for the A-String saddle, next position the G and low-E string saddles so that they increase the scale-length by about 3mm, this will get the intonation for all the strings roughly in the ballpark so you will only have to make minor tweaks to them......hope this helps.

[@user-uy2lx4nn1u]

What the guitar's name?

[@nateboyce]

i'm unable to move the saddles forward or backwards even with the pin loosened. Is there something I'm missing?

[@playgamegta5415]

hello, maybe I’ll ask a stupid question. why do we need these three buttons under the pickups?

[@pbg9208]

Any one used 8s gauge strings on a US Steinberger? The buzzing is unreal. I appreciate your tips!

[@maurizioomissoni8446]

Good, but in the end should you not lock the side screw again?

[@peteytwofinger]

1.5mm

[@MarcsFpvAddiction]

Great video. I wish they gave a screw to us for setting intonation.

[@pj2418]

Thank you for this great video.My only remaining issue with their R-Trems is that that they are so stiff that I find them to be virtually unusable. I have many different makes of guitar and find that all of my other trems (whether they be Floyd Rose, Strat style or PRS) are all much softer and far more usable. The part that perplexes me is that it would seem that the Trem spring tension would only be equal to the pull of the strings upon it. That said, why would any trem feel any stiffer than any other trem? You would think that there would be a 50/50 balance taking place yet some of my guitars with the same string size have trems the bend and move like butter. There must be some other mechanical dynamic at play here. Have you ever found a way to make this more responsive (softer)?

[@scod99]

Dan Jackson R-Trem sucks in my opinion; I have never found one that wasn’t super stiff, I think it’s an element of its design. S-Trem and T-Trem are way better, even if my favorite one is the S.

[@simonkormendy849]

I've got a new Steinberger Spirit GT Pro Deluxe in Frost Blue with an HSH pickup configuration, due to the nature of the design the R-Trem bridge will tend to feel a bit stiff, the single spring located underneath the bridge needs to be strong enough to balance-out it's tension with the string tension so that the strings all return to pitch, remember there's about 15 or so pounds worth of tension acting on the strings to bring them all up to pitch, I personally don't think the R-Trem sucks cause it does perform a lot better than any of the other Trems I've tried in the past, even including a double locking Floyd Rose, the return-to-pitch performance of the R-Trem if set-up correctly seems to be a lot better than a Floyd which can suffer from return-to-zero issues.

[@das250250]

You adjusted the intonation with the strings not fully tuned state and with the saddles untied ,unclamped. This will and can cause the saddles to slide when tuning handling. Wouldn't it be better to adjust height then re clamp then retune then unclamp to adjust intonation ?

[@zawszebadzsoba798]

can you block the guitar bridge so that it does not move with the lever.

[@Rob-qr2kn]

yes you can. Is a lever under the tuning knobs that raises to keep bridge fixed.