Traveler Guitar LTD EC-1 - Vintage Black Reviews
Traveler Guitar's LTD EC-1 brings you the full scale and features you demand from ESP's LTD Eclipse, in a package that lets you take your music anywhere. Despite its undersized body, the LTD EC-1 is a full 24.75-inch-scale electric guitar that fits easily in airplane overhead compartments. An active humbucker delivers aggressive tones, and it has an onboard headphone amplifier that comes complete with distortion. The Traveler Guitar LTD EC-1 features the sleek look of your favorite ESP.
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Pleasant surprise
I was awed by the sound and versatility of this guitar. It packs a lot into a small body and gives back in performance a wonderful shape and variety of musical sounds. I love playing it and it looks great. The gold on black gives it great curb appeal(means it about as much fun to look at as it is to play it).
Great practice guitar for traveling!
Have had mine for a couple of years now (different color, but otherwise identical to this one - same model #). It has held up very well, esp given it's flown over 500k miles and been to all but two continents. Fits very well in overhead compartments on airplanes. The case is padded, and protects it very well.
Neck is normal scale/feel, and it has a normal feeling body, unlike most travel electrics.
I would have given it 5 stars, except for one major disappointment: the rollers that the strings go over to traverse to the locking tuners on the underside are cheap plastic, and have more than one string on each roller. This makes it very difficult to tune and creates short-term tuning stability problems.
Some other points that annoyed me at first, but quickly adapted to them:
- bridge is set very high, due to the active pickup not being set in the body (because of strings / tuners in the rear cavity). Doesn't cause any playability issues for neck though, as the neck is angled to still give low action.
- built-in headphone amp: the distortion setting is not really usable.
Other good points:
- this plays well with real amps. I've used it through my orange dark terror and my Marshall jvm410hjs in the studio while playing with others (needed one more tuning than I had guitars!)... great tone and punch. The drummer even said he preferred the sound over my $3500 signature model shredder! (Had it in drop-d with clear boost on the guitar through my Marshall - nothing else in chain). It's now a regular in the studio and on the road.
- don't have to adjust playing to use it (other than high bridge picking hand placement)
- I use it with a strap and it feels close to my other guitars - no awkward slips or positioning on body. Plays well from lap also.
- built-in headphone amp is great for playing in hotel room, etc.
- aux in jack allows you to jam to tracks on phone, iPad, or use a metronome (needs adapter for lightning or usb-c devices)
- locking tuners
Note: sweetwater's description has an error: it does not have a built-in tuner. (Get a short instrument cable and a small tuner to plug into that fits into the guitar case). Rest of it is ok.
Tip: cut the strap off that is at the nut.
