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Traveler Guitar LTD EC-1 - Vintage Black

Solidbody Electric Travel Guitar with Mahogany Body, Mahogany Neck, Black Walnut Fingerboard, and 1 Active Humbucking Pickup - Vintage Black
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An LTD That's Built for Travel

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.

Full 24.75-inch scale

This solidbody electric guitar doesn't know how small it is. The LTD EC-1 carries a full 24.75-inch scale length but is easily streamlined enough to travel with you in even the most cramped situations. You won't have to worry about trying to adjust to a smaller feel or narrower fret spacing. And the detachable armrest keeps you from noticing that you're playing such a compact instrument. You'll feel right at home with the Traveler Guitar LTD EC-1's full-scale design.

Full-size active humbucking pickup

Tonally, as with the full-scale design, the LTD EC-1 is much bigger than it seems. Like many of ESP's full-size designs, the EC-1 electric guitar is ready to sing with an active humbucking pickup that delivers full, warm, and aggressive tones. The humbucker has enough output to easily drive a dirty amp into harmonically rich distortion. But its voice is wonderful for full-bodied cleans with plenty of top-end sparkle. There are no tonal compromises with this professional-sounding instrument.

Powerful onboard amplifier

Not near your favorite guitar amplifier but still need to play? No problem. The LTD EC-1 has Traveler's onboard headphone preamplifier. This amp not only sounds great, but it carries features like an aux input for jamming to your favorite tracks as well as clean-boost, overdrive, and distortion settings for a complete tonal range. Everyone at Sweetwater was impressed with how good it sounds! Sitting right next to your favorite guitar amp? Even better. Run a standard guitar cable out of the 1/4-inch jack into your amp and play.

Traveler Guitar LTD EC-1 Solidbody Electric Guitar Features:

  • Full-size guitar sound and feel that you can take anywhere
  • Built in conjunction with ESP LTD
  • 24.75-inch-scale guitar in a 28.5-inch frame
  • Fits comfortably in your luggage or airline overhead storage compartments
  • Resonant mahogany construction
  • ESP-designed ALH-200B active humbucker doles out aggressive tones
  • Built-in headphone amplifier with onboard distortion
  • 1/8-inch auxiliary input lets you jam along to your favorite tunes

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape LTD EC-1
  • Body Material Mahogany
  • Body Finish Gloss
  • Color Vintage Black
  • Neck
  • Neck Material Mahogany
  • Neck Joint Bolt-on
  • Radius 15.75"
  • Fingerboard Material Black Walnut
  • Fingerboard Inlay ESP Pearloid Flags
  • Number of Frets 22, Jumbo
  • Scale Length 24.75"
  • Nut Width 1.63"
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece Adjustable Tune-o-matic style bridge
  • Tuners Gold Locking, 14:1 gear ratio
  • Electronics
  • Bridge Pickup ESP designed ALH-2008 Active Humbucker
  • Controls 1 x volume, 1 x tone, 1 x 1/8" (aux), 1 x 1/8" (headphone)
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings D'Addario EXL110
  • Case/Gig Bag Gig Bag
  • Manufacturer Part Number: EC1 VBKM

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Rated 4.5/5

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).
Music background: Playing guitar for 57 years
Rated 4.5/5

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.
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