 A very nice little instrument... |
| Review Date: January 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Lightning, Katy, TX USA |
| This is no Strat. It is no Dreadnaught. But it is a very nice little practice guitar. Fit and finish make it a real musical instrument, not a toy. Stays in tune. Sounds very good through a Rowland Micro Cube amp. I haven't found a satisfactory headphone amp yet. |
Excellent service great product
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| Review Date: October 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Brett Kidner, australia |
| The research into this product has been realised in the purchase of the product which lived up to it acclaim. My only regreat was not following the Amazon advice and purchasing the amplifer with the traveler guitar. |
Perfect for Me
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| Review Date: October 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Dann Jerrold Immel, Gig Harbor, WA USA |
| After looking at many of the travel guitars I decided to purchase the Traveller Ultra-light. At 3 pounds and 28 inches it fits nicely into my 28" rolling airline bag. The quality is excellent. I use it with a laptop computer as an amp while on the road. I am very happy with this Guitar. |
Perfect for travel and quiet practice at home
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| Review Date: February 16, 2010 |
| Reviewer: anonymous object, Maryland |
I just received this, and am even more pleased than I thought I would be with it. I wasn't sure which Traveler guitar model to get, so I took a bit of a gamble getting this one.
My most important desire was to be able to travel with a real guitar to practice. I have a 1/2 size Alvarez acoustic that is pretty nice, but there is still risk that a flight attendant will make me put it into baggage below the plane. This guitar, with a full size fretboard, is about as long as my arm. It sounds very nice; I am an acoustic player, and I don't need fancy effects.
I got a Danelctro Honeytone portable amp, which works just fine with this; I meant to get the Honeytone headphone amp, but that is on its way. When it comes, the whole package will fit into the included gigbag, which itself will easily fit into a carry on tote .
At any rate, I now have a guitar that I can practice in the same room with my wife and not disturb her, and also take with me on my trips for work, for a total cost of a few hundred bucks including strap, cables and amp. The guitar arrived in tune and nicely set up, even in the winter.
Again, this is the answer to the traveler's wish for a practical, playable, 'sound' guitar. |
A neat, compact package
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| Review Date: August 16, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Michael J Edelman, Huntington Woods, MI USA |
I've had various travel guitars- I have a Taylor Big Baby, and used to own a Martin Backpacker- but I was looking for something that was more portable than either- something small enough to pack inside a suitcase and carry on vacation. I wasn't looking something with great sound, or something stageworthy, just something with a full sized neck to practice on when I was away from home.
I tried one of the Travelers that comes with both piezo and magnetic pickups at a local guitar discount chain, and I liked the feel (though not the painted finish); it was the only model they had, so I decided to do a buit more research into the range. Back home, I looked at the Traveler Guitars web site, and this model caught my eye- no electronics, piezo pickup only, but it was light, tiny, and came in an attractive natural finish. And the price was right, too. I decided to chance it.
It arrived this morning, and I've been playing with it most of the day. Fit and finish is very good, if simple, and the feel of the neck is excellent. The neck in particular shows a lot of care, with all the frets carefully hand-filed and shaped- no sharp edges here, like on so many inexpensive imports. Traveler is either doing a lot of QC on these guitars when they arrive, or they've found a really good shop to produce them.
Despite the odd shape and lack of a headstock, it's easy to play. I found that a strap was more comfortable for me than the clip-on lap support, but thanks to the light weight, even without the strap or the lap support it's easy to hold.
Plugged into a standard guitar amp- a Tech21 Trademark 30- the sound was not very good- too much of that piezo twang, and an uneven balance. But plugged into the high-impedance (10 megohm) input of my Acoustic Image Contra, the sound was surprisingly good- better than a lot of much more expensive, piezo outfitted instruments I've tried. Using my K&K Preamp with a short (6") patch cord also delivered a much improved sound.
In summary, I'm very happy with this guitar (in fact, I've got in on my lap as I type this). It's tiny enough to travel everywhere, and with the right amplification, it sounds very good. In fact, I'm thinking the Traveler bass guitar might be a nice addition to the collection, too. |
Just what I was looking for.
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| Review Date: May 8, 2009 |
| Reviewer: P. Sloniger, Colorado, United States |
| I looked around at a lot of 'travel' guitars, but always found something lacking. This was the perfect combination of price, performance and portability. The greatest thing is probably because of it's remarkable design, it's a full-size guitar. It plays just like any normal size guitar. The piezoelectric pickup under the bridge is rudimentary (no preamp, volume or eq control), but it's clean and functional. Plugged in it sounds like any other piezo-pickup acoustic. |
Good Travel Guitar but Has Limitations
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| Review Date: April 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Evil Monkey, |
| The Traveler Ultra Light serves it's purpose as an easily packable full-scale travel guitar. Put on a decent strap and it's not hard to get use to playing. The problem I have encountered is that it does not have a built in headphone amp and I haven't found one that is very compatible with it. The Pocket Rock-it sounds pretty good but the positioning and size of it make it awkward to use since it gets in the way of your strumming arm. I bought a Dean Markley travel amp with a 3" speaker and it doesn't sound very good with the piezo pick-up on the guitar. Its very "quacky" and plastic sounding. Plugged into a full-size amp, this guitar sounds great but that kind of defeats the purpose of the travel concept. I have never tried the Traveler Pro-Series, which has the piezo pick-up, single coil pick-up and stethophone or the Traveler Escape, which has a built in headphone amp but I would recommend those over the Ultra-Light. The materials on the Ultra-Light are high quality and it is very well made so I would think other products from this company are as well. I will probably buy another Traveler brand guitar in the future. |
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