Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is the Sonicake Acoustic-Electric Travel Guitar QGT-01: an affordable, silent instrument you can take anywhere!
Sonicake Travel Guitar: sonicake.com/collections/guitar/products/guitar-qgt-01
Silent acoustic guitars aren’t a new thing: Yamaha, for example, has been making them for years. But Sonicake’s new Travel Guitar takes the niche to new, budget heights.
This is a guitar that, on paper, should be useful for so many people: new and experienced guitarists, and electric and acoustic players alike will have room for something like this in their life. With its long-life battery, headphones and Aux In options, its wide range of tones and sound-sculpting options, and its well fitted and padded gigbag, the Travel Guitar certainly seems to tick all the right boxes.
And, at around $299, it’s very competitively priced too. You get decent specs here: the guitar’s body and neck is mahogany, the fingerboard and bridge are rosewood, and you even get a bone nut.
The neck is a lovely smooth satin affair, and it’s nice and slim for an acoustic, so electric and beginner players will feel at home immediately. Once you’re done playing, everything folds down nicely into the supplied gigbag for transport and storage.
For the sounds, you get Sonicake’s in-house-developed preamp system, which offers 8 acoustic guitar body shape simulations (dreadnoughts, jumbos, OM and parlor guitars are all covered, alongside a basic piezo mode and more). There’s also a Volume control, a 2-band EQ (Bass and Treble) and built-in Reverb and Chorus effects to further elevate your tones.
You can play this guitar anywhere too. It has a headphone out, making it ideal for silent practice, but you can also plug it into a guitar amp, a PA, or your computer/recording software. This makes it ideal for jamming, practicing, recording, performing live gigs, and more. And, being only 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs.) and 2.72 kg (6 lbs.) when aged up, it’s a dream to carry round with you wherever you go.
How good is it, though? With a guitar like this, often it’s the sounds, feel and playability that can let things down. But, I’m pleased to say that the Sonicake Travel Guitar has been an excellent and inspiring acquisition for me, and in this video, I want to give you 10 reasons why I think every guitar player should give it a try!
Let me know your thoughts on the Travel Guitar in the comments!
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Introduction and what we’re doing today
01:51 REASON 1: It’s great for beginners or electric players
02:53 REASON 2: The price
03:49 REASON 3: Build quality and specs
04:59 REASON 4: It’s super compact and incredibly portable
05:18 Unboxing and building the Travel Guitar
07:16 REASON 5: The sounds
07:54 The eight different acoustic body types
09:32 Reverb and chorus FX sound samples
10:25 Extended playing and tone samples section
14:55 REASON 6: It plays great
15:52 REASON 7: Connectivity and Flexibility
17:37 REASON 8: Quiet practice made easy
18:10 REASON 9: The inspiration factor
19:39 REASON 10: You probably don’t own anything like this… yet!
21:04 A few reasons why you might NOT want this
21:57 My conclusions on the Travel Guitar and why you should buy it
My recording setup was as follows: I ran the Travel Guitar straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.
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My gear at Thomann: thmn.to/thocf/jkhog8l06m
At Sweetwater: sweetwater.sjv.io/LXqdE0
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#Sonicake #TravelGuitar #AcousticGuitar #SilentGuitar #SonicakeTravelGuitar
*Note: certain links in the description are affiliate links. If you click said links and purchase anything as a result, I will receive a small commission. This doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it does help to support the channel. So, if you do that, thank you very much!*
@SONICAKE
This is the Sonicake Acoustic-Electric Travel Guitar QGT-01: an affordable, silent instrument you can take anywhere!
Sonicake Travel Guitar: sonicake.com/collections/guitar/products/guitar-qgt-01
Silent acoustic guitars aren’t a new thing: Yamaha, for example, has been making them for years. But Sonicake’s new Travel Guitar takes the niche to new, budget heights.
This is a guitar that, on paper, should be useful for so many people: new and experienced guitarists, and electric and acoustic players alike will have room for something like this in their life. With its long-life battery, headphones and Aux In options, its wide range of tones and sound-sculpting options, and its well fitted and padded gigbag, the Travel Guitar certainly seems to tick all the right boxes.
And, at around $299, it’s very competitively priced too. You get decent specs here: the guitar’s body and neck is mahogany, the fingerboard and bridge are rosewood, and you even get a bone nut.
The neck is a lovely smooth satin affair, and it’s nice and slim for an acoustic, so electric and beginner players will feel at home immediately. Once you’re done playing, everything folds down nicely into the supplied gigbag for transport and storage.
For the sounds, you get Sonicake’s in-house-developed preamp system, which offers 8 acoustic guitar body shape simulations (dreadnoughts, jumbos, OM and parlor guitars are all covered, alongside a basic piezo mode and more). There’s also a Volume control, a 2-band EQ (Bass and Treble) and built-in Reverb and Chorus effects to further elevate your tones.
You can play this guitar anywhere too. It has a headphone out, making it ideal for silent practice, but you can also plug it into a guitar amp, a PA, or your computer/recording software. This makes it ideal for jamming, practicing, recording, performing live gigs, and more. And, being only 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs.) and 2.72 kg (6 lbs.) when aged up, it’s a dream to carry round with you wherever you go.
How good is it, though? With a guitar like this, often it’s the sounds, feel and playability that can let things down. But, I’m pleased to say that the Sonicake Travel Guitar has been an excellent and inspiring acquisition for me, and in this video, I want to give you 10 reasons why I think every guitar player should give it a try!
Let me know your thoughts on the Travel Guitar in the comments!
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Introduction and what we’re doing today
01:51 REASON 1: It’s great for beginners or electric players
02:53 REASON 2: The price
03:49 REASON 3: Build quality and specs
04:59 REASON 4: It’s super compact and incredibly portable
05:18 Unboxing and building the Travel Guitar
07:16 REASON 5: The sounds
07:54 The eight different acoustic body types
09:32 Reverb and chorus FX sound samples
10:25 Extended playing and tone samples section
14:55 REASON 6: It plays great
15:52 REASON 7: Connectivity and Flexibility
17:37 REASON 8: Quiet practice made easy
18:10 REASON 9: The inspiration factor
19:39 REASON 10: You probably don’t own anything like this… yet!
21:04 A few reasons why you might NOT want this
21:57 My conclusions on the Travel Guitar and why you should buy it
My recording setup was as follows: I ran the Travel Guitar straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.
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My gear at Thomann: thmn.to/thocf/jkhog8l06m
At Sweetwater: sweetwater.sjv.io/LXqdE0
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#Sonicake #TravelGuitar #AcousticGuitar #SilentGuitar #SonicakeTravelGuitar
*Note: certain links in the description are affiliate links. If you click said links and purchase anything as a result, I will receive a small commission. This doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it does help to support the channel. So, if you do that, thank you very much!*
@SONICAKE
