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I Thought This $350 Amp Guitar Was Stupid... Until I Played It
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Aug 18, 2024
In this video I'll review the Enya Nova Go Sonic, the first guitar with a built-in amp and app to choose your effects. Check the Enya Nova Go Sonic out here: https://geni.us/enyanovagovideo (If you buy something through this link, I might earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It's how I support the channel)
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A little darker
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A little darker. My first question we need to address here with a guitar like this is do we really need a guitar with a sound hole like this
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And although there are a lot of sonic possibilities here, you can see I have three wires come right over this guitar
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which gives me all of these options and I can go into that in a minute
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But this sound hole here is a 10 watt amp, which is actually pretty loud
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So let's get into this review. Now although it may seem a little gimmicky, imagine the possibilities of this
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So Camp Fire guitar playing is no longer only reserved for acoustic guitars
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the guitars because you can just take this anywhere play at a party you don't
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need to bring anything else and it also comes with a pretty study gig bag so
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they've thought of everything here so it's pretty incredible that you get all
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this in a carbon fiber body in such a budget guitar so I think there really is a
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market for this and I think it might be beginning guitars to intermediate players
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who will just want to play really cool songs at a party
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I'm I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be
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I'm going to be. So you can actually see three wires coming out of this guitar
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and that's because you can play this in multiple ways. Now of course here in this sound hole you have a speaker, it's a 10 watt speaker and it's
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actually pretty loud but it also allows you to plug in your headphones here which is this
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little wire and then plug this into an amp with your guitar chord or plug this into
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your computer for direct recording which is what you're hearing right now
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So let me just take this plug out. And now you can hear this through the 10 watt amp the same sound here
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I think this is a really cool practice guitar. So I've played this for a couple of weeks now and there are a few very cool possibilities
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You have four settings within this knob so you can change the sound. and even some delay and reverb in there
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Back to the clean sound
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But the really cool thing here is that you also have an app
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So let me share that with you. share that with you. It's very easy to pair this instrument with the app. You just go into the
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Enya music app and then select your instrument. They already have three different types of instruments
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And then you have in the app a lot more guitar tones. So for the clean sound, you have a few different
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sounds, so soft cry is in there right now. You can also use waves
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which gives you a little chorus effect, which is also cool. Then you have an old time
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Oh, with a little delay in there. and then the breath one
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and then the breath one
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You can also see the battery live. app which is pretty cool so you can see how much battery you have left here and
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every type of sound has four options right here in the app. You also have the option to push, pull the coil right here, so a coil split in essence
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so that also gives you a lot of more sonic possibilities here
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So, it's a little. So with a little bit more of the distortion
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You know, I'm sorry. The heaviest distortion
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Now while you don't have the amount of options that you would have in like a separate
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multi-effects pedal from line 6 for example, you do have a lot of really cool samples right here to choose from
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and you can edit it a little bit here so you can select like the amplifier and the effects
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that are in there and then change all of these settings like the level a little bit and
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save the changes you don't have as many possibilities you have a separate guitar and a separate
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multi-effects pedal for example but normal guitars you can't plug in your headphones and just
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listen to it or you can't just play with it with all of these effects right from a speaker
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from the guitar. So as far as I know, this is the only guitar that does that and it does it
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really, really well. So it's well thought out. It has a very cool sonic possibility here, but I
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would say it's more for like a beginner guitarist or guitarists who are a little bit further along
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their journey, but mostly play at home. So I can see myself taking this along to a gig, although
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you can play this clean right into an amp, for example, so you don't need to bring any other
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guitar. The only reason I bring this to a gig is playing it without the effects
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clean and then going into a effects processor and into an amp. But I really do
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see myself just playing and jamming on this at home without having to need to
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plug in all of my effects in my amp and just start jamming right away. So this
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is really cool and really well thought out of it. I think Enya made a real game changer here for beginning guitarists
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