Did a ton of research and watched everything on YT before making purchase. I knew I was likely getting a pretty great guitar at a good price (with a small but possible chance of getting a broken one)... Turns out I made a really good choice. If it keeps working well for a few years it will be a great choice! It came well packaged with everything. Physically it is in perfect condition. I did have to tune it. Took a few minutes to figure out the app but all good there too. Only minor feedback I could give to the folks at enya is that I purchased the "ocean blue" and the fade on the guitar body is not well done. It's not horrible, but it's not nearly as well done as the picture shows. I noticed the same thing when watching YT - some of the "ocean blue's" were well painted closer to the nice fade seen in the publicity images however some were like mine - MUCH heavier on the full deep blue. I'm going on a hunch here but the ones they sent out for promo reviews might have received a tiny bit more attention To explain: In the photos (and in some videos) the full deep blue stops around the bridge and slowly blends over a few inches from deep blue into white in a nice straight even way ending just after the first pickup. What I received (and saw others had) was one painted full deep blue up into the first pickup and also ENDING the fade into white before the end of the pickup.... All of a whole approximate 1" band wide fade! A whole inch of actual visible blue. It almost looks like I have a black and white guitar with a narrow blue band. Probably would have been closer to name this paint job "mariana trench blue", lol. What makes it more noticeable is that it's painted in a curve and unevenly blended way across the face . I'm not exaggerating when I say it looks like something I could do with a spray can of white paint against a piece of dark blue poster board by arcing my arm back and forth pretending to airbrush. Oddly, the headstock fade looks great (evenness and straightness). Okay, sorry for the lengthy feedback. It actually looks really great still - even though it's not quite what the marketing photos and sponsored video reviews might have you hoping for so be wary if the look being like the pictures is important to you. A perfect paintjob isn't a must for me. I'm not performing with it. That leads into... I bought it with the intent to use it for learning, practicing and even some song writing. It's perfect for it. Even taking places and playing out and about and not having to have any other equipment or being concerned about temperature / humidity (yay carbon fiber). I wouldn't leave it in a fiery hot car but non extremes wouldn't have any impact. But camping, BBQ's, picnics. It would be perfect. TLDR: I love this thing, It feels great. Plays great/easy. Everything is working well so far. It sounds really good. I'm overall very satisfied and very happy with this purchase. This is an EXCELLENT guitar for an incredible value. I wouldn't be performing with it - i.e. they introduced a pedal as a feature for the new slightly more expensive "Inspire" model to allow switching to (some) effects directly. The "Go Sonic" does not have this pedal available. You are stuck using the button on the guitar going sequentially through them. Would love to see that offered as an optional add on for this guitar too. This guitar so far seems like one of those rare things that come along that's a lot better than anyone would expect. It's built great quality wise. Made of carbon fiber. Feels good. Easy to play. Sounds great. Well designed. Full of awesome features like a zero fret. And if this guitar is intended for a beginner - wow! It's perfect for any beginner who is serious. It would be like getting a new sports car for driver's training! lol Hope this is helpful to someone!

Apologies, this is a long one. I would have made it shorter, but I didn't have time. I've owned and played six other carbon fiber and CF composite guitars: two Rainsong acoustics, two Enya acoustics, a Journey Instruments acoustic, and the Composite Acoustics Blade electric guitar. Plus the usual suspects in wood - Les Paul, Strat, Gretsch, Ibanez. Been playing the Blues for some 50 years. Retired and downsized, I play at home now and with friends. I do my own setups, luthier work, and modifications ... I know guitars. I've had the Enya Nova Go Sonic for a few weeks now. It's a fine instrument. It has an extremely confortable neck and body, good pickups, excellent fit and finish. The sustain is seemingly endless - typical of carbon fiber guitars. It stays in tune reasonably well. I play mine wirelessly to a multi-effects unit plugged into the clean channel of a good amp. Dial in whatever sound might move me at the moment. I like the freedom of that - being untehered from the amp. Heck, I can walk all over the house, and never have to step over a cord! Onboard Speaker - I don't use the onboard speaker all the time, but it sure has its place when I go out on the porch and noodle. The feedback IS there, but it's fine - you can eliminate it, tame it, or use it as a new type of distortion. The feedback completely disappears the instant you deaden the string(s). This opens up a new realm of sonic possibilites for accenting individual notes or chords within a song. I see this as an asset, not a problem. When plugged into an amp or headphones, the feedback doesn't occur since the guitar's onboard speaker is bypassed. Some random observations: The frets were a bit rough, so string-bending felt slightly scratchy. After doing a quick fret polish (it's easy, plenty of how-to vids out there), string bends are silky smooth now. The pickup selector knob tip loosened up with use - a dab of blue Loctite thread lock solved that. I lowered the saddle to its lowest setting, and now the action is perfect with no string buzz (I play fingerstyle). Heads-up: if you do adjust the saddle height, wrap the tip of your screwdriver with a small scrap of a single use plastic shopping bag - this prevents marring of the screwhead if the screwdriver's tip should slip. Fret level wasn't needed. Although several frets were marginally high, it's not enough to cause buzzing. Acceptable for me. Pickups were physically higher than I prefer, so I lowered them (use the pair of screws on each pickup, which are there for that purpose) until a volume balance is reached across the two pickups. Caution: do not wipe the guitar with isopropyl alcohol (it removed a bit of the black finish on my new Enya Nova Go acoustic guitar). Lesson learned. Soap and water and clean towel is all I use now on my Enya composite guitars (all of which are painted at the factory, by the way). I added a LP Gibson style pickguard using heavy duty double-sided tape (see photo). Helps support my pinky and looks kinda sharp. And a bit of automotive carbon fiber wrap (photo again) to add a touch of ... elegance. Ha I found, like some other reviewer said, that because the Sonic's composite body is very smooth, it tends to slide aound on your leg when you play sitting down. I solved this by adding a strip of thin adhesive-backed rubber to the bottom curve of the lower bout (see photo) - this keeps the guitar nicely in place and makes me feel more connected to it now, more "one with the guitar" if you will. When all is said and done, I am a believer. I like this guitar. A lot. Let's give it its due: the Enya Nova GO Sonic is the FIRST widely available carbon fiber electric guitar to hit the mass market. The Blade was a good contender in 2008-2009, but less than 200 were ever made. Bottom Line - this axe is extremely comfortable to play, among the finest feeling guitars I've ever owned. And being made of sonically-engineered composite materials, it has a very clear, articulate sound. This makes it a very good platform for playing through pedals and an amp. Plus, you can upgrade the pickups at any time, although the stock ones are more than adequate. With the onboard speaker, this is an indoor-outdoor piece of gear. It's true capability as an outdoors electric guitar is found when you play it through a decent small battery-powered amp like the Boss Katana Mini or one of the Yamaha THR series amps, for example. Sonic heaven. It's also very stable, moving indoors and out, through sun and shade. Stability outdoors fares better than any other electric guitar I can think of. For the price, the Nova GO Sonic is a no-brainer. I can't wait to see what other composite electric guitars Enya and other guitar builders introduce in coming years. When high-tech materials, acoustic engineering, and creative designs come together - like they did here - it's a great time to be alive!

For the price, I couldn't be happier. I have more expensive guitars that sound and feel better. However, I don't want to travel with those guitars because they are, well, expensive. I liked this was all in one guitar and amp which was less I have to travel with. The ability to modify tone is somewhat limited through the app. But again, for what I paid I'm delighted. The intonation was off out of the box. If you don't know, I would tune open strings, but when I played down the neck the note(s) was out of tune. This is an easy DIY fix with plenty of YouTube videos to show you how to do it. Maybe 20 minutes. After that, it's held it's tuning fairly well. It hangs on a wall in the open and I thought with carbon fiber it wouldn't be susceptible to changes in humidity, but it is. I noticed when we have wild swings in outdoor humidity I'll have to retune before playing. No big deal. I wouldn't gig with this thing, but that's not what I bought it for. I bought it as a decent guitar to travel with hoping it's pretty tough getting tossed in and out of a trunk, closet, etc. I use it to practice playing along to jam tracks and it's perfect for that. To me, I like it far better than a lower end fender squire both in terms of how it plays, but also not having to mess with an amp and cord. For my use case, I don't think I could be happier.

As an electric guitar, it's pretty decent. Lightweight, ergonomic, seems sturdy and reliable. It came setup pretty nicely out of the box, good action, good intonation, mostly in tune (given it was transported and changed climate surely). Playable out of the box. The pickups sound fine, frets are fine, zero nut is nice to have. No complaints on it as a guitar. But the party gimmick, built-in modeler and tuner, is AWESOME! Don't get me wrong - this will *not* replace dedicated pedals and amps. The modeller is very basic, and the effects don't sound great; reverb is fine-ish, distortion and drive are OK, delay is meh at best. The speaker can resonate at certain frequencies and feedbacks like crazy. Overall, it doesn't exactly sound like professional setup :-) But who cares! That's not what it's for! What it's for is that you can take this guitar outside of your studio, pick it up on the couch, bedroom, porch, park, cottage, picnic, backyard, *wherever*, and play an electric guitar without any other bits and pieces and cables and power and headphones and so on. It is LIBERATING and an absolute joy to play. If you're experienced, this will not replace your setup even a little bit, but it's a great addition with great freedom of movement. If you're a beginner, I honestly think this is not a bad way to start. As an electric guitar, it's perfectly fine, so the built-in modeller and speaker are just a very nice convenient extra bonus, and it WILL encourage you to play and learn :)

ギターを触って半年程度の初心者です。 同じenyaのNEXG 2も購入していて、今回買い足しをしましたので、比較含めてレビューです。 ＜気に入っている点＞ ☆手軽さ アンプ・エフェクター内蔵なので電源オンすればすぐ使えます。 ○デザイン性 「SHIN」エディションは柄物好きな人には刺さるはず…（小林信一さんは今回初めて知りました）。 専用の化粧箱も付いてくるのは特別感・高級感があって嬉しいです。 あと、表面は3Dプリンターで作成したようなざらつきですが、安っぽさはありません。 ○拡張性 PCにUSBで接続すればギターのスピーカーをPCの外付けスピーカーにできるのと、ギターの音をPCに入力できます。 また、アプリと接続して音をいじれます。 出張や転勤が多く、荷物を増やしにくい身分なのと面倒くさがりなので、ギターだけあれば遊べるのは非常に嬉しいです。 出力は10Wと大きくないので、しっかりと弾くには別途アンプやスピーカーは必須になるかと思います。 ヘッドホンで練習していても、物足りなさを感じるレベルです。 ＜NEXG 2との比較＞ ロック好きなのにあまりにもギターを知らな過ぎて、エレアコのNEXG 2を先に買ってしまいましたので比較です。 NEXG 2との違いは、「(当たり前ですが)音」と「ギター自体の機能性」です。 上記の「手軽さ」と「拡張性」は両ギターともに、同等の利便性を備えています。 ●音の違い NEXG 2はあくまでエレアコなので、弦の音を感じる、ボロロンとしたアコースティックギターの音になります。 内臓アプリに入っているエフェクターの項目を触るだけでもエレキギターっぽい音も作れますし、別途エフェクターに接続してやればエレキギターとしても十分遊べるかと思います。 ただしNOVA GO Sonicを触ってみて、enyaはNEXG 2のアコースティックギターとしての特性を大切にしていると改めて感じました。 ロックを弾きたい人は最初からNOVA GO Sonicを買った方が気楽だと思います。 あと、NEXG 2はスピーカーの容量が大きいため、単体でも人前で演奏できるだけの音が出ます。 ●拡張性 一番の違いで、NEXG 2は内臓されている機能が非常に多いです。 チューナー、ドラムマシン、保存できるエフェクト数、Bluetooth接続など… NEXG 2は配信や弾き語り、ライブといった遊び方を、それ1台だけで「今どきのツールと連携した上で」行える拡張性があります。 また、アプリでいじれる音の項目もNEXG 2の方が若干多いです（エフェクターの数が1.5倍くらい）。 NOVA GO Sonicは一人で演奏するときに手軽というのは変わりませんが、上記の遊び方をする時に別途機材を選ぶ必要がありますし、通常のエレキギターの域を出ていないと感じました。 そういう意味で、コスパを見ればNEXG 2の方が高いのではと思っています。 ＜結論＞ ロックを演奏したい人はNOVA Go Sonicを選んだ方が良かった・・・というのが、自分の反省も含めた結論です。 それ以外の幅広い音楽ジャンルを楽しみたい人はNEXG 2がおすすめです。 どちらも買って満足できる、素敵なギターだと感じています。

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Just want to say this thing is amazing. My fingers hurt because i cant put it down. Its light and all around feels very good to play. I have a few nice guitars, multi fx pedal and a marshal half stack and find im playing this guitar more then any one of them. I had some string buzz, contacted the manufacturer and they walked me through fixing it. I highly recomend this brand and company. They really do love their product and stand behind it 100%. The speakers sound pretty good. If you get feedback, in the app that pairs to the guitar there is a mixer option that lets u increase or decrease the volume that will fix the feed back. The app itself is pretty straight forward and ive made some pretty good metal tones from it. Only thing i can say about the app is id like more options for cabinets, pedals etc. But for it being a free app. I cant complain at all since i have come up with some pretty cool tones. 1 of my favorite things is you can save tones to the button in certain orders. When i play bucketheads soothsayer i start with a cleanish tone for the start, slap the button to a metal tone and slay the next part in distortion. I 100% prefer it to stomping a foot pedal. You can play backing tracks from spotify thru the speakers and play along with songs. I dont do this often but when i did it was actually a blast. Ive hung mine above my couch. Might have been a mistake because i cant keep my hands off it but it really is the perfect little lay back and jam couch guitar with no cords or mess. Just pick up and play. Almost forgot to mention plugging headphones into this is insane. Sounds sooo good. I got a cheap pair of over ear headphones and am still in shock at just how good it sounds through them. Overall this product is great! I do feel sorry for my poor little fingers as i cant put this guitar down but If you are on the fence about getting 1 of these, i promise it is worth it and more. Even without the fancy gimmicks that sold me on this. If it had no speaker, if it had no built in multi fx and stayed this price. I would still be rocking this thing thru my pedals and amp over my other guitars because it just feels that good.

Love this guitar! I have been playing guitar for more than 20 years and have several guitars but this one is great for take and go. Would be perfect for a beginner also. Surprised by the quality vs price.