The Enya Encourage Professional is a kind of “multi function” good guitars that guarantees the earth. Inbuilt  amp modelling, results, looping, AI tone era, the works — and for as soon as, a variety of it really delivers. 

Construct & Design

First impressions rely, and Enya have clearly put some severe thought into this. The Grasp-Carbon physique feels substantial within the fingers with out tipping over into heavy, and the match and end all through is great. There’s an consideration to element right here — the stainless-steel jumbo frets, the auto-locking tuners, the quick-adjust tremolo — that you do not all the time see at this finish of the smart-guitar market. Little issues just like the zero-fret nut and the sleek motion out of the field let you know somebody’s really considered playability, not simply spec-sheet bragging rights. It does not really feel like a gadget with strings connected. It appears like a good guitar first, tech second, which is strictly the correct approach spherical for one thing like this to succeed.

Electronics & {Hardware}

Underneath the hood you have obtained a genuinely succesful set of electronics — that is clearly constructed to be a “no different gear wanted” instrument, and largely it lives as much as that. The onboard controls are easy sufficient that you just’re not fumbling round mid-song, and the multi-function contact bar is a very nice contact — used as an expression management or a killswitch, it opens up a load of artistic choices when you begin digging into it by way of the app. This specific “SD” mannequin comes with Seymore Duncan Pickups voiced for this specific guitar and the HSS config makes it versatile. There’s additionally a change to separate the humbucker as nicely, making this guitar much more versatile. 

The App Expertise

Plug into the Enya Music app and that is the place issues get correctly fascinating. The interface is clear and genuinely intuitive — no searching by means of nested menus for twenty minutes earlier than you discover your acquire knob, which, let’s be trustworthy, is half the battle with a variety of modelling gear. There’s an enormous library of amp fashions and results on provide, greater than sufficient to cowl just about any model you are chasing, whether or not that is glassy cleans or full-on high-gain. Every little thing’s tweakable in actual time too, so you are not caught previewing adjustments after the very fact.

The AI Tone Generator

However the headline function — and the bit I do know a variety of you’re right here for — is the AI Tone Generator. You actually describe the sound you are after, both typed or spoken, and it serves you up a handful of matching presets virtually immediately. It is slick, it is quick, and remarkably, it really works — the outcomes are genuinely in the correct ballpark most of the time.

What actually caught my consideration, although, is the tutorial angle no person’s actually speaking about with this function. As soon as the AI builds you a tone, you’ll be able to dig into precisely the way it’s constructed — which amp mannequin’s getting used, which results are stacked on prime, and in what order they sit within the chain. For anybody attempting to find out about tone shaping, that is sensible. As an alternative of simply handing you a black-box preset, it is educating you the “why” behind the sound. That is a genuinely intelligent little bit of design pondering, and actually the type of function I might like to see extra producers lean into.

The Onboard Speaker

The built-in speaker deserves a point out too. It is rated at 20W and it is obtained actual punch to it — noticeably extra authority than you’d anticipate from one thing constructed into the guitar itself. It is not going to win any awards for sound high quality, and it is actually not changing a correct amp or a 4×12 on a Saturday night time gig. However for practising at house, working by means of concepts, or a fast unplugged jam with mates, it does precisely what it must and does it properly.

The Verdict

Is it excellent? No guitar is, and there’ll all the time be purists who’d quite have their tone in pedals on the ground than in an app. However taken as an entire — the construct high quality, the depth of the app ecosystem, and genuinely helpful, thoughtfully applied AI instruments — the Encourage Professional is a severe step ahead for the good guitar class. It is a variety of guitar, and a variety of pondering, packed into one instrument, and I feel loads of gamers are going to get an enormous quantity out of it.

For extra data, go to Enya’s web site