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Enya and the Asian makers of similar instruments use polycarbonate reinforced with 30-40% short carbon fibres. The technology comes from the automotive and aerospace industries.
The material comes in pellets that are melted and injected into closed molds. This process avoids the higher labour and materials cost of carbon fibre cloth fabrication. Enya uses carbon fibre cloth for the X4 soundboard to achieve good tone, and uses the polycarbonate mix on the back and sides where material is less critical. This is a good decision that allows excellent affordability. Similar to guitars with excellent spruce soundboards on laminated back and sides. The Enya Go guitars, Enya NexG guitars, and Enya ukuleles use polycarbonate mix for all parts. It sounds good on the smaller ukuleles, but less lively on the Enya Go and NexG guitars. (I’d love to buy an Enya Go with carbon fibre cloth soundboard). Typical specs: https://www.matweb.com/search/DataSh...bcec36ff2afd7f Cheers.
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I’m very interested in the X4 Mini for a practice and travel guitar. Perhaps the lack of cutaway will allow Enya to make righty and lefty guitars from the same mold (like the RainSong dreads and jumbos). The carbon fibre cloth soundboard ought to give a better tone than the polycarbonate composite soundboard on the Enya Go. BTW: - The bigger X4-pro would be perfect for my outdoor needs except that I already have an excellent RainSong dread. Debating whether to get the X4 for rough and riskier uses. - The X4-mini overlaps my CA Cargo so may be able to release the Cargo. Cheers.
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I'm really surprised at how good this guitar sounds! Even next to my Sable!!!
I've noticed one issue with it though. I'd like to hear if anyone else is experiencing this. I plugged it into my JBL Compact and the hiss was ridiculous. I then changed the input from mic to line and it was fine. BUT, if I use the onboard reverb, there's a noticeable hiss after the reverb fades. I'm also hearing it when using the reverb when it's not plugged in, but it's not as pronounced. Anyone else?? |
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I realized that some here are very happy with their X4's, but if you check out the reviews on Amazon there's quite a lot of negative reviews that mention various issues some folks have out there. I would definitely buy only through Amazon, so you could return it if you got a lemon. Only 68% give it 5 stars and that's not great.
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Hi Jack I combine the 5 and 4 star reviews to come to my decisions when buying anything and If you do that with this guitar it comes out to 80 percent of the people buying are happy with what they bought. I really don't know why your even posting in this thread with no first hand experience with the X4 Pro other than to discourage others......Sorry but I just don't get your motive.
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Unless it’s about Guitar Center, of course
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I am not experiencing the reverb noise when plugged in as you described and I am quite sensitive to noise in pickups However I have noticed that the output is super hot and that i pretty much need to have the volume control set at 9 o'clock or so for good tone. |
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I still consider the Enya X4 Pro AcousticPlus to be a wonderful value and if I didn't know its price range I could see paying twice what I paid for mine.
I don't hear any issues with the reverb on my Enya X4 Pro. Something to keep in mind though as I've mentioned in my other reviews of this ax is that as the RECHARGEABLE battery losses power after several hours of playing time (5 to 8 maybe), the AcousticPlus system when played acoustically only loses its strength as an acoustic-only effect. When you hear the acoustic-only effects become rather anemic, it's time to charge the battery. You can, however, play on longer when plugged in as there isn't any battery power being used to drive the actuator device.
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TBH...11/16 nut aside...something about the tone that I've heard in ALL the videos turns me off. It sounds overly loud and brash and very "non-wood" like, if that's a word. If I liked the tone, I would consider it.
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The hiss after the reverb fades (play and then stop the strings. Listen as the reverb fade and turns to hiss) was with a newly charged battery. |
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This is what I get (and I don't hear a hiss) https://on.soundcloud.com/gRBpb I also tried it in the mic input on my boss accoustic singer live There was hiss when I was plugged in with phantom power on (oops) and no pad but no difference playing / not playing or after reverb. When I hit the pad switch and killed the phantom power the noise floor was great Last edited by Aspiring; 01-14-2023 at 02:18 PM. |