What Is EUNA?
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2021
- A bit of backstory about what EUNA is, and why EUNA is with designer and builder Jesse Honig.
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EUNA is the Elite UNity Amplifier from 29 Pedals. It replaces a conventional input buffer on your pedalboard, gets itself out of the way of your fuzz and generally tidies up after itself.
Thank you for building this pedal. I have a habit of running way to many pedals at once and you fixed the issues I was running into with other buffers
Thanks so much!
I dont really operate on that side of my brain, but I feel where you are coming from and interested in learning more
Eveb owning the EUNA for over a year, this is a super insightful video that helps me dig in even deeper!
Mine arrived last week and I love it! My guitars now reliably sound "as they should" and pedals just shape that tone afterwards. As it should be!
Makes my bass sound sooo insanely good!!!
Hey 29 pedals. I just got my Euna this week. After playing it late into the night for the last 4 nights, I’m totally amazed by the Euna. I don’t know what kind of voodoo is inside this box, but I will never play guitar again without it at the front of my board.
For anyone who thinks this is just a buffer with an eq- is not just a buffer- I know what a buffer sounds like and they don’t sound like this. there’s something else going on inside this pedal. The eq switches are also magic. I set this pedal up next to and old TC helicon parametric eq pedal and I tried to match the eq curves. I couldn’t match the harmonic setting or the bass bump- the eq switch settings are so smooth and musical.
I put a mythos high road fuzz in the loop and it has never sounded so good. The difference is HUGE in clean tone, but it makes all OD pedals down the chain sound better as well. The Euna makes me want to play guitar. Thanks 29 pedals- I just love this thing 🙏
Thanks so much Todd! Glad you are enjoying it! I really appreciate the feedback.
Solid logic. Sound thinking.
Excellent demo, Jesse.
Can we talk about that Cylon eye moving left to right on your Fender amp in the background, though? I've heard "they have a plan"...
My current setup is a true bypass germanium fuzz into a chase bliss preamp. One of those two pedals is always on. Was seriously considering adding a EUNA to my rig, but this video convinced me that this would be totally unnecessary
Very cool idea for a pedal
Thanks!
I love how you're just a guy who loves and researches guitar gear like the rest of us.
#Guitarhero
Super cool piece of gear! I really respect the purpose and attention behind a lot of the decisions. One question -
From a multi-instrumentalist point of view, how does the EUNA function when seeing input signals other than passive guitar pickups? Say active bass pickups, piezo pickups, microphones, reamped signal from an audio interface, etc?
Hello! EUNA has very high headroom, so it can handle all those signals happily. Piezos are especially happy. Active basses, mics and reamped signals are all fine but they don't usually require the kind of impedance conversion EUNA does. The filters will still be helpful and good sounding though, and it's a great sounding line amp.
The pedals are cool but I wanna hang out in that room
Does the EUMA use an audio transformer or isolation transformer? It would be nice to have a variable presence control that would had negative high end feedback into the buffers output to the input. The EUMA input loading is a reactive loading that doesn't alter the guitars pickups resonance peak?
Hi, I would like to know if I have a wah pedal, where should I put it if I want to use euna as the first stop of my signal ? Any suggestions if I want to use euna, wah and fuzz on my board ? How should I connect them to have a better result? Thanks for being creative to build such an extraordinary product.
Check out the FAQ on my site, www.believableaudio.com ! I go over all the details. Hit me up if you have questions!
If you could only get one. Would you get the the one in front if pedals. Or at end ? Thanks
I would try EUNA first, in most circumstances, but some rigs just use OAMP at the end and very happy. Hit me up if you have questions about your rig specifically!
Hi, is EUNA working great with Basses ( Active & Passive ) too? Would like to try one myself, when its enhancing my tone.
I wonder about this as well.
Passive yes. Active not as much but it will make a difference too. Depends of you're driving a long chain, depends on your amp, ect. Also what type of sound I suspect. Some bass players want a ton of crisp high end harmonics and a super pristine sound. It could also help if you're wanting to feed it direct into rack gear ect. It could replace a DI box to some degree.
Does running this through a tonex and the rest of my pedals make any difference? I am trying to setup a tonex board just for recording and was looking at this. Any suggestions welcome.
It's hard to say - I haven't worked with the Tonex but a bunch of players use EUNA in front of other modelers with great results.
Mine arrived today. Wow!
Are you Gandalf or something?
Ha! Thanks, I wish!
@@29Pedals Honestly.. what a thing! I now live in South Africa and had to wait for family to visit from the UK before I could physically get hold of it. (Import duties here nearly double the price on anything "luxury". I wish customs realised the Euna is a bloody necessity!
I play through a Revv Generator 120 Mk 3. Honestly, it's astonishing. I really thought I had a great sound before, but now, it's like I was listening from underwater in comparison. It's crazy!
Phenomenal tool. Just phenomenal.
So what's the cure for this? Metal Zone? Hahahahahaha, love your humour paired with passion for fidelity and especially guitar. Very cool how you've solved a number of problems in this product.
It's spelled ACHIEVED 😊
So what if you just use a quality switching system?
Going through a series of true-bypass switches and jacks can create a lot of loss, you can watch my other video about this. A good switching system is always a good idea, but the loss from the length of wire, the jack, the switches, that's always going to happen.
@@29Pedals yeah I know. I think I’m less in the category of having serious trust issues. 😉
I use a Free The Tone switcher that has a pretty good buffer circuit in it. Definitely makes a difference. Doubt it's on the level of this unit. This guy is next level, few people would go to the lengths he has to make a no compromise input buffer for guitarists who largely still think buffers are evil.
I would buy one if I could afford it. Clearly it is exactly what it says on the tin, it's not pretending to be anything else. It isn't sexy, it doesn't make crazy other worldly sounds, it just gives you the next best thing to plugging direct to amp with a short cable. For some people that's priceless.
HAHA that's a little dismissive! That piece of wire is in everything! :P
Metal Zone? Hahaha!
What are thooooooseeeeee
LOL check out all the Behringer pedals!!! Is that why you need an EUNA? 🙂
What a weird comment - Yes, there are two Behringer pedals in there, out of a quick count of 45 total. I don't hate on stuff simply for being inexpensive or mass produced. Their Vibrato is a good sounding circuit, the headroom isn't any worse than your typical 9V pedal. I didn't love the reverb, but to each their own. As a designer, I sometimes keep things around for reference so I know what other players are used to hearing. How would I know I had succeeded in the EUNA design without a conventional buffer as a reference? And yeah, having a really well-built input driver like EUNA can definitely make inexpensive pedals sound better, as the load they present to the guitar tends to vary wildly over the frequency range and the impedance is often too low, or lower than advertised. EUNA can help out with both of those issues and present a much more stable, high-impedance load that helps the guitar sound more like itself. There's some nuanced criticisms to be made about mass-produced gear, but I am going to stop short of just "LOL"ing an entire brand that supplies lots of musicians with affordable options. I think there's room in the world for all types of gear, just like we have all different types of musicians.