THE MIGHTY FLEA BATTERY GUITAR AMP

May 04, 2020

Back in 2017, I designed "The Mighty Flea" - a 20W battery guitar amplifier aimed mostly at acoustic jazz guitarists, and built a couple of prototypes. I used to go to gypsy jazz festivals a lot, and I thought it would be great to make a portable amp aimed primarily at acoustic jazz guitarists - something that looked stylish, and sounded similar to the vintage Stimer amps that those Dhango Reinhardt made famous, but could run off batteries and be played around a campfire.

Eevntually I did not go ahead with manufacturing and marketing this design, but it was a fun project. Read more and watch the video below. I took one for gypsy jazz maestro Robin Nolan to see in Amsterdam.

Here's a video of our meeting: