Built for practice, writing and lessons, the palm-sized monitor runs six watts, cabinet-modelled EQ and up to 3.5 hours of battery.
Fluid Audio’s Strum Buddy Pro mounts straight onto the body of your guitar, a palm-sized amp and monitor held on by a rubber suction cup that takes a lead from the output, so there’s no floor amp to set up or cables to trail across the room. It’s now available in Australia, building on the original Strum Buddy with a bigger speaker and more control over the sound.
Key features
- Six-watt amplifier with a 45mm neodymium speaker
- Clean, distortion, chorus and reverb settings via onboard DSP
- FIR filter EQ modelled on a measured dual 12-inch guitar cabinet
- 3.5mm guitar input and a headphone output for silent practice
- Rechargeable lithium-ion battery with up to 3.5 hours of use
- Rubber suction mount, USB-C charging and included guitar cable
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“The idea is to remove the little obstacles that stop people from picking up the guitar,” said Kenneth Rustad, Partner and Sales & Marketing Director at Fluid Audio. “Strum Buddy Pro is ready in seconds, works quietly with headphones and is small enough to stay with the instrument. It gives players one less reason to put off practising.”
The Pro keeps the original’s six-watt amplifier but moves up to a larger 45mm neodymium speaker for a fuller, louder response, with a dedicated volume control for setting a sensible level in a bedroom, classroom or hotel room. Onboard DSP covers clean, distortion, chorus and reverb, and the EQ runs an FIR filter curve modelled on the measured response of a dual 12-inch guitar cabinet, so the small speaker carries something closer to the voice of a full cab. Plugging headphones into the output mutes the speaker for silent practice.
A 3.5mm input connects the guitar with the included cable, and the rechargeable lithium-ion battery runs for up to 3.5 hours before topping up over USB-C. The size pays off in lessons too, where students can work through headphones and unplug them when the teacher needs to hear what’s going on, without a row of floor amps and leads trailing around the desks.
“We wanted the Pro version to remain as immediate as the original while giving players better control over how they use it,” said Kevin Zuccaro, Founder and Chief Engineer at Fluid Audio. “The larger driver, cabinet-based FIR response and headphone output make it a more complete practice tool without adding complexity.”
Strum Buddy Pro is available now through Technical Audio Group for an RRP of $129, with stock at Brisbane Sound Group, Factory Sound and Billy Hyde Music.
