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Member Since4/10/2008
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Harri Koski Guitarist, CEO. His serious hobby turned into a business when he started Custom-Sounds in 1996. Custom-Sounds was a high-end guitar gear company from the beginning and it was one of the first “boutique” guitar shops on internet. His co-operation with Bjorn Juhl started the BJF pedals business and soon these two soul brothers were talking about the ultimate amplifier. Bjorn put on his propel-hat and Harri put all his energy and money into this project. The Mad Professor Amplification was born.

Jukka Mönkkönen Guitarist, Production Manager, the Lord of the Soldering Iron. Jukka has been playing as a semi pro guitarist. A true Gibson devotee, likes to plug his 1959 Les Paul Special to his 007 (“Licence To Play”) Mad Professor and fill the air with thundering licks. Jukka has an electrical engineer degree and has been fixing and building amps from early 80..s.

Björn Juhl Guitarist, designer, amp wizard and pedal guru. Bjorn is a modern day electronic wizard that is fast gaining reputation with his original designs in pedals and amplifier. He has earned his nick name “Mad Professor” with his know-it-all knowledge about tube and analog electronics and his “innovate, not imitate” attitude. Bjorn Juhl has what it takes to become an icon: perfect ear, great skills in guitar playing and unsurpassed knowledge in electronics.

Tuomas "Engineer" Eriksson Guitarist, recording musician and Luthier. Tuomas is the latest member of the Mad Professor family. He has degree in Lutherie and has been tinkering with amps and pedals since late nineties. He has built and modified pedals for many well-known Finnish musicians. During winter in clubs or summer in festivals you'll be able to testify the moment of freedom when "Engineer" plugs his own hand made strat or tele into MP Deep Blue Delay and sets free...free...ree...ee...e...e...


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Josh Smith
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Mad Professor CS-40



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MP Little Green Wonder
MP Deep Blue Delay
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Pedals:
MP Fire Red Fuzz
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Matt Schofield
Pedals:
MP Sky Blue Overdrive
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Andy Susemihl
Pedals:
MP Mighty Red Distortion



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Pedals:
MP Little Green Wonder
MP Deep Dlue Delay
MP Mighty Red Distortion



Niels van der Steenhoven
Pedals:
MP Little Green Wonder
MP Mighty Red Distortion
MP Deep Blue Delay





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   About Mad Professor
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THE MAD PROFESSOR HISTORY

Let's jump back in time to the golden 70's...

Harri Koski has actively played guitar since mid 70..s and he is also an enthusiastic collector of vintage amps. Out of his love for hi-end guitar gear Harri founded in 1996 the Custom-Sounds - the first true boutique guitar gear shop in Europe. An important historical event related to the birth of Mad Professor Amplification was, that Custom-Sounds started out also as the worldwide distributor of BJF pedals, designed by Björn Juhl in Sweden, in 2000. This is when Harri and Björn got to know each other better.

Björn has earned a legendary reputation as a genius amp tech, after modifying countless tube amps for pro players in Sweden over the years. He knows the pro's and con's of pretty much every type of guitar amplifier ever built. The BJF pedals are probably the most sought after boutique guitar effects pedals on the market today, and Björn is widely recognized as one of the most talented amp/pedal designers ever.

The actual beginning of the Mad Professor story dates way back to 2001. Both Harri and Björn had a long-term experience with tube amps, and they weren't 100% happy with any of the existing amps they had played with. In 2001 they had a serious talk about the possibility of designing The Ultimate Guitar Amplifier of all time. Harri and Björn agreed that this amp should be designed completely from scratch, in order to make it right - instead of doing like others, cloning the classic amps, which all have certain shortcomings (more about that on our blog). Björn told Harri that he can design this amp, but he can't commit himself to building them, since he was already busy enough with his BJF pedals.

This is where Jukka "Bukka" Mönkkönen stepped in. Jukka has a long history as a trustworthy and qualified technician of pedals and amps in Finland, and he was more than happy to build real tube amps after fixing hundreds and hundreds of ValveState amps over the last three decades!

In the hot summer of 2002, the Ultimate Guitar Amp of all time - Mad Professor CS-40 - was finally born, and the official launch took place at the Great Scandinavian Guitar Show 2002 in Stockholm Sweden! The demand for BJF pedals had kept growing, and by 2005-2006 the waitlist was massive! At this point Björn Juhl came to an agreement with Mad Professor Amplification, and the manufacturing of BJF Design pedals started. The Mad Professor Amplification Ltd. was founded in October 2006, owned by Harri Koski and Jukka Mönkkönen. The company is constantly developing new amps and pedals designed by the one and only Björn Juhl.

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Jul 9 2008 9:16 AM

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Jul 2 2008 6:45 AM

I enjoyed hanging out with you guys at Namm. Very nice tone.
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