Mad Professor announces Milestone Fuzz, handwired germanium with onboard transformer

September 21, 2026 · 2 sources

Mad Professor announced the Milestone Fuzz on September 21, 2026, and opened preorders for it. The pedal is a handwired germanium fuzz built in Finland, with an onboard transformer circuit and a two-band EQ¹².

The transformer is the pedal's distinguishing feature. Delicious Audio writes that a single upstream buffer normally chokes a germanium fuzz circuit and kills its touch sensitivity, and that the Milestone's transformer isolates the fuzz so it can sit after buffers or other pedals¹. Guitar Pedal X describes the transformer as "a sort of pickup simulator" that means the pedal "can be placed more liberally on your board, and doesn't have to be right at the front"².

Controls are Volume, Fuzz, Bass and Treble². Delicious Audio says the Bass and Treble controls offer enough frequency shaping to adapt the fuzz to different amplifiers, guitars, or bass guitar, and that the circuit cleans up with the guitar's volume knob and reacts to pick attack¹. Guitar Pedal X reports seeing two TO-5 metal-can germanium transistors in the pedal but says Mad Professor does not identify them, and that it could see no bias control, not even an internal trimmer².

Guitar Pedal X gives the US price as $378 and says pedals ship from October 5². Delicious Audio gives no price or shipping date¹. Preorders are through the Mad Professor webstore¹².