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Ethereal reflections. Infinite spaces. Total control.

Mirage is a creative reverb platform built for guitarists, synth players, and sound designers who want studio-grade depth and hands-on performance in one compact unit.

At its core are two fully independent reverb engines, each with its own set of controls and access to 16 meticulously crafted algorithms, organized into two intuitive banks. Choose from natural classics like plate, spring, cathedral, or push into ambient territory with shimmer, modulation, infinite sustain, and more.

Mirage adapts to any rig. Run engines in series for immersive, layered reverbs. Split them left and right for stereo processing. Use them as independent reverbs in a dual mono setup, or insert pedals between them using the dedicated send and return loop. It’s a modular reverb system without the complexity.

With real-time control via footswitches and expression input, Mirage invites live interaction, trigger swells, shift shimmer textures, or freeze trails on the fly. Internal switches let you fine-tune bypass behavior, kill dry, and signal routing to match your setup.

Whether you're crafting cinematic ambience, adding subtle dimension, or building massive evolving soundscapes, Mirage delivers space that inspires on pedalboards, synths, and mixing desks alike.

A more compact, single-engine version is also on the horizon for those who don’t need stereo routing or dual reverb engines.

Commemorating the Life of the Legend That Is Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck is considered one of the best guitarists in history, capable of playing virtually anything in his own unique, soulful style. Jeff Beck got his start playing in the Yardbirds, making groundbreaking music on a ’59 Les Paul Standard. The “YardBurst” is a faithful recreation of this legendary guitar, complete with its unique and instantly identifiable traits, such as the classic white bobbin humbuckers and black single-ply pickguard. An aged Lifton™ hardshell case and a selection of case candy commemorating the life of the legend that is Jeff Beck are also included. Only 130 of these exceptional recreations were handmade by the expert luthiers of the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville, Tennessee, as part of this remarkable limited run and artfully aged to match the original as it appeared during Jeff’s Yardbird days by the Murphy Lab.

THE LEGENDARY TRANSPARENT OVERDRIVE

The Simble Overdrive Mk2 is an improved version of the original Simble, a transparent and organic sounding overdrive with wide dynamic range. This natural sounding overdrive pedal can work as a clean boost, ”on the edge” crunch, or a sweet singing overdrive, always retaining the core tone of your instrument.

WHAT'S NEW?

We revisited the circuit with the original designer Lassi Ukkonen to bring his preferred improvements to this legendary pedal. The outcome was more open sound, more headroom and brightness from the contour to work effortlessly with any instrument.

WAVE CANNON “Zero” is both a throwback to one of CGC's very first unreleased prototypes of a pedal and the culmination of decades of playing, repairing, modifying, and building these circuits. It can be wild, it can be mild, it can tear your head off, it can be warm like your granny’s gravy, or as nasty as you want to be. Circuit wise, it shares a lineage with their original Wave Cannon V1 released in 2010, but functionally and sonically it takes things a lot further than their previous releases. They didn’t write any rules; They only wrote a manual. Where you take it is up to you. Making things dirty is just the start.

The shape control has been refined to allow for more depth to low and medium gain sounds, the voltage control has been introduced to let users get starved and broken textures, and the HAVOC control has been downright exploded – it has its own control for tuning and mixing the feedback signal, it can now function both as the first thing your guitar sees OR later in the signal chain, and thanks to John Snyder at Electronic Audio Experiments, it can be momentary or latching!

So, While it can and will distort your signal, be sure it is no mere distortion.

The Rat is about as perfect of a pedal that you can make. It's true strength is that you going to have it nearly dimed and it will still almost fully clean up by rolling off your volume knob. You have your perfect setting and then you never touch it again.

So why does it need knobs?

TRUST YOURSELF to go to tone Valhalla. This pedal will ship stock to my perfect settings, Loud and More at 3:00 and Harsh at 9:00. Feel free to open up the pedal and set it to your ideal settings.

CONTROLS:

• LOUD - Master volume
• MORE - Overall gain
• HARSH - Cuts high end

Neckbrace is a three stage OTA based phaser that lives where most phasers don't. With it's simple interface, it's extremely easy to create subtle to extreme jet-star-screaming modulation to inspire your creative endeavors. Those who are looking for an alternative to the classic orange box will find a more full and lush sound. And for those of you who love that slow creeping modulation you will be smitten with Neckbrace's 17 seconds cycle time at the slowest.

Controls:

• Mix: Goes from your full dry unaffected signal to fully wet phase vibrato. Traditional phasing sounds can be found with the knob around noon.

• Rate: Controls how fast the modulation is. Goes from fast to slow.

• Speed toggle: Sets the speed range for the LFO. Down goes from a glacial pace to moderate amounts of movement. Up goes from pretty fast to near ring mod. Center will be full ring mod mode. The slower setting may take a moment to begin to work on startup

• Loud (internal trim): Output gain of the pedal. Can be used for quite a bit of boost if desired

We are happy to partner with fellow Midwest dirt farmer Zac at Malaise Forever Customs to bring Clubber Lang to the Mask Audio Electronics lineup. Clubber Lang is a love letter to the harmonic percolator but adds some improvements for the modern player. Adding a MOSFET input stage to push some wild texture out of the circuit, as well as asymmetrical soft clipping, increased low end output, and a widely effective tone control. There is a lot of interactivity between all of the knobs on the pedal and all of the knobs on your instrument. Clubber Lang rewards the detailed tweakers and pedal stackers.

CONTROLS:

• BURN: MOSFET stage gain control (crackles when turned)
• MORE: Fuzz stage gain control
• TONE: Bass cut (counter-clockwise for more low end, clockwise for less)
• LOUD: Controls output volume

Clubber Lang Should be powered by a 9V center negative power adapter

YES! + NO. = MAYBE?

The two Gremlins of the MAE lineup have been wrangled together and trapped in one box for full disharmonic gratification. Further enhanced for your stacking pleasure, MAYBE? can provide the amp destroying sounds you never knew you needed.

Maybe set up one side for a full-bodied fuzz and filter it with the other? Maybe set up one side as a fake PLL bass clobbering its way through an overdrive? The two sides are yours to explore!

Controls:

• BOLD controls are for the YES! side
• Italic controls are for the NO. side
• MORE: Input gain into the unit. Gate opens up more clockwise you go.
• LOUD: Master volume. Very loud
• More: Sets the amount of bass going into the first octave generator. Acts somewhat like a gain control.
• Loud: Master volume. Still loud

Toggles:

• SPLAT: Standard toggle for YES! Controls the amount of gating. Allows more high-end through when toggled up
• HELL: Switches out transistors in the octave divider. Allows for fake PLL sounds
• Honk: Debiases the NO. side. On lower more settings will sound absolutely broken but will impart a mid-range overdrive at higher more settings.
• Pain: Standard toggle for NO. Controls octave emphasis

Uses standard Boss style power supply (9VDC 2.1mm center negative) and top-mounted jacks. Enclosures are Hand Screen Printed and Powder Coated by Pinebox Customs in small batches.

A second collaboration between Mask Audio Electronics and Collector//Emitter: Cascader

Cascader has its roots in the same time period as Part Garden. When we started collaborating, we had multiple ideas running at the same time. Eventually, Part Garden was released into the world and the other ideas went into the MAE archives. Earlier in 2021, we decided to revisit one of the earliest designs and breathe new life into it.

Cascader is not an updated or mini Part Garden. It is a whole new design favoring simplicity and classic tones.

As a one knob fuzz, Cascader is meant to be loud and aggressive. Inspired by Devi Ever and EHX fuzzes, we combined a smooth fuzz with a low gain gated fuzz to create a really tight mix of fuzz and distortion. Pressing the left footswitch brings in an additional fuzz at the beginning of the chain, overloading the other stages for an extremely saturated signal.

Note: Cascader has a lot of gain and is meant to be noisy. We have minimized this, especially when using humbuckers, but certain settings will hum. Embrace it. Turn it up. C A S C A D E

Controls:

Loud - Overall output volume of the fuzz Yuh - Changes the amount of compression, selecting between open and gated voices Cascade - Adds an additional fuzz at the beginning of the signal chain for more saturation and sustain

Uses standard Boss style power supply (9VDC 2.1mm center negative) and top-mounted jacks.

Art By Taylor C Adams

Using an op-amp blown way beyond its limits and some clever trickery, Screws accomplishes one of the most difficult tasks in all of fuzzdom: an octave fuzz with an ever-present octave, no matter the guitar, no matter the situation. If you want to do the classic Jimi thing (or some sitar-like clang), Screws has got you. If you want to be the most bricked-out thing in the mix (and give those cymbals a run for their money), Screws has your back. If you're looking to get your Swede on, put the Tone switch in the middle and start stacking. Whether main character or supporting role, Screws is there, calling back to the roots of Mask Audio Electronics: simple fuzz done very gnarly.

CONTROLS:

MORE - Traditional gain control, the intensity of the octave will increase with more gain LOUD - Master volume TONE - controls what frequencies flow into the octave section, up on the toggle is full frequency, middle position emphasizes the high end, and all the way down gives you a boost in the midrange

Hot Water takes the same number of transistors normally found within a Big Muff and gets four times the amount of gain out of them. It is heavy, synthy, and compressed, but still has enough dynamic range that your original signal will shine through when you pull back on the gain (or roll back on your volume knob). It is equally comfortable adding a bit of sizzle to your country gig or being your always on for your desert rock evening jams. Hot Water, part of the new MAE budget line alongside Trust Yourself, gives you an interesting pedal with a big LED for not a lot of money.

CONTROLS

MORE - Traditional gain control, gives you more of what you want. The higher the gain, the more compressed the fuzz will get. LOUD - Master volume, turn up for more loud Uses standard Boss style power supply (9VDC 2.1mm center negative). Hot Water can be powered at 18v, but it will sound better at 9v