Mask Audio Electronics releases Hot Water fuzz pedal

July 7, 2025 · 2 sources

Mask Audio Electronics has released the Hot Water, a fuzz pedal in what the maker calls its new MAE budget line, alongside the Trust Yourself¹. Delicious Audio reported the release on July 7, 2025².

The maker says the circuit uses the same number of transistors normally found in a Big Muff and gets four times the gain from them¹. Delicious Audio describes the pedal as Big Muff-inspired and says engineers extracted four times the gain while using the same transistor count as the classic fuzz². The maker describes the sound as heavy, synthy and compressed, with enough dynamic range that the original signal comes through when the gain is pulled back or the volume knob is rolled back¹. Delicious Audio describes a thick, synth-like compression that cleans up when the guitar's volume knob is rolled back, and places it in stoner and doom territory at full gain².

The controls are two knobs¹²:

The pedal runs on a standard Boss-style 9VDC 2.1mm center-negative power supply, and the maker says it can be powered at 18V but will sound better at 9V¹. Delicious Audio likewise reports that MAE recommends 9V for optimal tone².

00¹. No US list price is given in either source.