DOVRE

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Dovre is a culturally significant mountain range in the middle of Norway. Upon its hills people have lived for over 6,000 years, but it is now most prominently inhabited by Muskoxes, Hardanger fiddlers, American Car enthusiasts and farmers. It was featured as the imagined backdrops of many national romantic works throughout the latter half of the 1800s and you probably know it best from Edvard Grieg’s piece “Hall of the Mountain King”, or as we call it, “Dovregubbens Hall”. I actually went to the same school as Grieg did, growing up, and I’ve toured the world playing his music throughout my youth.

DOVRE is a fuzz-reverb worthy of the Mountain King. With a super simple set of single knob controls for each, DOVRE offers you what I personally think is my best fuzz yet, followed by a very exciting, springy, drippy reverb. Each side of the pedal is fully discrete and can be used alone or stacked. This pedal marks my return to what started Fjord Fuzz in the first place: live music tools. I could play a whole show with just this thing and my trusty JCM 800. Maybe add a FREI or a SOL for some Uni-Vibe and I’d be perfectly happy!

There is no fx-loop or switch to reverse the order and I did this on purpose. The two effects are designed to give you huge dynamic range and a plethora of sounds with a minimum of controls and the best way to do this is to keep this specific fuzz in front of this specific reverb. However, you probably own more than one fuzz, so stick this thing in front of that one, and now you have a reverb sandwiched between two fuzz units and you can do what you need to do.
I think it sounds pretty glorious in front of a big muff or super-fuzz style fuzz, so try it with an old FENRIS or maybe even an ODIN!