DOVRE is a fuzz-reverb worthy of the Mountain King. With its super simple set of single knob controls for each effect, DOVRE offers you what I personally think is my best fuzz yet, followed by a very exciting, springy, drippy reverb. You can use each effect alone or stacked together. 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!
Why would you need fuzz and reverb in the same package?
I usually don't play amps with built-in reverb, so it's very convenient to have a pedal that can do both a glorious fuzz and also a sweet sounding reverb. This allows me to travel light if I have to. Also, the specific fuzz circuit used in DOVRE, although incredibly musical and human in tone and texture, can sometimes fall back into a dense live mix. Whenever I rely on this type of fuzz I like to have something else following it to help restructure its output. You can do this with a boost or an overdrive, a wah or even a uni-vibe, but this reverb does it too, and it does it in a bit of a different way to most other options. There's no volume boost, but the impedance mis-match between the circuits alongside the parallel processing and all pass filtering of the reverb lifts your dark and emotive fuzz tone into a place where it really kicks through the mix and repositions you as the main character in your own, weird little indie movie. I thought that if you need to have something following your fuzz, why not make it something useful?
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 one of your other fuzzes, 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. Try it with an old FENRIS or maybe even an ODIN!
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 backdrop 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.
