Polarbear Effects Drowner Fuzz / Bitcrush / Reverb Pedal

Reducing the collection. Beautiful and creative Reverb and Delay algorythms.

Drowner is a fuzz/bitcrusher/reverb/delay multi-effect guitar pedal built to satisfy all your other-wordly heavy reverb and delay dreams of crushed shimmery soundscape.

Silicon based FUZZ is always the first effect in the chain that can be independently engaged with a right footswitch. GAIN controls the gain of the fuzz.

This pedal was designed for you to build your pedalboard around it, featuring an FX loop that requires a TRS Y-cable: stereo male to dual mono TS cables, you can put any additional effects between FUZZ and BITCRUSHER/REVERB. (R is Send, T is Return).

BITCRUSHER & REVERB (or DELAY) are engaged with the left footswitch, but BITCRUSHER can be bypassed with a CRUSH toggle switch.

You can change the order of BITCHRUSHER & REVERB (or DELAY) in the effects chain with the ORDER switch.
FCR setting enables you to have the bitcrusher very reactive to pick attack that further goes into reverb.
FRC lets the reverb trails activate the bitcrusher.

VOLUME controls does not affect the FUZZ directly, it controls the output volume of BITCRUSHER & REVERB at the end of the effects chain.

Update November 7 2024

New Drowner updates are:

• Gain control for the fuzz
• 3 new delay modes

Drowner now includes:

• Fuzz with gain control
• Bitcrusher
• Shimmer reverb
• Modulation reverb
• Octave down reverb
• Digital delay
• Reverse delay
• Pitch up delay

Power
This product should be used with high-quality isolated power supply. It uses 9V DC negative center 2.1mm barrel. Unregulated power supplies as well as higher voltages may result in suboptimal noise performance and even damage your unit.
Current draw for this pedal is ~160mA.

Size (L x W x H)
11.7 x 9.2 x 5.7 cm
4.6 x 3.62 x 2.24 inch
1590BB enclosure