Meris Effects Pedals — Where Studio Engineering Meets the Pedalboard
Terry Burton co-founded Strymon, helped define what a modern effects pedal could be, and then walked away to start something new. In 2013, he partnered with DSP engineer Angelo Mazzocco, whom he had met years earlier at Line 6, and creative director Jinna Kim to launch Meris from Los Angeles with a single founding principle: build effects that function less like tools and more like instruments, multi-layered, deeply interactive, and capable of revealing new sounds the longer you explore them.
Every Meris pedal is designed and built in California, and every one carries a secondary layer of ALT functions accessible by holding a single button, effectively doubling the feature set without cluttering the front panel. The result is pedals that look deceptively simple, operate intuitively from the first use, and reward deep exploration with capabilities that players continue discovering months after purchase. MIDI control and expression pedal input are standard across the lineup, making every Meris pedal a first-class citizen on even the most sophisticated modern rig.
The catalog spans reverb, delay, pitch shifting, synthesis, modulation, and bit crushing, each pedal executed with the same studio-quality DSP engineering that Burton and Mazzocco developed during their time at Line 6 and Strymon. The Mercury7 and MercuryX reverbs, the LVX modular delay system, the Hedra rhythmic pitch shifter, and the Enzo and Enzo X synthesizer pedals have all earned reputations as benchmark instruments in their respective categories, the pedals that serious players reach for when they want the most musically inspiring version of a given effect.