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*ABOUT THIS VIDEO*
Let's sit down with two experts I deeply admire — Terry Burton (co-founder of Meris, formerly of Strymon) and Angelo Mazzocco (longtime DSP engineer, formerly at Line 6, now leading DSP architecture at Meris) — to ask three foundational questions:
What is delay?
What is reverb?
What is DSP (digital signal processing)?
This is not a sponsored video — I simply wanted to go to the source and bring clarity back to you, my audience. During our conversation, Terry and Angelo help me unpack how every audio effect ultimately begins with delay, that is, even filters, modulation, and envelope effects are (in one form or another) built on the notion of delaying a signal and feeding it back or comparing it. In fact, classic filters we revere (like minimal filters) can often be understood in terms of delayed feedback paths or simplified delay loops.
We explore how delay is the primitive building block in signal chains, and how reverb can be thought of as a complex, evolving delay network. Angelo walks us through how DSP makes this all precise, controllable, and musical. Along the way, Terry shares insights from his hardware engineering background, Angelo from years of writing and optimizing DSP code, and how their work at Meris fuses art and technology.
If you’ve ever wondered “why do we always talk about delay, even when the effect is a filter or reverb?” — this video is for you. Their insight will give you conceptual tools so that when you use effects in your own music or production, you’ll see their roots and interactions more clearly.
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