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Angelo Mazzocco

DSP engineer and VP/co-founder of Meris, the California effects pedal and pro audio company; formerly a DSP engineer at Line 6.

Oct 8, 2026

16:45
Can you give some examples of, you know, some of the things that you change and that you do in that process? You know, what, what were you tweaking? You know, what are the things that take you to an interesting place and start unlocking that magic in the sound?
16:56
Yeah.
16:56
I, I feel like those are, can be thought of two different ways.
17:00
Um, uh, the, I guess the latter part, like what things kind of unlock ideas, it's, it's more just getting, um, kind of closer to the algorithm.
17:11
[laughs] Like, the more, the more time I find myself, like, getting lost in playing it, it's like, "Okay, I'm getting closer and closer to what I want." And then kind of the earlier part, like what things am I working on, uh, a lot of it is to remove things that prevent that experience, you know.
17:26
I, I want things to work smoothly.
17:28
I want things to, like, feel very natural and very connected to the player.

21 MINS LATER

38:38
[laughs] If you're wanting to get particularly into DSP engineering, Angelo, you know, where to begin, you know, where should that start? Can you recommend some good resourcing and how to approach generally, you know, skilling up in that world?

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