Meris launches Enzo X synth pedal, a revamp of its Enzo
October 14, 2024 · 2 sources
Meris has unveiled the Enzo X, a revamp of its Enzo synth pedal, according to Guitar World and Guitar.com, which published reports on February 24 and February 21, 2025. Guitar.com reports the pedal is available to order now for $599, with the first batch expected to ship in early March1. Guitar World also lists the price as $5992.
The Enzo X packs five synth modes: Mono, Polyphonic, Arpeggiator, Dry Mono and Dry Poly2. Guitar.com describes it as an upgrade of the existing Enzo that fits into a smaller enclosure and adopts the same design and UI as the company's MercuryX reverb and LVX modular delay systems1. The layout lines up four footswitches, four LED buttons, an onboard screen display and seven control knobs, with Pitch, Filter, Mod and Level controls augmented by three push-and-turn encoders that are customizable for each preset2. There are 99 presets, including Meris-made and artist presets, plus a bank of three slots reserved for favorites21.
Six polyphonic voices can be used simultaneously21. The pedal has dual oscillator voices, so unlike the original Enzo each oscillator's parameters behave independently, and there are ADSR envelope generators for amplitude and filter, with saw, triangle and square waveforms21. It adds five modulation types (chorus, flanger, phaser, vibrato and ring mod), five drives (volume pedal, tube, op amp, transistor and bitcrush), three reverbs and a 2.5-second stereo delay21. Guitar.com reports the reverbs are three styles taken from the Mercury X's Prism algorithm1.
The back panel has stereo in/out jacks with selectable synth levels, a jack for an external expression pedal, MIDI ports and a USB-C connection for firmware updates2. Guitar.com specifies five-pin MIDI inputs and outputs and says the USB-C port is exclusively for firmware updates1. Inside, Meris has fitted an Analog Devices JFET input section, an all-analog signal path and 24-bit AD/DA with 32-bit floating point DSP1.
"I always dreamed of releasing a synthesizer," Meris' founder, Terry Burton, says. "With Enzo X, we released a fully polyphonic monster that you can trigger with any instrument."
Guitar World reports that Meris founder Terry Burton calls it a "polyphonic monster"2. The pedal sits among the growing field of synth pedals.