Drumatom

Drumatom is a novel drum processing tool that offers a fresh perspective on leakage suppression. At its heart lies an advanced patent-pending algorithm that will scan your drum tracks, detect bleed and help you dial in as little (or as much) as you want.

So what exactly is Drumatom and how does it work? A modern production often involves the drummer performing through multiple microphones, specifically set to capture the sound of each individual component of the drum kit. Ideally, each microphone should only pick up the sound of the intended percussion element (i.e. a snare microphone should only record the sound of the snare drum). In practical everyday applications though, things are not so simple. Each drum is bound to interact - more or less - with all microphones. In other words, the hihat’s sound will find its way ("leak") to the snare drum’s microphone.

"Drum spill" is known to sound engineers since the dawn of recording technology, but the audio DSP research community seemed oblivious to it for a long time. To this day, recording and mixing professionals use a number of simple and empirical methods to address it.

By designing Drumatom, we sought out to utilize the latest advances in DSP, in order to provide a dedicated solution to the leakage issue. Our software is based on our proprietary ’Advanced Audio Analysis - A3’ technology and is the outcome of many years of research and development. The origins of our technology can be broadly placed in the general family of Blind Source Separation (BSS) techniques, using notions of artificial intelligence. However, A3 is far more than that. Advanced principles of acoustics, signal processing, psychoacoustics and music theory are combined in one novel technology. Running an extremely sophisticated algorithm under a simple and intuitive user interface, Drumatom lets you adjust, reduce or eliminate leakage in a way that was previously not possible with conventional tools.