Tominator

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Joey Sturgis Tones has announced the release of Tominator, a plugin intended to treat cymbal bleed commonly found in close-mic drum recordings.

While the plugin was designed with treating cymbal bleed in tom tracks as its name would suggest, the plugin can also be applied to other percussive elements with similar results.
Tominator uses a unique, filter-based approach to treat cymbal bleed. Built on advanced, adjustable filter automation – users are able to treat bleed in a more natural approach than gating. This approach solves the common issue of signal loss that occurs with most gate and expander alternatives. True to the company’s promise of end-user ease of use, Tominator is a utility that streamlines an engineer’s drum processing, saving them time & effort.

Features

• Eliminates cymbal bleed with internal moving filter.
• Internal automated filter for effectively removing cymbal bleed.
• Speed control for changing how fast filter works on your signal.
• Cutoff parameter sets where the filter will stop after the transient.
• Enables you to have more versatility when processing your drums.

Tominator for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/AAX) is available for purchase for the introductory price of $39 USD until December 7th, 2016 (regular $59 USD).

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just bought this!
stoked!

 

Have you tried Drumatom? If you have, how does Tominator compare?

 

yes tried both
tominator integrate to my workflow seamlessly, i need creative solution not another hassle step like drumatom
liking tominator so far

 

Yeah its a total workflow killer to deal with Drumatom, plus it does something weird to the high end.

 

Doin' it right Tominator to the rescue. Sturgis is gonna clean up with this. What a great thing for sound guys the world over. He's gonna make a mint with this one. Congratulations Joey.

 

Since drumtom does offline anal, it MIGHT be better overall across al drum tracks. It seems that with tomintor, (or drumtom too), you can go halfway with EQ+gate, or you can go further by making your own FFT sidechauins.

 

Do you have evidence of that? LOL!!!

 

Don't think your drummer's going to be too happy with that. It'll ruin his concentration.

 

Since I don't work with live drums a question raised when I saw the video. I would like to get an explanation, because I'm really curious. To me the presentation seemed like selling old stuff under a new name. I mean, that I have the impression of a simple lowpass filter (maybe with a steep curve, like 24 dB or so). What is the difference between the use of a high quality lowpass filter and tominator?

 

Just tried it. Waste of my time. It's just gate+EQ. Drumatom should be MUCH better.

 

and much hassle

 

It could definitely be user error on my part, but with Tominator I kept having little spikes of cymbal bleed slip through with hits, like a gate. Drumatom is slow as hell, at least on my computer, but it does remove a lot of cymbal bleed. It can really dull the high end on certain sources though. From me Drumatom is still a better choice, but a PITA. Has anyone tried debleeder? Is it any better?