Founded in 1981 by Ivor Drawmer, the british manufacturer Drawmer has been exerting an extremely important influence to the audio industry since more than 20 years and even nowadays assigns a key position in the pro audio market with their products. With expertise and an intuition for the wishes and demands of the recording industry, Ivor Drawmer played an significant role not only in the development of signal processors. He also influenced the products of many competitors. Since the release of the DS201 Dual Noise Gate in 1982, the company has reinvented itself many times and always came up with products, which were ahead of time.