MDrumCleaner

The deal

$34 at MeldaProduction (down from $174), an 80% discount. No coupon code needed - $34 is the checkout price. This is MeldaProduction's ongoing introductory pricing for the plugin, with no listed end date.

What it is

MDrumCleaner is a drum bleed removal plugin from MeldaProduction built to clean up the mic bleed that happens whenever you record acoustic drums with multiple close mics - hi-hat spilling into the snare mic, cymbals washing into the tom mics, and so on. It runs five distinct algorithms that can be used individually or stacked, depending on the type and severity of the bleed.

Who it's for

Studio engineers and producers who track live drums with multiple mics and need cleaner separation between kit pieces before mixing. It's also useful on any multi-mic recording situation where one instrument bleeds into another mic, not just drums.

Key features

• Two of the five algorithms process with zero added latency, so they can be used while tracking, not just after the fact
• Side-chain Remover analyzes a second reference mic and spectrally subtracts its signal from the target track
• Spectrum Cleaner learns the frequency fingerprint of the target drum and removes everything that falls outside it
• Cymbal Killer filters high frequencies where cymbals live and only opens up when the target drum is actually struck, and Spectrum Gate and Gate round out the set with more traditional gating control