The company, which is based in Yorkshire, England, was founded by Ivor Drawmer, whose passion was designing audio circuits. “The whole thing started in 1981,” explains Drawmer. “I had been playing keyboards with bands in Yorkshire, but that wasn’t going so well, and also I wasn’t getting any younger. With the encouragement of friends, I built a small batch of stereo delay lines, which I called the Multitracker, and that was the start of Drawmer.”