Eli Crews

I feel very lucky to be in the type of community where friends will sometimes contact me and say, “Hey, I have this cool thing I’ve been borrowing...

Over the past several decades, many of our most essential tools from the analog era have either adapted to give us more flexibility, recallability...

Cat 5, aka Ethernet cable, has been a powerful way to pass digital audio around your studio or live venue for quite a while now. The various formats...

EC: The past two years have given many of us an opportunity to reexamine our daily routines. For me, this manifested most profoundly in my work...

I’m always excited to see a new product from Little Labs. I’ve been collecting Jonathan Little’s ultra-handy studio devices for over 15...

It’s very simple – if you record music using Pro Tools with any regularity, and don’t require (or can’t afford) a full-blown HDX system, I cannot...

As gear reviews go, this is a pretty easy one to write, as the issue isn’t whether or not this is an excellent product. It most definitely is, which...

In a recent review of a $7000 tube condenser microphone, I alluded to the fact that there are excellent condenser microphones being made for $400 and...

I'm not going to do the thing where I give you the full history of Neumann microphones and how the U 67 fits into it. There are already plenty...

I reviewed the Aviom A320 & A360 Personal Mixer system (quite glowingly) on these pages four years back, have been happily using...

Yamaha NS-10s (along with other equipment, like the Shure SM57) have undoubtedly been among the most omnipresent tools of our trade in the past three...

Come close for a minute. Let's talk about mic stands. You know the type – the kind that look like someone with a doctorate in industrial...

I will start with the bold statement that I feel solidly qualified to weigh in on Avid’s latest control surface offerings, the Pro Tools | S3 and the...

Yes, I'm with you. Do we really need more Neumann U 47 and U 48 clones in the market? Apparently the Slovakian company FLEA Microphones thinks...

As engineers and studio owners, we all get excited (and check our cashflow) when a new microphone design hits the streets – especially when that...

In all honesty, the original SPL Transient Designer was one of the first pieces of analog hardware that really blew my mind. The first...

The same day that Empirical Labs, Inc. (ELI) announced the availability of Arouser, a dynamics processor plug-in that looks like a suped-up, virtual...

Standard Audio caught my attention around six years ago when I reviewed the amazing Level-Or . With the Stretch, Standard again took the...

Okay, Eventide has just officially become my favorite pro audio manufacturer on the planet. I had almost finished this already favorable review, and...

As a longtime fan of Jonathan Little's inventive, essential studio tools, I was eager to get the Pepper, his newest little box, cooking....

It has always been a priority for me to provide the ability for each member of a band to dial in her or his own headphone mix during a tracking or...

The quest for the right studio monitor can be long and frustrating. Or, the first pair you audition can instantly become the pair you know and trust...

I've been using a pair of Dynaudio Professional BM6 mkIII monitors for about four months now in my home mixing setup, and I took to them more...

The first thing one notices about Softube plug-ins is that the graphics are kinda stunning. Now, I'm not foolish enough to think that...