Crane Song

Crane Song is a highly respected American boutique manufacturer known for combining analogue warmth with sophisticated digital control. Founded by designer Dave Hill, the company builds compressors, preamps, converters and plug ins that deliver exceptional transparency, musicality and precision. Crane Song gear is prized in professional studios for its ability to add subtle colour or clean accuracy as needed, making it a favourite among engineers who value flexibility and refined sonic detail.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 1996 /

Crane Song STC-8 Compressor

Compression Type: VCA

The Crane Song STC-8 is a high-quality compressor combined with a remarkably dependable peak limiter, that provides overload protection critical to digital recording and broadcast transmitters.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 1998 /

Crane Song Trakker Compressor Limiter

Compression Type: Proprietary Analogue Gain Reduction with Digitally Controlled Sidechain

Crane Song Trakker is a high-quality Single Channel Discrete Class A Compressor-Limiter.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2004 /

Crane Song Flamingo Microphone Preamplifier

The Crane Song Flamingo is a high quality two channel discrete class A microphone pre-amp. It can be operated as a musically transparent pre-amplifier but is capable of emulating vintage sounds as well as creating distinctive new ones.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2004 /

Crane Song Avocet Monitor Controller

The Crane Song Avocet is a discrete Class-A mastering monitor controller combining pristine relay-switched analogue paths, high-resolution digital conversion, transparent headphone monitoring, and precise level control for professional mixing and mastering.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2009 /

Crane Song Ibis Equaliser

Crane Song Ibis is an analogue equaliser that boldly takes equalisation to a new level of musicality.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2011 /

Crane Song Egret Summing Mixer

The Crane Song Egret is an eight-channel D/A converter and stereo mixer featuring adjustable colour control, analogue processing insert capability, and sample rate conversion up to 192 kHz, designed to enhance DAW mixing with flexible analogue summing and monitoring options.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2012 /

Crane Song Titan Compressor Limiter

Compression Type: Pulse Width Modulation

The Crane Song Titan is an analog compressor-limiter with a very large range of color and control choices that has reset-ability

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2016 /

Crane Song Solaris Quantum D/A Converter

The Crane Song Solaris Quantum DAC is a 2 channel Digital-to-Analog Converter, designed by Dave Hill. It is centred around a 32-bit converter and 32 bit ASRC (Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter) that up-samples to 211kHz in order to reduce jitter.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2018 /

Crane Song HEDD Quantum Harmonically Enhance Digital Device

Crane Song HEDD Quantum Harmonically Enhance Digital Device is a stereo AD/DA with DSP tape and tube colour, sub pico second jitter and clock generator.

Made In U.S.A.

Released in 2021 /

Crane Song Titan 2 Dynamics Processor

The Crane Song Titan 2 Dynamics Processor is a Hardware stereo compressor with plug-in control by ethernet.