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Click here to read about Crane Song gear in Dave Hill's own words.
Our
Story...
Designer
Dave Hill has always had an interest in electronics, and started
designing and building devices at an early age. He was building synthesizers
from scratch and started doing professional level sound recording
and equipment maintenance at a local music store while still in school.
After high school Dave decided to pursue a career in electronics and
enrolled in a course at a local community college. After his first
semester he was asked by the college to take over teaching the course.
He taught for 8 years and continued his involvement in pro audio.
To date Dave has been doing studio and film sound recording
since 1972. He has also been involved in film post production. Early
in the 1980's Dave was asked by a used equipment dealer if he could
design a tube compressor that would have the sound of the older
tube type devices and still be clean enough to compete with modern
devices. The result of this request was the Summit Audio TLA-100.
Due to the success of that design Dave Hill went on to design and
set up the manufacture of all Summit Audio products until September
of 1994 at which time Summit Audio was relocated the manufacturing
to California. From 1984 to 1994 Summit Audio grew from a single
product and one employee working out of the basement of Dave's home
to a full product line and over a dozen fulltime employees.
Beginning in August of 1995, several of those key members
of the Summit production crew began working for Dave again in his
new company called Crane Song. After the move of Summit Audio, Dave
wanted to keep the production crew together and start a new company.
First he designed a tube playback pre-amp for the ATR-102
tape machine called the HDV-2.
This is now being manufactured for the ATR
Service Company by Crane Song. Next Dave designed a two channel
discrete class A compressor-limiter, called the
STC-8.
The Today the Crane Song family of products has grown
to five; *HEDD (Harmonically Enhanced Digital
Device), FLAMINGO stereo
mic preamp, TRAKKER, single channel compressor,
and the new SPIDER 8 channel mic preamp,
mixer, A/D convertor which has recently joined the family. Crane
Song Ltd. is able to provide the highest level of quality due to
the many years of experience of both Dave and the people who have
stayed with him. Some of these employees have worked with Dave since
1988 and continue to have an intense interest in developing the
best audio devices possible. Crane Song's combination of innovative
design and uncompromising attention have helped the company make
its mark in the professional audio world.
Articles
of interest with help from Designer David Hill
*HEDD- In Late 2001 - Dave
Hill designed a new version of the HEDD this version is called the
HEDD 192
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