Cranborne Audio is a London-based pro audio company combining modern tech with vintage sound.
We create award-winning gear that delivers the warmth and character of classic analogue, making high-quality tools accessible to today's engineers and musicians.
29/04/2025
: "With the Carnaby HE2, Cranborne Audio has developed a special and exciting sound processing device to a new level. As an all-round high-quality creative tool for recording and mixing, the new HE2 offers additional functions, such as the great M/S operating mode. The external use of the M/S matrix is also a very welcome extra. If you get to grips with the special features of the device, you can achieve great results with the Carnaby HE2 that are not possible or only partially possible with other devices."
: "The Carnaby HE2, along with the previously released Carnaby 500, is built on a unique concept that truly adds value to the vast array of audio tools developed over the past decades. In my opinion, the HE2 is definitely a keeper."
The April–May edition of the Dutch magazine Interface is once again packed with news articles and reviews of the latest gear for music production and recording, featuring the Cranborne Audio Carnaby HE2.
Check the full issue at https://www.interface.nl/index/editie/10831/interface-268-maart-april-2025
22/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who submitted their entries for our UGC competition for a chance to win a Camden 500! Entries are now closed, but we received so many amazing shots—we can’t wait to announce the winner on May 1st.
Best of luck to everyone!
17/04/2025
Entries closing soon! Show off your Cranborne Audio gear and studio setup! Use the hashtag and tag us on Instagram by April 21st for your chance to win a Camden 500 Series Mic Preamp!
We’re excited to check your shots — good luck!
16/04/2025
You’ve all been patiently waiting for more information on the Cranborne Audio Brick Lane 500 Series PWM Compressor — and we hear you! Audio example videos are coming your way very soon. In the meantime, we’d love to know: what would you like to hear on our latest release?
11/04/2025
Big thanks to our friends at for making our gear easy to find for all our Canadian end users.
We couldn’t forget to also mention our other Canadian friends at and —thank you for the continued support! 🇨🇦
04/04/2025
Look at what we spotted in ’s setup. 👀
03/04/2025
Our ‘Wall of Sound’ is entirely built around Cranborne’s racks. It’s amazing to have effortless access to the modules simply by switching channels in the DAW. First and foremost, the quality at every stage exceeds expectations. It provides a whole new level of confidence when pushing the converters hard—yet they still sound incredibly smooth.
Switching to Cranborne Audio has been our best decision of the past year, and we’re excited to see what they come up with next!
01/04/2025
This is NOT an April Fools prank!
Post pictures of your Cranborne Audio gear and setups using the hashtag and tag our Instagram by April 21st for a chance to win a Camden 500 Series Microphone Preamp!
Good luck, and we can’t wait to see your setups!
24/03/2025
Cranborne Audio N22H's headphone amplifier circuit is the same design lifted from our multi-award winning 500R8 audio interface. It has a super low noise-floor, tons of clean headroom, a vanishingly-low output impedance and enough output wattage to drive high-impedance headphones with ease.
Learn more about its features at https://www.cranborne-audio.com/n22h/hpamp
21/03/2025
In his latest review, Plugin Hoarder takes a closer look at our Carnaby HE2; a fully analog HarmonicEQ® with digital recall and control. This hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds—the sonic benefits of analog processing with the convenience of in-the-box workflow.
The review covers both the hardware unit and its plugin counterpart, exploring how they integrate into a modern studio setup.
Watch the full reel for an in-depth look. Complete review in his YouTube channel!
19/03/2025
When you want more 500 series connectivity, you can use up to two 500ADATs with some interfaces or pair 500ADAT with our 500R8. Connect 500R8 and 500ADAT together via ADAT and now you have 16 channels of 500 series modules to work with. during recording and mixing. Whilst 500ADAT offers the same performance as 500R8, any 3rd party ADAT expander is also compatible.
Find more about it at our website.
14/03/2025
We’d love to hear how you’re using our gear and what kind of music you’re creating with it! Share your stories, your projects, and the sounds you’re crafting with us. Drop a comment below and let’s connect!
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A modern approach to vintage sound
The 21st century studio can be anywhere - a bedroom, a basement, a warehouse, even a tour bus - thanks to DAWs and plugins that so many producers, engineers, and musicians use today. But whilst we can manipulate sound once it’s in the digital realm, sound capture and conversion occurs in the acoustic and analogue domain and still requires hardware. And unfortunately, this hardware often times limits the results one can achieve.
If money and physical space are of no concern, there are plenty of fantastic audio capture products (microphone preamps, DI boxes, A/D converters) that can deliver great results. But Cranborne Audio offers the modern producer, engineer, and musician with more limited price and space constraints to achieve great results as well, perhaps even better results…
All of our designs are highly-engineered and are tuned for high-performance analogue and digital applications. Our discrete analogue mic preamps and summing busses give your sound more dynamics, more headroom, and less noise. Our high-quality A/D-D/A conversion and digital clocking allows for better accuracy, more dynamics, and less jitter - the cause of the “gritiness” that so many budget USB audio interfaces are plagued with.
Cranborne Audio products are designed and engineered in the UK. But to achieve the quality and control of every design going out to the world - we also make all our products in the UK. This adds to the already curious question - “How did you do it for this price?” The answer is that all of our designs are highly cost-engineered and optimised. We have considered every component and function to find a better, and often cheaper, way of achieving a desired result. However, if something would sacrifice the performance we wanted to achieve, we would not compromise and only use the best components where needed.
Cranborne Audio, for us, means so much more than metal boxes with components in them. These are our labours of love that embody and demonstrate our demand for excellence. By distilling what matters and putting our soul into these tools, we hope to help other people make magic and express themselves, and in some way, become part of our Cranborne Audio family.
So join our family. We care for our family. And we care about making your tracks, albums, scores sound as good as they should.
Cranborne Audio is a London-based pro audio company combining modern tech with vintage sound.
