Cranborne Audio - Marshall Music

A Modern Approach To Vintage Sound

Cranborne Audio is an audio company that prides itself on its modern approach to vintage sound, encapsulating our commitment to providing audio professionals with cutting-edge technology that retains the warmth and character of classic analogue gear.

Their team of passionate audio enthusiasts has years of experience in the industry and is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the world of audio. They are constantly exploring new ways to create high-quality recordings and productions that capture the essence of vintage gear while providing the benefits of modern technology.

Camden EC1 & EC2

The Camden EC1 is an award-winning Camden preamp with Mojo analogue saturation, and a reference-quality headphone amplifier with a discrete line mixer built-in to a desktop-friendly, half-rack chassis.

The Camden EC2 is a two channel 19", 1u version of the Camden EC1 featuring the same award-winning Camden preamps, Mojo analogue saturation circuits and dual-reference quality headphone amplifiers.

Camden 500

Designed from the ground up by Cranborne's director of engineering, Edward Holmes, Camden 500 was created to be the ultimate recording front-end for the modern studios and withstand the rigours of modern workflow and production techniques.

Designed to excel with any input source, Camden 500 features a completely original, custom-designed preamp topology that achieves stunning low-noise and low-distortion performance and frequency/phase linearity at any gain setting from unity to 68.5dB.

Carnaby 500 & Carnaby HE2 HarmonicEQ™

Carnaby 500 is a 3-band parametric EQ for the 500 series format with a unique and revolutionary EQ concept conceived and created by Cranborne Audio. Carnaby 500 is the world’s first Harmonic EQ™ - an analogue EQ that uses harmonic saturation to boost and cut frequency content. It enhances your sources, stems and mixes with genuine analogue harmonic saturation with the feel, familiarity, and control of an equaliser.

Carnaby HE2 HarmonicEQ™ utilises the same unique and revolutionary EQ concept found in Carnaby 500, using harmonic saturation to boost and cut frequency content. Enhance your sources, stems and mixes with genuine analogue harmonic saturation with the feel, familiarity, and control of an equaliser.

Whether being used for Stereo, Dual Mono or Mid-Side processing, Carnaby HE2 features 3 bypassable, interactive bands of HarmonicEQ™ per channel. Each band has 10dB of boost/cut and its own sweepable and overlapping frequency controls. As with Carnaby 500, each of Carnaby HE2s bands has a unique blend of harmonic content suited to its frequency band to achieve maximum musicality.

3-Band Parametric EQ With More

Carnaby 500 features 3 interactive bands of Harmonic EQ™ with each band having 10dB of boost/cut and its own sweepable and overlapping frequency controls. Each band of Carnaby 500 has a unique blend of harmonic content suited to its frequency band to achieve maximum musicality.

Unlike other EQs, Carnaby 500 has a dynamic response and increases in total boost/cut and harmonics as the circuits are driven harder. An Input and Output level control on each band allows for ±20dB of level adjustment, enabling you to drive Carnaby 500 harder with the input control for more saturation and distortion effects, or back it off for a cleaner EQ when needed.

Brick Lane 500 and Brick Lane MC4 Modal Compressors

The Brick Lane 500 represents a quantum leap in analogue compression — a fully-analogue PWM Compressor that transcends traditional dynamics control methodologies through its revolutionary Modal PWM Compression architecture.

Brick Lane MC4 is a 2u 19" rack, 4-channel Modal PWM Dynamics Processor with Mono, Stereo, Mid/Side, Series, Dual-Band, and De-Esser operation. An evolution of our Brick Lane 500 Modal PWM Compressor.

Imagine a single compressor that isn't just a compressor—but an entire compression arsenal compressed into one revolutionary module. The Brick Lane 500's Modal PWM Compression is like having six legendary hardware compressors at your fingertips, each with its own distinct personality, sonic signature, and dynamic DNA. Each mode isn't merely a setting; it's an entirely different compression philosophy.

Every mode effectively rewires your patchbay and brings you a totally different style of compression, featuring unique compression ballistics that fundamentally transform the unit's behavior. Attack and release controls morph dramatically across modes—from glacially slow Vari-Mu-style curves to lightning-fast FET-like responsiveness. Compression ratios dance between gentle 2:1 nudges and aggressive 20:1 sonic obliterations. The knee characteristics shift from buttery-smooth rounded edges to razor-sharp precision.