Recording and Mix Engineer Eli Crews

May 01, 2026

Eli Crews wearing Audeze MM-500 headphones in the studio

Audeze Artist Profile

Eli Crews

Eli Crews works primarily out of his Hudson Valley studio Spillway Sound. He started working professionally in record production in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, later serving as the head engineer at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, NY from 2014-2020. He recorded and/or mixed two Grammy-nominated albums (Laurie Anderson, Tony Trischka), and he was an engineer for the Oscar-nominated score for Everything Everywhere All at Once by the band Son Lux. Other artists he has worked with include Tune-Yards, Gotye, and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline.
 

About the Headphones

 
"I couldn't decide between the MM-500 and the LCD-X, so I auditioned both, and neither are getting sent back. Both have become immediately essential to me; the MM-500s more for mixing and the LCD-Xs more for mastering. I've never been able to trust any set of headphones so much!"
- Eli Crews
Audeze LCD-X headphones on a keyboard in the studio
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