Hullo. You may be looking for information about Eli Crews. If so, you came to the right place, that's me.

I spend most of my time these days working as a recording and mixing engineer out of New, Improved Recording, a studio I co-own in Oakland, CA. I also love to work at other stellar Bay Area studios like Tiny Telephone, Fantasy Studios, Broken Radio and FM Recorders. I work within a wide variety of musical styles, and enjoy it quite a bit as long as the musicians are passionate and the spirit is adventurous. Bands and people I have had the enormous fortune to work with include Beulah/Miles Kurosky, Deerhoof, Why?, Port O'Brien, Mike Watt, Rogue Wave, Jolie Holland, Erase Errata, ROVA, Thee More Shallows, Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Subtle, Tin Hat, Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, Greg Cohen (Masada/Tom Waits), Maria Muldaur, and many others. For a discography and some samples of my work as an engineer and producer, go here.

I also do mobile/live multi-track recording, and will travel to your house or studio for consultation, maintenance, or on-site tracking or mixing. Traveling outside of the Bay Area is possible as well. Please email me for details if you're interested in any of these services.

Before I was mostly an engineer I was mostly a musician, primarily on the upright bass and bass guitar, but also sometimes on guitar and electronics. I spent years playing rock and jazz (not at the same time, mind you) in small clubs, and also got to tour the US and Europe and play on Conan O'Brien's old television program. The most well-known band I played in would be Beulah, although I also did time in bands like Optimist International, the Roofies, Spezza Rotto, Shinola, Los Super Elegantes, and the Loins. Sometimes I'm still known to play on a record or onstage with a band here and there, most recently with Leyna Noel, Rogue Wave, Sonny Smith and Pancho-san. For a full list of my musical associations check here.

Last but not least, I compose music for film and theater. If you'd like a taste of what I can do saunter over here.

Oh yeah and even laster but not leaster, I have a BA from UC Berkeley in Linguistics, an MFA from Mills College in Electronic Music and Recording Media, regularly write product reviews and articles for Electronic Musician and Tape Op magazines, was a four-time panelist at the PotLuckCon/TapeOpCon recording conventions, and taught analog recording and studio maintenance at Ex'pression College in Emeryville for five years. Plus I have an amazing son and wife.