Crank Sturgeon is the project of sound and performance artist Matt Anderson, a long-running noise act that expanded into a small-batch builder of handmade contact microphones and audio oddities. The brand's hand-assembled tools grow directly out of Anderson's own practice in experimental and noise music, favoring a DIY aesthetic built around piezo-disc transducers, electromagnetic pickups, and lo-fi microphone cores aimed at amplifying anything and everything.

The product line centers on contact mics — including the Classic Contact Mic (available in standard and XLR editions), the waterproof Immersion Sturgeon, the Bobblecod, the Plug ME and Plug Ugly, and the esophageal Heckle Neck — alongside vocal capsules like the Barky Box and Town & Mouth Report. Beyond microphones, the catalog includes oddball sound-making devices such as the Bad Day Box feedback/glitch unit, the Mandible Operandi, the Pocket Optic light-dependent resistor for CV, shaker boxes, and larger electroacoustic instruments like the Depth Charge Gamelan and the hybrid Plank & Pluck.

Crank Sturgeon gear is popular among noise, experimental, and field-recording musicians, as well as modular synth players looking for cheap, rugged ways to sonify physical objects, contact surfaces, and liquids. The tools are sold direct through the brand's Big Cartel storefront and carried by boutique retailers including Perfect Circuit.

Crank Sturgeon has 2 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Maracas & Shakers.