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Rane Mixer, used by Grandmaster Flash

National Museum of American History

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Rane Corporation
Description
This Empath audio mixer was made by the Rane Corporation, Mukilteo, Washington. It is a Grandmaster Flash Gold Signature edition, serial number (21) 00425549, 3-channel, 10” format mixer. A mixer, also called a sound board, mixing desk, or audio production console, is an electronic device for combining or “mixing” audio from multiples sources such as turntables or cd players and equalizing, cross-fading, adjusting timbre, and changing dynamics of audio signals to an external source such as speakers or a recording device.
Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler), was born in Barbados in 1958. Growing up in the Bronx, he was influenced by his father’s massive record collection. As a teenager, Grandmaster Flash first experimented with DJ equipment and became involved in the New York DJ scene while attending daytime technical school courses in electronics. The innovations and techniques developed by Grandmaster Flash established him as one of the pioneers of hip hop and deejaying.
Credit Line
Gift of Grandmaster Flash
ID Number
2006.0060.04
accession number
2006.0060
catalog number
2006.0060.04
Object Name
mixer
Physical Description
metal (overall material)
plastic (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 33.5 cm x 25.5 cm x 10 cm; 13 3/16 in x 10 1/32 in x 3 15/16 in
place made
United States: Washington, Mukilteo
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subject
Hip-Hop
Record ID
nmah_1301252
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-dd08-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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