Rane Mixer, used by Grandmaster Flash

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.

Maker: Rane Corporation

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Washington, Mukilteo

Subject: Hip-Hop

Subject:

See more items in: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment, Music & Musical Instruments, Popular Entertainment, Cultures & Communities, Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection, Electronic Musical Instruments

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Credit Line: Gift of Grandmaster Flash

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2006.0060.04Accession Number: 2006.0060Catalog 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

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-dd08-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1301252

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