Rane Mixer, used by Grandmaster Flash
name: label: maker
content: Rane Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Washington, Mukilteo
topic: label: Subject
content: Hip-Hop
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
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content: Electronic Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Grandmaster Flash
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0060.04
label: accession number
content: 2006.0060
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0060.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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