Rane Corporation, founded and incorporated in 1981 in Washington State, is a privately held company. The owners all previously worked together in middle management positions at Phase Linear Corporation, a high-end consumer electronics company. With this background, they pooled over 40 years of combined audio experience to create Rane Corporation. Owners became separate department heads based upon their expertise. This organization created an unusually strong structure, since all department heads had a unique owner’s perspective in making it succeed.

The company name was selected from an anagram created from the common letters of the first and last names of the original founders. This particular anagram was selected because it was short, easy-to-say and remember, and they liked the double-entendre possibilities implying wet-links to the Northwest.

The essential ingredients in Rane’s successful philosophy are knowledge, integrity, pride and common sense. At Rane, people learn to treat people the way they would want to be treated, to design & build products the way they would want theirs designed & built, and that when something goes wrong, you react quickly and decisively to correct it. It is an old fashioned, common sense way to run a business, based on mutual trust and respect.

Rane started out with four products aimed at small bands, designed to make their live performances better. At the forefront was a unique 12-input, 6-output matrix mixer (MM 12) used to create six different monitor mixes for driving stage monitor speakers. The idea was to help performers hear themselves better. Up to that time, either the small group had no monitors at all, or they were all driven by the same mix. What Rane provided was new, compactly designed, affordable tools to help solve the many problems of on-stage monitoring. Complementing the matrix mixer was the industry’s first 6-channel power amplifier (MA 6), and a companion 6-channel headphone amplifier for rehearsal (HC 6). The fourth initial product was a unique combo unit, consisting of a 1/3-octave graphic equalizer and a simple realtime analyzer (RE 27), aimed at giving the performing musician a handy, easy-to-use tool for improving their sound in all venues. In doing all this, Rane established a new price-point for performance, quality and reliability. Rane products were priced well below the top high-end equipment yet outperformed and outlasted them, but were still priced significantly above the low-end products — thus creating a new middle ground.

A noteworthy testament to Rane’s design significance and reliability reputation, is that in their first two years of production, Rane designed and shipped eight new products — four of which are still in production today.

Rane Corporation today is an established innovator in providing problem-solving professional audio tools, affordably priced, with unequalled reliability.

SoundKontrols is an Authorized Dealer for Rane DJ Products.

Introducing the first professional DJ mixer with two USB 2.0 high-speed ports with support for real-time connection of two computers. Two DJs can work in parallel and/or seamlessly transition from one DJ to another.

The Rane Sixty-Eight Mixer is the winner of DJ Mag’s 2010 Tech Award for the “Ultimate Club DJ Mixer.”

The Rane Sixty-Eight Mixer has also been nominated for the “Best DJ Product of 2010″ by The Music and Sound Awards.

Features

• • Two independent USB 2.0 High Speed ports, each supporting twenty-two, 32-bit floating-point audio channels at 48 kHz.
• • Real-time support for two computers.
• • Support for 2, 3 or 4 Virtual Decks on one or two computers.
• • Direct control of over 30 Scratch Live Library, Cue and Loop functions.
• • Unique FlexFx bus:
  • Process a sub-mix of up to six audio channels.
  • Six internal effects with seamless on-beat switching between effects.
  • External analog insert support for legacy hardware effects.
  • USB insert support for computer-based effects.
• • Four full-featured input channels:
  • Four stereo Phono/CD inputs of Line, Phono or S/PDIF.
  • Four stereo auxiliary inputs.
  • Four stereo USB playback options.
• • Two mic inputs: one with phantom power and one with line-level.
• • 3-band full-cut EQ, plus new High-pass / Low-pass Filter.
• • Flexible USB recording options, record from any PGM or output.
• • Internal universal switching power supply (100-230 VAC)

* Universal internal power supply works anywhere you can plug into 100-240 VAC.

* All four inputs are now Phono/Line switchable – plug in 4 turntables or 4 CD players, or any combination.

* Both 1/4″ and 3.5 mm headphone jacks are now provided on the front.

* The Transform switches are now Kill switches.

*Operation is simplified by putting all the controls on top, increasing the width by one inch. Text is now readable in the dark under black light.

*The three long-lasting non-bleed magnetic faders did not change, as they are still the best in the business!

SCRATCH LIVE CONTROL SURFACE
Navigate through your library, load tracks, hit cues, loop and control effects all from the mixer’s control panel.

FUTURE PROOF
The features and functionality of your mixer will improve with each new release of Scratch Live software — and all Scratch Live updates are free!

ADVANCED RECORDING
Record your mix directly to hard drive, or record two analog sources simultaneously.

EFFECTS
24-bit effects using Rane and Serato’s award-winning studio and live sound software technologies, giving you professional studio-quality sound.

MAGNETIC FADERS
Rane’s legendary patented magnetic faders are the fastest, most accurate, and longest-lasting on the planet.

EXTERNAL AUDIO INTERFACE
Use the TTM 57SL as a high-quality USB audio interface for your favorite Mac or PC software.

SIMULTANEOUSLY:
• Play a combination of digital and analog sources.
• Play up to two digital files controlled by vinyl or CD while recording your mix.
• Or, digitize two vinyl records or analog sources simultaneously.
• Cue analog and digital sources.
• Operate standalone as a no-compromise performance mixer.

The company name was selected from an anagram created from the common letters of the first and last names of the original founders. This particular anagram was selected because it was short, easy-to-say and remember, and they liked the double-entendre possibilities implying wet-links to the Northwest.

The essential ingredients in Rane’s successful philosophy are knowledge, integrity, pride and common sense. At Rane, people learn to treat people the way they would want to be treated, to design & build products the way they would want theirs designed & built, and that when something goes wrong, you react quickly and decisively to correct it. It is an old fashioned, common sense way to run a business, based on mutual trust and respect.

Rane started out with four products aimed at small bands, designed to make their live performances better. At the forefront was a unique 12-input, 6-output matrix mixer (MM 12) used to create six different monitor mixes for driving stage monitor speakers. The idea was to help performers hear themselves better. Up to that time, either the small group had no monitors at all, or they were all driven by the same mix. What Rane provided was new, compactly designed, affordable tools to help solve the many problems of on-stage monitoring. Complementing the matrix mixer was the industry’s first 6-channel power amplifier (MA 6), and a companion 6-channel headphone amplifier for rehearsal (HC 6). The fourth initial product was a unique combo unit, consisting of a 1/3-octave graphic equalizer and a simple realtime analyzer (RE 27), aimed at giving the performing musician a handy, easy-to-use tool for improving their sound in all venues. In doing all this, Rane established a new price-point for performance, quality and reliability. Rane products were priced well below the top high-end equipment yet outperformed and outlasted them, but were still priced significantly above the low-end products — thus creating a new middle ground.

A noteworthy testament to Rane’s design significance and reliability reputation, is that in their first two years of production, Rane designed and shipped eight new products — four of which are still in production today.

Rane Corporation today is an established innovator in providing problem-solving professional audio tools, affordably priced, with unequalled reliability.