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.

Native Instruments is a leading manufacturer of software and hardware for computer-based music production and performance. The company’s mission is to develop innovative, fully integrated solutions for all professions, styles and genres. The resulting products regularly push technological boundaries and open up new creative horizons for professionals and amateurs alike.

Native Instruments opened up the fascinating world of real-time sound synthesis on standard computers in 1996. Since then, the company’s technology has inspired entire musical genres and defined the sound of countless professional productions. Native Instruments products combine outstanding sound quality with far-reaching sonic possibilities, aesthetic interface design with high usability, and comprehensive functionality with an uncompromising attention to detail.

Today, Native Instruments offers an extensive hardware and software arsenal that covers the whole field of digital music creation, including the ground-breaking modular sound design software REAKTOR; fascinating synthesizers such as ABSYNTH and MASSIVE; versatile sampers like KONTAKT and BATTERY; the powerful digital guitar studio GUITAR RIG; and sophisticated music production tools like the next-generation workstation KORE and the advanced groove production system MASCHINE.

Native Instruments is also spearheading the digital DJ revolution with its TRAKTOR product range, which relieves DJs from the limitations of analog and outfits them with vast new creative possibilities that extend the very definition of DJing. The company also maintains a close partnership with Beatport, the leading download store for electronic music.
Native Instruments sees itself as a part of a vibrant international music scene, and is in constant communication with artists whose feedback is integrated into the conception and continuous improvement of the products. The company also generates cultural impulses through open community models such as the REAKTOR User Library, and a wealth of event partnerships in all areas of music.

Native Instruments is run by CEO Daniel Haver and President Mate Galic, and currently employs around 180 people in its offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. With over ten years of continuous expansion, the company now works closely with 40 international distribution partners to ensure its future growth and success.

SoundKontrolsis an Authorized Dealer for all Native Instruments DJ products.

ECLER manufactures its equipment in Barcelona (Spain) since 1965 in partnership with international leading DJs and through a very strict in-house quality control. With over 40 years of experience in the design, engineering and production of professional audio, ECLER is still today the leading European mixer manufacturer.

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Ortofon is the world’s leading cartridge manufacturer and one stop supplier of cartridges.

Our company has always been working with sound reproduction. It was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1918 and initially made soundtracks for movies. In 1948 Ortofon developed its first moving coil cartridge, since then more than 300 different cartridges have been developed and manufactured.

We benefit from being established in Denmark, a country recognized for its strong tradition in acoustics and its wealth of other high-end manufacturers, who make hearing aids and acoustic measurement equipment, in addition to all aspects of high-end audio.

Today our company is the leading cartridge manufacturer and supplier of cartridges. This is a result of significant design experience and great technological know-how.

Acoustics, materials, technology and micromechanics are key competences in Ortofon’s technological prowess.

Research and development is done with the company’s own engineers supported by a strong network of acoustic know-how and industrial design in Denmark. It is our philosophy to constantly develop new products and thus renew and improve the product range in accordance with the needs of the markets.

Ortofon is owned by Danish businessmen and employs a staff of 70 people.

The Ortofon manufacturing unit in Nakskov in the south of Denmark has modern machinery combined with experienced operators, so human craftsmanship is delivered with uniform industrial quality.

The cartridges are sold worldwide through a network of more than 60 importers and sales subsidiaries in the USA and in Japan.

Today the Ortofon brand is widely recognized among consumers and industry professionals.

Our competencies in materials, magnetism, acoustics and micromechanics have led to the establishment of a separate B2B division OrtofonMicrotech selling components to the hearing aid industry.

Ortofon DJ

Ortofon DJ cartridges, styli and headphones are applauded by DJs, musicians and discerning listeners alike. Delivering highly accurate sound reproduction, Ortofon Concord and OM cartridges are the DJ community’s favourite choice.

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Danzka

Danzka has always been sold in brushed aluminium bottles, and the design is in keeping with Danish design. The aluminium bottle has shown to cool the contents 50 minutes faster that a glass bottle does.

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Audio-Technica Corporation (株式会社オーディオテクニカ Kabushiki-gaisha Ōdio Tekunika), established in 1962 and headquartered in Tokyo,Japan  is a company that designs and manufactures professional wired and wireless microphones, headphones,  phonographic magnetic cartridges, and other audio equipment. One of their most famous products was a battery-operated, portable record player called Mister Disc that was sold in the U.S. in the early 1980s.

Their best selling handheld microphone, the Artist Elite AE5400, is regarded by the music communityas one of the best handheld condenser microphones available to buy. The microphones are used by some of the worlds top artists, notably, Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park, Metallica, Kiss, Skid Row, Puddle of Mudd, Killswitch Engage, and many others.

Audio Technica have been supplying all the microphones for the GRAMMY awards for the last 10 years, as well as completely kitting out TV shows like Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, as well as the Olympic and winter Olympic games in 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2004.

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