While the days of Gold Technics… well just Technics may be long past, DMC march onwards and knock on the door of their fourth decade of DJ battling with some new friends at their side. And if we’re talking about status in the scratch DJ fraternity, Rane is right up there from a “kneel at the church of” perspective.
Thus the golden baton has been passed on, and while Rane doesn’t make turntables (and don’t get your hopes up otherwise), they’re pretty damned good at making mixers. Indeed, their thing is hand-making them in the US, so cobbling together a Gold one to give away to the winner shouldn’t cause them to break much of a sweat.
It does however make them puff out their chest with pride, and quite rightly so. This hand-built gilt edged Sixty-Two is a beauty. The question is do you put it on a shelf gathering dust but no fingerprints? Or would you be happy to really mess it up just to lay your hands on that incredibly cool hotness?
UPDATE: More pictures on the Rane Facebook page.
I guess that’s a decision the winner will have to make. The 29th DMC World DJ Championships, sponsored by Rane and Serato takes place 27th-28th September at the HMV Forum, Kentish Town, London. Tickets are available right here.
If that was mine, nobody would be allowed near it without donning the white gloves first!
Nice gloves Settle, did they come w/ the mixer or did you have your own?
It’s in the worxlab. I think I’d have taken about 20 studio quality pictures if it was. I got this from DMC’s Facebook account. Thought you’d all like to see it. I have owned a pair of white gloves though – every b-boy has.
oh my god ! what a beauty .
It’s so purdy ….
ugly! they have to change the color of the knobs and faders
What’s wrong with black faders?
The golden color is ugly in itself for any mixer, but with the faders and knobs in those colors even more!
Everyone should be white like the buttons of the cues :)
it suddenly looks alot better in gold…
i assume this makes last year’s 68 ultra rare.
The golden color is ugly in itself for any mixer, but with the faders and knobs in those colors even more.
Everyone should be white like the buttons of the cues.
sorry for a duplicate!
Rane tables are ugly in itself (but very good quality mixers) , the ztrip model is an example…its very ugly.
The rane looks, like the military equipment finish…
I like others finishes like that:
http://www.allen-heath.com/Assets/Images/Products/Xone-DB4/L_Gal_2_Xone_DB4_Front.jpg
http://www.djworx.com/skratchworx/images/plasa2004/guber180.jpg
http://www.djworx.com/skratchworx/images/Vestax/pmc580pro/580_full.jpg
and many more!
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This is straight up DJ porn… and it’s working.
-KLH
with the price of gold i would weigh it in…it would be a bugger to keep clean.
I agree with Louis that Rane mixers look very ugly and dull. Specially the TTM56 and 57. But they r build like tanks.