Rounding out Rane’s series of analog-controlled digital products for live sound applications, the C4 offers four channels of compression and limiting in a 2U package. Internal and external side-chain options offer a fully adjustable parametric EQ for frequency-dependent compression or de-essing. The oversampled brick wall limiter determines the maximum output level and operates independent [...]
Rane’s MM 42 Monitor Processor fulfills the needs of performers and engineers striving to optimize personal (in-ear) monitor systems while ensuring a safe, dynamic mix. Connecting in-line between a mixing console and a wired or wireless monitor system, the MM 42 processes a single stereo mix or two independent mono mixes using Shelf/Cut Filters, 3-band [...]
Part of Rane’s new analog-controlled digital series, Rane’s DEQ 60 Stereo 1/3-Octave Digital Graphic Equalizer uses advanced DSP algorithms to realize the output magnitude response correspond exactly to the front panel settings — true WYSIWYG as Rane puts it. Extensive development resulted in this new patented technology trademarked “Perfect-Q.” The name comes from the [...]
Rane Corporation and Serato Audio Research announced the release of Scratch LIVE , a software and hardware solution for bridging the analog world of vinyl and the digital world of computer audio files.
The Scratch LIVE interface connects almost any computer to an ordinary pair of turntables (or CD players), and the software tracks every [...]
Rane’s dual channel PEQ 55 features five bands of fully parametric equalization, adjustable high-cut and low-cut filters, and three-band Accelerated Slope tone controls per channel. Front panel controls select between dual mono 5-band, mono 10-band, and stereo linked 5- or 10-band operating modes.
Features:
Each channel: 5 bands of fully parametric equalization (all bands overlapping [...]
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 -- five 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.
