“NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), commonly called NAMM in reference to the organization’s popular NAMM trade shows, is the not-for-profit association that unifies, leads and strengthens the $17 billion global music products industry. Our association—and our trade shows—serve as a hub for people wanting to seek out the newest innovations in musical products, recording technology, sound and lighting. NAMM’s activities and programs are designed to promote music making to people of all ages.”
For those of you who didn’t know NAMM is like, THEE show for musical instruments. If it makes music, it’s there. If it’s innovative, its there. NAMM is to musical instruments, as SEMA is to automobiles. Better yet, NAMM is to musical instruments, as Adultcon is to porn.
Anyway, Rane has just introduced (publicly, as of last Thursday, January 19, 2012) three new 2-channel (Serato built-in) mixers – Sixty-One, Sixty-Two, and Sixty-Two Z (technically two- one being just cosmetically different, as a customized DJ Z-Trip version). The World Famous Beat Junkies (three of which have done sets for Assembly Line parties – Rhett, Shortkut, and J.Rocc) were kind enough to do a dope ass demo at the NAMM show. Check the video, provided by AIGProDJ.com, who’s been covering NAMM all week long.
A few comments I have:
- The Sixty-Two has TWO USB 2.0 connections. Now the transition between DJ sets can be seamless, without the need of wax, for the digital DJ’s.
- Melo-D killed it. That guy had a dope ass intro for The Wake Up Show back in the 90′s that I can listen to over and over.
- I still think Rhettmatic is one of the cleanest drummers.
- I feel bad for Icy Ice and Havik in the background who didn’t get a plaque. Awkward.
- I like how Mike from Rane said the word “ever”. ”Eva”.
