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Rane Corporation
Pro Audio and signal processing for the live sound, installation and DJ markets.
Mukilteo, Wash. (20 miles outside of Seattle)
Founded in 1981
Fulltime employees:
About 100.
Number of products in catalog:
Services provided:
Technical and application support, product repair. Products currently on tour with:
The Lost Trailers, Joe Nichols, Ricky Skaggs, Tower of Power, Scissor Sisters, among others.
Recent product of note:
The Rane Series Plug-ins by Serato (plug-ins which were based on algorithms developed for Rane's live series hardware).
Recent company highlight:
Recently celebrated our 25th year in business this past October.
People might be surprised to know:
Rane is privately held by two of the original founders. The company name was selected from an anagram created from the common letters of the first and last names of most of the original founders. This particular anagram was especially liked because of the double-entendre possibilities implying wet-links to the Northwest….
Degrees of Separation:
CEO George Sheppard was a Navy fighter pilot. The company founders worked together at Phase Linear.
Motto I Favorite Quote:
"If you have a situation with no solution, it's not a problem — it's a fact. The worst thing that you can do is treat a fact as a problem."
