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August 24, 2018 02:52 pm PDT

How pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash hacked together his first mixer

As a teenager in the 1970s, hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash hacked together his own DJ mixer in his bedroom. At the time, he was attending a vocational high school in the Bronx where he had developed some electronics repair chops. Flash needed his Sony microphone mixer to have a cueing feature enabling him to preview the mix before crossfading the turntable's audio to the speakers. So he hit Radio Shack for the parts and made a new musical tool, and history.

For more on the history of the DJ mixer, see this classic Cuepoint feature.

(via Kottke)


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