Allen & Heath ZED60-14FX Mixer Hire

Allen & Heath ZED60-14FX Mixer Hire 

Allen & Heath ZED mixers are great for live mixing! Their layout makes them very easy to use and easy to achieve a great sound.

They are also perfect for recording, either a live show or an audio project at home can be built up track by track using the USB digital audio interface. The flexi-bility and quality of these mixers make them stand out from the crowd.

You can plug your guitars or instruments straight into the class A discrete FET high impedance inputs, cater for up to eight microphones, two stereo sources with MP3 player compatibility, separate 2-track record outputs and a stereo playback input for 2-track replay or perhaps interval music from a CD player, XLR main stereo outputs with inserts, comprehensive monitoring with head-phones and separate monitor speaker outputs, 48V microphone phantom power, DI level switching for sub mixing, and not least of all, the same digital effects algorithms as those used on Allen & Heath's flagship digital consoles costing 150 times as much!

All this and the ability to withstand life being gigged night after night—there is nothing else like it at this price point.

ZED mixers are also ideal for teaching establishments, houses of worship, hotels and conference centres where their ease of use and robust qualities make them a top choice.

Mic/Line Pre-amps:

Based on the pre-amps from the MixWizard series, the ZED Sixty pre-amps use low noise discrete transistor circuitry to achieve high gain (60dB max), low noise and good linearity.

GTR/Hi Z Inputs:

Specially designed, two ultra high impedance discrete class A FET (Field Effect Transistor) inputs for plugging any kind of guitar or instrument straight in. A 26dB gain boost switch allows instruments with very low output pickups to be used, and the FET does a great job of emulating the valve/tube input circuitry commonly found on instrument combos or amplifi-ers.

EQ:

The ZED Sixty mixers are equipped with a 3-band equaliser circuit on each mono input, with swept mid frequency section, and a 2-band EQ on the stereo channels. The frequency and response of each has been carefully chosen to give the maximum performance when using the EQ on a variety of sources.

Record Bus:

A separately switched stereo bus can be routed to from any channel creating a selective recording bus, monitoring bus or stereo clean feed output. You can even route just the ef-fects processor output to this bus and use the mixer as a high end effects unit.

Effects Processor:

Zed Sixty mixers have a professional quality effects processor built in which uses our own effects algorithms developed by our talented engineering staff at Allen & Heath. The effects range from classic reverbs, cascaded delay plus reverbs to shimmering flanger & chorus ef-fects. The different effects types are selected with a simple up/down button interface and the tempo of the delay settings can be set using the TAP button. Holding the TAP button allows the parameters of the effects to be adjusted. The audio signal to the DSP is converted using 24 bit high dynamic range converters running at 48kHz sample rate, ensuring low noise, low distortion, transparent effects.

USB:

Getting audio to and from a computer easily is now a common requirement for live sound and music production. The way we have implemented this on ZED is super-flexible and super-easy! No longer do you need to fiddle around the back of your computer to get to the soundcard inputs, only to find that the levels are all wrong and noisy. Just plug in a USB lead to your ZED, select the USB routing on the mixer and the device on your computer and that’s it! CD quality audio to and from your PC or MAC.

Internal power supply:

Not a “wall wart” - a proper built in power supply specifically designed and based on totally reliable technology.