Allen and Heath CQ-18T Wireless Digital Mixer

Allen and Heath CQ-18T Wireless Digital Mixer, New, Action Position Back

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With top-shelf audio quality, plenty of I/O, a color touchscreen, and a highly portable form factor, the CQ-18T digital mixer puts the control in your hands.

Overview

The Allen and Heath CQ-18T rackmount/stagebox digital mixer offers 16 mic+stereo line inputs, with responsive and intuitive touchscreen control. A&H CQ is built on a 96kHz platform capable of smart processing and rich in connectivity, network, Bluetooth, wireless options, SD and USB.

The CQ range consists of fully featured mixers that can fit in a backpack (or soft case), in three form factors -- two desktop models with hands-on control and a rackmount/stage box model. All use the same apps and same firmware but have a slightly different feature set and price point. With the CQ range, Allen and Heath have created a super portable and easy to use, but still fully featured digital mixer, suitable for technical and nontechnical users.

Features:

- 16 Mic or Line (8 of which combi), plus stereo line input
- Built-in 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi with auto channel
- 24x22 USB interface
- 24x22 SD record/playback
- Stereo Bluetooth input
- 7" capacitive touchscreen with associated rotary control
- 3x custom SoftKeys plus 3x custom SoftRotaries
- 4x FX engines
- Uncompromised audio quality, smart controls and smart processing tools mean you do not need to be an expert engineer to sound amazing.
- Preamp Gain Assistant and Feedback Assistant for a faster setup.
- Instrument-based Quick inputs get you to a great mix faster than ever. Switch per channel as needed to Complete inputs for in-depth tweaking.
- Built-in Smart-FX units - 4 engines on the 18T/20B and 2 engines on the 12T. Choose from… read more easy-to-use units including Reverbs, Delays and Modulators, providing instrument centric, signal conscious FX.
- Unique combinations of tactile encoders, custom keys and a responsive touch screen (18T/12T) and remote control stagebox (20B) offer multiple mixing interface options.
- All models have multiple options for recording. Multitrack record with USB-B or SD card, mixdown via USB-A.
- Multiple playback options including Bluetooth.
- Use as an interface, record live shows or rehearsals, virtual soundcheck, and mix outside the box.

Specs

- Number of Input Channels: 18 (16 mic/line + 1 stereo line)
- Number of Output Buses: 8 (2 main + 6 aux)
- Aux Sends: 6
- Sampling Rate: 96 kHz
- Bit Depth: 24-bit
- Phantom Power: +48V (+3V / -2V)
- EQ Bands per Channel: 4-band parametric EQ
- Built-in Effects: Reverb, delay, modulation, compression, gating
- DSP Processing: 96 kHz FPGA processing
- Faders: No physical faders (touchscreen and rotary encoders)
- Metering: LED and touchscreen metering
- I/O Connectors: 16 XLR/TRS combo inputs, 1 stereo TRS line input, 2 XLR main outputs, 6 TRS aux outputs, 2 headphone outputs
- Network Connectivity: Dual-band Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth
- Power Requirements: 12V DC, 5A (100-240V AC adapter supplied), 35W max