Allen & Heath CQ-18T Compact 18-Channel Touchscreen Digital Mixer w/ Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & SD/USB
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Ultra-compact digital mixers for musicians and bands, home producers, small venues and AV installers.
CQ is Allen & Heath’s most compact digital mixer range ever. Built on a 96kHz processing engine, it’s rich in connectivity with Bluetooth, wireless options, SD and USB audio recording and playback. Focusing on speed and ease of use - brand new Quick Channels, Gain/Feedback Assistants and signal conscious FX enhance the world-renowned audio and build quality that users expect from Allen & Heath.
Offered in three form factors – two desktop models with hands-on control and one stage box model. All utilise the same technology, apps, and UI but with slightly different feature sets and price points. With the CQ range, Allen & Heath have created a super portable and fun to use, but still fully featured digital mixer, suitable for technical and non-technical users alike. CQ is designed to be used anywhere high-quality sound processing and summing is required, from bands and producers to AV and rental, from the main mixer in a small venue to a sub mixer on the largest stage.
Under the hood is a powerhouse of processing with Allen & Heath’s renowned 96kHz FPGA technology. Including brand new smart tools and signal conscious FX to get you a better mix, faster. Quick Channels offer instrument and application specific processing. Dial in a full channel of processing with a single knob. Switch to a Complete Channel for advanced tweaking. CQ’s gain assistant saves you time by automatically and accurately setting preamp gain for you. It can then keep an eye on your preamp levels to prevent nasty peaks.
Find and remove feedback frequencies at setup using fixed mode and then watch out for feedback throughout the show across all outputs with live mode. Including brand new signal-conscious reverb and delay units which dynamically respond to signal to always sit correctly in the mix. Improve clarity and reduce background noise for speech applications without needing to lift a finger. Available on every input. Control the mixer from (almost) anywhere with free apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. CQ-MixPad gives the engineer complete control anywhere in the room and CQ4You allows the performer to adjust only their mix and hear exactly what they need to.
Features
16 Mic/Line preamps, 8x XLR + 8x XLR/TRS ‘Combi’
Balanced stereo line input, 2x TRS
Main LR, 2x XLR
6x Monitor Mixes, 6x TRS
2x Assignable headphone outputs, 2x 6.35mm TRS
24x22 USB-B interface
24x22 SD record/playback
Stereo USB record/playback with dedicated input channel
Stereo Bluetooth playback with dedicated input channel
4x FX Assist engines
3x Custom SoftKeys
3x Smart Rotaries
Dual Footswitch connection
7” Capacitive touchscreen with associated rotary control
Built-in dual band 2.4G/5G AC Wi-Fi with auto channel select
Comparing this to my old 1210's - feels like a solid upgrade, the motor and the plater feels great with a lot of power, matching speeds and beat-matching is easy and that was most important to me. The layout of the other controls and ports etc could be better (in my opinion) but I will get use to it. Thanks team for a prompt dispatches and help on these and hope they will last me a lifetime.
Necessary, fits well, but otherwise overpriced piece of plastic.
Hi Maria, the Decksavers are actually made of polycarbonate which is much stronger than regular plastic. They are pretty good value for the protection they offer. We get a lot of repairs back at the shop that have had liquid spilled in the unit - the cost of the repair is much higher than if they had purchased a Decksaver to keep liquid out.
I bought this cable to replace the USB-A to UCB-B cable that came with my mixer. This is more convenient as I can plug it directly into my laptop's USB-C port instead of a hub which I had to do with my previous cable. The bright colour helps me to identify my cable easily. Grant also gave me call before dispatching my item to offer some extra personalised service which was a nice touch. My order was dispatched same day and received on the next business day.
